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Scott joined PAE Japan (PDFM: PAE Design & Facility Management) in 2009 and has been FM Practice Group Leader, Dir. of Business Development, and Dir. of Operations. He has been PDFM's President since 2011 (www.paejapan.com / www.pae.com).

In 2006, Scott and others established Solutions Group Intl. As Director of Operations of SGI LLC and Managing Dir. of SGI Japan KK, Scott was responsible for the operations of the company’s worldwide activities including the Philippines, Japan, China, Guam, Palau, Southern Sudan, Kenya, Egypt, and other countries. He was responsible for setting up the entities for SGI Japan KK and SGI Southern Sudan. Scott was in charge of all design projects for the organization.

In 1996, Scott joined MWM Architects, Inc. to manage the firm's Guam office and its projects in the Pacific. He became a company principal, serving as Vice President / Region Director.

Before working at MWM, Scott worked in Tokyo, where he worked for various architects, including Japan's largest, Nikken Sekkei, Kurokawa Kisho, GK Sekkei, and Italian architect Aldo Rossi's Tokyo office.

Scott has also been an Instructor of Architectural Design at Tokyo Technical College, lectured at a number of Tokyo Universities, served as an Adjunct Faculty for Virginia Tech in Japan, and has written articles on Japanese architecture.

For 2 years, Scott served as Vice President and Trustee of Children’s Chance for Tomorrow, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing loving homes for homeless children. Scott designed all of CCFT’s major structures.

Scott has lived and worked in the Pacific for more than 3 decades and is a licensed architect on Guam and in California. Examples of his work can be found at: http://www.scottgoldarchitecture.com

Scott Gold served as President of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Japan Chapter (2017) and as its Immediate Past President served on the AIA’s International Board. He has also has been AIAJ’s President-Elect and Secretary.

Architecture as a tool to improve life and society. SoPA (Social Practice Architecture)

to make world a better place

Shorouq Tawfiq 

Co-Founder & Creative Director of Ritz for Interior Design 

A well-known interior design company that operates in Jordan and the region. 

Shorouq with her 15 years of experience developed a portfolio that includes residential and commercial projects, also includes hotels, offices and restaurants. she is recognized for bringing Design Psychology, Feng Shui into her designs. Her focus isn’t just about designing spaces that allow for people to improve their family functioning or work environment. Instead, she also seeks to study, examine, and explain how one’s surroundings impact their behavior in the first place. 

She is fluent in various styles. However, she believes in a contemporary style with a twist, yet also loves the chance to create totally modern interiors sometimes using antiques as punctuation. She believes in a sense of balance and proportion. She has extensive experience in decorative arts.

Another advantages of her wide experience is her furniture design making, long roster of unique sources for furniture, fabric, & objects and her touch of palette for the right colors and color combinations are widely recognized as a specialty in her work. 

Interior Design and Container homes

interior design

Architectural ethics find solutions to hidden problems in all of his social life,

Architectural Designer, Landscape Designer & Interior Designer with more than 25 Results and Achievements from International and National Competitions & Awards.

International Competition & Awards:

Nominated for International Competition Award Golden Trezzini Awards in Best Architectural Design for Museum (Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Mohammadreza Moghadasi, Seyed Mohammadhossein Rahmati, Saeed Mihan Parast, Fatemeh Ranjbarzadeh Asl, Shirin Jahed, Hanieh Lotfipour, Maryam Piraste, Seyedeh Dena Hosseini & Dr. Mohsen Moosavi)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 34th cycle by Re-Design Of The Lobby Of The Dafineh Museum In Tehran (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi , Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohammadreza Moghadasi, Hanieh Lotfipour, Hesam Turki, Samira Majidi, Zahra Hatami, saeed Hatami, MohammadHadi Forouzandeh Dehkordi, Engineer Ranaei Far)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 34th cycle by The Re-design Project Of Mazandaran University School of Architecture in Babolsar (Project Team: Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Hanieh Lotfipour, Shirin Jahed, Master : Dr.Mohsen Moosavi)

First Place - a Challenge: Strategy before and after the earthquake crisis to accommodate the victims of this natural disaster (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Hanieh Lotfipour)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 33rd cycle by Islamic Art Museum Of Iran
(Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand , Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohammadreza Moghadasi, Hanieh Lotfipour, Marjan Morsharifi, Raha Rasouli & Fateme Abedi)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 33rd cycle by Designing Sistan & Baluchestan Rural Education Space
(Project Team: Dr Mahdi Akhtarkavan, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Hanieh Lotfipour, Zahra Hatami, Zeynab Namazi, Sahar Vazpour & Fateme Abedi)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 32nd cycle by The Rural Educational Space (Project Team: Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Hanieh Lotfipour)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 32nd cycle by The Zi, Children's Healing Garden (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohammadreza Moghadasi, Alireza Salmani, Niosha Nazemzomorodi, Mahdie Vamegh, Marjan Morsharifi)

Finalist of Product Design - Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) 2019 (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Yegane Alizade, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Negar rezaee,Parisa Qods,Mona MollaAbdoullahi,Faeze Usefi,Melika Haji Khodaverdi Khan)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 31st cycle by The Home For Living, Not Only Shelter For Survival (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Hanieh Lotfipour)

Candidate for 2A Asia Architecture Awards 2019 - Future (Concept) Project by Islamic Art Museum Of Iran - Qom, Iran (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Mohammadreza Moghadasi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Massoud Bagheripour)

Candidate for 2A Africa Architecture Awards 2019 - Future (Concept) Project by The Rural Educational Space - Kampala, Uganda (Project Team: Dr. Mohsen Kafi, Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Hanieh Lotfipour)

Winner of World Architecture Awards 30th cycle by a place for being together (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Mohsen Golriz, Mahdie Vamegh, Rezvan Fathi,Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohammadreza Ghorbanifar)

Candidate for 2A Asia Architecture Awards 2018 - Future Project by The Rural Educational Space - Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

Candidate for 2A Asia Architecture Awards 2018 - Future Project by Art Museum Of Iran - Tehran, Iran

Second prize of BI Group  72h Competition

Finalist & Winner of The Honorable Mentions of Bridge of Entrepreneur  International Design Competition for Zhong’an Chuanggu Technology Park (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Mohammadreza Ghorbani)

National Competition & Awards :

First Place - a Challenge: Strategy before and after the earthquake crisis to accommodate the victims of this natural disaster (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati, Hanieh Lotfipour)

Candidate and Published Project of Razi University Temporary Resettlement Competition Kermanshah (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

Third place in architectural design of one- or two-class rural educational space with climatic-economic approach in Sistan and Baluchestan province (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

Winner of  the Haft Sin's Urban Design of Robatkarim Municipality Beautification Organization

First place - people choice award in the Architect Competition of Tomorrow

First place - the Landart architecture competition

Limited Competition :

Second Place - Wahdat Square Competition (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Alireza Salmani, Milad Aliakbari)

First place - the Limited Architectural Competition The Shadchay River Fluvial Restoration & Landscape Design

First Place - Shahed Square Design Competition (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Alireza Salmani, Milad Aliakbari)

Executive Project:

Design of Makran Festival booth at Qom University with architectural booth designs (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

Selected booth of Kermanshah National Harekat Festival (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

Executive Choice for Qom University Fountain (Project Team: Mohsen Kheirmand Parizi, Seyed Mohammad Hoseein Rahmati)

The Shadchay River Fluvial Restoration & Landscape Design