Nationality Mauritian Role Architect Name Gaetan Siew | Practice Lampotang & Siew Occupation Architect | |
Born 1954 (age 60–61) Mauritius Awards President of the International Union of Architects Projects Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport,
Seychelles International Airport | ||
Port Louis: Economic Capital of Culture | Gaetan Siew | TEDxPlainesWilhems
Gaétan Siew (born 1954) is a Mauritian architect.
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Professional career
Siew graduated from the Unité Pédagogique d’Architecture, Marseilles, France in 1979. He has been in private practice in Port Louis, Mauritius since 1981, as a founding partner of Lampotang & Siew Architects Ltd. His work includes master plans for the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport in Mauritius, the Chinese neighbourhood in Port Louis and the Seychelles International Airport. He has also worked in Congo, France, India, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mayotte, Seychelles, Swaziland and Tunisia on projects such as airports, hotels, commercial and leisure, urban planning and heritage projects. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been a juror for various architecture awards.
He was elected President of the Association of Mauritian Architects in 1985, and has played an active part in the island’s urban development and environment and heritage protection programmes. He is a member of the Economic and Social Council of Mauritius.
From 1998 to 2005 he was Secretary General of the African Union of Architects. He was elected President of the International Union of Architects during the UIA General Assembly which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 8 to 10 July 2005. The Vice-President and candidate for Siew's successor as UIA President, Giancarlo Ius, died before he could be elected at the 2008 General Assembly in Torino. Siew then announced a triennial prize in Ius' name.
Current activities
Since leaving the International Union of Architects, Gaétan Siew has pursued his goal for better human development and solidarity cooperation for a sustainable world through conferences around the world as CEO of the Global Creative Leadership Initiative GCLI.
He teaches at the University of Montpellier, France and the University of Tsinghua, Beijing, China on globalisation. He currently serves as a board member of ICOMOS, Advisory Board to the Tongji, and Shanghai College of Urbanism and Architecture. He has been engaged as an expert by the European Commission for policies on eco-innovation. He is also active in think tanks with a number of partners of the industry, namely Orange-France Smart Cities and Innovation and Plastic-Europe New sustainable materials in transport and construction.
Awards
Siew's website records that he has been awarded the following honours: