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Ramy Maher

About

I am an architect with projects in several countries. I studied architectural engineering and hold the LEED Accredited Professional credential. I have lived in three countries and speak five languages.

My interest in technology, programming, finance and other cultures led me to create several apps and to start an archive of places.

Professional experience

My career spans more than ten years in architecture, BIM and digitalization in the AEC industry, between Egypt, Germany and Switzerland. I also program, and have completed courses in Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Revitesse

Architecture and engineering software is built to serve 90 to 95 percent of the market. The remaining 5 to 10 percent is where the work becomes highly specific, and that is where most of the time is lost.

Working in different offices, I met the same problems again and again. Revitesse grew out of the wish to solve them for good, and to help other professionals spend less time on repetitive tasks in Revit.

The archive

I started it after a long time away from my home country. I realized that I had become a citizen of the world: a nomad in time as much as in space, who belonged to each place only at a particular moment. Nostalgia, for me, is conditional, because it refers to a snapshot of a place and a time rather than to a place or a time in general.

James Joyce is said to have asked his aunt to visit a house in Dublin and check whether an overweight man could plausibly climb over its railings. If the city were ever burned to the ground, he wanted it to be possible to rebuild it from Ulysses. The stark imagination of one of the best books ever written in English, together with its precision in describing a detail that may seem trivial, out of honesty towards the reader, is what inspired my archive.

Architecture

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Museum of the 20th Century, berlin modern

Berlin, Germany Herzog & de Meuron Competition won in 2016, under construction

The new museum for the Nationalgalerie's collection of twentieth-century art completes Berlin's Kulturforum. It stands on the last open site of the ensemble, between Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie, Hans Scharoun's Philharmonie and the Church of St. Matthew.

Under a single wide pitched roof, with façades of open brickwork, the building is conceived as a covered piece of the city. Two passages cross inside it and connect it to the streets and squares on every side, so that art is met on the building's edges as much as in its galleries. Beside the Nationalgalerie's holdings it will show the Marx, Pietzsch and Marzona collections, and a tunnel links it underground to the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Role
Member of the Herzog & de Meuron project team
Client
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Images
© Herzog & de Meuron

Wohnpark Gebersdorf

Nuremberg, Germany ATP architects engineers Invited competition, 2016

A new residential quarter on the site of a former electrical converter station between Gebersdorfer Straße and Bibertstraße in Nuremberg. Besides housing, the brief called for a daycare centre, senior apartments and a neighbourhood grocery store.

The winning scheme lines up terraced houses along a green promenade that crosses the site, with play lawns, a playground and an oval daycare pavilion along its length. Four-storey apartment buildings face Gebersdorfer Straße and shelter the quarter from traffic, while the senior housing, the grocery store and a café frame a small square. A forest path follows the western edge, and a wildflower meadow doubles as rainwater storage.

Role
Design team, ATP architects engineers, Munich
Client
Deutsche Reihenhaus AG
Landscape
logo verde, Landshut
Competition
Invited, 7 entries

First prize in the invited competition, December 2016.

Design

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Layers of Egypt: Between Labyrinth and Elysium

Egypt Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 15th International Architecture Exhibition, 2016

A competition entry for Egypt's national pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. The pavilion is a passage through three phases of Egypt. The past, where visitors read about Egypt's architecture and its architects. The present: Egypt in 2016, in the middle of a turbulent time, as a labyrinth of dimly lit spaces and images of the suffering Egyptians had grown used to. And the future, Elysium: the bright room the passage finally leads to, where a large physical model of the city has an empty part on the map, and visitors use augmented reality to build Egypt's future.

The design for that future unfolds in three phases. The first keeps the architecture of the existing city, with more green and public space. The second follows the city's main axes: buildings rise taller along them, and where they stay low, they make room for more green space. The third is a business district, to strengthen the city's chances of becoming a financial capital of North Africa and the Middle East.

Second prize, awarded by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.

Extended Threads

Master's project 2016

Extended Threads joins a philosophical reading of architecture with technology. It takes apart what architecture means, who builds, where and how, and puts it back together as a game. It is an inquiry into where architecture ends and design begins, stripping architecture down and dismantling it back to single syllables. Its result is a tool for building vernacularly, without professionally trained architects.

In a gesture-based video game played in virtual reality, players use their hands to control robots at a distance. The robots build by sintering, fusing loose material layer by layer into solid form, across a lunar landscape. The game runs on a computer and on a phone in a VR headset, and many players can build together from anywhere.

Honorable Mention for the Robert Oxman Prize at the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School.

Writing

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Limericks Contest

First International Aphoristic Conference “Magnum in Parvo” Wrocław, Poland October 2025

Magnum in Parvo, “greatness in smallness”, was the First International Aphoristic Conference, held on 24 and 25 October 2025 at the Institute of German Philology of the University of Wrocław. Organised by the institute with the Wrocław chapter of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum and chaired by the writer Andrzej Majewski, it brought together scholars and aphorists from twelve countries.

Alongside lectures on the aphorism, its translation and its history, the programme included exhibitions of historic editions, a chamber concert and a limerick contest judged by the linguist Jan Miodek.

First-prize laureate of the Limerick Contest at the First International Aphoristic Conference “Magnum in Parvo” in October 2025.

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The five winning limericks

Archive

Places I have documented for Wandering Wayfarer, my YouTube channel documenting places around the world: city walks, bus and tram rides, and architecture, mostly in 4K.

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Hover over or tap a country to see the places documented there, and tap a red dot for the city. Drag to move; scroll, pinch or use the buttons to zoom.

Apps

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Shuin 朱印

A world travel stamp.

Shuin is a complete travel app. It records the places you visit, how you travel between them, where you stay and the photo folders of every trip, then animates your journeys so you can share them with friends.

Wherever you come from, Shuin gives every traveller the same passport, valid forever.

You can use it entirely offline and keep everything on your device, or connect it to services such as Booking.com, Airbnb, Ryanair and easyJet to pull in your travel data and add it to your trips.

  • Visits, transport and stays on one world map
  • Photo folders for every trip
  • One passport for everyone, with a stamp for every country
  • Journeys played back as animations, to share with friends
  • Fully offline, or connected to your booking apps
  • Statistics, expenses and the CO2 of every leg

Revitesse

Revit, but faster.

Revitesse is a plugin for Autodesk Revit that takes the repetitive work out of producing drawings. It began as a paid product and is now completely free and open source, installed as a pyRevit extension.

Its tools sit in five panels on the Revit ribbon: Views, Sheets, Parameters, Revision Clouds and Annotations.

  • Create many sheets at once and place views on them in one step
  • Create shared parameters in batches, and transfer or combine their values
  • Select and filter elements, or the tags on them, by category or parameter
  • Number every door and window in the project at once
  • Number, override, list and export revision clouds
  • Find, select and replace text in annotations

Bancanca

Personal finance in a single file.

Bancanca helps you analyse your expenses and see where your money goes.

It also has an interactive learning section that explains personal finance: investing, property, ETFs and stocks, compound interest and more.

  • A ledger for several people, accounts and currencies
  • Bank statement import and reconciliation
  • Spending analysis, budgets and recurring payments
  • Investment and property projections, adjusted for inflation
  • Summary and tax reports
  • PIN lock and dark mode

RealStage

Real estate in virtual reality, by PLUG Interactive.

RealStage was a virtual-reality app for real estate marketing, made at PLUG Interactive from 2016 to 2018. It let developers present their projects before they were built: buyers could drive through the neighbourhood, find units by size, price and orientation, see the chosen unit light up on the building, open its floor plan and walk through the furnished apartment, on a screen or in a VR headset.

  • Drive and walk through a project before it is built
  • Filter units by bedrooms, area, price and orientation
  • The chosen unit highlighted on the building
  • Floor plans and unit details
  • Furnished interiors, in virtual reality