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Dieter Brell

Dieter Brell is a founding member of the interdisciplinary design office 3deluxe, which is among the most cutting-edge representatives of the German design avantgarde. For more than 20 years the Wiesbaden agency, which has offshoots in Miami and Dubai, has been breaking new ground in architecture, interior design and
corporate design. Its seemingly organic design language, complex multimedia installations, and iconic buildings have proven to be stylistically very influential even at the international level. As creative director, Dieter Brell is responsible for numerous renowned and award-winning projects worldwide such as the D’fly store in New York, the architecture of the Leonardo Glass Cube, the Cocoon Club for techno icon Sven Väth, the Butterfly Pavilion in Dubai, restaurant designs for Michelin-starred chef Mario Lohninger, the V-Plaza carfree urban development project in Lithuania and the zero-energy building FC Campus, to name but a few. Currently Dieter Brells main focus is on the future transformation of our cities into more livable, resilient, sustainable and inclusive spaces and what role architecture can play in this development.
He is member of the German Design Council, is engaged in several innovation networks like Morgenstadt/City of the future and he is a frequent speaker at international summits and events.
“My team and I work to make the world more beautiful and more human friendly. We aim to inspire and heighten people’s awareness, and we believe in the positive impact of forward looking and innovative design.” (Dieter Brell)

https://3deluxe.de/de

Afroditi Krassa

Afroditi Krassa (born 1974) is a British product designer and interior designer and founded her own design consultancy Afroditi Krassa LTD in 2002 in London. Krassa was educated at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and later on, the Royal College of Art, under architect Ron Arad.

Afroditi Studio was founded in 2002 in an old garage in South London. Founder and product designer Afroditi Krassa brought a radically new approach to hospitality design that led to the creation of some of London’s most iconic projects. From itsu to Dishoom and Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay, the holistic and conceptually driven approach resulted in brands that redefined their category.

Two decades, 150 projects & 40 design awards later, the studio has spread across 3 continents working with governments, masterplanners, developers, hotel groups, renowned chefs and mixologists to reimagine the way we consume hospitality experiences.

https://www.afroditi.com/

Carole Baijings

Co-Founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Scholten & Baijings until 2019, Carole Baijings is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, innovative and dynamic industrial designers in Europe. A self-confessed perfectionist, her work – which includes ceramics, glassware, textiles, furniture and electronics – is distinguished by a carefully considered use of colour, pattern and graphic elements. Her eye for detail is well-known. This has resulted in numerous partnerships with brands such as Samsung, IKEA, MINI, HAY, Herman Miller, Karimoku New Standard and Maharam among others.

Always looking to challenge and rethink the way people interact and live with design, Baijings’ work has been featured in prestigious institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Rijksmuseum.

“My design philosophy has always been the ‘Atelier-way-of-working’. That means that I hand-make my own colours, materials, and models and in doing so create new and unique shapes and forms. I have an eye for detail, and working by hand allows me to achieve that precision – whether it’s finding that exact shade of fluorescent pink or slightly tweaking the proportions of a seat for a more comfy sit.

Colour is my truest passion. It’s at the heart of what I design and something I like to toggle with from start to finish. Colour, and with it ideas of transparency, layering and grids have the potential to add so much dimensionality to a piece — it’s so much more than just the icing on the cake!

Nature is a big inspiration for my work. I like to say that flowers can never be too vulgar, no matter how bright they are. So that’s something I’m constantly challenging myself to further explore: how can I incorporate these bold colours whilst still achieving a sense of refinement?

I’m certainly no stranger to a touch of fluorescent – in fact, it’s almost become a signature. It used to be a real challenge to produce these fluorescents in different materials but over time and with the introduction of colour-fast inks, it’s increasingly achievable. To say I’m pleased is an understatement.

I’ve been fortunate to work with prestigious brands and museums – all of which have their own unique ethos and history. Understanding this DNA and exactly what each brand stands for is my starting place and a great source of inspiration. When collaborating, I strive for a finished product where we can honestly say that we see reflections of both our identities.”

Bernard Khoury

Bernard Khoury was born in Beirut in 1968. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island school of Design (BFA 1990 / B.Arch. 1991) and received a Masters in Architectural Studies from Harvard University (M.Arch. 1993). In 2001, he was awarded, by the municipality of Rome, the honorable mention of the Borromini Prize given to architects under forty years of age. In 2004, he was awarded the Architecture + Award. He is the co-founder of the Arab Center for Architecture. He was a visiting professor in several design and architecture schools, including the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, L’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. He has lectured and exhibited his work in over one-hundred-twenty prestigious academic institutions in Europe and the U.S. including a solo show of his work given by the International Forum for Contemporary Architecture at the Aedes gallery in Berlin (2003) and numerous group shows including YOUprison at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2008) and Spazio at the opening show of the MAXXI museum in Rome (2010). He was the architect and co-curator of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 14^th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014. Khoury started an independent practice in 1993. His work has been extensively published by the professional press. Over the past twenty years, his office has developed an international reputation and a significant diverse portfolio of projects both locally and in over fifteen countries abroad.

https://www.bernardkhoury.com/

Maciej Franta

Maciej Franta — Polish architect, born in 1983 in Chorzów. Awarded the title of the Architect of the Year 2021 in the competition organized by The Architecture Community in 2022 and included in the list of 40 most promising young architects in the world in the plebiscite 40 under 40 2021 organized by The European Center.

Author of, inter alia, Villa Reden, one of the most awarded architectural projects in 2021. The building has won such awards as: Eurasian Prize 2021, DNA Paris Design Awards 2021, World Design Awards 2021, Architecture Masterprize 2021, Iconic Awards 2021, European Property Awards 2021, Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2022 and more.

Maciej Franta graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology in 2008, and then also doctoral studies there. He also studied at the Faculty of Architecture at Knoxville University in Tennessee. In 2007, he completed an internship at the Gensler architectural studio in New York. Since 2010, he has been running the Franta Architects Group studio in Katowice, which brings together 24 architects and deals with the design of architecture and urban planning of housing estates, public and service buildings. The studio’s projects have been awarded many times in competitions in Poland and around the world. Apart from architecture, Maciej Franta is also interested in logic, travel and future.

www.frantagroup.com

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Rafiq Azam

Professor Rafiq Azam is an internationally acclaimed architect from Bangladesh who has been practicing and developing his remarkable style of green architecture for the last 30 years. His architecture is a harmonious fusion of tradition, nature, and mysticism, including tiny elements of nature to adorn his buildings with poetic beauty. A “House” to him is not just an abode for humans, but a nest for butterflies and birds as well. Rafiq’s mastery of light, shadow, water, and air is influenced by such mysticisms as cited by Lalon and Tagore. His green architecture is not a mere mechanism of energy saving — rather it is an inspiring process of energy gaining.

Rafiq Azam was born on December 29, 1963, in Dhaka, Bangladesh and lived with his family in Lalbagh for most of his youth. In 1986, he finished designing the Azam Residence, a single-family residence which he held dear to his heart as it was made to house his own family following the death of his father. The residence finished construction in 1988. Rafiq Azam then went on to graduate from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1989 and started his architectural practice, “SHATOTTO architecture for green living”, in May 1995.

In 2004, Rafiq Azam participated in the “Glenn Murcutt Master Class”, and in 2008 was selected as one of the ten emerging designers of the world by “Urban Land” in the USA.

As a visiting faculty, Rafiq taught at notable institutions such as the National University of Singapore, NED Karachi, Jadavpur University India, BRAC University, University of Asia Pacific, North South University Dhaka, and Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, among others.

Some of his major projects include the SA Residence, a single family residence constructed in 2010; The SP Setia Headquarters, an international project completed in Malaysia in 2014; The Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque, a contemporary mosque built adjacent to the Azimpur Graveyard in Old Dhaka in 2018; And Rasulbagh Children’s Park, a revitalization project of an old misused park completed in 2021 as part of the Jol Shobuje Dhaka initiative. ^[2]

Rafiq Azam has also acquired many awards and achievements. He is the proud holder of The Berger Excellence Award, the AR Emerging Architecture Award, and the IAB Award. He is also a four-times winner of the Cityscape Global Award, five-times winner of the World Architectural Community Award, and six-times winner of the South Asian Architecture Award.

Rafiq Azam qualified as a finalist for the Aga Khan Award in 2004 and 2007, won the Leading European Award in 2015, the ARCASIA Gold Medal and the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Award in 2017, won first place in the Eurasian Prize 2020, and received an Honorable Mention in the DNA Paris Design Awards in 2021.

Most recently, Rafiq Azam has been awarded with High Commendations in the UIA 2030 award in June 2022 and has been selected as the recipient for the Commonwealth Association of Architects’ Robert Matthew Life Time Achievement award in July 2022.

He has also served as an international juror on multiple architectural platforms and has attracted media attention from all over the world.

https://rafiqazam.com/

JacquesFerrier

Jacques Ferrier is an architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris-Belleville and
civil engineering at École Centrale in Paris. In 1993, he created his own practice in Paris and has worked in France and internationally since then.
His work follows a clear philosophy and aims to create an architecture and an urban environment for a creative and sustainable society.
His portfolio includes cultural and leisure facilities (amongst others the French Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and the Water Park
Aqualagon near Paris), showcase buildings (such as the Headquarters for Champagne Piper & Charles Heidsieck in Reims, the Headquarters of
Hachette Livre in Paris and the Airbus Delivery Center in Toulouse), public buildings (notably the Collège de France in Paris, the Métropole Rouen
Normandie headquarters and the International French School of Beijing). Pauline Marchetti and Jacques Ferrier have been collaborating since
2008. Together, with the philosopher Philippe Simay, they created in 2010 Sensual City Studio, a research laboratory devoted to a forward-looking,
humanistic and sensitive approach to the city and to architecture. Since then, they have developed a significant portfolio, with public and private
projects, that combine research and architecture.
Jacques Ferrier is qualified to teach in architectural schools in France. He has published a large number of books and articles on his
ongoing architectural research. His work has been the subject of many publications, especially The Architecture of Jacques Ferrier (edited
by Thames & Hudson London in 2016). His work has been showcased in several monographic exhibitions : ‘Entre-Deux’ at the The Design
Center of the University of Quebec in Montreal, ‘Impressionismus at the Architektur Galerie Berlin, ‘Non oppressive Design’ at the DOKK1 in
Aarhus and ‘A vision for the Sensual City’ in Manila, Singapore, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. He has been recipient of several prizes and awards,
in France and internationally. These include the LEAF and BEX awards in London, Architizer A+Award in New-York, and Highly Commended
mention at the WAF 2016 in Berlin. He is both Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

https://ferriermarchetti.studio/

Jeremy Smith

Dr Jeremy Smith, Design Director Irving Smith Architects, Adjunct Associate Professor University of Auckland. Irving Smith Architects is a research-based design practice working in sensitive environments throughout New Zealand and abroad. In his role as Design Director, Jeremy has led a range of design innovations, including winning
World Timber Building of the Year and World Higher Education and Research Building of the Year at the 2021 World Architecture Festival, a Laureate of the 2021 Eurasian Prize for Architecture, the 2021 Best of the Best Green Building Prize at the Masterprize Architecture Awards, the 2021 Architizer A+ Wood & Architecture Award, The Building at the 2021 Indo-Pacific INDE Awards, a Judges Special Award at the 2020 Taipei International Design Awards, a 2019 UNESCO Award of Distinction at the Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards in Penang, finalist nomination for the 2019 World Small Project Prize at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam, WAF World Villa of the Year in Berlin 2017 and Highly Commended in Singapore 2015. ISA have received multiple New Zealand Architecture Awards in public, commercial and residential categories, been a finalist for the New Zealand Architecture Medal, won the Spatial Purple Pin at the NZ Best Design and twice been awarded NZ’s national timber design award. Recent publications include Architecture Magazine, Architecture Record, Elle, Vogue and GQ Magazine.
Jeremy writes for Architecture New Zealand, and has lectured widely about the practice’s work, including in Spain, Singapore, Germany, USA, Holland, India, and France. He recently spoke at the Design Excellence in Timber and Wood Symposium at the Fay Jones School of Architecture, Arkansas and in a 9-stop lecture tour through American
Universities, including FJSOA, Taliesin West, Kentucky State, Mississippi State, Rural Studio, Kentucky State, Columbus Indiana, Carnegie Mellon, with a swansong at the New York League of Architects. Jeremy represented New Zealand at the 2015, 2018 and 2020 Prague International Architecture Festivals with a series of exhibitions developing the idea of participating with existing landscapes before generating new contexts, what he calls Soft Architecture. Jeremy was an International Juror for the Indian Institute of Architects National Awards in 2019, has judged the NZIA New Zealand Architecture Awards, and at World Architecture Festivals in Singapore, Berlin, and Amsterdam, and has been invited to judge in Lisbon 2022. He also judged the 2020,2021 WAF China Awards, the 2021 Muse Awards out of New York, the Italian 2020-2022 A’Design International Design Awards. He is also a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, and an International Advisor to the Saveetha College of Architecture and Design in Chennai, India. Jeremy is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Auckland where he teaches an iterative design studio at
Masters level, won Victoria University of Wellington’s Centennial Medal for post-graduate academic achievement and has a design based PHD undertaken between practice commitments; finding time, he suggests, at airports and while his kids are at parties. The return to academia has allowed Jeremy to merge what are often divergent disciplines in New Zealand architecture. Key to his practice, teaching and research, is understanding how buildings inhabit an environment that constantly undergoes change, be it in city or rural landscapes. His work across a wide range of scales and typologies shows that architecture benefits from a continual dialogue and iterative participation between building and context. And with Soft Architecture comes the question, is being finished finished?

http://www.isarchitects.nz/

Brinda Somaya

Brinda Somaya is an architect and urban conservationist. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Architecture from Mumbai University and Master of Arts from Smith College in Northampton, MA, USA, she started her firm Somaya and Kalappa Consultants (SNK) in 1978 in Mumbai, India. In May 2012 she was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from her alma mater, Smith College. In 2014 she was awarded the Indian Institute of Architects – Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. From 2016-2021 she was the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, an Institute of National Importance. In 2017 she joined the
Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Zurich, Switzerland and was also elected as the A.D. White Professor-at-Large by Cornell University, U.S.A.
Over four decades she has merged architecture, conservation and social equity in projects ranging from institutional campuses, rehabilitation of an earthquake-torn village to restoration of an 18th century Cathedral, showing that progress and history need not be at odds. Her belief that ‘The Architect’s role is that of guardian – hers is the conscience of the built and un-built environment’, underlines her work that encompasses large corporate, industrial and institutional campuses and extends to public spaces, some of which she has rebuilt, and others reinvented as pavements, parks and plazas.
Some of SNK’s award-winning campuses include Tata Consultancy Services, Banyan Park, Mumbai;
Nalanda International School, Vadodara; and Zensar Technologies, Pune. In 2021 SNK Consultants won UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage award of Merit for Malabari Hall, Seva Sadan, in 2019, the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage award of Distinction for the `Restoration and Upgradation of the historic Louis Kahn Buildings of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in 2018, the UNESCO ASIA-PACIFIC Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation — Honourable Mention,
2018 for Rajabai Clock Tower and University of Mumbai Library and in 2004 the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage award for the restoration of the St. Thomas’ Cathedral in Mumbai. In 2013 Brinda Somaya was chosen as one of the 100 GLOBAL PUBLIC∙INTEREST∙DESIGN persons working at the intersection of design and service globally.
She is the Founder Trustee of the HECAR Foundation which has brought out several publications on Heritage and Architecture. In 2000 she curated a conference, ‘Women in Architecture 2000’, and organized a seminal exhibition on the work of women architects, with a special focus on South Asia, In 2020, she chaired an international conference ‘Women in Design 2020+’ a landmark event for women designers from across the globe to showcase SNK’s work as well as provide a platform to collaborate. In 2018, she brought out a monograph ‘Brinda Somaya – Works & Continuities’ covering her diverse practice with MAPIN Publishing and the HECAR Foundation.
Brinda Somaya was on the IAWA board of Advisors (International Archives of Women in Architecture), U.S.A. She has delivered analytical and critical talks as well as presented papers in India and abroad on her work. She has lectured extensively in the U.S.A, U.K., Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & India and her work has been exhibited in the USA, UK and Japan.

https://www.snkindia.com/

Андрей Владимирович Боков

Доктор наук, доктор архитектуры;
Президент Союза архитекторов России до 2016 г.;
Академик Российской академии архитектуры и строительных наук;
Президент Московского отделения Международной академии архитектуры (МААМ);
Вице-президент Международной академии архитектуры (IAA);
Лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства;
Заслуженный архитектор России;
Член Европейского общества культуры;
Заслуженный строитель Москвы;
Член Союза художников России.

Андрей Владимирович Боков является автором более ста градостроительных и архитектурных проектов. Среди его основных работ экспериментальный блок жилья в Нижнем Новгороде, выставочный центр (ВВЦ) в Москве, Музей Маяковского на Лубянке, Пушкинский музей на Пречистенке; офисные здания на Савинской набережной, улице Гиляровского и Большом Гнездниковском переулке, футбольный стадион «Локомотив», крытый конькобежный центр в Крылатском, Ледовый дворец «Мегаспорт», планирование жилых домов на Ходынке и театр Станиславского и Немировича-Данченко.

Андрей Владимирович Боков является автором двух книг и более пятидесяти статей, которые были опубликованы в национальных и международных журналах. Он проводил исследования по проблемам городского и экологического планирования и развития социальной инфраструктуры Москвы и был одним из главных идеологов «экологического подхода в архитектуре». Преподавал в Московском архитектурном институте (МАРХИ ) и Moscow Fine Art High School.
А.В. Боков получил ряд государственных наград, в том числе Национальную премию в области архитектуры Хрустальный Дедал (2001, 2002 и 2004), орден Петра Великого первой степени; орден Почета; медаль Василия Баженова «За высокое архитектурное мастерство» (фестиваль «Зодчество- 2007» ).

АНДРЕЙ БОКОВ (Доктор архитектуры)

Доктор наук, доктор архитектуры;
Президент Союза архитекторов России (до 2016 г.);
Член Российской академии архитектуры и строительных наук;
Заслуженный архитектор России;
Лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства;
Заслуженный строитель Москвы;
Член Союза художников России ;
Действительный член Московского отделения Международной академии архитектуры (МААМ);
Член Европейского общества культуры.

Андрей Владимирович Боков является автором более ста градостроительных и архитектурных проектов. Среди его основных работ экспериментальный блок жилья в Нижнем Новгороде, выставочный центр (ВВЦ) в Москве, Музей Маяковского на Лубянке, Пушкинский музей на Пречистенке; офисные здания на Савинской набережной, улице Гиляровского и Большом Гнездниковском переулке, футбольный стадион «Локомотив», крытый конькобежный центр в Крылатском, Ледовый дворец «Мегаспорт», планирование жилых домов на Ходынке и театр Станиславского и Немировича-Данченко.

Андрей Владимирович Боков является автором двух книг и более пятидесяти статей, которые были опубликованы в национальных и международных журналах. Он проводил исследования по проблемам городского и экологического планирования и развития социальной инфраструктуры Москвы и был одним из главных идеологов «экологического подхода в архитектуре». Преподавал в Московском архитектурном институте (МАРХИ ) и Moscow Fine Art High School.

А.В. Боков получил ряд государственных наград, в том числе Национальную премию в области архитектуры Хрустальный Дедал (2001, 2002 и 2004), орден Петра Великого первой степени; орден Почета; медаль Василия Баженова «За высокое архитектурное мастерство» (фестиваль «Зодчество- 2007» ).

Санджай Пури

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Санджай Пури (Sanjay Puri), главный архитектор Sanjay Puri Architects, Индия

Был спикером и судьей на многочисленных международных архитектурных мероприятиях, в Лондоне, Амстердаме, Болонье, Милане, Венеции, Барселоне, Сингапуре, Берлине и Белграде.

Выиграв приз за лучший проект жилого дома на Всемирном архитектурном фестивале 2018 года в Амстердаме и приз за лучший в мире жилой проект 2017 года на Leaf Awards, Лондон , «Sanjay Puri Architects» теперь являются обладателями более 140 международных архитектурных премий.

Мишель Ройкинд

MICHEL ROJKIND Michel Rojkind (Mexico City 1969) Studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1989-1994).

He founded Rojkind Arquitectos in 2002. In 2005, Rojkind Arquitectos was selected by Architectural record’s “Design Vanguard” as one of 10 international firms of the year. In 2010 he won Emerging Voices, organized by the Achitectural League of New York. In 2010, Los Angeles Times named Michel Rojkind as one of the “People to Watch” That Year. In 2011, Wallpaper magazine named him as one of the “150 Movers, Shakers and Makers That Have Rocked The World in the Last 15 Years.” In 2013, Forbes magazine recognized him as “one of the most influential architects in the contemporary Mexican scene.” The New York Times named Michel Rojkind as part of “A Generation of Architects Making Its Mark at Dizzing Speed” in 2017. In 2021 000M named Rojkind #23 of the 100 Most Inspiring People of 2020. In Mexico, his built projects stand out: The Nestle Chocolate Museum (2007), La Cineteca Nacional (2012), HighPark Monterrey (2015), El Mercado Roma (2014), and the house of the Boca del Rio Philharmonic “Foro Boca” (2017). He has been visiting professor at the IACC in Barcelona, at SCI-Arc, UPenn and Harvard University.

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Michel Rojkind

MICHEL ROJKIND Michel Rojkind (Mexico City 1969) Studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1989-1994).

He founded Rojkind Arquitectos in 2002. In 2005, Rojkind Arquitectos was selected by Architectural record’s “Design Vanguard” as one of 10 international firms of the year. In 2010 he won Emerging Voices, organized by the Achitectural League of New York. In 2010, Los Angeles Times named Michel Rojkind as one of the “People to Watch” That Year. In 2011, Wallpaper magazine named him as one of the “150 Movers, Shakers and Makers That Have Rocked The World in the Last 15 Years.” In 2013, Forbes magazine recognized him as “one of the most influential architects in the contemporary Mexican scene.” The New York Times named Michel Rojkind as part of “A Generation of Architects Making Its Mark at Dizzing Speed” in 2017. In 2021 000M named Rojkind #23 of the 100 Most Inspiring People of 2020. In Mexico, his built projects stand out: The Nestle Chocolate Museum (2007), La Cineteca Nacional (2012), HighPark Monterrey (2015), El Mercado Roma (2014), and the house of the Boca del Rio Philharmonic “Foro Boca” (2017). He has been visiting professor at the IACC in Barcelona, at SCI-Arc, UPenn and Harvard University.

ROJKIND ARQUITECTOS FOUNDING PARTNER

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Colin Seah

Architecturally trained in the US and licensed in Singapore, Colin Seah honed his sensibilities working for the likes of Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. He also spent 4 years at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture researching design pedagogy and serving as design critic.

As MOD’s Founder and Director of Design, Colin has been named Designer of the Year by International Design Awards USA 2010, and is a two-time recipient of Singapore’s highest design accolade, the President’s Design Award. He is also a three-time Grand Prize Winner of the Gold Key Award, the highest international hospitality accolade, named Hong Kong Perspective’s ’40 under 40 architects’ and Marcus Corporation Foundation Prize 2007 ’emerging architect with potential for greatness’ and recognized as «Rising Star in Architecture» by Monocle. Colin Seah has been a juror for the Inaugural Dezeen Awards, a Global Advisor for leading surfaces manufacturer Cosentino and invited by the Singapore Tourism Board to redefine Singapore as a destination for 2020 and beyond.

Колин Сеа

Architecturally trained in the US and licensed in Singapore, Colin Seah honed his sensibilities working for the likes of Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. He also spent 4 years at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture researching design pedagogy and serving as design critic.

As MOD’s Founder and Director of Design, Colin has been named Designer of the Year by International Design Awards USA 2010, and is a two-time recipient of Singapore’s highest design accolade, the President’s Design Award. He is also a three-time Grand Prize Winner of the Gold Key Award, the highest international hospitality accolade, named Hong Kong Perspective’s ’40 under 40 architects’ and Marcus Corporation Foundation Prize 2007 ’emerging architect with potential for greatness’ and recognized as «Rising Star in Architecture» by Monocle. Colin Seah has been a juror for the Inaugural Dezeen Awards, a Global Advisor for leading surfaces manufacturer Cosentino and invited by the Singapore Tourism Board to redefine Singapore as a destination for 2020 and beyond.

Дориана Фуксас

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas was born in Rome where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1979. She has also earned a degree in Architecture from ESA, École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. She has done didactic activities at the Institute of History of Art at the Faculty of Letters and Arts and at Industrial Design Department ITACA at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She has curated four “Special Projects” at the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia”, Less Aesthetics, More Ethics in 2000: Jean Prouvè, Jean Maneval, the Peace Pavilion and Architecture of Spaces, and the Contemporary Art section. She has worked with Massimiliano Fuksas in 1985 and has been director in charge of “Fuksas Design” since 1997. In 2002 she was decorated Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2006 Awards for Excellence Europe” ULI (Urban Land Institute), first prize awarded to New Trade Fair Rho-Pero in Milan. In 2012 Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012, New Rome-Eur Congress Centre awarded Best Building Site. In 2013 she was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la RépubliqueFrançaise. The same year the Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport-T3, awarded Best Transportation Space in Shenzhen, China.

From 2014 to 2015 he was the author of the Design column in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”. From January 1st, 2020, Doriana Fuksas was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur Française.

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas

Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas was born in Rome where she graduated in History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1979. She has also earned a degree in Architecture from ESA, École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris. She has done didactic activities at the Institute of History of Art at the Faculty of Letters and Arts and at Industrial Design Department ITACA at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She has curated four “Special Projects” at the “VII Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia”, Less Aesthetics, More Ethics in 2000: Jean Prouvè, Jean Maneval, the Peace Pavilion and Architecture of Spaces, and the Contemporary Art section. She has worked with Massimiliano Fuksas in 1985 and has been director in charge of “Fuksas Design” since 1997. In 2002 she was decorated Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française. In 2006 Awards for Excellence Europe” ULI (Urban Land Institute), first prize awarded to New Trade Fair Rho-Pero in Milan. In 2012 Wallpaper* Design Awards 2012, New Rome-Eur Congress Centre awarded Best Building Site. In 2013 she was decorated Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la RépubliqueFrançaise. The same year the Idea-Tops Awards, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport-T3, awarded Best Transportation Space in Shenzhen, China.

From 2014 to 2015 he was the author of the Design column in the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”. From January 1st, 2020, Doriana Fuksas was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur Française.

Тодд Сандерс

Todd Saunders (1969) is one of the most important contemporary Canadian architects working internationally. His architecture, simple yet powerful, incorporates elements of his country’s architectural identity – including the use of wood and carefully picked Modernist influences – bringing it at the same time into the 21st century with excellent execution, carefully chosen materials and a hands-on approach.

Saunders, who has lived and worked in Bergen, Norway for the past 25 years, has successfully executed work in both Canada, Norway, USA, Sweden, and Finland, creating architecture with a strong sense of northern identity, an individual approach that is informed by the strength of natural landscape.

Saunders studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and McGill University in Montreal. In 2016 Saunders was given an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He continues to combine teaching with practice. He has lectured in over 20 countries. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York. He will be a guest professor at Yale University during the fall of 2021.

Saunders’ projects have been presented in magazines and newspapers in over 40 countries, and are featured in over 100 books from 15 different countries.

In December 2012, the Swiss Publishing House Birkhäuser published a book on the architecture of Todd Saunders, written by Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki, the editors of Wallpaper Magazine in London.

In the fall of 2021, the British publisher Thames & Hudson is publishing a new book on selected residential projects by Todd Saunders, written by Dominic Bradbury, freelance writer for The Financial Times, The Times and several other magazines and newspapers internationally .

In 2020 Todd Saunders was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Saunders was ranked one of Norway’s 10 best architects by the magazine Bo Bedre in 2009, and was placed number 52 among the 100 best architects in the world by the German magazine BauNetz in 2012. Saunders was also ranked among the five top architects in the world under 50 by the Huffington Post in 2011.

His most renowned project, The Fogo Island Inn on Fogo Island, Canada, har won several awards. In 2020, the Fogo Island Inn’s dining hall, The Fogo Island Shed, won both the World Architecture News Award and the Gray Award.

Worth mentioning is the Travel + Leisure Global Vision Award – Culture in 2013, Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner in 2016, and being ranked the #1 hotel in Canada and #3 hotel in the world 2020 by Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards.

In 2011, the project Fogo Island Studios in Canada won the HISE Award for Sustainable Excellence as well as the AZ Award for Best Commercial Project, and the Solberg Tower and Park was awarded the Arnstein Arneberg Award for Outstanding Architecture.

In October 2006, the Norwegian Association of Architects nominated the Aurland Lookout for the Mies van der Rohe Prize; The European Union prize for contemporary architecture. In 2006, this project won the Norwegian Construction Prize, was given an honourable mention at the AR Awards for Emerging Architects in London, and was nominated for Wallpaper magazine’s ʻBest Public Projectʼ in 2007.

In the fall of 2005 Saunders was a part of an exhibition entitled 20 under 40: Young Norwegian Architecture hosted by the Norwegian Architecture Association.

Saunders is now focusing on creating community based architecture and art together with philanthropist in order to instigate change. The studio is in the process of completing a visitor centre in Katahdin National park together with The Elliotsville Foundation. Previous projects with philanthropists have included all the Fogo Island project with the Shorefast Foundation and the Illusuak Cultural Centre in Labrador with the Nunatsiavut. What matters for Saunders now is to create architecture and art that gives back to communities.

Эрик ван Эгерат

Erick van Egeraat
During his over 40 years of successful practice, Erick van Egeraat (Amsterdam, 1956) has built a highly diverse portfolio containing ambitious and high-profile projects in The Netherlands, Europe, and the Russian Federation. He has led the realization of over 166 projects in more than 10 countries ranging from buildings for public and commercial use to luxury and social housing projects, projects for mixed-use and master plans for cities, and even entire regions. Each of these projects represents his very personal and expressive vision on architecture and urban development. Both Erick van Egeraat and his work have been the recipients of numerous international awards and citations such as the RIBA Award 2007 for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and the ‘Best Animated Architecture’ award at the 2014 Media Architecture Biennale for the Waste to Energy Plant in Roskilde, Denmark.

Erick van Egeraat graduated from Delft University of Technology, Department of Architecture, with honourable mention in 1984 and was the co-founder of Mecanoo – the renowned avant-garde architects. In 1995 he established (EEA) Erick van Egeraat associated architects with offices in Rotterdam, Moscow, Budapest, London, and Prague. In order to better meet the demands of a portfolio as diverse as his, Erick van Egeraat successfully restructured his company in 2009 into what is now (design) Erick van Egeraat.

Асиф Хан

Asif Khan MBE

Asif Khan founded his architecture office in 2007 to design buildings that support new ways of thinking about the world and ourselves. He works internationally on a wide range of projects from cultural buildings and landscapes to experimental structures and has taught at the Royal College of Art and Musashino Art University.

Born in London to parents from Tanzanian and Pakistani backgrounds, he studied at the Architectural Association and Bartlett School of Architecture. His current portfolio of projects includes the New Museum of London, which is the largest cultural project in Europe, the carbon-fibre Entry Portals at Dubai Expo 2020, and over 6km of Expo 2020 Public Realm design. Also currently under construction are a Museum of Manuscripts in Sharjah and the Tselinny Centre of Contemporary Culture in Almaty which will open in 2022. Well known works include the UK Pavilion at Astana Expo in 2017 in collaboration with Musician Brian Eno and the Hyundai Pavilion at PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.

A finalist in the competition for the Helsinki Guggenheim Art Museum, Asif was awarded Architect of the Year in 2018 by the German Design Council and received an MBE for services to Architecture in 2017. Asif is currently Deputy Chairman of the board of the Design Museum in London.

Тэцуя Мацумото

Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards including INSIDE World Festival of interiors, the Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, Iconic Awards, Spark Awards, A’ Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, K-Design Awards, APIDA Awards, Design for Asia Awards, American Architecture Prize, and German Design Awards just to name a few. Since 2017, Tetsuya became jury member for A’ Design Awards, K-Design awards, Asia Design Prize, UNI’s Di-Generic cities Tokyo, C-IDEA Design Award, Azerbaijan Design Award, Sky Design Awards, and the World Architecture Festival.

Matsumoto Tetsuya

Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards including INSIDE World Festival of interiors, the Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, Iconic Awards, Spark Awards, A’ Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, K-Design Awards, APIDA Awards, Design for Asia Awards, American Architecture Prize, and German Design Awards just to name a few. Since 2017, Tetsuya became jury member for A’ Design Awards, K-Design awards, Asia Design Prize, UNI’s Di-Generic cities Tokyo, C-IDEA Design Award, Azerbaijan Design Award, Sky Design Awards, and the World Architecture Festival.

Todd Saunders