Interviews

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.

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photo: Tomasz Zakrzewski

Established in the year 2003 in the city of Pune, VDGA works as a studio, deriving architectural solutions through study, analysis and exploration of visual, spatial, formal, social and technological ideas. Founder & Principal Architect Deepak Guggari has won the 60 National & International Awards of High repute.

Studio VDGA goal lies in creating ‘timeless meaningful spaces’ which induce harmony, happiness & peace in the lives of the users. We endeavor to create more than just architecture, a lifestyle for the occupants.

Simple intelligent ideas such as optimum use of natural light, ventilation & locally available natural building materials and techniques have been our continuous effort.

Studio believe in creating architecture, which primarily responds to its users and context more than defining a signature style for us. We also believe that the beauty lies in detailing and it is our constant effort to work till the minute details, understanding the needs of the user.

Studio VDGA designs imbibe a synergy of the traditional and the modern elements. There designs are contemporary yet deeply rooted to the place and its context.

The Studio has a range of ongoing projects, which includes hospitality (hotels & resorts), institutional, residential, corporate & neighborhood development projects in India, U.A.E & Vietnam. Works of the studio have been widely published, awarded and recognised in the best architectural, hospitality and travel forums worldwide. Awards of high repute such as JK Cement Architect of the Year Awards, ArchDaily Building of Year, Dezeen London, Deezeen Interior designer of the year Public vote Award, IIID Awards, NDTV Awards, CNBC Awards and A+D Awards have further acknowledged studio’s efforts.

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Andrey Bokov Doctor of Architecture, Vice-president of International Academy of architecture (IAA), president of the Eurasian branch of IAA (MAAM), Member of the European Society of Culture.

Academician Andrey Bokov is the author of more than a hundred city-planning and architectural projects. Architectural design includes more than 100 realized projects, among main realized projects are: experimental residential area in Nizhny Novgorod; the Pavilion No. 4 at All-Russian Exhibition Centre; V.V. Mayakovsky Museum on Lubyanka Square; A. Pushkin Museum in Prechistenka St.; office buildings at Savinskaya Embankment, Gilyarovsky St. and Bolshoi Gnezdnikovsky L.; “Locomotive” football stadium, covered skating centre in Krylatskoye, “Megasport” Ice Palace; oval apartment blocks on Khodynka area; K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Theatre, etc.

Andrey Bokov published two books and over 50 articles in national and foreign issues. Many of them were awarded Union of Architects’ prizes. He conducted theoretical research of urban and environmental design and development of social infrastructure. He is one of the creators of the “environmental approach in architecture”. For many years worked as a consultant and workshop leader in the Senezh Design Studio, a professional and academic center for environmental and urban design. He was a teacher in Moscow Architectural Institute, in State University on Land Development, in Sourikov Moscow Artistic High School. As a regular participant in international professional competitions has been awarded over 40 times.

Beatrice Galilee is a London-born curator, writer and cultural advisor who is internationally recognized for her expertise in global contemporary architecture and design. She is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future, published by Phaidon in 2021, and between 2014-2019 served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Currently living in New York, Ms Galilee is co-founder and executive director of The World Around, a new platform for contemporary design and architecture that is in residence at the Guggenheim Museum. Beatrice is a visiting associate professor at Pratt Institute where she lectures on curating.

Beatrice served as chief curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; co-curator of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, co-curator of 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Between 2010-2012 she launched and co-directed The Gopher Hole, an experimental exhibition and project space in London.

Between 2006-2009 she served the award-winning architecture editor of Icon Magazine, one of Europe’s leading publications in architecture and design, and is a respected critic: her reviews, profiles and features on contemporary design have been published in a number of international magazines and books as well as daily newspapers, including e-Flux, CNN Style, Vogue Italia, Art Review, Domus, Abitare, MARK, Tank, Pin-Up, Above, Building Design, Architectural Review, Architecture Today, RIBA Journal, Architect’s Journal, DAMn, Frame, Wallpaper, Another Magazine. the Serpentine Pavilion catalogue.

Gilda Bojardi is editor since 1994 of the magazine Interni published by Gruppo Mondadori, and also Editor of all the publications of the Interni system: the Annuals (Cucina, Bagno, Contract); Interni Panorama, the supplement to Panorama, the weekly news magazine; the Design Index; the FuoriSalone Guide, the Mexico City/Milano guide and the Apps of the FuoriSalone and Zee Milano; KingSize, the preview of new products at the Salone del Mobile.

She invented the FuoriSalone, a project that began on an experimental basis in 1990, and has become the Design Week that fills the city of Milan every year, in the month of April, with over 450 events. Every year in April from 1998 to the present, she organizes an exhibition-event during Design Week in Milan on one of the major themes of the international design debate, inviting the most important international architects and designers to address the subject through the creation of micro-architecture.

As a curator, Gilda Bojardi creates and organizes cultural events and exhibitions in many different countries (Beijing: 2006 at NAMOC; 2011 at National Museum of China, partner Ministry of Culture). Among the honors she received: in 2005 Officier des Arts et des Lettres, by the French Ministry of Culture; in 2007 the Ambrogino d’Oro award from the City of Milan for the creation of the FuoriSalone, in 2014 the ITA Italian Talent Award by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. She has been the Italian Ambassador of Design for Italian Design Day in March 2017 in Mexico City, and in March 2018 and 2019 in Madrid. In 2019 she received Medalla Anáhuac en Diseño, Mexico City. In September 2020 she received the Compasso d’Oro ADI award for the career. In July 2022 the TAO Award for Design.

Studio Job is a ground-breaking art and design studio based in the Netherlands and Milan and is an international leader in contemporary art and sculpture. Led by Job Smeets (b.1969) a pioneer of modern conceptual and sculptural art and design, he founded Studio Job in 1998 producing once-in-a-lifetime objects. Smeets leads a team of highly talented craftspeople to produce art pieces, projects and works in the atelier in the Netherlands. The studio works across art, interiors and design with a vast range of high-profile clients, galleries, and collaborators.

Job Smeets is internationally recognized as pioneers of contemporary conceptual and  sculptural design. His work ranges from bronze artwork in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, to the national stamp of the Netherlands featuring the Dutch King (forty million pieces produced), and the unique life-size bronze sculptures on Miami Beach, to the one-off Wunderkammer produced for Swarovski in Innsbruck, Austria, as well as over 500 products with brands such as Swatch, Venini, Pepsi, Landrover, Moooi and many more. As well as and many ground-breaking interiors and architectural works most notably The Embrace 13 meters bronze facade in Dordrecht.

Architect Deepak Guggari graduated from College of Architecture, Kolhapur in 1998. Upon graduation Deepak Guggari started working with renowned Architect Christopher Charles Benninger (CCBA) in Pune, India.

After an association of 6 years with CCBA, Deepak Guggari established an independent practice in Pune along with his wife Varsha Guggari who gained her experience in landscape architecture. Varsha and Deepak Guggari Associates (VDGA) was established in 2004 in Pune.

Varsha and Deepak Guggari Associates (VDGA) is a leading Architectural, Interior and Landscape Design studio based in Pune. The Studio has a range of ongoing projects, which includes hospitality (hotels & resorts), institutional, residential, corporate interiors & redevelopment projects.

Varsha and Deepak Guggari Architects works as a studio, deriving architectural solutions through study, analysis and exploration of visual, spatial, formal, social and technological ideas.

Our goal lies in creating ” timeless meaningful spaces ” which induce harmony, happiness & peace in the lives of the users. We endeavor to create more than just architecture, a lifestyle for the occupants.

Simple intelligent ideas such as optimum use of natural light, ventilation & locally available natural building materials and techniques have been our continuous effort.

We believe in creating architecture, which primarily responds to its users and context more than defining a signature style for us. We also believe that the beauty lies in detailing and it is our constant effort to work till the minute details, understanding the needs of the user.

Our designs imbibe a synergy of the traditional and the modern elements. Our designs are international and contemporary yet deeply rooted to the place and its context.

More about https://www.vdga.in

Simone Micheli founded the Architecture Studio in 1990 and in 2003 he created the architecture company Simone Micheli Architectural Hero together with Roberta Colla. The society is based in Florence, Milan, Puntaldìa, Dubai, Rabat and Busan. His professional activity ranges from master plans and architecture to interior, from design to visual, through graphics, communication and event organization. His creations, always sustainable and environmentally conscious, are characterized by a strong identity and uniqueness. Many are his creations for public administrations and important private clients connected to the community and to the residential world. He is the curator of thematic exhibitions – contract, but not only – at the main international architecture, design and hospitality fairs. In collaboration with Roberta Colla and his team of professionals, he holds masters, conferences, workshops and lectures at universities, cultural institutes and institutions in many cities around the world. His works have been featured in the most important international exhibitions as well as in Italian and international newspapers, magazines and periodicals.

AWARDS
• Luxury Lifestyle Awards 2020 – New York, U.S.A | The Best Luxury Hotel Architecture In Italy | for the project Aquatio – Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• Excellence Green Awards – Sustainability awards 2020 | Real Estate-Design category | for the project Aquatio – Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• Eurasian Prize 2020 – Russia | Design category | with the project Aquatio – Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• BigSEE Tourism Design Award 2020 – Ljubljana, Slovenia | with the project Aquatio – Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• OPAL – Outstanding Property Award 2020 – London, UK , category Platinum Interior design with the project Aquatio Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• The 10Th Idea—Tops Award 2020 – Shenzhen, China “Best Interior Design” category Hotel Design with the project Aquatio Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• Premio Regula | 100 progetti italiani 2019 – Rome, Italy “Interior Design” category with the project Lords Of Verona.
• Hotel Property Award 2018 – Monaco, Germany, Finalist Nomination, HotelForum, with the project Aquatio Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa.
• Excellence Award 2017- Korea Institute of Interior Design with the project Atomic Spa.
• Codega 2016 – #lightingdesign Award, Venice and AAP- American Architectural Prize 2016 #interior, Los Angeles with the project Sarajevo Dreamy Spa.
• Best of Houzz Award 2016 – design, for the popularity of the projects selected by more than 35 millions Houzz Community users.
• 100 Eccellenze Italiane 2015 Award- Rome, Italy. Simone Micheli is among the 100 eminent personalities who represent Italian excellence;
• International Hotel and Property Awards 2015 – United Kingdom, European categories – Hotel over 200 rooms, with the interior and lighting project Barcelò Hotel Milan.
• Iconic Award 2014 – Frankfurt, Germany, “Interior” category, organized by the German Design Council, with the project RubensLuciano New Offices & Showroom, Strà, Venice.
• Best of Year Honoree 2012- New York, Usa for the “Hospitality” category, organized by Interior Design Magazine, with the project Barceló Milan Hotel
• Tre Number One Award 2011 – Venice, Italy, for the interior design and the Contemporary Spa Award 2011 in the category “Best Future Spa” – Bologna with the project Marina Verde Wellness Resort – Caorle, Venice.
• Best of Year 2010 – New York, Usa category “Beauty, Spa e Fitness”, award given by Interior Design Magazine.
• International Media Prize 2010 – Shenzen, China category Annual Club Space Award, organized by Modern Decoration Magazine in with the project Atomic Spa.
• Interior Designer of the Year 2008 – Los Angeles, Usa with the project Atomic Spa and the International Design Award 2008 – Los Angeles, Usa in the category “Interior Design” with the project New Urban Face for the province and municipality of Milan.
• International Media Prize 2008 – Shenzen, China, organized by Modern Decoration Magazine category “Annual Public Spaces Grand Award” with the project New Urban Face for the province and municipality of Milan.
• Best Interior Design and the Best Apartment Italy 2007 with the project Golfo Gabella Lake Resort for the competition “Homes Overseas Award 2007” – London

More about www.simonemicheli.com

Photo Maurizio Marcato

Donald MacDonald, owner and Principal of Donald MacDonald Architects, LLP is an award-winning architect with over 40 years of architecture experience. Donald has expertise in many facets of bridge design, including conceptual planning, architectural enhancements, transportation operations, public participation, landscaping, and environmental studies. He has a record of successful collaboration with bridge engineers and other technical professionals on complex, signature bridges, such as the design-build of the Abraham Lincoln Bridge between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, done with IBT; the $750 million Arthur Ravenel Jr.  Bridge in Charleston, SC; the 524-meter Tilikum Crossing Bridge in Portland, OR, where he led a team of ten assisting in the structure’s construction; and the $6.2 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project. MacDonald graduated from Columbia University, and during his career, has won just under 200 international, national, and regional awards for architectural design. He lectures on architectural design worldwide and holds an AIA Fellowship in design. Donald is the author of multiple books on bridge architecture, all available online, focusing on his most iconic projects such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the East Span of the Bay Bridge.

Education
Master of Science, Architecture
Columbia University
New York City, NY

Wade Memorial Fellow

Associations
Registered Architect: California C-4935; Kentucky 7269; South Carolina SC-6343; Nevada 0765; New Mexico 589; New York 035252; Oregon P35246; NCARB 12268

Memberships
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)

More about  https://dmdarchitects.com/; http://donaldmacdonaldarchitects.com/

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.

More about  https://ferriermarchetti.studio/

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.

More about  https://www.snkindia.com/

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.

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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?

More about  http://www.isarchitects.nz/

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.

More about  https://www.afroditi.com/

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)

More about  https://3deluxe.de/de

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.

More about  https://www.bernardkhoury.com/

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.”

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Astrid Klein was born in Italy, attended the European School, and went to the Beaux-Arts and Arts Décoratifs in France. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, she moved to Japan, where she has lived and worked since 1988.

Astrid was drawn to Japan by the simplicity of Japanese design, its attention to detail and freedom from traditional constraints. In Tokyo she began working for Toyo Ito and in 1991 she co-founded Klein Dytham architecture with Mark Dytham.

Today, Klein Dytham architecture (KDa) is a multi-disciplinary design practice known for architecture, interiors, public spaces and installations. Their Daikanyama T-SITE project in central Tokyo redefined bookstores globally. It was voted one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world by the New York Times and won the Design For Asia Grand Prize. Ginza Place, on one of the most iconic street corners of the world, has become one of Tokyo’s most identifiable landmarks, as has KDa’s wooden hinoki facade for Cartier in Osaka. Their Toggle Hotel and PokoPoko clubhouse both won Dezeen awards for Best Hotel and Best Hospitality Building in 2021.

In 2003, Astrid and Mark devised PechaKucha Night as a public speaking platform for Tokyo designers and other artists to meet and share their work. PechaKucha has since grown into an international network that hosts events in over 1,200 cities around the globe, and continues to inspire creatives worldwide.

Astrid is a sought-after speaker internationally. She has been a visiting lecturer at Berkeley University, and now teaches at Musashino University in Tokyo, as well as at Toyo Ito’s Architecture School for Kids. She is a board member of NPO HOME-FOR-ALL, an initiative to build community hubs in earthquake and tsunami affected areas of Japan, and a co-founder of DESIGNART, a city-wide design and art festival in Tokyo.

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Davide Angeli —Deputy Studio Director, Head of International Business of the AMDL CIRCLE, Italy.

After completing his studies in Product Design at the IED in Milan, he won the Top Young Italian Industrial Designer Award establishing by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and in 2004 he began collaborating with Michele De Lucchi on research and sculpture projects. Today he is Deputy Director and Head of International Business at AMDL CIRCLE and coordinates the projects by defining concepts and managing the needs of mainly international clients. Davide valorizes the identity of the studio and its ethical approach towards the person, ensuring that it is applied throughout all the various disciplines and promoting its values in conferences and lectures. He has worked with Poltrona Frau, Moschino, Azimut Yachts, Lavazza, Molteni, iGuzzini, Unifor, Riva 1920, Enel and for institutions such as the Triennale Milano, the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome and the Reggia di Venaria near Turin. He oversaw the graphics and brand identity for Intesa Sanpaolo, Banca Popolare Italiana and Zambon SpA. Since 2008 he has taught Furniture Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.

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With over two decades of award-winning design expertise, as Managing Director and Business
Partner to Dara Huang, Dylan Wills headsthe leading Architectural and Interior Design studio Design
Haus Liberty.
Dylan’s five-star hospitality portfolio credentials are complemented by a slew of exclusive luxury
yachts and private aircraft designs which have set a new standard for aviation and maritime travel, as
well as for luxury residential and food and beverage industry. Among his accomplishments are winning
the Queen Elizabeth II (QE2) redesign competition – one of the most famous and prestigious cruise
liners in the world and creating the high limits casino at Marina Bay Sands, which among others, all
display splendid design concepts and craftsmanship from Dylan.
Having been responsible for opening the Shanghai Design studio for leading interior architecture
company Wilson Associates and having been Managing Director of both Los Angeles and Las Vegas
Design studios, Dylan has a vast global experience of luxury global design and delivering world class
projects.
Dylan is a visionary leader, mentor and a natural communicator. His work has taken him all around
the world. Whether speaking on a design panel in Croatia or walking into a client meeting in Bali, he
is always observing the architecture, food, fashion, music, religious rituals, and social customs around
him.
“I love traveling the globe in search of new design work, but my favourite time is spent with the Design
Haus Liberty team, watching them create. I truly believe the designers in our studio are some of the
most brilliant minds in the industry today. They are the thought leaders of tomorrow, and it is a gift
to watch them grow, explore and challenge the expected.”
Based in the firm’s Kensington, London office, Dylan manages DH Liberty’s client engagement and
global business strategy, working in close harmony with the firm’s founder Dara Huang, to expand the
company’s presence in the luxury design sector.
Design Haus Liberty’s style of design attracts interest from around the world, from people who want
to create space that excites, challenges and delivers.
Having worked with major developers and individuals looking to create unique homes, hotels, and
restaurants in London, the USA, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Design Haus Liberty, lead the way
in luxury design in their elegant and timeless style, having created illustrious designs for clients such
as Cartier, LVMH, Starwood Capital, Four Seasons Hotels, Emaar and Superdry among others.
Dara Huang will be shortly releasing her much awaited furniture shortly, presenting timeless
contemporary pieces, carefully created with design in mind, fused with elegance and comfort.

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Keith Griffiths
MA   Dip Arch (Cantab)   FHKIA   RIBA   HonFUoW   HonFCU

Keith Griffiths is the Chairman & Founder, Global Principal Designer of Aedas, one of the world’s largest architectural practices with 1,200 staff in 11 offices throughout Asia, USA and Middle East. Keith is an internationally respected architect and masterplanner with over 44 years of experience in city-scale urban planning and high-rise, high-density building designs throughout Asia.

Keith has spent most of his time in Asia over the past 41 years and has extensive experience in creating bespoke design for the Asian environment. He leads Aedas’ wide portfolio of significant high-rise residential, commercial, retail and mixed-use buildings across Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Keith is one of the creative minds behind the famous city skyline of Hong Kong and numerous iconic developments throughout the cities of China and Southeast Asia.

Keith formed Aedas on the precept that architectural design requires a deep social and cultural understanding of the cities and communities being designed for. He values diversity and a designer should understand the society and culture of the local communities to contribute professionally to the built environment. As a result Aedas has established a network of local / global offices across the world.

Keith is deeply committed to inspire and cultivate young architects. He lectures at universities and at international conferences to advocate sustainable high-density live-work urbanism and upon international designs in the new Asian megapolis. He participates and judges international design competitions and architectural design awards.

Keith is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, a Non-Executive Director of the Link Management Ltd in Hong Kong, as well as Founder and benefactor of the Griffiths-Roch Foundation which he established in 2009 to restore important and endangered historic buildings in Wales.

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Dirk U. Moench, Principal INUCE AG, Dipl.-Ing. (Architect)

Moench is an internationally experienced architect and urban designer of public and private projects of all sizes. As a Brazilian-German, who spends his professional life between Europe, Latin America and Asia, he fosters an approach to architecture revolving around the fruitful dialogue between culture-specific vernacular architecture and the universal values of modern architecture.

He has received many prestigious awards, among which are the „Europe 40under40 Award“, which recognized Moench as one of  Europe‘s 40 most promising emerging architects under the age of 40, the Chicago Athenaeum‘s „International Architecture Award,“ as well as the „Faith & Form Award“ co-sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.

In 2011 D. Moench founded INUCE with offices in Switzerland and China. His work focuses on the fields of residential and office architecture, the revitalization of historic old town areas, as well as religious architecture. In addition to his professional career he served as Associate Professor at the University of Fuzhou, where he taught architectural and urban design, and is currently researching for his dissertation on the genesis of contemporary Chinese churches.

D. Moench’s work encompasses the fields of residential and office architecture, the revitalization of historic old town areas, as well as religious architecture. Some of his most noted projects are the Minjiang Lifestyle Gallery completed in 2014, the Huaxiang Christian Centre completed in 2018, as well as the Church of Luoyuan completed in 2021.

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Rocco Yim founded his own practice in 1979, and was one of the co-founders of Rocco Design Partners in 1982. The firm has received many local and international awards and citations for design excellence since its inception and has won its first international competition in 1983. Under his stewardship in design, the firm has grown significantly over the years both in size and reputation. Rocco has been actively involved in dialogues with the cultural and architectural communities both local and overseas. His emphasis on design excellence and social responsibility has become very much the firm’s aspiration for the future. Rocco Yim is the present Principal of Rocco Design Architects Associates, a Chinese architectural practice based in Hong Kong.

Working in a region with disparate cultural and physical landscapes, and where values from diverging times and places converge, Rocco Design’s work is grounded in the belief that architecture is the embodiment of culture – embracing and reinterpreting the past, as well as addressing modernity – and the requirements of contemporary living.

Rocco Design’s works are marked by their sensitivity and sensibility. While always eager to explore and innovate, they are nonetheless aware that architecture, rather than just an art, is ultimately the art of problem-solving.

Apart from Principal Mr. Rocco Yim, Rocco Design currently has five Directors and about 140 staff with offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Their works have been consistently awarded both locally and overseas, including a First Prize Award for the L’Opéra de la Bastille international competition in 1983, ARCASIA Gold Medals in 1994 and 2003, the Chicago Athenaeum Architectural Awards in 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2016, the Kenneth F. Brown Award in 2007, the World Architecture Festival category winner in 2011, German Design Council Awards in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and two Lu Ban Awards in 2017. The firm has exhibited four times in the Venice Biennale over the last decade, in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012, and held its first solo exhibition at the Berlin Aedes Gallery in 2015.

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Totan Kuzembaev was born in the Chimkent region of Kazakhstan. He received his architectural education in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1982, he began his career as an architect-urban planner. In 2002 he founded his own architectural practice. The main activity of the architectural practice is the design of individual objects of varying complexity and purpose.
The founder of the studio, architect Totan Kuzembaev, is the author of many original buildings.
Under his leadership, many private and public projects were developed and implemented.
Many years of experience in creative work and participation in dozens of Russian and international competitions allow us to choose and apply the most original and modern ideas and solutions.

The brand of the studio was the creation of the atmosphere of the famous Pirogovo resort. Outside Moscow, ideally adapted to the needs of the people living there, a pioneer of works in the field of encyclopedias of modern architecture (Phaidon, etc.) and awarded with prestigious international awards.

Credo of the architectural studio:

– architecture beyond stereotypes;
– each client is unique, each place is specific;
— creative dialogue with the customer — the way to new non-trivial solutions;
— we work for smart people.

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 (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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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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.

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.

Cristos Passas, Design Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, BArch (Hons), AA Grad.Des.ip, RIBA, ARB, ETEK.

Cristos joined Zaha Hadid Architects as a Senior Designer in February 1998 and as beena key ember in the development of the overall artistic evolution of the Studio, its business development, the office culture and leader of a wide range of build and ubuilt projects and competitions within the practice.

Education & Teaching

Christos received his architecture degree with Honours as a Fulbright Scholar at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York in 1995. He was registered as an architect at Technical Chamber Cyprus 1996, a member of the Architects Registration Board in the UK since 2000, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2011. He received his Graduate Design Diploma in 1998 in Advanced Architectural Design at the Architectural Association, London.

Christos taught Parametric Design and Urbanism at the Architectural Association with Patrik Schumacher in London between 2007 and 2010, working on the exploration of digital and parametric techniques for the formation of large urban settlements.

He subsequently went on to serve as Guest DAAD Professor in the Dessau Institute of Architecture (HA) at Bauhaus, Dessau, from 2008 to 2012 working on the implementation of digital design strategies for large scale objects with complex geometry and character, exploring uniqueness, diversity and complexity. He regularly participates in design juries at universities across the UK and Europe, and is a frequent guest lecturer in parametric design, design thinking and the role of architecture. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Technology, College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Qingdao until 2022.

Projects

Christos has been involved in the initial stages of the design of many of the practice’s seminal projects such as the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome; and the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi. Christos has served as Design and Project Director for a large number of projects. Since his arrival at the company, he has worked closely with Zaha Hadid and is one of the practice’s Design Leaders.

He has delivered a broad spectrum of designs for various typologies such as for cultural institutions and Performance spaces, residential, interior design, commercial, innovative workspaces, mixed-use urban projects, urban regeneration, and masterplanning in a variety of scales in the US, Europe, China, Eastern Europe and Russia, North Africa and the Middle East.

Some of his recent projects include:
Dominion Tower in Moscow, (completed in 2015)
The Iconic OPUS project in Dubai (Completed in 2018)
Me by Melia Hotel, OPUS Dubai (opened in 2020)
The urban regeneratin wor on Eleftheria Square in Cyprus (due 2020).

More recently, he spearheaded the designs that deal with the future of workspace such as he Sberbank Technopark HQ (2016), the Kuzminki Masterplan as part of Moscow’s Residential Quarters regenetation project (2017), the Admiral Serebryakov Masterplan (2018), the Chongqing Smart Valley (2019), the Tushino Residential Development (2018), the Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye Smart City Masterplan (2019), the winning Sverdlovsk Philarmonique Hall in Yekaterinburg (2018), the winning Oppo HQ in Shenzhen (2019) in China, Sberbank’s Cultural and Business Center in Moscow (2019) as well as a variety of Smart City Masterplans in various reions on the world, predominantly researching the impact of digital techno-economies and Smart Systems on ecology and susainability.

Since founding the studio in 2009, Italians Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have championed the need for value – laden advocacy merged with holistic design thinking. Their aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities.

Working from their studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client’s brief or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma’s entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes.

For Formanfantasma, this crossflow of knowledge and experience taken from both their commercial contracts and their more autonomous projects has benefitted and informed the respective other. It has also given them a unique perspective of the design industry, allowing them to acknowledge the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the designer’s expertise and agency in contemporary society while also addressing its historic contribution to environmental instability.

The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, Flos, Fendi, Max Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, Rijks Museum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, Roll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.

Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s MoMA and Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s Victoria and Albert, Paris’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’sStedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s MAK Museum , Utrecht’sCentraal Museum, Mudac Lausanne, North Carolina’s Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s Museo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s Textiel Museum and others.

In March 2020 Serpentine Galleries dedicated a solo exhibition to Formafantasma and their in – depth investigation into the governance of the timber industry.

From September 2020 Trimarchi and Farresin have overseen the GEO–Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven to further explorations into the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.

Since founding the studio in 2009, Italians Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have championed the need for value – laden advocacy merged with holistic design thinking. Their aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities.

Working from their studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client’s brief or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma’s entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes.

For Formanfantasma, this crossflow of knowledge and experience taken from both their commercial contracts and their more autonomous projects has benefitted and informed the respective other. It has also given them a unique perspective of the design industry, allowing them to acknowledge the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the designer’s expertise and agency in contemporary society while also addressing its historic contribution to environmental instability.

The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, Flos, Fendi, Max Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, Rijks Museum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, Roll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.

Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s MoMA and Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s Victoria and Albert, Paris’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’sStedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s MAK Museum , Utrecht’sCentraal Museum, Mudac Lausanne, North Carolina’s Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s Museo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s Textiel Museum and others.

In March 2020 Serpentine Galleries dedicated a solo exhibition to Formafantasma and their in – depth investigation into the governance of the timber industry.

From September 2020 Trimarchi and Farresin have overseen the GEO–Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven to further explorations into the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.

Since founding the studio in 2009, Italians Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have championed the need for value – laden advocacy merged with holistic design thinking. Their aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities.

Working from their studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client’s brief or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma’s entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes.

For Formanfantasma, this crossflow of knowledge and experience taken from both their commercial contracts and their more autonomous projects has benefitted and informed the respective other. It has also given them a unique perspective of the design industry, allowing them to acknowledge the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the designer’s expertise and agency in contemporary society while also addressing its historic contribution to environmental instability.

The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, Flos, Fendi, Max Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, Rijks Museum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, Roll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.

Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s MoMA and Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s Victoria and Albert, Paris’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’sStedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s MAK Museum , Utrecht’sCentraal Museum, Mudac Lausanne, North Carolina’s Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s Museo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s Textiel Museum and others.

In March 2020 Serpentine Galleries dedicated a solo exhibition to Formafantasma and their in – depth investigation into the governance of the timber industry.

From September 2020 Trimarchi and Farresin have overseen the GEO–Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven to further explorations into the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.

Since founding the studio in 2009, Italians Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have championed the need for value – laden advocacy merged with holistic design thinking. Their aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities.

Working from their studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client’s brief or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma’s entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes.

For Formanfantasma, this crossflow of knowledge and experience taken from both their commercial contracts and their more autonomous projects has benefitted and informed the respective other. It has also given them a unique perspective of the design industry, allowing them to acknowledge the legacy of industrial production as the fundamental source for the designer’s expertise and agency in contemporary society while also addressing its historic contribution to environmental instability.

The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, Flos, Fendi, Max Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, Rijks Museum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, Roll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.

Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s MoMA and Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s Victoria and Albert, Paris’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’sStedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s MAK Museum , Utrecht’sCentraal Museum, Mudac Lausanne, North Carolina’s Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s Museo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s Textiel Museum and others.

In March 2020 Serpentine Galleries dedicated a solo exhibition to Formafantasma and their in – depth investigation into the governance of the timber industry.

From September 2020 Trimarchi and Farresin have overseen the GEO–Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven to further explorations into the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.

Cristos Passas, Design Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, BArch (Hons), AA Grad.Des.ip, RIBA, ARB, ETEK.

Cristos joined Zaha Hadid Architects as a Senior Designer in February 1998 and as beena key ember in the development of the overall artistic evolution of the Studio, its business development, the office culture and leader of a wide range of build and ubuilt projects and competitions within the practice.

Education & Teaching

Christos received his architecture degree with Honours as a Fulbright Scholar at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York in 1995. He was registered as an architect at Technical Chamber Cyprus 1996, a member of the Architects Registration Board in the UK since 2000, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2011. He received his Graduate Design Diploma in 1998 in Advanced Architectural Design at the Architectural Association, London.

Christos taught Parametric Design and Urbanism at the Architectural Association with Patrik Schumacher in London between 2007 and 2010, working on the exploration of digital and parametric techniques for the formation of large urban settlements.

He subsequently went on to serve as Guest DAAD Professor in the Dessau Institute of Architecture (HA) at Bauhaus, Dessau, from 2008 to 2012 working on the implementation of digital design strategies for large scale objects with complex geometry and character, exploring uniqueness, diversity and complexity. He regularly participates in design juries at universities across the UK and Europe, and is a frequent guest lecturer in parametric design, design thinking and the role of architecture. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Technology, College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Qingdao until 2022.

Projects

Christos has been involved in the initial stages of the design of many of the practice’s seminal projects such as the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome; and the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi. Christos has served as Design and Project Director for a large number of projects. Since his arrival at the company, he has worked closely with Zaha Hadid and is one of the practice’s Design Leaders.

He has delivered a broad spectrum of designs for various typologies such as for cultural institutions and Performance spaces, residential, interior design, commercial, innovative workspaces, mixed-use urban projects, urban regeneration, and masterplanning in a variety of scales in the US, Europe, China, Eastern Europe and Russia, North Africa and the Middle East.

Some of his recent projects include:
Dominion Tower in Moscow, (completed in 2015)
The Iconic OPUS project in Dubai (Completed in 2018)
Me by Melia Hotel, OPUS Dubai (opened in 2020)
The urban regeneratin wor on Eleftheria Square in Cyprus (due 2020).

More recently, he spearheaded the designs that deal with the future of workspace such as he Sberbank Technopark HQ (2016), the Kuzminki Masterplan as part of Moscow’s Residential Quarters regenetation project (2017), the Admiral Serebryakov Masterplan (2018), the Chongqing Smart Valley (2019), the Tushino Residential Development (2018), the Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye Smart City Masterplan (2019), the winning Sverdlovsk Philarmonique Hall in Yekaterinburg (2018), the winning Oppo HQ in Shenzhen (2019) in China, Sberbank’s Cultural and Business Center in Moscow (2019) as well as a variety of Smart City Masterplans in various reions on the world, predominantly researching the impact of digital techno-economies and Smart Systems on ecology and susainability.

Architect SAFA Juho Grönholm is co-founder and partner at ALA Architects. The Helsinki based office founded in 2005 specializes in cultural buildings, unique renovation projects and transportation infrastructure. Juho holds a master’s degree in architecture from Helsinki University of Technology and has over 20 years of professional experience in designing large public buildings in Finland and abroad. He is both an experienced team leader and a visionary artist promoting rich, memorable architecture independent of any set styles.

Architect SAFA Juho Grönholm is co-founder and partner at ALA Architects. The Helsinki based office founded in 2005 specializes in cultural buildings, unique renovation projects and transportation infrastructure. Juho holds a master’s degree in architecture from Helsinki University of Technology and has over 20 years of professional experience in designing large public buildings in Finland and abroad. He is both an experienced team leader and a visionary artist promoting rich, memorable architecture independent of any set styles.

Jeroen Schipper MSc, Architect Partner ORANGE ARCHITECTS, Netherlands.
“The idea is essential, but only its sensuous embodiment makes architecture receptive, natural and valuable”
Jeroen (NL) studied architecture and urban planning at the Eindhoven University of Technology, graduating in 1990. His final project was nominated for the Archiprix (best National graduation project) in 1991. In 1994 he was awarded a grant by the Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture in Amsterdam, to start his own practice.
In 1995 Jeroen founded JSA | Jeroen Schipper Architecten in Rotterdam, working on a variety of projects until the merger with Orange Architects in 2020.
Orange Architects was founded in 2010 by Jeroen Schipper, Patrick Meijers and Michiel Hofman (partner until 2016), initially working only on projects abroad. Orange Architects’ first realized project – the Cube in Beirut – was awarded in 2016 with the CTBUH award for best high rise in the Middle East and Africa region.
Jeroen has been a member of the local Building Regulations and Historic Buildings Committee in Rotterdam (2004 – 2009) and a chairman of the Committee for spatial quality in Amsterdam (2011 – 2016). Since 1990 Jeroen has taught at different architecture schools in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Delft, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven) and has given numerous architectural lectures in the Netherlands and abroad.
A selection of prime awards, received by Orange Architects include:
For the Cube, Sin el Fil, Beirut, Lebanon:
CTBUH Best Tall Building Award 2016 – Middle East & Africa Region | Winner
International Property Awards 2015-2016 | Winner
For Jonas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
BREEAM 2020 – Homes – Design Stage Award | Winner
BREEAM 2020 – Regional Award Westen Europe | Winner
Eurasian Prize 2020 – Architecture | Winner
For Golden City, Vasilyevskiy Island, St. Petersburg, Russia:
Move Realty Awards 2019 – Business Class Project of the Year St. Petersburg | Winner
Regional Development – The best for Russia 2018 | Laureate
Move Realty Awards 2018 – Business Class Project of the Year St. Petersburg | Winner
Urban Awards 2017 – Harmonious Project Integration into its Surroundings | Winner
Urban Awards 2016 – Premiere of the Year | Winner
European Property Awards 2016 – Residential property of Russia | Laureate
Public Award “St. Petersburg 2020” 2016 | Winner
For Big Ligovsky, St.Petersburg, Russia:
Architecton Award 2020 – Housing and Residential Complexes | Winner
For ZoHo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands:
Golden Trezzini Awards 2020 – Residential Estate Category | Winner
EURASIAN PRIZE 2020 – Housing Category | Winner

Jeroen Schipper MSc, Architect Partner ORANGE ARCHITECTS, Netherlands.
“The idea is essential, but only its sensuous embodiment makes architecture receptive, natural and valuable”
Jeroen (NL) studied architecture and urban planning at the Eindhoven University of Technology, graduating in 1990. His final project was nominated for the Archiprix (best National graduation project) in 1991. In 1994 he was awarded a grant by the Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture in Amsterdam, to start his own practice.
In 1995 Jeroen founded JSA | Jeroen Schipper Architecten in Rotterdam, working on a variety of projects until the merger with Orange Architects in 2020.
Orange Architects was founded in 2010 by Jeroen Schipper, Patrick Meijers and Michiel Hofman (partner until 2016), initially working only on projects abroad. Orange Architects’ first realized project – the Cube in Beirut – was awarded in 2016 with the CTBUH award for best high rise in the Middle East and Africa region.
Jeroen has been a member of the local Building Regulations and Historic Buildings Committee in Rotterdam (2004 – 2009) and a chairman of the Committee for spatial quality in Amsterdam (2011 – 2016). Since 1990 Jeroen has taught at different architecture schools in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Delft, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven) and has given numerous architectural lectures in the Netherlands and abroad.
A selection of prime awards, received by Orange Architects include:
For the Cube, Sin el Fil, Beirut, Lebanon:
CTBUH Best Tall Building Award 2016 – Middle East & Africa Region | Winner
International Property Awards 2015-2016 | Winner
For Jonas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
BREEAM 2020 – Homes – Design Stage Award | Winner
BREEAM 2020 – Regional Award Westen Europe | Winner
Eurasian Prize 2020 – Architecture | Winner
For Golden City, Vasilyevskiy Island, St. Petersburg, Russia:
Move Realty Awards 2019 – Business Class Project of the Year St. Petersburg | Winner
Regional Development – The best for Russia 2018 | Laureate
Move Realty Awards 2018 – Business Class Project of the Year St. Petersburg | Winner
Urban Awards 2017 – Harmonious Project Integration into its Surroundings | Winner
Urban Awards 2016 – Premiere of the Year | Winner
European Property Awards 2016 – Residential property of Russia | Laureate
Public Award “St. Petersburg 2020” 2016 | Winner
For Big Ligovsky, St.Petersburg, Russia:
Architecton Award 2020 – Housing and Residential Complexes | Winner
For ZoHo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands:
Golden Trezzini Awards 2020 – Residential Estate Category | Winner
EURASIAN PRIZE 2020 – Housing Category | Winner

Ken Yeang is the Executive Director at T.R. Hamzah and Yeang Sdn Bhd. He is both an architect and ecologist, known for his authentic innovative ecology-based signature eco-architecture and masterplans that have a distinctive verdant green aesthetic, that are beyond conventional accreditation. He trained at the Architectural Association School (UK). His doctorate is from Cambridge University on ecological architecture and planning. He has authored over 12 books on green architecture. Awards received include the Aga Khan Award, Malaysian Institute of Architects Gold Medal, Malaysian Government’s Merdeka Award. He holds the Plym Distinguished Professorship (Illinois University). The Guardian newspaper names him as, “..one of the 50 people who could save the planet..”

Ken Yeang is the Executive Director at T.R. Hamzah and Yeang Sdn Bhd. He is both an architect and ecologist, known for his authentic innovative ecology-based signature eco-architecture and masterplans that have a distinctive verdant green aesthetic, that are beyond conventional accreditation. He trained at the Architectural Association School (UK). His doctorate is from Cambridge University on ecological architecture and planning. He has authored over 12 books on green architecture. Awards received include the Aga Khan Award, Malaysian Institute of Architects Gold Medal, Malaysian Government’s Merdeka Award. He holds the Plym Distinguished Professorship (Illinois University). The Guardian newspaper names him as, “..one of the 50 people who could save the planet..”

Rodolfo Machado was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1942 and is a citizen of the United States, where he has resided since 1968. Rodolfo received his Diploma in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1967. During the academic year 1967-68, he studied urban design at the Centre de Recherche d’Urbanisme, in Paris, France and in 1971 received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley where he continued doctoral studies in architectural theory until 1973. Rodolfo practiced architecture in San Francisco, California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before associating with Jorge Silvetti in 1974 with whom he incorporated Machado Silvetti in 1985.

In addition to his architectural practice, Rodolfo has been a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1986, where he was Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design from 1986 to 2010, chaired the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 2004 to 2009 and is currently Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Emeritus. Rodolfo has conducted seminars, lectured and has been a visiting critic at many schools of architecture in this country and abroad. He has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he chaired the department of architecture from 1978 until 1986.

Most notably, Rodolfo has been Bishop Professor of Architecture at Yale University, Smith Professor of Architecture at Rice University, Jean Labatut Professor of Urbanism at Princeton University and Thomas Jefferson Professor in Architecture at the University of Virginia. Rodolfo has served as a juror for a number of national and international competitions and prizes. In 1995, he curated an exhibition entitled “Monolithic Architecture” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. His drawings and projects have been extensively published and exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

Rodolfo Machado was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1942 and is a citizen of the United States, where he has resided since 1968. Rodolfo received his Diploma in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1967. During the academic year 1967-68, he studied urban design at the Centre de Recherche d’Urbanisme, in Paris, France and in 1971 received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley where he continued doctoral studies in architectural theory until 1973. Rodolfo practiced architecture in San Francisco, California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before associating with Jorge Silvetti in 1974 with whom he incorporated Machado Silvetti in 1985.

In addition to his architectural practice, Rodolfo has been a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1986, where he was Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design from 1986 to 2010, chaired the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 2004 to 2009 and is currently Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Emeritus. Rodolfo has conducted seminars, lectured and has been a visiting critic at many schools of architecture in this country and abroad. He has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he chaired the department of architecture from 1978 until 1986.

Most notably, Rodolfo has been Bishop Professor of Architecture at Yale University, Smith Professor of Architecture at Rice University, Jean Labatut Professor of Urbanism at Princeton University and Thomas Jefferson Professor in Architecture at the University of Virginia. Rodolfo has served as a juror for a number of national and international competitions and prizes. In 1995, he curated an exhibition entitled “Monolithic Architecture” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. His drawings and projects have been extensively published and exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

Syed Fawad Hussain is Founder and Principal at METROPOLITAN STUDIO OF ARCHITECTURE (MSA), a practice based in Lahore, Pakistan. Established in 2009 MSA is a studio of architects, interior designers, visualizers and thinkers involved in research and design activities. MSA has won numerous international awards including Prix Versailles Paris (continental winner) 2018, International Architecture Award 2019 on Housing and Interior Design and two Eurasian Prize Gold Awards 2018 and 2020, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The practice was also nominated as one of the most influential names in architecture and design by Architectural Digest in 2016. In the same year, MSA also published its first architectural monograph ‘Assemblage’.

Syed Fawad Hussain received his degree in Philosophy in 1997 and B.Arch in 2002. He is an Associate Professor at Institute for Art and Culture (IAC) Lahore, where he heads the School of Architecture Design and Urbanism (SADU).  At MSA he also heads MSA-RI (Research Initiative) and MSA-EDL (Experimental Design Lab), two wings of MSA that are involved in independent research and experimentation and at the same time feeding their findings to MSA design studio. Mr Hussain has presented the studio work at various international platforms including 100 plus forum at Ekaterinburg, Russia and 2A Forum Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Syed Fawad Hussain is Founder and Principal at METROPOLITAN STUDIO OF ARCHITECTURE (MSA), a practice based in Lahore, Pakistan. Established in 2009 MSA is a studio of architects, interior designers, visualizers and thinkers involved in research and design activities. MSA has won numerous international awards including Prix Versailles Paris (continental winner) 2018, International Architecture Award 2019 on Housing and Interior Design and two Eurasian Prize Gold Awards 2018 and 2020, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The practice was also nominated as one of the most influential names in architecture and design by Architectural Digest in 2016. In the same year, MSA also published its first architectural monograph ‘Assemblage’.

Syed Fawad Hussain received his degree in Philosophy in 1997 and B.Arch in 2002. He is an Associate Professor at Institute for Art and Culture (IAC) Lahore, where he heads the School of Architecture Design and Urbanism (SADU).  At MSA he also heads MSA-RI (Research Initiative) and MSA-EDL (Experimental Design Lab), two wings of MSA that are involved in independent research and experimentation and at the same time feeding their findings to MSA design studio. Mr Hussain has presented the studio work at various international platforms including 100 plus forum at Ekaterinburg, Russia and 2A Forum Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Piero Lissoni is architect, art director and designer and is recognized as one of the masters of contemporary design.

For over thirty years, he has developed projects the world over in the fields of architecture, landscape and interior, as well as in product and graphic design. He is also art director for Alpi, B&B Italia, Boffi, Living Divani, Lema, Lualdi, Porro and Sanlorenzo.

Some of the most important architecture and interior projects deserving mention include The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Miami Beach (2020), the Grand Park Hotel in Croatia (2019), the restyling of the historic Camparino bar in the Galleria of Milan (2019), The Middle House for the Swire Hotels Group in Shanghai (2018), The Oberoi Al Zorah Beach Resort Ajman in the UAE (2017), the 240-unit condominium Oceana Bal Harbour in Miami (2017), the Casa Fantini hotel on the shores of Lake Orta (2017), the Sanlorenzo yachts SX112 (2020), SX76 (2018) and SX88 (2017), the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam (2012), the renovation of the historic Teatro Nazionale in Milan (2009) in addition to the corporate headquarters of Boffi, Cassina, Fantini, Glas Italia, Living Divani and the Sanlorenzo shipyards in La Spezia and Ameglia.

Piero Lissoni has received a series of international awards, including the Good Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the Compasso d’Oro ADI.

Costas Voyatzis is the founder of Yatzer (2007), an international online magazine for architecture, design, travel and the arts, and Yatzerlab (2020), a creative studio working on the intersection of design and marketing. Born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1980, he dabbled academically in Meteorology at the Physics University of Athens before switching to studying Interior Design. After graduation, he worked for a number of Greece’s leading interior design magazines as a stylist and trend forecaster, developing relationships with many international designers and manufacturers, and garnering acclaim for his unique perspective on design excellence and innovation. In 2007, he launched Yatzer with a vision of creating a single, high quality source of design information. What started as a personal blog – its name a wordplay on his surname (Vo-Yatzer) – soon became one of the best online destinations, earning Costas four years later a spot among Architectural Digest’s 100 most influential people in the design industry. In 2020, fuelled by his creative mind and communication skills, he founded Yatzerlab, an Athens-based studio that focuses on design-based marketing and branding across digital and tangible applications. Costas has further honed his experience as Curator of the Art Shop at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and Jury member for the Editors’ Choice Award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, as well as numerous creative projects and collaborations around the world.

Born in Aichi, Japan, Yosuke Hayano is a first class registered Architect in Japan. Being a principal partner in MAD, Yosuke oversees and supervises all design works at MAD. His extensive professional experience and strict attention to detail and standards enable him to lead project teams on concept design, design development, materials selection, construction methods, techniques and time management. Yosuke assures all stages of design meet and exceed MAD’s high standards as they are transformed from design concepts into built structures.

Yosuke received his Bachelor of Materials Engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2000, Associate degree in Architecture at Waseda Art and Architecture School in 2001, and his post Master in Architecture at the Architectural Association of London in 2003. He was the winner of the 2006 Architecture League of New York Young Architects Award, 2011 Design for Asia award and 2011 Kumamoto Artpolis Award. He was a visiting lecturer at Waseda Art and Architecture School from 2008 till 2012 and at Tokyo University from 2010 till 2012.

Mikko Summanen, Architect SAFA

Founding partner and CEO of K2S Architects Ltd., Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University 1971

Master’s degree form Helsinki University of Technology 1999. Master’s studies in Tokyo Institute of Technology 1996 – 1997.

Adjunct professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture where he holds a shared professorship for building technology together with his partners Kimmo Lintula and Niko Sirola. The focus in his teaching and research is in innovative building materials and structures.

K2S Architects are known for high quality public buildings, innovative experimentation with building materials and forms as well as intelligent reuse and refurbishments of buildings. Their most notable works are Kamppi Chapel, Refurbishment and extension of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Hotel Paasitorni, Arctia Headquarters, Maunula House and Fazer visitor center &headquarters.

They have won several international and Finnish prizes and awards including the Finlandia Prize 2020, Architizer A+ Award 2014 and Wienerberger Special Prize 2014

Mikko Summanen, Architect SAFA

Founding partner and CEO of K2S Architects Ltd.

Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University

1. 1971

Master’s degree form Helsinki University of Technology 1999.

Master’s studies in Tokyo Institute of Technology 1996 – 1997.

Adjunct professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture where he holds a shared professorship for building technology together with his partners Kimmo Lintula and Niko Sirola. The focus in his teaching and research is in innovative building materials and structures.

K2S Architects are known for high quality public buildings, innovative experimentation with building materials and forms as well as intelligent reuse and refurbishments of buildings. Their most notable works are Kamppi Chapel, Refurbishment and extension of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Hotel Paasitorni, Arctia Headquarters, Maunula House and Fazer visitor center &headquarters.

They have won several international and Finnish prizes and awards including the Finlandia Prize 2020, Architizer A+ Award 2014 and Wienerberger Special Prize 2014

Costas Voyatzis is the founder of Yatzer (2007), an international online magazine for architecture, design, travel and the arts, and Yatzerlab (2020), a creative studio working on the intersection of design and marketing. Born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1980, he dabbled academically in Meteorology at the Physics University of Athens before switching to studying Interior Design. After graduation, he worked for a number of Greece’s leading interior design magazines as a stylist and trend forecaster, developing relationships with many international designers and manufacturers, and garnering acclaim for his unique perspective on design excellence and innovation. In 2007, he launched Yatzer with a vision of creating a single, high quality source of design information. What started as a personal blog – its name a wordplay on his surname (Vo-Yatzer) – soon became one of the best online destinations, earning Costas four years later a spot among Architectural Digest’s 100 most influential people in the design industry. In 2020, fuelled by his creative mind and communication skills, he founded Yatzerlab, an Athens-based studio that focuses on design-based marketing and branding across digital and tangible applications. Costas has further honed his experience as Curator of the Art Shop at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and Jury member for the Editors’ Choice Award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, as well as numerous creative projects and collaborations around the world.

Born in Aichi, Japan, Yosuke Hayano is a first class registered Architect in Japan. Being a principal partner in MAD, Yosuke oversees and supervises all design works at MAD. His extensive professional experience and strict attention to detail and standards enable him to lead project teams on concept design, design development, materials selection, construction methods, techniques and time management. Yosuke assures all stages of design meet and exceed MAD’s high standards as they are transformed from design concepts into built structures.

Yosuke received his Bachelor of Materials Engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2000, Associate degree in Architecture at Waseda Art and Architecture School in 2001, and his post Master in Architecture at the Architectural Association of London in 2003. He was the winner of the 2006 Architecture League of New York Young Architects Award, 2011 Design for Asia award and 2011 Kumamoto Artpolis Award. He was a visiting lecturer at Waseda Art and Architecture School from 2008 till 2012 and at Tokyo University from 2010 till 2012.

Piero Lissoni is architect, art director and designer and is recognized as one of the masters of contemporary design.

For over thirty years, he has developed projects the world over in the fields of architecture, landscape and interior, as well as in product and graphic design. He is also art director for Alpi, B&B Italia, Boffi, Living Divani, Lema, Lualdi, Porro and Sanlorenzo.

Some of the most important architecture and interior projects deserving mention include The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Miami Beach (2020), the Grand Park Hotel in Croatia (2019), the restyling of the historic Camparino bar in the Galleria of Milan (2019), The Middle House for the Swire Hotels Group in Shanghai (2018), The Oberoi Al Zorah Beach Resort Ajman in the UAE (2017), the 240-unit condominium Oceana Bal Harbour in Miami (2017), the Casa Fantini hotel on the shores of Lake Orta (2017), the Sanlorenzo yachts SX112 (2020), SX76 (2018) and SX88 (2017), the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam (2012), the renovation of the historic Teatro Nazionale in Milan (2009) in addition to the corporate headquarters of Boffi, Cassina, Fantini, Glas Italia, Living Divani and the Sanlorenzo shipyards in La Spezia and Ameglia.

Piero Lissoni has received a series of international awards, including the Good Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the Compasso d’Oro ADI.

Polish-American architect, Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, and literature, Mr. Libeskind aims to create architecture that is resonant, original, and sustainable.
Libeskind established his architectural studio in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In February 2003, Studio Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City to oversee the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment, which is being realized in Lower Manhattan today.
Daniel Libeskind’s practice is involved in designing and realizing a diverse array of urban, cultural and commercial projects around the globe. The Studio has completed buildings that range from museums and concert halls to convention centers, university buildings, hotels, shopping centers and residential towers. As Principal Design Architect for Studio Libeskind , Mr. Libeskind speaks widely on the art of architecture in universities and professional summits. His architecture and ideas have been the subject of many articles and exhibitions, influencing the field of architecture and the development of cities and culture.

About Studio Libeskind
Studio Libeskind creates architecture that is resonant, practical and sustainable. We are renowned for our ability to create landmark structures using both innovative and traditional building solutions. Working on a global scale, we are experienced in a range of building types from large-scale master plans and cultural buildings to soaring towers.
Great architecture is more than the sum of its parts: It is a language that communicates a story and invigorates the context and community for which it is built.
We are committed to design excellence and pushing the boundaries while evolving to best meet the needs of our clients. Studio Libeskind approaches every project individually with the goal of communicating our client’s story through the power of design.
Our team is composed of thought-leaders, innovators, and experts in the field. We speak widely on architecture, design and urban planning. Our network of professionals spans the globe, as we actively build on all continents.
Daniel and his partner Nina Libeskind established Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum Berlin. In February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City when Daniel Libeskind was selected as the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment. The studio office headquarters are in New York.

Polish-American architect, Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, and literature, Mr. Libeskind aims to create architecture that is resonant, original, and sustainable.
Libeskind established his architectural studio in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In February 2003, Studio Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City to oversee the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment, which is being realized in Lower Manhattan today.
Daniel Libeskind’s practice is involved in designing and realizing a diverse array of urban, cultural and commercial projects around the globe. The Studio has completed buildings that range from museums and concert halls to convention centers, university buildings, hotels, shopping centers and residential towers. As Principal Design Architect for Studio Libeskind , Mr. Libeskind speaks widely on the art of architecture in universities and professional summits. His architecture and ideas have been the subject of many articles and exhibitions, influencing the field of architecture and the development of cities and culture.

About Studio Libeskind
Studio Libeskind creates architecture that is resonant, practical and sustainable. We are renowned for our ability to create landmark structures using both innovative and traditional building solutions. Working on a global scale, we are experienced in a range of building types from large-scale master plans and cultural buildings to soaring towers.
Great architecture is more than the sum of its parts: It is a language that communicates a story and invigorates the context and community for which it is built.
We are committed to design excellence and pushing the boundaries while evolving to best meet the needs of our clients. Studio Libeskind approaches every project individually with the goal of communicating our client’s story through the power of design.
Our team is composed of thought-leaders, innovators, and experts in the field. We speak widely on architecture, design and urban planning. Our network of professionals spans the globe, as we actively build on all continents.
Daniel and his partner Nina Libeskind established Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum Berlin. In February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City when Daniel Libeskind was selected as the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment. The studio office headquarters are in New York.

Мария Лангарита (Maria Langarita) – доктор архитектуры и преподаватель в ETSA в Мадриде, соучредитель студии Langarita-Navarro.
Обучалась архитектуре из Университете Наварры (Universidad de Navarra). Сегодня Мария Лангарита является преподавателем и куратором по архитектурным проектам в ETSA в Мадриде.
В 2005 году вместе с Виктором Наварро они основали мадридскую архитектурную практику Langarita-Navarro. В 2013 году их совместная работа была награждена специальным призом премии Миса ван дер Роэ, а также отмечена на XII испанской биеннале архитектуры и урбанизма, премией FAD 2012, премией AR’D за развивающуюся архитектуру 2012 года и премией COAM 2013.
Кроме того, работа студии Langarita-Navarro была удостоена награды «Молодой архитектор года 2014» и премии AD Nuevos Valores 2013. В дальнейшем их работы появились в различных изданиях и были отобраны для монографии журнала 2G, а также для показа на различных мероприятиях, в том числе на Биеннале в Венеции в 2014 и 2008 годах.

Maria Langarita is a Ph.D. in architecture and a teacher at ETSA in Madrid, co-founder of Langarita-Navarro.
She studied architecture from the University of Navarra (Universidad de Navarra). Today, Maria Langarita is a teacher and curator of architectural projects at ETSA in Madrid.
In 2005, together with Victor Navarro, they founded the Madrid architectural practice Langarita-Navarro. In 2013, their collaboration was awarded a special prize by the Mies van der Rohe Prize, as well as at the XII Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the FAD 2012, the AR’D Award for Developing Architecture 2012 and the 2013 COAM Award.
In addition, the work of the Langarita-Navarro studio was awarded the Young Architect of the Year 2014 award and the AD Nuevos Valores 2013 award. Later on, their work appeared in various publications and were selected for the monograph of 2G magazine, as well as for showing at various events, including including the Venice Biennale in 2014 and 2008.

Alexey Kukovyakin, director and founder of Alkuta, honorary Architect of the Russian Federation, professor of the Moscow branch of the International Academy of Architecture (MAAM), member of the Union of Architects of Russia. Alexey Kukovyakin constantly monitors events in the world of architecture. He participated in the World Congress of Architects in Berlin (2002), Istanbul (2005), Turin (2008), Tokyo (2011). Multiple Laureate of the “Hand of the Master” competition, held by the Union of Architects of Russia, Laureate of the International Competition “Eurasian Prize 2018” – a gold diploma for the project “Multifunctional complex Main Avenue”, implemented in collaboration with the “Workshop of architectural and construction concepts”.
Alexey Kukovyakin is one of those who are obsessed with their profession. “On the one hand, culture, psychology and aesthetics, on the other hand, the quality of architecture depends on the use of technology. An architect does not have to fully understand all these things, but he must clearly understand their relationship. All this set of decisions affects the living, working or entertainment conditions in each case, inside and outside the object, ”says the architect.

Алексей Куковякин — директор и основатель фирмы «Алкута», почетный архитектор РФ, профессор Московского отделения Международной Академии архитектуры (МААМ), член Союза архитекторов России.

Алексей Куковякин занимает пост заместителя председателя Свердловского отделения Союза архитекторов России и заместителя председателя комиссии по профессиональной этике, постоянно следит за событиями в мире архитектуры. Участник ведущих отраслевых событий: Всемирного конгресса архитекторов в Берлине (2002 г.), Стамбуле (2005 г.), Турине (2008 г.), Токио (2011 г.). Многократный Лауреат смотра-конкурса «Рука мастера», проводимого Союзом Архитекторов России, Лауреат международного конкурса «Евразийская Премия 2018» — золотой диплом за проект «Многофункциональный комплекс Главный Проспект», выполненный в коллаборации с «Мастерской архитектурно-строительных концепций».
Алексей Куковякин из тех, кто одержим своей профессией. «С одной стороны культура, психология и эстетика, с другой стороны качество архитектуры зависит от использования технологий. Архитектору необязательно досконально разбираться во всех этих вещах, но он должен четко понимать их взаимосвязь. Весь этот комплекс решений влияет на условия для жизни, работы или развлечений в каждом случае внутри и снаружи объекта», — говорит архитектор.

Архитектурной фирме «АЛКУТА» в 2019 году исполнилось 27 лет. Как бы ни складывались обстоятельства в жизни и бизнесе, поступательное движение вперёд было единственной программой, от которой команда «Алкуты» не отступала никогда. Даже сложные периоды кризисов архитекторы использовали для разработки стратегических направлений развития фирмы.

Anssi Lassila (b. Soini Finland, 1973) is the founder and director of OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture. His international breakthrough was the Kärsämäki Shingle Church in 2004. Lassila’s architecture displays his interest in combining a sculptural form with traditional materials and innovative techniques. For him, peripheral sensitivity is a vital part of the creative process. OOPEAA draws inspiration from ‘in-between’ states – between urban and rural, traditional and contemporary, local and international. In its approach OOPEAA emphasizes the potential embedded in exploring new methods and techniques as a means of developing new solutions in building. Their work is characterized by a strong interest in the way materials behave and experimentation with innovative solutions. It is about venturing into borderlands and identifying new possibilities where tradition meets the new.

OOPEAA works on a wide range of projects on varying scales from churches and public buildings to housing, office buildings and private houses to town planning, and urban visions as well as renovations and extensions to historically valuable landmarks. The office is based in Seinäjoki and Helsinki, Finland, and it currently employs a staff of 20. OOPEAA has been honored with significant awards and won several prizes in competitions both in Finland and abroad, including the Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Award in 2017, the Finlandia Prize for Architecture in 2015, the Wood Architecture Award in 2015, the Canadian Wood Design and Building Award 2016, and the American Architecture Prize 2016 in two categories. The work of the office has also been selected for the shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Architecture in 2005, 2011 and 2017, and nominated for the 2019 edition of the prize.

Ансси Лассила (Anssi Lassila), финский архитектор, основатель бюро OOPEAA, получил образование на факультете архитектуры Университета Оулу в 2002 году. Его международным прорывом стала Церковь Kärsämäki Shingle Church (2004). Лассила живет и работает в Хельсинки, Финляндия. Он является основателем и главным партнером аритектурной компании OOPEAA, ранее известной как Lassila Hirvilammi Architects Ltd. OOPEAA работает над различными проектами: церквями, офисными зданиями, жилищными и частными домами, дизайном интерьера и реконструкцией. В настоящее время офисы фирмы расположены в Сейняйоки и Хельсинки, Финляндия. Проекты OOPEAA были удостоены престижных наград и номинаций. OOPEAA быстро завоевала лидерскую позицию среди молодых финских архитектурных практик. Архитектура Лассилы демонстрирует его интерес к сочетанию скульптурной формы с традиционными материалами и современными техниками строительства.

Бюро OOPEAA хорошо известно за пределами Финляндии благодаря умению сочетать лаконичную форму с традиционным материалом — деревом и новейшими техниками строительства и обработки поверхностей. OOPEAA стремится к архитектуре, которая находит свое вдохновение в состоянии промежуточного положения — «периферийной архитектуре», смысл которой заключается в том, что и сами строения, и среда, в которой они расположены, представляют собой некое «пограничье», точку схождения разных пространств, материалов и культур.

Ben is a Principal and a Head of Design at HASSELL. He is responsible for the process and quality of design at HASSELL.
Ben has led the design of significant national and international projects in a wide range of sectors and contexts. His projects span single spaces to master plans for 20,000 people and typologies ranging from residential, to sporting, commercial, cultural and educational. To all of these projects, Ben has focused on connecting people. Prior to joining HASSELL, Ben was the Project Director at Herzog & de Meuron for projects including Tate Modern (the Tanks and the Blavatnik Building), The Blavatnik School of Government, Kolkata Museum of Modern Art and the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. At HASSELL Ben has led projects such as The Point, 97 Franklin Street, Tennis HQ and Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation. Ben has delivered lectures at universities across Australia and overseas. He has taught a Master Design Studio at The University of Melbourne and is also an active member on the design review panels at Office of the Victorian Government Architect and Office for Design and Architecture South Australia.

In 2010 the firm was ranked the largest architecture company in Australia and the 25th largest in the world.^[2]

The firm received Australian Institute of Architects national awards for the Sydney Olympic Park railway station (1998), the VS1/SA Water building in Adelaide (2009), ANZ Centre in Melbourne’s Docklands and the railway stations of the Epping to Chatswood railway line (2010).

Ларс Крюкеберг (LARS KRÜCKEBERG)
Архитектор BDA, Партнер-основатель, генеральный директор GRAFT

Ларс Крюкеберг изучал архитектуру в Техническом университете Брауншвейга, Германия, в Университете Флоренции, Италия, и в Немецком институте истории искусств, Флоренция, Италия. Получил степень магистра архитектуры в Южно-Калифорнийском институте архитектуры SCI Arc, Лос-Анджелес, США. После получения степени профессора в Университете HafenCity в Гамбурге и RWTH  в Аахене, Ларс Крюкеберг был приглашенным профессором в Университете Делфта в 2017/18 году.
В 1998 году Ларс Крюкеберг основал GRAFT в Лос-Анджелесе вместе с Вольфрамом Путцем и Томасом Виллемейтом.

GRAFT имеет новые офисы в Берлине и Пекине, разрабатывая и управляя широким спектром проектов. GRAFT завоевал множество национальных и международных наград и заработал международную репутацию на протяжении всего своего существования.
GRAFT Brandlab в лице Ларса Крюкеберга, Вольфрама Путца и Томаса Виллемайта основали брендинговое агентство вместе с Линдой Стэннидер в 2014 году. Агентство работает на стыке архитектуры, дизайна и брендинга.
С 2015 года GRAFT разрабатывает устойчивые жилые системы по принципу модульного дизайна, чтобы быстро строить жилье для беженцев. Компания под названием Heimat 2 была основана вместе с тремя другими компаниями, занимающимися разработкой проектов и коммуникациями.
Ларс Крюкеберг, Вольфрам Путц и Томас Виллемайт в коллаборации с Марианной Ринтлер стали кураторами Немецкого павильона на Архитектурной биеннале 2018 года в Венеции.
В 2018 году Ларс Крюкеберг был выбран одним из девяти стипендиатов немецкой академии Villa Massimo Rome, которая предоставляется элите немецких художников и креативщиков.

LARS KRÜCKEBERG, Architect BDA, Founding Partner, CEO

Lars Krückeberg studied architecture at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, and the German Institute for History of Art, Firenze, Italy. He graduated as Dipl.-Ing. Arch. in Braunschweig and received his Master of Architecture at the Southern Californian Institute of Architecture SCI Arc, Los Angeles, USA. After visiting professorships at HafenCity University in Hamburg and the RWTH Aachen, Lars Krückeberg has been a visiting professor at the TU Delft in 2017/18. In 1998 Lars Krückeberg established GRAFT in Los Angeles together with Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit. With further offices in Berlin and Beijing, GRAFT has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects. GRAFT has won numerous national and international awards and earned international reputation throughout its existence. In 2009 the GRAFT founding partners co-founded Solarkiosk AG together with Andreas Spiess, which affiliate companies are incorporated in ten countries worldwide today.

With GRAFT Brandlab, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, and Thomas Willemeit established a branding agency together with Linda Stannieder in 2014. The agency operates at the interface of architecture, design, and branding.

Since 2015 GRAFT offers sustainable housing systems in modular design in order to quickly construct accommodations for refugees. The company called Heimat2 was founded together with three other companies working in project development and communication.

Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit together with Marianne Birthler curated the German Pavilion in Venice at the Architecture Biennale 2018.

In 2018, Lars Krückeberg was selected as one of nine scholarship holders of the German Academy Villa Massimo Rome. The scholarship for the stay abroad goes to the elite of German artists and creatives.

Луис Панкорбо (Luis Pancorbo) – испанский архитектор, выходец из ETSA Madrid и имеющий лицензию с 1996 года. Активнейший участник и Лауреат множества архитектурных конкурсов. В партнерстве с Инес Мартин Роблес (Ines Martin Robles) он завоевал 17 наград в различных конкурсах и 21 награду за собственные проекты, в том числе 4 приза COAM и недавние призы AZ в Канаде, призы AR от Американского института архитекторов (AIA), Chicago Athenaeum Awards, награда факультета дизайна от Ассоциации университетских архитектурных школ (ACSA) и Architecture MasterPrize 2018 года. Их работы были опубликованы в более чем 60 международных архитектурных журналах.

Большую часть своей профессиональной деятельности он посвящает исследовательской работе. Его академические исследовательские интересы сосредоточены на технических аспектах архитектуры и ее влиянии на методологию архитектурного проектирования, отношения между теориями технического объекта и архитектурного объекта; Американская промышленная архитектура; заброшенные промышленные территории и ландшафты. До 2014 года включительно преподавал в высшей архитектурной школе Мадрида, а с 2015 года он является доцентом в Школе архитектуры Университета Вирджинии.

Крис Яо (Kris Yao), почетный член Американского Института Архитекторов (Fellow of the American Institute of Architects,  FAIA) основал KRIS YAO | ARTECH в 1985 году и открыл офис в Шанхае в 2001 году. Фирма является одной из наиболее ведущих архитектурных практик в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе. За 30 лет работы Крис получил множество наград и признаний, в том числе Премию выдающихся выпускников Колледжа экологического дизайна при Калифорнийском университете в Беркли в 2005 году, Национальную премию за искусство в Тайване в 2007 году и престижную Почетную грамоту  “Стипендия от Американского института архитекторов” в 2014 году.

Его портфолио демонстрирует многолетнюю практику в коммерческом, гостиничном, гражданском, транспортном, духовном и образовательном дизайне. Его архитектура объединяет функции с культурой и историей, представляя уникальный подход, который возвеличивает дух местности. AIA (Американский Институт Архитекторов) выделил его как архитектора, чья «архитектура имеет поэтическую природу, используя его родную восточную эстетику и духовность с тонким чувством естественного света, взаимодействием поверхностей и форм и выполняя все с высоким уровнем инноваций и профессионализма».

Райнер Махламяки (Rainer Mahlamäki) – финский архитектор, президент Финской ассоциации архитекторов 2007–2011, профессор современной архитектуры факультета архитектуры Университета Оулу и со-основатель архитектурной фирмы Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, одной из самых знаменитых финских архитектурных практик.

Представительные проекты Райнера Махламяки являются результатом его веры в важность понимания предыстории. Он стремится понять людей, для которых он проектирует, пейзаж, который он изменяет, и историю, которую он представляет. Будь то музеи или дома, его проекты основаны на глубоком понимании и говорят сами за себя.
Понимая, насколько ответственна роль архитектора в современном мире, огромную часть своей жизни Райнер посвящает преподавательской деятельности. В настоящее время профессор, а в прошлом декан факультета архитектуры Оулу, с 2002 по 2006 год возглавлял Совет Музея финской архитектуры, а с 2007 по 2011 год – президент SAFA.
Помимо архитектурной практики Райнер Махламяки часто выступает в качестве присяжного на международных архитектурных конкурсах. Его новаторские идеи были признаны в 2017 году, когда он был награжден королем Швеции престижной медалью принца Евгения.
Райнер основал Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects вместе с Илмари Лахдельма (Ilmari Lahdelma) в 1997 году. Их архитектурное сотрудничество началось задолго до этого, когда в 1986 году был основан архитектурный коллектив 8 Studio, а в 1992 году – архитектурное бюро Kaira-Lahdelma-Mahlamäki.

Luis Pancorbo, Architect. Ph.D., founder Pancorbo Arquitectos (Spain)

Luis Pancorbo is a Spanish architect egressed from ETSA Madrid and licensed since 1996. He focuses his professional practice on the submission of international architectural competitions. Associated with Ines Martin Robles, he has won 17 awards in different competitions and 21 awards for their built work, including 4 COAM Prizes and the recent AZ Awards in Canada, AR awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Chicago Athenaeum Awards, the Faculty Design Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and 2018 Architecture MasterPrize. Their work has been published in more than 60 international architectural magazines. This is the research activity to which he devotes most of his time.

His academic research interests focus on the technical dimension of architecture and its influence on the methodology of architectural design, the relationship between the theories of the technical object and the architectural object; American industrial architecture; industrial ruins, and derelict productive landscapes. He has been Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid, and since 2015, he is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia.

Founder and CEO «Hermann Kamte & Associates», Cameroon
Hermann Kamte is an award-winning Cameroonian Architect. He is the Founding Associates and the Creative Director at HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates.
In 2016, He started after earned Master’s Degree in Architecture with « Distinction » at the prestigious EAMAU (École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme).
Through a series of award-winning design, Hermann has developed a reputation for designing project that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are ecofriendly, Marketable, serviceable, affordable, sustainable and ecological conscious.
Hermann has received numerous awards and honors, including the WAFX Prize’s Cultural Identity Prize in 2017 at the World Architecture Festival, the Gold in Architectural Design at the American Prize of Architecture and the The Inaugural Archi. Awards Africa “Premiere” held by African Union of Architects (AUA) in 2018, Eurasian Prize in 2018.
Alongside his architectural practice, Hermann have contributed and have been feature to international press such as “The Architectural Review” “Business Day” and “Financial Times”. He is becoming a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as CTBUH, ARCHITECTURE ZA and LAFARGEHOLCIM FOUNDATION.
Hermann Kamte have been named Forbes Africa “30 Under 30” Creative Category Class of 2019 and among Top 30 “Africa Innovators 2019 by Qurtz”.

Герман Камте (Hermann Kamte)  – отмеченный наградами камерунский архитектор. Он является основателем и креативным директором HKA | «Hermann Kamte & Associates».

В 2016 году  получил степень магистра в области архитектуры с «Отличием» в престижном EAMAU (École Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme). Благодаря серии наград,  заслужил репутацию проектировщика проектов, которые являются настолько программно и технически инновационными, насколько они экологичны, доступны на рынке, годны к эксплуатации, доступны по цене, устойчивы и экологичны.

Герман получил множество наград и наград, в том числе премию WAFX за культурную идентичность в 2017 году на Всемирном фестивале архитектуры, «Золото в архитектурном дизайне» на Американской премии в области архитектуры и «Инаугурационный архи».

Награды Африки «Премьера», проводимой Африканским союзом архитекторов (AUA) в 2018 году, Евразийская премия в 2018 году.  Наряду со своей архитектурной практикой, публикуется в таких изданиях как «The Architectural Review», «Business Day» и «Financial Times».

Выступает с лекциями на таких площадках как CTBUH, ARCHITECTURE ZA и LAFARGEHOLCIM FOUNDATION.

Герман Камте получил награду Forbes Africa «30 до 30 лет» в номинации “Креатив” 2019 года и вошел в Top 30 Africa Innovators 2019 by Quartz

Rainer Mahlamäki’s representative designs are a product of his belief in the importance of understanding each commission’s backstory. He strives to understand the people he designs for, the landscape he is altering, and the history he is representing. Whether museums or homes, his designs are rooted in a deep understanding and speak for themselves.

Rainer has been ever-present within Finland’s education and architecture institutions. Currently a Professor – and previously the Dean – of the Oulu School of Architecture, he chaired the Board of the Museum of Finnish Architecture from 2002 to 2006, and was President of SAFA from 2007 to 2011.

Aside from his projects, Rainer frequently acts as a juror for high-profile international architecture competitions. His pioneering international achievements were recognised in 2017 when he was awarded the prestigious Prince Eugen Medal by the King of Sweden.

Rainer founded Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects together with Ilmari Lahdelma in 1997. Their architectural collaborations began well before this, with the founding of the architecture collective 8 Studio in 1986, and Kaira-Lahdelma-Mahlamäki Architecture office in 1992.

Kris Yao, Hon. FAIA, founded KRIS YAO | ARTECH in 1985 and established a Shanghai office in 2001. The firm is a one of the most important leading architecture practice in Asia-Pacific region. Throughout his 30 years of practice, Kris has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California – Berkeley in 2005, the National Award for Arts in Taiwan in 2007, and the prestigious Honorary Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects in 2014.

His portfolio demonstrates years of practice in commercial, hospitality, civic, transportation, spiritual, and educational design. His architecture integrates function with culture and history, presenting a unique approach that celebrates the spirit of the locality. The AIA praised him as an architect whose “architecture has a poetic nature, using his native eastern aesthetic and spirituality with a sense of natural light, interplay of surfaces and forms and executing all with a high level of innovation and professionalism.”

Питер Ипполито (Peter Ippolito)  изучал архитектуру в Штуттгарте и Чикаго, быший ассистент профессора Бена Николсона, получил практику в студии Даниэля Либскинда

В 2002 году, вместе с Гюнтером Флейтцом основал Ippolito Fleitz Group –  первое в немецкое бюро интерьерного дизайна, попавшее в зал славы дизайна, по версии журнала Interior Design.  Широкий опыт преподавательской деятельности и работы в качестве члена жюри международных конкурсов.

Член союза дизайнеров ФРГ.

Director, MIT Senseable City Lab, Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati. An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice
Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.

Карло Ратти (CarloRatti) – Директор MIT Senseable City Lab, партнер-основатель, Carlo Ratti Associati, архитектор и инженер по образованию, преподает в MIT, где  руководит Senseable City Laboratory,  является одним из основателей бюро Carlo Ratti Associati. Будучи одним из лидеров мнений в вопросе о влиянии новых технологий на городскую среду, его работы неоднократно выставлялись на крупнейших мировых площадках, таких как Венецианская биеннале, нью-йоркская MoMA, лондонский музей науки и музей дизайна в Барселоне.
Два его проекта – Цифровой водный павильон и Копенгагенское колесо – были встречены журналом «Тайм» как «Лучшие изобретения года», а сам карло был включен в список “50 человек которые изменят мир”.
В настоящее время он является сопредседателем  Всемирного  совета будущего по городам и урбанизации – организации, действующей в рамках Всемирного Экономического форума.

Лина Малфона (Lina Malfona) – архитектор, доктор архитектуры, доктор урбанистики. Профессор университета в Пизе, зав. исследовательской лаборатории Polittico.  С 2015  регулярно приглашается в качестве гостя и “приглашенного критика”  профильных факультетов многих ВУЗов США, среди которых Факультет архитектуры, искусства и градостроительства Корнеллского университета, Высшая школа архитектуры, градостроительства и консервации зданий Колумбийского Университета, Высшая Школа дизайна Гарвардского университета.

Автор более 100 публикаций, среди которых ряд очерков и монографий по вопросам, связанным с историей, теорией и критикой архитектуры, посвященных взаимосвязи архитектурной формы и городского пространства. Ее труды были опубликованы через Il Poligrafo, Gangemi, Quodlibet, а также в Ananke, Ardeth и The Avery Review среди других (www.linamalfona.com).

Юрген Майер (Jurgen Mayer) получил образование в области архитектуры в Штутгартском университе в 1986 году, также учился в колледже Cooper Union и Принстонском университете, где преподавал с 1994 по 2004 годы.

С 1996 года работает архитектором. Преподавания в ряде вузов, таких как Берлинский университет искусств, Мюнхенский технический университет, аспирантура дизайна университета Гарварда (Harvard Graduate School of Design), школа архитектуры Архитектурной Ассоциации в Лондоне, Колумбийский университет в Нью-Йорке, а также Торонтский университет.

В 1996 году, в Берлине, Майер основал компанию J. MAYER H., которая стала называться J. Mayer H. und Partner, Architekten (в переводе — «Юрген Майер и партнёры, архитекторы») после того как в январе 2014 года Андре Сантер (Andre Santer) и Ганс Шнайдер (Hans Schneider) присоединились к компании как партнёры.

Работы Майера удостоены нескольких престижных наград и представлены в различных коллекциях, включая Нью-Йоркский музей современного искусства и Музей современного искусства Сан-Франциско.

Бен ван Беркель (Ben van Berkel), изучал архитектуру в Академии Ритвельда в Амстердаме и в Архитектурной ассоциации в Лондоне, получив диплом с отличием в 1987 году. В 1988 году он основал Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau с Caroline Bos, распространив свои теоретические взглядына практику архитектуры. В 1998 году Бен ван Беркель стал соучредителем UNStudio (United Net).

Читал лекции и преподавал во многих архитектурных школах по всему миру. В настоящее время занимает должность приглашенного профессора Кензо Танге в Высшей Школе Дизайна Гарвардского университета.

В 2018 году основал UNSense, компанию Arch Tech, базирующуюся в Амстердаме, которая разрабатывает и интегрирует человеко-ориентированные технические решения для общественной среды.

Среди самых извеcтных проектов UNStudio — мост Эразма в Роттердаме, дом Мебиуса в Нардене, Музей Mercedes-Benz в Штуттгарте, здание Сингапурского университета технологии и дизайна, театр Агора в Лелистеде и многие другие.

Всего в портфолио бюро более 80 реализованных проектов.

Основатель Titus Bernhard Architekten, член профессионального жюри международного конкурса Eurasia Prize 2018.

Титус Александр Бернхард родился в 1963 году в Аугсбурге (Германия), изучал архитектуру в Брауншвейге, Милане и Нью-Йорке. В 1991 году  получил диплом. Сотрудничал с рядом компаний и архитекторов: PSP, Richard Meier and Partners, Bohn & Bohn Architekten и другими. В 1995 году он открыл собственный офис в Аугсбурге, добился многочисленных успехов, получил награды, читал лекции, издавал публикации в Германии и за рубежом. Сегодня глава компании Titus Bernhard Architekten.

Титус Бернхард спланировал футбольную арену в Аугсбурге вместе с Питером Кеглом, принял участие в конкурсе на реконструкцию Berliner Schloss, спроектировал мэрию и общественный центр в Бернриде, а также количество вилл и жилых домов на юге Германии. В настоящее время он работает над проектом социального жилья для Всемирного банка Wohnbaugruppe der Stadt Augsburg.

Знайте, что Фабио Галеаццо соединяет воедино красоту и экологичность.

Творческий во всем, что он предлагает, он смешивает материалы с цветами  бесстрашным способом. Будучи известным профессионалом, который не повторяется, в его работе есть душа, где прошлое и современность живут вместе в полной гармонии. Он играет с диахронией совершенно, и это одна из  марок его языка.

В 2004 году основал Galeazzo Design, многопрофильную компанию по архитектуре, дизайну интерьеров и разработке продуктов, с молодой и сплоченной командой, завоевывающей национальные и международные награды. Его работы  опубликованы в более чем 50 странах.

После магистратуры в Колумбийском университете в Нью-Йорке в 1999 году – стажер в Лондоне (Donald Insall & Associates) по восстановлению Виндзорского замка и библиотеки в Кембриджском университете в 1995 году, а также курс по архитектуре на факультете Порту в 1996 году Офис в Порту в 2001 году. Начал в 2006 году в Гарварде план устойчивой архитектуры.

Его работа, сфокусированная на проблемах чувственного повествования, привлекла внимание на национальном и международном уровнях, так как его пригласили на выставку, лекцию и обучение.

В 2012 и 2011 годах выставлялся и читал лекции в Пражском Граде, в 2011 году в Museu Oriente в Лиссабоне, в 2010 году в Стамбуле, в 2009 году в Лондоне, в 2008 году в Токио представлял Португалию по приглашению Питера Кука и Тойо Ито, в 2007 году в Йельском университете, в 2006 в Сан-Паулу и Лиссабоне (Experimenta Design) в 2005 году на Триеннале в Милане и Венецианской биеннале 2004.

Марк Бхерер, выпускник Квебекского университета в Монреале в области дизайна окружающей среды, более десяти лет работает дизайнером интерьера в René Desjardins Design (www.rdesjardins.com). В 2010 году стал партнером, чтобы обеспечить преемственность и преемственность компании. Основанный в 1986 году Рене Дежарденом, René Desjardins Design за долгие годы приобрел безупречную репутацию и в настоящее время входит в число наиболее уважаемых профессиональных дизайнеров интерьеров.

Магнус Стром основал Ström Architects в 2010 году.

Он приехал из Швеции, чтобы изучать архитектуру в Портсмутском университете в 1995 году, получив высшее образование в классе со степенью бакалавра (с отличием) и получив две награды за дипломные проекты. После работы в Лондоне и Винчестере он продолжил учебу, чтобы получить диплом с отличием, а также получить премию RIBA South Region Award за выдающиеся дизайнерские работы, а также номинироваться на серебряную медаль RIBA.

После его окончания Магнус присоединился к уважаемой дублинской практике deBlacam и Meagher Architects, прежде чем его попросили присоединиться к John Pardey Architects в 2002 году на юге Англии. Магнус провел 8 лет с практикой, и его работа включала в себя работу в сфере жилья, образования и коммерции, как для клиентов из частного, так и государственного сектора. Он отвечал за проектирование многочисленных частных домов, а также управлял несколькими крупномасштабными проектами смешанного назначения в Лондоне, Дублине и США.

Магнус по совместительству работает в Школе архитектуры в Портсмуте и преподает архитектуру на курсе архитектуры и инженерии в Саутгемптонском университете. Его практика специализируется на высококачественной современной архитектуре, уделяя особое внимание проектированию и доставке уникальных домов и одноразовых домов как в Великобритании, так и за рубежом.

Подход к архитектуре не является поверхностным или сугубо эффективным, вместо этого необходимо искать основы в человеческой жизни (клиент) и природе (сайт / среда). Это вдохновляет проекты и как пространства созданы. Через непрерывный и тщательный диалог со структурой, деталями, материалами и порядком, Магнус ищет целостный и тектонический подход в реализации архитектурных идей.

Технология допускает нашу архитектуру, но наша архитектура не определяется ею. Вместо этого это помогает нам эффективно строить таким образом, который является неотъемлемой частью архитектуры, а также является устойчивым. Практика стремится создавать здания, которые не кричат, но имеют архитектурное решение, которое выглядит как сдержанное, но мощное и с душой.

Антонелла Дедини  (Antonella Dedini) –  Закончила Миланский политехнический университет в 1989 году по специальности «Архитектура».  Специализация – промышленный дизайн.

Получив степень магистра в области дизайна интерьера в IDI – Институте дизайна интерьера в Милане, она прошла курсы специализации в области архитектурного дизайна в Университете Орхуса в Дании и на факультете архитектуры Стокгольмского университета в Швеции.

Она занимала должность Cultore della Materia совместно с Артуро Делль Аква Беллавитис, профессором Arredamento e Architettura degli Interni, на факультете архитектуры Политехнического университета Милана.

С 1989 по 1995 год работал в редакции Ottagono, ведущего итальянского периодического издания, посвященного искусству, дизайну и архитектуре.

Публикуется в известных итальянских специализированных изданиях по архитектуре и дизайну, таких как Domus, Abitare и Ottagono, а также пишет о дизайне для La Cucina Italiana.

Сегодня она – владелица собственной студии, с проектами в Италии, Великобритании, Кении, Марокко и России.  Основательница и владелица MiCue Milano Design, исследовательского центра, который работает с предприятиями, дизайнерскими компаниями и частными лицами, которые заинтересованы в освоении инновационных архитектурных решений.  Предлагает практическое обучение в понимании и интерпретации дизайна, чтобы повысить производительность любой отрасли. MiCue Milano Дизайн – куратор выставок и мероприятий, таких как Кинофестиваль дизайна в Милане.

С 1996 года по конец июня 2007 года она была деканом Института дизайна интерьера e Ateneo Creativo – Профессиональной школы дизайна интерьера, рекламы и графического дизайна в Милане.

В 1999 году она взяла на себя ответственность за курсы подготовки специалистов в Академии Domus в Милане, первой аспирантуре по специальности “дизайн” в Италии. В декабре 2009 года Domus Academy присоединилась к международной образовательной сети Laureate International Universities Network.

С 2004 по 2012 год  была директрисой магистратуры по дизайну интерьера и дизайна в Академии Domus в Милане, а с 2013 года – научным руководителем и магистров.

Альберто Рубио (Alberto Rubio) – испанский архитектор и дизайнер, студия Alberto Rubio Projects.  Проектирует, преимущественно частные жилые дома, отличительная черта которых – дизайн, напоминающий различных представителей фауны: рыб, черепах и птиц.  Интересный факт: Рубио не имеет профильного образования, он закончил мадридский университет, но по специальности – историк. Редчайший случай в архитектурной и дизайнерской среде.

Патрик Шумахер (Patrik Schumacher) является руководителем Zaha Hadid Architects и возглавляет фирму с момента ухода легендарного архитектора Захи Хадид в марте 2016 года. Он присоединился к Захе Хадид в 1988 году и сыграл ключевую роль в развитии и становлении Zaha Hadid Architects, как глобального бренда в мире архитектуры и дизайна.
Патрик Шумахер изучал философию, математику и архитектуру в Бонне, Штутгарте и Лондоне. Он получил свой диплом по архитектуре в 1990 году и, начиная с 2003 года был соавтором всех проектов Захи Хадид. В 2010 году Патрик Шумахер вместе с Захой Хадид получил премию Stirling Prize Королевского института британских архитекторов за выдающиеся достижения в области архитектуры за MAXXI, Национальный итальянский музей искусства и архитектуры XXI века в Риме и является академиком Берлинской академии художеств.
В 1996 году он основал Лабораторию исследований дизайна в Архитектурной ассоциации в Лондоне, где продолжает преподавать по сей день. В 1999 году защитил докторскую диссертацию в Институте культурологии Клагенфуртского университета. Патрик Шумахер читает лекции по всему миру и в настоящее время является приглашенным профессором в Гарвардском университете. За последние 20 лет он написал более 100 статей в архитектурных журналах и сборниках. В 2008 году он ввел термин Parametricism и с тех пор опубликовал серию манифестов, пропагандирующих параметризм как новый эпохальный стиль для 21-го века. В 2010/2012 был выпущен в свет двухтомный теоретический сборник «The Autopoiesis of Architecture». Сегодня Патрик Шумахер широко известен как один из самых выдающихся мыслителей в области архитектуры, урбанизма и дизайна.

Карим Рашид (Karim Rashid) является одним из самых уникальных голосов современности в мире дизайна. Более чем 4000 реализованных проектов, более чем 300 наград позволяют считать его «иконой» среди дизайнеров поколения.

Отказываясь от скоротечных модных стилей в пользу дизайна, концепции Карима рождают предметы роскоши для Christofle, Alessi, Veuve Clicquot и Riva 1920; демократичные продукты для Umbra, Пола Митчелла, 3M и Филипа Морриса; вечная мебель для Bonaldo, Tonelli, BoConcept и Vondom; изысканное освещение для Artemide и Fontana Arte; высокотехнологичные продукты для Asus и SirinLabs; дизайн поверхности для Марбурга и Абета Ламинати; культовая графика для Ситибанка и Sony Ericsson и отмеченная наградами упаковка для Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo и Eos.

Влияние Карима распространяется не только на продукты, но и на интерьеры, включая такие рестораны, как Switch в ОАЭ; дизайн гостеприимства для Park Inn от Radisson Amsterdam City West, Temptation Resort Cancun и бюджетных отелей для Prizeotel в Бремене, Гамбурге, Мюнстере и Эрфурте; общест

венные места, такие как станция метро Universita в Неаполе; дизайн жилых помещений, таких как Paraiso Bayviews в Майами; и розничный дизайн для Fun Factory в Берлине и Мюнхене. Кроме того, он сотрудничал на многочисленных концептуальных выставках для таких клиентов, как Dupont Corian, Deutsche Bank, PepsiCo и Audi. В 2017 году Карим запустил Kreate by Karim, свою собственную линию посуды и аксессуаров для жизни.

Многочисленные награды свидетельствуют о весомом вкладе Карима в мир дизайна. Он является постоянным лауреатом премии Red Dot, премии Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, премии Pentawards и IDSA Industrial Design Excellence. Он имеет почетные докторские степени в Университете Карлтона, Институте Пратта, OCAD в Торонто, Британском институте дизайна интерьеров и в Corcoran College of Art & Design.
Культурный трендсеттер, Карим – частый приглашенный лектор в университетах и ​​конференциях по всему миру, стремящийся изменить мир, сделав дизайн публичной темой. Множество публикаций в печатных и цифровых медиа, таких как CNN, Vogue, Elle, GQ, The New York Times и многих других позволяет Кариму реализовать свои амбиции по пропагандированию важности дизайна в повседневной жизни.

Чиара Феррари (Chiara Ferrari) получила высшее образование в области промышленного дизайна в Политехническом институте Милана, затем получила опыт работы в крупных архитектурных и дизайнерских фирмах: Amanda Levete Architects / Future Systems, Studio Heatherwick, Lissoni Associati, Lovegrove Studio и Zaha Hadid Architects. В 2010 году Кьяра основала свою собственную практику – Chiara Ferrari Studio, базирующуюся в Лондоне, В портфолио бюро: предметный дизайн, дизайн жилых интерьеров, дизайн коммерческих помещений портфолио от дизайна продуктов до частных жилых интерьеров и коммерческих помещений. Преподает дизайн интерьера в Королевском колледже искусств (RCA).

Мануэль Готран (Manuelle Gautrand)  родилась 14 июля 1961 года в Марселе (Франция).

В 1985 году она окончила архитектурную школу Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture в Монпелье.

В 1991 году  открыла свою практику, живет и работает в Париже.

Как главный архитектор MANUELLE GAUTRAND ARCHITECTURE,  отвечает за проектирование и строительство различных зданий, Заказчики –  муниципальные и государственные органы власти, а также для частные клиенты, во Франции и за рубежом.

Награды

2018 США. Победитель конкурса « Lighting Design Award » – объект Alesia Cinema, Париж (За внешнее освещение)
2018 Канада. Победитель « President Medal » награда Канадского королевского института архитектуры
2017 Греция. Победитель  “European Prize for Architecture” – за карьерные достижения
2017 США. Победительe “Chicago Athenaeum” международный конкурс ,  объект Alesia Cinema, Париж
2016 Германия. Победитель « German Design Award » 2017 (Номинация “общественные здания),  объект The Forum, Сент-Луис
2015 Франция. Победитель “Lighting Design” 2015  за объект Galeries Lafayette, Метц
2014 Франция. Лучшая женщина-архитектор 2014 года по версии ARHVA
2013 Франция. Победитель “Montgolfier”, награда “Общества содействия развитию французской промышленности”
2011 США. Победитель международного конкурса “The Chicago Athenaeum”  Museum of Modern Art, Лилль
2010 Франция. Победитель национального конкурса “лучшее здание из стали”, объект Cité des Affaires, Сент-Этьен
2009 Великобритания. Победитель международного конкурса “World Architecture News”, “коммерческая номинация” объект автосалон Citroën , Париж
2009 Германия. Победитель международного конкурса “Contracworld Award”  – объект автосалон Citroën , Париж
2008 США. Третье место в международном конкурсе”Interior Design Association” –  объект автосалон Citroën , Париж
2004 Франция. Серебряная пирамида французского национального конкурса “Vivrélec” –  объект Solaris housing, Ренн
2003 Франция. Награда “Trophy for Construction” – за карьерные достижения
2002 Франция. Серебряная медаль Французской академии архитектуры  – за карьерные достижения
2000 Франция. Победитель национального конкурса  AMO, “Architecture and Places of Work” – фуд-корт аэропорта Нанта.

Manuelle Gautrand was born on 14 July 1961 in Marseille (France).

She graduated as an architect in 1985 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Montpellier.

In 1991 she set up her practice; she lives and works in Paris.

As the principal architect at MANUELLE GAUTRAND ARCHITECTURE, she is responsible for the design and construction of a diverse range of buildings, including cultural facilities (theatres, museums, cultural centres), offices, housing, commercial and leisure facilities, etc.

She works for large public clients and institutions as much as for private clients, in France and abroad.

“Re-enchant the city” and thus to bring emotion, to reinvent, to renew, to innovate and to propose the unexpected answers, to be bold and plural are the founding principles of the architecture of ManuelleGautrand.

Selected awards:
2018 United-States Winner of the « Lighting Design Award » – Alesia Cinema in Paris (Exterior Architectural illumination category)
2018 Canada Winner of the « President Medal » awarded by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
2017 Greece Winner of the “European Prize for Architecture” – overall career
2017 United States Winner of the “Chicago Athenaeum” international prize – Alesia Cinema, Paris
2016 Germany Winner of the « German Design Award » 2017 (Public Building Category) – The Forum, Saint-Louis
2015 France Winner of “Lighting Design” 2015 (On – lighting designers) – Galeries Lafayette, Metz
2014 France Winner of “Woman Architect” of the year 2014, awarded by ARHVA
2013 France Winner of “Montgolfier”, awarded by the Société d’Encouragement de l’Industrie Française
2011 United States Winner of “The Chicago Athenaeum” international prize – Museum of Modern Art, Lille
2010 France Winner of the French prize “best projects built in steel” – Cité des Affaires, Saint-Etienne
2009 UK Winner of the “World Architecture News” international prize, ‘commercial’ category – Citroën showroom, Paris
2009 Germany Winner of the “Contracworld Award” international prize – Citroën showroom, Paris
2008 United States Third place in the “Interior Design Association” international prize – Citroën showroom, Paris
2004 France Awarded the Silver Pyramid for the French prize “Vivrélec” – Solaris housing, Rennes
2003 France Awarded the “Trophy for Construction” – overall career
2002 France Awarded the Silver Medal by the French Académie d’Architecture – overall career
2000 France Winner of the French prize AMO, “Architecture and Places of Work” – catering facility, Nantes airport

Хён Хо Ли (Hyunho Lee) – американский архитектор корейского происхождения.

Партнер и соучредитель бюро Chiasmus Partners,  профессор университета Хонгик, республика Корея, Сеул, зарегистрированный архитектор в штате Нью-Йорк и Нью-Джерси,  член Американского института архитекторов. Имеет опыт сотрудничества с практиками Polshek Partnership и Peter Marino в Нью-Йорке.

Кредо Chiasmus Partners –  архитектура изменяющая принципы взаимодействия человека и пространства.

Его научная работа включает публикации, преподавание и междисциплинарные исследования по преодолению разрыва между пространством и поведением человека.

Наиболее значимые проекты:  Центр искусств Инчхона, Университет Кен Хи, ряд проектов коммерческих зданий и проекты  жилых домов.
Бюро Chiasmus Partners  – неоднократный лауреат различных премий:  2006 Korean Ministry of Culture Award, 2009 Global Notable #4
for Performing Arts Center by Architype Review, 2011 Year’s Best7 Korean Institute of Architects Honor Award, 2011 KIRA awards for design Excellence.

Partner and co-founder of Chiasmus Partners, Hyunho Lee is currentlya professor at Hongik University and a registered architect in the state of
New York and New Jersey, and a member of American Institute of Architects.As a founding professor of Department Interior Architecture at Hongik
University, in Seoul, Korea, Hyunho Lee has broaden the architecture education and he has lead the department with more than one
thousand alumni in various creative fields. His past professional experiences include Polshek Partnership and Peter Marino in New York city
Chiasmus’ work focuses on architecture which reshapes the experience of public space. His work involves publications, teaching, and multidisciplinary studies on bridging the gap between space and human behavior. His experience as designer and award winning architect covers wide range of projects, including masterplan through furniture design and many complex projects that redefine the interaction between public institution,
commercial space and urban dwellers: Incheon Arts Center, Opera House, Kyung Hee University and many corporate and residential projects.
The firm has recently been awarded for several notable projects, which includes 2006 Korean Ministry of Culture Award, 2009 Global Notable #4
for Performing Arts Center by Architype Review, 2011 Year’s Best7 Korean Institute of Architects Honor Award, 2011 KIRA awards for design Excellence.

Хетил Траэдаль  Торсен  (Kjetil Trædal Thorsen) – родился в Норвегии. Закончил университет Граца, Австрия. По образованию –  инженер-архитектор.  Уже в 1985 году выступил соучредителем первой норвежской архитектурной галереи – Gallery ROM.

В 1987 году также выступил соучредителем архитектурной практики Snøhetta,  сыграл важную роль в подготовке таких значимых проектов студии как «Библиотека Александрина», Александрия, Египет, Новый национальный театр оперы и балета, Осло, Норвегия, Музей современного искусства в Сан-Франциско, мемориал жертвам теракта 11 сентября в Нью-Йорке, Центр мировой культуры короля Абдулл-Азиза в Дахране, Саудовская Аравия, Международный Центр наскальной живописи, Франция, здание Пусанской оперы, Пусан, Республика Корея.

Читает лекции, с 2004 по 2008 гг. являлся профессором архитектуры в Институте Эксперементальной Архитектуры Инсбрук, Австрия.

Будучи партнером-учредителем, Хетил сыграл ключевую роль в становлении студии Snøhetta, являясь вдохновителем многих ее проектов.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen was born in the Norwegian city of Haugesund, and in 1985 he graduated as Dipl. Ing. Architect from the University of Graz, Austria. The same year he was a co-founder of the first Norwegian gallery for architecture, Gallery ROM.

In 1987 he co-founded the multidisciplinary architectural practice, Snøhetta, and he has been a partner in the company since 1989. Since the creation of Snøhetta, Kjetil has been instrumental in the projects developed by the practice such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt; the New National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; The SFMOMA in San Francisco; the National September 11 Memoria Pavilion in NY; the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dahran, Saudi Arabia; the Lascaux IV Caves in France; and lately the Busan Opera house in Busan.

He is a frequent lecturer internationally, and from 2004 to 2008 he was professor of architecture at the Institute of Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

As founding partner, Kjetil has been instrumental in defining and developing Snøhetta’s philosophy and architectural ambition. Many of the projects created by Snøhetta has been inspired or led by Kjetil.

Lina Malfona is an architect with a Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design. She is associate professor at the University of Pisa, where she heads the research lab Polittico (www.polittico.unipi.it). Since 2015, she has been invited as a guest and visiting critic at Cornell AAP, Columbia GSAPP, and Harvard GSD, among others.
Since 2007, she has been involved in drawing exhibitions and architectural competitions as team leader, receiving recognition and acclaim. In 2015, she got the “Premio Giovani” National Award from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome) and the prize “RomArchitettura” for a series of 10 case study homes built in the Roman countryside, published on architectural journals such as Abitare, Anfione e Zeto, Architectural Record, Paesaggio Urbano and The Plan. Bringing the long-neglected idea of the single-family home back into play within Italian architectural culture, this work has been recently published as the core of her book Building the Landscape. Residential Pavilions in the Roman Countryside (2018).
She pursued her research thanks to the Visiting Scholarship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal (CCA); the Library Grant from The J. Paul Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Fulbright Grant at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; the Visiting Fellowship at the ATCH Center at The University of Queensland. As a scholar, she authored more than 100 publications, among which a number of essays and monographs on matters related to the history, theory and criticism of architecture, focusing on the relationship between architectural form and urban space. Her writings have been published through Il Poligrafo, Gangemi, Quodlibet, and in Ananke, Ardeth and The Avery Review among others (www.linamalfona.com).

Ки Джин Ши (Kee Jing Zhi)- сингапурский архитектор и партнер Freight Architects. Freight Architects – удостоенная многочисленных наград архитектурная практика, изветная своими социально значимыми объектами, в том числе детскими центрами и центрами по уходу за пожилыми людьми. Так, например, Sengkang Large Childcare Centre недавно стал лауреатом IAA-2019, а также премии Asia Pacific Futur Arc Green Leadership Award 2019.

До создания Freight Architects, Ки работал для Wilkinson Eyre Architects, над проектом культурного парка Gardens by the Bay  в Сингапуре и многочисленными небоскребами в КНР.

Последние проекты включают большой детский центр Sengkang (2017); Пирит-Хаус (2016); Вилла White House Park (2019); и Большой детский центр Fernvale (2019)

Kee Jing Zhi is a Singapore Architect and partner of Freight Architects. Freight Architects is an award winning architectural practice that has recently gained reputation in designing childcare and elderly spaces in the region. “Sengkang Large Childcare Centre” has recently won the International Architecture Award 2019 as well the Asia Pacific FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2019.

Prior to setting up Freight Architects, Kee has worked for Wilkinson Eyre Architects, on the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore and numerous high-profile, super high-rise towers and commercial buildings in China.

His most recent projects include Sengkang Large Childcare Centre (2017); Pyrite House (2016); White House Park Villa (2019); and Fernvale Large childcare Centre (2019).

Fernando Romero (Fernando Romero), Mexican architect, founder of the architectural Studio FR-EE.

After graduating from Iberoamericana University, Fernando Romero worked with Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas in Paris and Rotterdam. Then he founded FR-EE in Mexico city in 2000 and then opened an office in New-York.

FR-EE uses research combined with technological advances to create a range of public and private projects, including Museo Soumaya in Mexico city. The projects of the Studio are aimed at solving a wide range of private and public initiatives from urban development and green infrastructure to community formation. Romero recently collaborated with British architect Norman Foster in the development of a new airport in Mexico city, which attempts to become the most sustainable airport in the world.

The architect’s portfolio includes joint projects with such contemporary stars as Rem Koolhas, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Enrico Mirales.

Fernando Romero is the author of several books on the theory of architecture, including «Translation» – about the transition from modernism to the era of Web 2.0, and «Hyperborder» – about the illusory nature of the border between Mexico and the United States. His research has been widely published and he has received many international awards for his work. He also became an honorary fellow of the American Institute of architects (AIA).

Фернандо Ромеро (Fernando Romero), мексиканский архитектор, основатель архитектурной студии FR-EE.

После окончания Университета Iberoamericana Фернандо Ромеро работал с Жаном Нувелем и Ремом Колхасом в Париже и Роттердаме. Затем он основал FR-EE в Мехико в 2000 году, а затем открыл офис в Нью-Йорке.FR-EE использует исследования в сочетании с технологическими достижениями для создания целого ряда общественных и частных проектов, в том числе Museo Soumaya в Мехико. Проекты студии направлены на решение широкого круга частных и общественных инициатив от городского развития и зеленой инфраструктуры до образования сообщества. Ромеро недавно сотрудничал с британским архитектором Норманом Фостером в разработке нового аэропорта в Мехико, который стремится стать самым устойчивым аэропортом в мире.

Ромеро — архитектор новой эпохи, который черпает вдохновение в идеях великих современников и смело экспериментирует с формой. Он считает, что технология стремительно меняет, а границы теряют смысл. Эволюция цивилизации привела к резкому понижению роли локального, а архитектура сегодня — это сочетание местного и глобального, перевод амбиций заказчика, экономической ситуации, бюджета и законодательных ограничений на язык конкретного строительного решения.

В своем блоге Фернандо помещает все, что вызывает у него интерес. Наряду с предсказуемыми разделами “Архитектура” и “Дизайн” там можно найти информацию об электрических гоночных машинах, видеоклипы Дэмиена Херста, социологический анализ сайта Facebook и много другой неожиданной информации.

В портфолио архитектора совместные проекты с такими звездами современности, как Рем Коолхас, Норман Фостер, Жан Нувель, Энрико Миралес.

Фернандо Ромеро автор нескольких книг по теории архитектуры, в том числе Translation — о переходе от модернизма к эпохе Web 2.0, и Hyperborder — об иллюзорности границы между Мексикой и США. Его исследования были широко опубликованы, и он получил множество международных наград за свою работу. Он также стал почетным научным сотрудником Американского института архитекторов (AIA).

Managing Partner IF Group Dipl.-Ing. Architektur

Peter Ippolito studied architecture in Stuttgart and Chicago. During this period he was an assistant to Prof. Ben Nicholson (Chicago) and collected valuable practical experience in the studio of Daniel Libeskind (Berlin). He set up Ippolito Fleitz Group together with Gunter Fleitz in 2002. And in 2015 Peter Ippolito and Gunter Fleitz were the first German interior designers to be admitted to Interior Design magazine’s prestigious ›Hall of Fame‹. In addition to his creative work, Peter Ippolito has held various teaching positions and is in keen demand as a speaker and as a member of competition juries. Peter Ippolito is a member of the German Designers Club (Deutscher Designer Club).

Арне Реисе Миклстад(Arne Reisegg Myklestad). Норвежский архитектор и урбанист.  Генеральный директор бюро Dark Arkitekter, Осло, руководитель творческого объединения Dark Group, представляющего из себя конгломерат из более чем 125 архитекторов, ландшафтных и интерьерных дизайнеров.

Изучал архитектуру в Королевской академии изобразительных искусств в Копенгагене, Дания,  теорию архитектуры в Лондоне, в Университете Метрополитэн.  Сфера профессиональных интересов: урбанизм, планирование городской застройки, концептуальная архитектура.

Имеет ряд научных публикаций, опыт научного руководства и преподавательской деятельности. Неоднократный участник жюри международных архитектурных конкурсов и фестивалей.

Arne Reisegg Myklestad is an architect and urban designer from Norway. He is the CEO of the Oslo based architectural office Dark Arkitekter and a partner in the muliti-diciplinary Dark group, consisting of 125 architects, designers, interior architects and landscape architects.

Arne studied architecture in Copenhagen at the Royal Academy of fine arts, and holds an additional masters degree in architectural theory from London Metropolitan University. He has professional experience from Copenhagen, London and Oslo, and has been at partner at Dark arkitekter since 2015.

During his professional carrier, Arne has worked mostly with large-scale urban developments and with conceptual, early-phase architecture. He has published several articles on the subject, and has experience from student guidance and as a jury member of both design competition and architectural prizes.

Бен Дакворд (Ben Duckworth), руководитель отдела дизайна-архитектуры студии HASSELL, ведущей международной практики  (офисы в Австралии, Китае, Юго-Восточной Азии, Великобритании и Соединенных Штатах).

В 2010 году фирма была признана крупнейшей архитектурной компанией в Австралии и 25-й по величине в мире.
Фирма неоднократно получала награду национального Австралийского института архитекторов:  за железнодорожный вокзал Олимпийского парка Сиднея (1998), Водное здание VS1/SA в Аделаиде (2009), центр ANZ в доках Мельбурна и железнодорожные станции железнодорожной линии Эппинг-Чатсвуд (2010).

Sanjay Puri , the Principal Architect of Sanjay Puri Architects, India has been a speaker and a judge at numerous international architecture events including the Leading European Architects Forum, The World Architecture Festival & The Perspective PLAN events held in London, Amsterdam, Bologna, Milan, Venice, Barcelona, Singapore, Berlin & Belgrade.

Winning the World’s Best Housing project  at the World Architecture Festival 2018 , Amsterdam and the World’s Best Residential Project of 2017 at the LEAF Awards, London , Sanjay Puri Architects have now won 140 international architecture awards.

7 Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design’s International Architecture Awards in 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012  & 2011,  10 World Architecture Festival Awards in 2018, 2017 , 2015,  2014,2012, 2011 & 2010, 10 Society of American Registered Architects Awards (SARA), New York, 18 World Architecture Community Awards U.K and 3 Hospitality Design Awards New York in 2015,2012 & 2010 are some of the other awards won by the firm in the last 7 years. With 138 international and over 100 national awards, the firm has won architectural projects in Spain, Montenegro, Mauritius, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Montreal, Oman and Dallas in addition to projects in 40 Indian cities. With a diverse portfolio of townships, schools, hotels, retail and office buildings, they continue their quest for creating innovative design solutions that are sustainable on a large scale.

With a firm strength of 72, evolving design solutions that are contextual and creating spaces that revolutionize the way they are experienced form the essence of the firms design philosophy.

Soviet and Russian architect, the President of the Russian Academy of architecture and construction Sciences, General Director of JSC “SIC “Construction”, the chief architect of the city of Moscow (1996-2012), member of the Russian Academy of arts, Professor and academician of the International Academy of architecture. National architect of the Russian Federation, honored architect of Russia, honorary Builder of Russia and Moscow.

Советский и российский архитектор, президент Российской академии архитектуры и строительных наук, генеральный директор АО «НИЦ «Строительство», главный архитектор города Москвы (1996—2012), действительный член Российской академии художеств, профессор и академик Международной академии архитектуры. Народный архитектор Российской Федерации, заслуженный архитектор России, почётный строитель России и Москвы.

Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect; founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio. He studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987.

In 1988 he founded the Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau with the Caroline Bos, extending their theoretical and writing projects to the practice of architecture. In 1998 Ben van Berkel co-founded UNStudio (United Net). He has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world. Currently he holds the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor’s Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2018 he founded UNSense, an Arch Tech company based in Amsterdam that designs and integrates human-centric tech solutions for the built environment.

Among the most well-known projects UNStudio has designed the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, the möbius house in Naarden, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, the building of Singapore University of technology and design, theatre Agora in Lelystad and many others.
In total, the Bureau’s portfolio includes more than 80 completed projects.

Jürgen Mayer H. studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and at Princeton University. Since 1996 he has been working as an architect. Recent national and international projects include Metropol Parasol, the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain; the Court of Justice in Hasselt, Belgium; Pavilion KA300, built in celebration of Karlsruhe’s 300th jubilee, and several public and infrastructural projects in Georgia—for example, an airport in Mestia, the border checkpoint in Sarpi, and three rest stops along the highway in Gori and Lochini.

His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous collections including Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) New York and MoMA San Francisco and also private collections.

National and international awards include the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special-Mention-2003, Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005 and Winner Audi Urban Future Award 2010. He has taught at Princeton University, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the Architectural Association in London, the Columbia University, New York City and at the University of Toronto, Canada

Ализи Брайон (Alizee Brion) родилась в Париже, выросла в Лондоне, имеет степень магистра архитектуры в Колумбийском университете в Нью-Йорке. До создания Light On White Ализи оттачивала свои дизайнерские навыки, работая с известными архитектурными и дизайнерскими фирмами, включая офис Филиппа Старка в Париже.

Сегодня Light On White – это известная международная студия архитектуры и дизайна интерьеров, специализирующаяся на элитных жилых проектах для частных клиентов и застройщиков по всему миру.

Профессиональное кредо Ализи выражается в том, что дом – это личность, а ее вдохновением является то, что люди слушают разговоры о том, как они хотят жить. У нее есть способность запечатлеть видение своего клиента и создать отличные функциональные и долговечные образы. В её творческом подходе отчетливо выражается страсть к искусству, любовь к природе и глобальным путешествиям.

«Признавая эмоциональное влияние, которое окружающая среда может оказать на нас, я тяготею к чистым линиям, нейтральным тонам и гармоничному наложению текстур, которые вызывают чувство спокойствия», говорит Ализи о своем авторском стиле.

Маналу Рачди (Manal Rachdi) удалось создать глобальную, любознательную, открытую, восприимчивую, многокультурную команду Oxo Architects. Он играет ведущую скрипку в открытой рабочей среде, в которой проявляются лучшие творческие способности, объединенные целями и целеустремленностью членов команды.

Oxo Architects завоевал международную репутацию благодаря своим проектам, которые определяют высокотехнологичные и программные подходы. Кроме того, проекты разрабатываются так, чтобы использовать ресурсы с разумными затратами и смешивать традиционные задачи, такие как жилье, отдых, работа и коммерческая деятельность, для создания новых форм симбиотических культур.

Команда Oxo Architects обладает способностью сочетать взвешенный анализ, необузданные эксперименты и социальную ответственность в каждом проекте. В результате практика рассматривается как генерация нового поколения архитекторов. Дизайнерское осмысливание каждого проекта начинается с глубоких исследований того, что Манал Рачди называет «Чувствительная археология контекста», с целью исследовать различные системы для построения эффективных зданий, в то же время определяя чувствительную архитектуру. Фактически, история и происхождение являются якорем современной архитектуры. Фундаментальные исследования от глубины участка до других элементов окружающей среды, таких как ландшафт, метеорология, социальные привычки или традиции, могут помочь разработать наиболее гармоничный проект. Подобное исследование открывает сбалансированный диалог между архитектурой и природой.

В нашумевшем проекте  многоцелевой башни под названием L’Arbre Blanc (Белое дерево)  архитекторы Oxo Architects в соавторстве с Sou Fujimoto Architects, Nicolas Laisné Associés во всей полноте продемонстрировали принцип архитектуры свободного выбора, которую они считают основой будущего жилищного строительства, когда все начинают с «жилфонда», когда покупают свою квартиру и не ограничиваются изготовленными «под ключ»  изделиями. Вместо этого им предоставляются возможности, модульные внутренние пространства, которые они могут выбрать из каталога дополнительных функций и планов этажей.

Награды:

2019 – MIPIM Award – Best Futura Project -«Mille Arbres»
2019 – Young leader institut Aspen
2018 – «Les 100 français qui nous inspirent» /L’Express
2018 – Leading Designers Awards Most innovative Architectural Practice
2017 – Iron A’ Design Award in Architecture, Building and structure Design category by the International design Academy
2017 – WT Smartcity Award, menzione d’onore
– Best urban and architectural most innovative and sustainable project
2016 – Ida Design Award – Gold category 2016- Nomination of the project «Lycée Jean Moulin à Revin» – «Equerre d’Argent»
2016 – Nomination of the project «Lycée Jean Moulin à Revin» – Mies Van der Rohe
2014 – WAN AWARD – Shortlisted Mixed Use Project City Sand

Крис Годфри (Chris Godfrey ) — молодой, сверх-успешный и очень опытный архитектор, у которого за плечами более 20 лет практики, престижная награда от RIBA (Королевское архитектурное общество), проекты для взыскательных клиентов по всему миру и серьезная должность в Hirsch Bedner Assosiates (HBA) берет штурмом мир элитного дизайна жилых помещений. Начав свой профессиональный взлет со студии, базирующейся в Лондоне, сегодня Крис Годфри расширяет и укрепляет связь с клиентами в восточной части планеты, в открывшемся 4 года назад офисе в Сингапуре, где Крис сегодня сконцентрировал большую часть своего личного участия.

Hirsch Bedner Associates является крупнейшей в мире дизайнерской фирмой в сфере гостеприимства, с сильным международным присутствием, поэтому заслуженно считается самой большой дизайн-студией в мире по части общественных интерьеров. Однако, их недавно сформировавшееся стремление к созданию элитных жилых интерьеров отличается блестящими успехами, где Крис Годфри возглавляет направление частных интерьеров: виллы, пентхаусы, роскошные постройки. Сегодня без преувеличения можно сказать, что Крис работает по всему миру, с проектами в Сингапуре, Дубае, Китае и Индии. Профессионально он достиг невероятных высот, но остается внимательным и педантичным в походе к каждой конкретной задаче.

Среди его проектов:

UK Property Awards 2014, Best London Interior

Hong Kong Tatler Homes, December 2014 | Made to Measure

Luxury Properties, November 2014 | Bespoke by Design

Objet Nomades Talk at Louis Vuitton, Singapore | June 2016

Southeast Asia Property Awards, Singapore | October 2016

Chris Godfrey is an award-winning Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Chartered Architect with over 22 years experience producing highly–considered and finely–crafted residences for very discerning clients.

Designing residences is a passion and his passion has been a specialisation. He believes    in, and enjoys the process of design; the clients and their ambitions are his inspiration. Through experience, Chris has a good understanding of people – their methods, needs and aspirations; he has a good temperament and character and believe these inter-relationships are important to achieving great works. Chris has a very focussed, rigorous and professional approach to his work and strives only for excellence. He considers big ideas and small details equally.

Chris creates ‘luxury through design.’ He adopts a unique design approach that responds to the context and the specific needs and aspirations of the individua.

Chris designs from first–princip¦es’ and imbues each and every project with authenticity and depth. His designs express individuality – drawing inspiration from people, places    and possessions. He values uniqueness and  synergy – the  unique  relationship  between the designer, the client and the pre-conditions of each project enrich the design; giving personality, meaning, and virtue.

A spirit of place informs his designs. Harmony is achieved by finely balancing the architecture.

and interior design with the inherent qualities of the physical and cultural setting.

As an Architect and Interior Designer, Chris designs from the outside-in and the inside-out and develop ideas in a comprehensive, seamless manner. He believes a luxury home is about quality of space and light, material and detail: this adds value, depth and permanence to beauty.

Chris seeks to understand lifestyle, needs and aspirations and creates tailor-made, ultra- high- quality environments that support, promote and enhance quality of life. He creates projects with depth and value which have timeless qualities that will be considered valuable for a lifetime and longer.

In 2014 Chris moved to Asia to set up HBA Residential for Hirsch Bedner Associates.  HBA Residential is HBA’s boutique highly-specialised residential design operation which has been conceived to solely create distinctive,  sophisticated,  and  sublime  residences for the world’s most discerning clients. As Principal, Chris oversees all Architectural and Interior Design design and operations cultivating his holistic design approach; combining Architecture and Interior Design to create beautifully conceived and exquisitely delivered residences for clients who appreciate the value of design excellence. For very select clients, he is the lead designer and liaison.

Together with his core team from London, Chris has evolved his knowledge and holistic approach towards design to marry an international experience and outlook with an understanding of the new cultural contexts within which they operate.

His projects

UK Property Awards 2014, Best London Interior

Hong Kong Tatler Homes, December 2014 | Made to Measure

Luxury Properties, November 2014 | Bespoke by Design

Objet Nomades Talk at Louis Vuitton, Singapore | June 2016

Southeast Asia Property Awards, Singapore | October 2016

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and is leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in March 2016. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture and design brand.

Patrik Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London. He received his Diploma in architecture in 1990.  He has been a partner since 2003 and a co-author on all projects. In 2010 Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21^st century in Rome. He is an academician of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London where he continues to teach. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. Patrik Schumacher is lecturing worldwide and is currently a guest professor at Harvard’s GSD. Over the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21^st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”. Patrik Schumacher is widely recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design.

Oxo Architects is a Parisian architectural practice founded by the architect, Manal Rachdi. The office has crafted a global, curious, open, receptive, multicultural team. It defines an open work environment that brings out the best creative talent, united in purpose and commitment.

Oxo has built an international reputation thanks to its projects that define high forwardthinking technical and programmatic approaches. Furthermore, the projects are designed wisely to use resources with reasonable costs and mix conventional programs such as housing, recreation, work and commercial to create new forms of symbiotic cultures.

Oxo has the ability to combine judicious analysis, mischievous experimentation and social res- ponsibility to each project. As result, the practice is considered as part of the new generation of ar- chitects. The design thinking of each project starts with several studies in what Manal Rachdi calls

«The sensitive archeology of its context». The goal is to explore different systems in order to build efficient buildings, while defining a sensitive architecture. In fact, the history and origins are the anchor of today’s architecture. Researching from the site depths to other environment elements such as the landscape, the meteorology, the social habits or traditions can help to design the most suitable project. This research opens a balanced dialogue between architecture and nature.

Manal Rachdi (OXO Architects) win prestigious competition to remake a Parisian neighbourhood – the “Réinventer Paris” (Reinventing Paris) competition for the site of Pershing in Paris with their project “Mille Arbres” (Thousand Trees). The firm are also associated with the team of Sou Fujimoto Architects (based in Tokyo).

Light On White is an international architecture and interior design studio specialising in luxury residential projects for private clients and property developers throughout the world.

Born in Paris, raised in London, Alizee Brion holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York. Prior to forming Light On White, Alizee honed her design skills working with renowned architecture and interior design firms including Philippe Starck’s office in Paris. Global travel, a love of nature and a passion for art are constant influences in her creative design work.

Alizee’s passion is believing a home is about the individual, and her inspiration comes from listening to people talk about the way they want to live their lives. She has the ability to capture her client’s vision and deliver de-signs that are perfectly function and lastingly beautiful.

«Recognising the emotional impact that our environments can have on us, I gravitate towards clean lines and neutral tones and a harmonious layering of textures that inspire a sense of calm».

Karim Rashid is one of the most unique voices in design today. With more than 4000 designs in production, over 300 awards to his name, and client work in over 40 countries, Karim’s ability to transcend typology continues to make him a force among designers of his generation.

Eschewing style in favor of designing in the modus of our time, Karim’s designs include luxury goods for Christofle, Alessi, Veuve Clicquot, and Riva 1920; democratic products for Umbra, Paul Mitchell, 3M, and Philip Morris; timeless furniture for Bonaldo, Tonelli, BoConcept, and Vondom; exquisite lighting for Artemide and Fontana Arte; high-tech products for Asus and SirinLabs; surface design for Marburg and Abet Laminati; iconic graphics for Citibank and Sony Ericsson; and award- winning packaging for Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo, and Eos.

Karim’s influence expands beyond product to interiors, including restaurants like Switch in UAE; hospitality design for Park Inn by Radisson Amsterdam City West, Temptation Resort Cancun, and budget hotels for Prizeotel in Bremen, Hamburg, Munster, and Erfurt; public environments like Universita Metro Station in Naples; residential design like Paraiso Bayviews in Miami; and retail design for Fun Factory in Berlin and Munich. Additionally, he has collaborated on innumerable concept exhibitions for clients such as Dupont Corian, Deutsche Bank, PepsiCo, and Audi. In 2017 Karim launched Kreate by Karim, his own line of kitchenware and lifestyle accessories.

Numerous awards and accolades attest to Karim’s contribution to the world of design. He is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, Pentawards, and IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Carlton University, Pratt Institute, OCAD in Toronto, British Institute of Interior Design, and Corcoran College of Art & Design