Aalto University, Finland & Architecture Intelligence Research Lab, Singapore
Aalto University
Aalto University is a multidisciplinary community of bold thinkers, where science and art meet technology and business. The purpose of the University is to shape a sustainable future, offering solutions to the most pressing societal and environmental challenges by combining cutting-edge science with design expertise and business thinking. The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit. With respect to Finland’s esteemed architectural heritage, architectural education focuses on the design of an ecologically, sustainable built environment.
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) pedagogy is characterised by a hands-on approach to architecture and sustainable design, a holistic understanding of the ways in which technology is changing our design and building processes, and an inclusive methodology to the cultural and historical aspects of designing buildings and cities. SUTD implements direct explorations with digital tools, machines and robots to provide the necessary experience for learning and innovating in a digitally fabricated world.
Abu Dhabi University - Nadia Mounajjed, Apostolos Kyriazis
Abu Dhabi’s Vertical Studio is a curated exhibition showcasing work from the “High-rise” Architecture Studio at the Department of Architecture and Design in Abu Dhabi University from the Academic Year 2019-2020. Led by Nadia Mounajjed and Apostolos Kyriazis, the participating design team also consists of two research assistants and twenty-one students. Abu Dhabi’s Vertical Studio aims to critically rethink Abu Dhabi’s emerging economic and environmental resilience. The projects on display echo the modernist grids, the post-modernist narratives, and the neoliberal sirens of the new Arab cities, in an attempt to combine structural pragmatism with social and environmental sensibilities. This exhibition acts as a platform to rethink the vertical specters in our cities: It is an architectural inquiry, a critique of the individuality of the tower. A call for cities to reflect upon past failures and mistakes and to open up to future possibilities. The works presented can be seen as both utopian and dystopian, their interpretation is left to the beholder’s imagination. This project is funded by the Abu Dhabi Award for Research Excellence (AARE) 2019.
A Collective
Established in 2014, A Collective is a Malta based architecture studio, aspiring to form a collaborative of creative and passionate individuals. The studio seeks to create spatial experiences which in turn mould fundamental architectural parameters such as space, proportions, light and materials. This is achieved by disregarding stylistic materiality and focusing on quality of space, environmental awareness and economic sustainability. The studio roots itself in contextual design, hoping to enrich the architectural landscape and enhance the quality of life of the end-user. The approach is purely architectural, concerned with the infiltration of natural light and its resulting play of shadows, shaping spaces through an eclectic palette inspired by honesty, purity and nature.
Adèle Naudé Santos - MIT School of Architecture and Planning - The Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Adèle Naudé Santos, FAIA, is a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She curated the Housing+ Conference and Exhibition at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT in 2018. The case studies presented here derive from that exhibition. She maintains a practice of Architecture as Santos Prescott and Associates, based in Somerville, MA and San Francisco, CA. Her built work includes affordable housing in South Africa, the United States and Japan, and an in-progress urban design project in Shenzhen, China.
Her academic career has included professorships within the graduate programs of Harvard, Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as Chairman of the Department of Architecture and the University of California, where she was the founding Dean of the School of Architecture at UCSD. She was the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT from 2004-2014.
Adpprentice + LEAP
Adpprentice was born to ease the transition between the academic life of architecture students into their professional life. The rite of passage after architecture school is not easy, and recent graduates find themselves doing meaningless activities in architecture studios during the first years after graduation, disenchanted and wasting time.
Adpprentice is a bridge to help recent architecture graduates to gain real-life experience in architecture studios. It is a program that gives value again to the relationship between a master and his apprentice. It is through direct mentorship from recognized architects that apprentices will learn the craft of Architecture. At the end of the program, a certificate is issued both by Adpprentice and the host studio to the participant. The project’s credits are shared publicly with the participant. It is essential to mention that the projects done under the Adpprentice program are pro-bono and that these projects have a substantial social and environmental impact in their communities. The projects are proposed by the host studio in working-class or peripheral communities and donated to local authorities for future implantation.
Adrian Parr - Watershed Urbanism
Dr. Adrian Parr is the Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and a Senior Fellow of DesignIntelligence. She has served as a UNESCO Water Chair for the past 8 years. She has published extensively, the most recent being a trilogy on environmental design and politics – Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press), The Wrath of Capital (Columbia University Press), and Birth of a New Earth (Columbia University Press). She has been interviewed by numerous publications, including The New York Times, for her views on sustainable design and climate change as a crime against humanity. She is the producer and co-director (with Sean Hughes) for the multi-award winning documentary “The Intimate Realities of Water” that explores how water shapes the everyday lives of women living in Nairobi’s slums along with public interest design responses to these challenges. Her most recent documentary, also directed with Sean Hughes, Thirsty and Drowning in America, explores the water challenges Native American communities across the United States face. In it, Parr met with the Inupiaq living on Sarichef Island off the coast of Alaska, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe in Louisiana, and the Standing Rock Sioux in the Dakotas. Thirsty and Drowning in America entered the independent film festival circuit in 2021 and has been included in the Amsterdam World International Film Festival, the Berlin Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, and the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival.
Adriana Torres Topaga
Adriana Torres Topaga was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She’s a visual artist and designer based in Linz, Austria.
Some of her works show her fascination around the human body and the skin as a political space for
questioning ideals of gender, beauty, consumption, private and public, the relationship between new and
old technologies around the human body. Starting from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd skin, she considers the
skin as a fabric, a network system in the space that expands beyond the body and matter, fulfilling extensive
functions of nexus and protection. So for example the idea of “home” becomes a moment in which one
remembers who one is.
Other topics of her interest are art and collective and interdisciplinary creation, design and methodology, materials research, consumption culture, up-cycling, and social impact of design and arts. The focus of her artistic inquiry relies more on the process than on what she is producing. Adriana’s artistic practice makes itself independent from standards of size and techniques, and she expresses this diversity by producing interactive sculptures and spaces, performances, clothing, graphic design, photographs, videos and sounds. In the last years, she has focused increasingly on performances.
Akiko Sato
The Japanese sculptor Akiko Sato who works in Switzerland and Italy has dedicated the last twenty years to an in-depth exploration of the manifold notions and concepts of time. Her sculptures in marble, granite, alabaster or onyx give tangible forms to these abstract concepts. Viewing the sculptures from all sides and exploring their forms and surfaces by touch triggers forgotten memories and experiences. In her works a linear understanding of time is replaced by a completely open approach to past, present and future where apparent symmetries are broken by juxtapositions and intervals of time and space. The metamorphosis from sand to stone and eventually back to dust is constant reminder of the ephemerality of time.
Alpex Architecture
Alpex Architecture, founded by Laura Petruso in 2010, is a young practice with international experience working on private residential projects and mixed-use developments at urban scale. Laura makes sure that Alpex Architecture continues to practice the core values that are intertwined with her ambition: place-making, high production standards, common sense, coherence, appropriateness, sustainability and delivering projects beyond expectations.
From master planning to design, from technical design to construction, Alpex Architecture offers a comprehensive architectural service. Design and construction are consistently maintained in a collaboration and dialogue from the departure of a project to its conclusion. Ensuring both design and construction are simultaneously achieved to the highest of standards. Over time Laura has forged longstanding relationships with other professionals and collaborators, whose contributions assure Alpex maintain the capacity to transcend the parameters of its practice and to surpass its targets.
Laura Petruso is an experienced Italian architect, member of the National Order of Architects of Cagliari (Italy) since 1997 and ‘RIBA Corporate Member’ since 2001. She has evolved as architect over the course of last 25 years having worked under architects of international fame like Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome, Norman Foster and KPF (Kohn Pedersen & Fox) in London. Laura has been working as a London based independent architect since 2009 becoming Founder and Company Director of Alpex Architecture, which gained RIBA Chartered Practice accreditation in 2012.
Amalgam Studio
Amalgam Studio is an interdisciplinary creative design firm, specializing in sustainable projects blending the realms of building, interior, product and furniture design. Founded in 2013 and based in New York City, the studio has been recognised with multiple awards for built projects in the Northeast of the USA. The studio’s uniquely diverse projects range from beanbag design through to pop-up skyscraper conceptualization. Currently Amalgam Studio maintains a focus on energy efficient residential design. Employing contemporary sensibilities, and leveraging modern BIM technology, it creates contextual, thoughtful and considerate spaces that combine passive design principles, efficient construction methodologies, natural materials, and prefabricated or re-usable elements where warranted. Founder and Principal Ben Albury, a Melbourne-born Architect emigre, has over 22 years experience in the building and construction industries spanning three continents, leading projects at various scales in sectors including residential, commercial, civic, institutional, hospitality, retail and mixed use. He likes to think of himself as a late-bloomer. In his spare time he enjoys drawing things: some of his artworks can be found at bcalbury.com
Anáhuac University Mexico City
The Faculty of Architecture at Anáhuac University Mexico City founded in 1967, offers an international vision, innovative and a transformer of positive leaders who response to society. The Faculty aims to educate architects that imagine, create, and build according to the needs of people in a diverse territory implementing aesthetic solutions with modern techniques to solve the habitat in all its dimensions. The digital fabrication lab (Fablab) at the University was the pioneer and first of its kind in Mexico and the technology used is among the best tools for digital manufacturing, machines such as such as laser cutters, 3d printers, robots, CNC Router, among others. In addition, the Faculty of Architecture has the first Library of Innovative Materials (Material ConneXion) in Latin America which exhibits more than 1,500 physical samples.
Andreas Rimpel
The German artist was born in 1957. During his professional life as industrialist in the metalworking industry he developed unique technical elements. In a similar way he creates his monumental artworks. Through being clearly inspired by Cubism he pursues his very own distinctive form of expression. Although the design of his sculptures is predominantly performing people, they are cubically and geometrically broken up. Nevertheless, the basic shape is always visible. Thereby he succeeds in approaching and performing the emotional life of today’s living people. Exhibited in public areas they generate an atmosphere in our technical and industrialized world where human beings can feel human again. The sculpture shown in the Marinaressa Garden in Venice is called “Grübler”. A young man wrapped in thought.
Andrée Valley
Andrée Valley’s Triffid V sculpture spins a visual tale. It is inspired from a favorite childhood book, The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham, a classic 1951 post-apocalyptic novel in which lethal plants are released to roam the Earth as a consequence of human arrogance in biological experimentation. Exploring the idea of a fictional Triffid has been a recurrent theme in Valley’s work. The abstract possibility of plants taking on human qualities is a personal source of intrigue. This concept is difficult to take seriously, which allows for a fanciful interpretation of Wyndham’s sinister characterizations. She capitalizes on the potency of optimism with her assemblage, Triffid V, made from aluminum painted in highly saturated colors. When placed outside, they move in the wind with the dynamic sensibility of a living plant; however, Valley’s Triffids have a hidden goodness, fun can be had, and all ends well. Although she primarily works in metal, her artistic ideas are eclectic and have varied throughout her long career. Valley lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Andrew Michler
Andrew Michler is founder and co-director of Hyperlocal Workshop, a multidisciplinary architecture studio focusing on passive house design in North America with offices in San Francisco, California and Masonville, Colorado. He designed and built the first certified passive house in Colorado, and Sol Coffee, a mobile solar powered espresso bar. He has sat on the board of the North American Passive House Network and has been active in environmental building design for over 25 years. His book Hyperlocalization of Architecture (Evolo Press 2015) explores contemporary architecture typologies that respond to culture and environmental needs in seven regions around the world. Hyperlocal Workshop’s work has won numerous global design awards and is published widely.
Andrey Bokov
Doctor of Architecture, People’s Architect of the Russian Federation, Fellow of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Fellow of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Vice-President of International Academy of Architecture (IAA), President of the Moscow branch of IAA, President Emeritus of the Union of Architects of Russia.
Anne Fløche
Anne Fløche has been working with clay since she left The Academy of Fine Arts. For the last three decades from her home and workshop in Mols on the seaside of Denmark. She has a very broadside approach to ceramics and has moved away from most ceramic conventions, taking clay into a broader environment. She employs clays, glazes and colours freely and spontaneously, the clay being a free drawing board for ideas, forms, colours, textures and motifs. Anne Fløche works with a firing temperature of 1100 degrees C, which has allowed her to develop a wide range of the Terra Sigillata colours so well suited for her rough as well as refined surfaces. Her works are often inspired by simple architectural forms and materials, like white-washed walls or concrete. Anne Fløches works have been widely exhibited.
Anthony Heywood
Art, particularly sculpture, can have a huge impact on our debates on environment and climate change and can offer thought creating impressions to influence the audience. The ‘Corinth’ series has offered Anthony an opportunity to consolidate and focus on, the combination of sculpture about the built environment, where he explores the synergies between fine art and architecture. By collecting and reinventing the application of surplus building materials the produce’s sculpture focused on iconic buildings, the intention is to revaluate our use of the Earth’s resources through witnessing the effect of environmental changes, erosion and human interventions. This allows him to develop casting and construction techniques with surplus building materials, which is extremely complex, yet offers some fascinating results. He has established his studio in Kent UK and teaches at the University for the creative arts, UCA Canterbury and is Professor Anthony Heywood Normandy École Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR) [The Margate school] His work intends to be cross disciplinary and to interrogate public perceptions of value and civic pride. His engagement with the feel the Context of his research is both relevant and politically pertinent in the current climate. His passion for the subject is important and that sustainability and civic pride in contemporary society are discussed as it has never been more relevant than today to explore these ideas in sculpture.
anthonyfheywoodsculpture.com
uca.ac.uk
APT ARCHITECTURE - Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani with M. Plottel
APT ARCHITECTURE (Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani), is a NYC based studio led by founders Lorenzo Pagnamenta and Anna Torriani, both graduates of the ETH. The practice focuses on Public Space Design. APT researches and seeks to understand the local culture, history, geography, climate, technology, program, and function of each project. The resulting designs are transformative and sustainable public structures and spaces. Notable works include the Byblos Campus Complex in Lebanon; Mariners Harbor Library in NYC, the USI University project in Switzerland and numerous libraries in NYC Public-Schools. The desire to enhance each projects public impact has resulted in the ongoing Shaping Public Space (SPS) initiative started in 2016. The SPS project is undertaken in collaboration with Michael Plottel, a public architect and a graduate of Columbia University. Shaping Public Space (SPS) is our investigation into the meaning and nature of contemporary public space through engagement with the inhabitants -users- of public architecture. We have collected several thousand discrete responses on the nature of public space. Our findings, summarized in short videos and exhibits, are a tool to help us all design great public spaces, inspired by the spirit of each place.
ARCHcoop Architectural Studio
ARCHcoop Architectural Studio was founded in 1988. Garegin Yeghoyan has been the Senior Architect and the Head of the studio since its foundation up to the present day. The design concept adopted by Garegin Yeghoyan can be described as the outward movement from the environment and the problem which it suggests. His original solutions do not adapt the project to the declared ideology but, focus on the landscape and proceed from its peculiarities. Scale preservation is the principal narrative of Yeghoyan’s architectural model. The language of architecture, formed from project to project, aims to balance between the existing vernacular and the new architecture, each time suggesting peculiar decisions, while the volume is born in the process. Progressive character of Yeghoyan’s architecture is nonaggressive and harmonious. He draws on the tradition of Armenian architecture, which bears the hallmark of simplicity and homogeneity, appearing to be the philosophy of rational existence.
Architectural Democracy
Architectural Democracy started as an academic research in Finland in 2012. The term was coined by Pedro Aibéo, proposing a framework of the relationships between architecture and democracy for all stakeholders to better understand the complexity of cities and thus to participate more actively in the planning decisions that affect their lives. Based on growing interest, active affiliations globally, and a track record of collaborations, Architectural Democracy is now considered a nascent movement, an informal academic discipline, encompassing service architecture and has its own developments. Aibéo & team provide leadership, but by no means is there a centralised doctrine.
architecturaldemocracy.com
decisions.city
Ard Bodewes
Ard’s photos have a radiation of minimalism. There are hardly any people in his pictures. The building, in its own strength, is his focus. He carefully selects the proper sky intensifies the impression that he is after.
Trained at a vocational school of photography, he familiarized himself with architectural photography. Travelling around the world led to a fascination for architecture. Being a Northerner from the Netherlands he is used to flat, stately landscapes. The contrast with the impressing buildings he encountered in cityscapes could not be bigger. He loves wandering about in cities at different times of day in order to make the perfect picture of the building. Thereby he studies the quality of the light intensely in order to pick the right moment. On the spot, he decides which shadow might dominate the photo and from there he chooses a perspective.
Blue Lines is the title of the series of photos presented by Ard Bodewes. The original photos have been transformed into a blue shade to emphasize the lines of the architecture, thus showing the contours of the structure in full glory. The photo of Museum Maat in Lisbon is an example of this method. The round shapes of the facade are breath-taking. Sunlight playfully caresses the thousands of tiles the facade is made of. A strong uniformity is created by matching the colour of the front with the colour of the sky. Most of the time Ard Bodewes shows us a certain part of the building, disguising the identity and function of it. By making the choices he does in focus, colouring and sightlines the viewer is drawn into the photo and made to wonder about it. In a way, Ard is the one who decides what the viewer’s attention is aimed at. This effect is brought about by the cut outs he carefully selects. Forms, patterns and depths are thus accentuated.
Ard’s principal clients are architectural offices and project developers. But he also loves to create free work. He is either intrigued by unconventional, sometimes organic shapes, or by the architect’s choice of material, like the panels on the facade of the hospital building in his home town Groningen, the Netherlands.
Ard made the building itself the focal point in Blue Lines. No fellow players, just the sky. A setting without context, no season, no people.
The photographer and the viewer – no more.
Ariel University - School of Architecture - Università degli Studi di Firenze - DIDA Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Arkitektværelset
Arkitektværelset consider architecture as a social sculpture. At the office, they focus on how people can get together, interact and socialize. Their contribution to this exhibition is a social sculpture which both explore and raise consciousness on the different conditions of our personal space in relationship to other people and public space.
Associazione Architetti Artisti
The Architect Artists Association’s history is connected with that of Parisian Ligne et Couleur. In 1935, that group had already been set up as a derivation of an association of Architects called Amant de la Nature, which was founded in 1881. In Paris, many architects of several nationalities but linked up by the same course of studies, established among them many contacts leading to the birth of analogous associations in Germany, England, Poland, Scotland, Romania, and Austria. In 1989, in Venice, the Architect Artists Association was born, thanks to the spurs that came from Paris, by a group of architects that were the signatory of the articles of partnership. In the statute, they declared a willingness to join their aims to those of Ligne et Colours.
The new Association should be apolitical and non-partisan; moreover, it would
promote initiatives among the architects endowed with artistic disposition.
These architects would aim at keeping their artistic interest high through expositive
activities and studies which would focus the attention of the Architects and the
community towards the relation the existing in architecture between the technocratic
opinion of the only rational use and the artistic harmony of colour and shape.
Participants:
Gabriello Anselmi, Francesco Boccanera, Daniele De Luca, Bruno Gorgone,
Lucia Lazzarotto, Gianfranco Missaja, Laura Puglisi, Antonio Ruffino,
BarbaraTognon, Daniele Zannin.
Atelier Onoko
“Tucked away among the snow-covered peaks of the Alps and the mists of Lake Geneva, the art atelier “Onoko” and the architectural photography atelier “Think utopia” are the fruit of a duo of dreamers formed by Manon Duparc & François Pain. Both perceiving the image as a dreams factory, they always work and experience the universe of the imagination and of the viewer like a protagonist. Their philosophy involves capturing the moment where the poetry of reality escapes and the atmosphere of a place emanates from a part of the whole.”
ATP architects engineers
ATP architects engineers is, with more than 900 employees, the leading integrated design company in Central Europe and one of the largest worldwide. The company develops integrated solutions for complex building projects. It owes its many years of international experience to the presence of ATP integrated design offices in eleven major European cities – Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Zurich, Moscow, Budapest, and Zagreb – as well as Innsbruck, where the head office is located. ATP’s way of working is based on simultaneous cooperation. It aims to find the perfect balance between aesthetic, functional, and constructional considerations as well as the best possible solution in environmental, economic, and human terms. Building Information Modeling enables all of the specialist members of the team of ATP architects engineers to work as equal partners in a simultaneous and integrated process on an object that is completely created in a digital form before it exists physically. This know- how allows ATP’s architecture to move away from the traditional equilibrium between time, space, and existence: to move from linear relationships towards multi-dimensional ones, which enable sustainability to be cultivated through collaboration, dialogue, and enthusiasm.
Balkrishna Doshi
Bangkok Tokyo Architecture
Established in 2017 by Takahiro Kume and Wtanya Chanvitan, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture is an architectural and design studio that explores their ideas through various scales. Their fascination with the interconnectedness and adaptability of architecture can be understood through varied projects. From residential, to retail to market design, they believe that architecture should be generous and generative. The studio is in constant search for tolerant open-ended structures that embrace diverse possibilities of living.
Banz + Riecks Architekten
Founded in 1994 architects Banz + Riecks are located in Bochum, Germany. The office specializes in creating perspectives and implementing strategies for buildings operated along regenerative lines with a maximum reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Thus focusing on one of the major architectural challenges of our times. The main field of activity of Banz + Riecks is the implementation of commercial and industrial buildings as well as buildings housing cultural institutions, making frequent use of wood as a material, in all cases with the objective of attaining a significant reduction in energy consumption whilst covering residual energy requirements applying regenerative techniques and compensating the annual CO2 balance. The SOLVIS zero emissions factory built in 2001, spread over an effective area of 8,500 square metres and boasting verified primary energy requirements of 0.00 kWh/sqm a, has succeeded in setting international standards. Banz + Riecks acts as a liaison medium, monitoring the planning process linking the architect, structural designer, technical building engineer and client, thus providing an interface function geared to maximum innovative potential.
Barbara Grygutis
Barbara Grygutis uses imagery from the natural world, and architectural elements recognizable from the built environment, to invite dialogue, raise the tempo of questioning, and provoke the personal, offering a human connection. Her artwork evokes the complexities and creativity of the human mind. Grygutis’ work is designed to elicit passion and intense emotion. Shadow patterns cast from elements in the natural environment are a central component of Grygutis’ work. The mind is influenced, perhaps defined, by light and varying qualities of light: reflectivity, glow, glare, glitter, absorption, shadow. Light shapes psychological being. Grygutis considers patterns of light as a passage between public and private. The work invites human interaction with these patterns. Barbara Grygutis has created over eighty public sculptural installations for a wide range of communities. Each work of art is designed for a specific site and situation. From her studio in Tucson, Arizona, Grygutis enjoys the exquisite beauty of the Sonoran desert, which undoubtedly brings unique influences and enhances her approach to the creation of works of art.
BauDoku Berlin - Miriam Otte + Lidia Tirri
The BauDoku Berlin studio is run by two photographers, Lidia Tirri from Sicily and Miriam Otte from Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia). They first met in 2001 in a photography studio in the German Capital where they were completing their apprenticeships as photographers. At the time Lidia and Miriam worked on several common photographic projects. Later they went their separate ways in different countries. In 2017 they met again back in Berlin where they set up the company BauDoku Berlin. The focus of BauDoku Berlin is on the building and construction process. They specialise in un-staged images taken of a space over several months until its transformation is finally compete. Each picture is a document of a special but fleeting moment in time and space. Miriam and Lidia start their work with a precise analysis of a project for a new building or a refurbishment, overbuild, retrofit or change of use class. The duration of their documentary can go from three months to a whole year and it is divided into three stages. During all the time the perspective remains the same. In Palazzo Bembo in Venice they will show the interior of the building project designed by the architects FLACKE+OTTO between 2018 and 2019.
BAUM
Baum is an architectural design practice founded in 2014 based in Fukui, Japan. Daisuke Kishina, president and chief architect, leads the team in the design and realization of various projects. From architectural design to interior design of houses, shops, offices, industries, installation and product design. BAUM believes that inspiration from art, history and culture bears the definition of impactful space. Architecture is not just visual beauty, it is supposed to tell a unique story about the specificity of each site. Rather than complying with a predefined stylistic register, BAUM forges its own language through the strategic usage of volumes and light respecting the heritage. The minimalistic aesthetic of his projects aims to underline the spirit of Japan.
Bethany Springer
Bethany Springer’s installations have been exhibited at venues including 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR, Maryland Art Place (MAP) in Baltimore, Boston Center for the Arts, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Kansas City Artists Coalition, Full Tilt Creative Centre in Newfoundland, Canada, and The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, and LHUCA in Lubbock, TX. Springer is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, an Artist Mini Grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a Community Research Award from the University of Arkansas Community and Family Institute, and a Research Grant from the Center for Digital Technology and Learning at Drake University, Des Moines, IA. Residency opportunities include the Full Tilt Creative Centre and Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, The Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard, Norway, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, ME, and Marble House Project in Dorset, VT.
Image courtesy of Meredith Mashburn Photography, Downtown Springdale Alliance, and Verdant Studio.
Bill Price
Bill Prices career has spanned three decades, during which time he has practiced and produced work in eleven different countries, practicing professionally in Switzerland and in the Netherlands, where he spent four years with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. There he acted as (Re)Search and Development Director and saw the Villa Bordeaux through to completion. Bill has collaborated with Ai Wei Wei in China after which Ai Wei Wei chose Bill’s work to be included in Phaidon's 10x10_3 Monograph. He is the founding principal of three companies in Houston, Texas USA. Bill has taught, lectured, given workshops, and juried work all over the world. Included are MIT, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, SciArc, and PVAMU, where he currently holds the Brown Endowed Chair in Architecture. Wallpaper Magazine chose him as one of the “Ten Who Will Change The Way We Live.” He has been interviewed on National Public Radio for his work on Natural and Cultural Disasters, Next TV, and HGTV for his work on Translucent Concrete, which is included in the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. He has won numerous grants and awards; this includes 1st place with “White Stadium” for the Seoul Design Olympiad which resulted in the design and fabrication of a large inflatable performance hall.
Blurring the Lines
Created in 2016 by Klaus Fruchtnis and Steve Bisson, Blurring the Lines is an international platform of art and design academies and institutes worldwide. The platform counts with the support of Paris College of Art, Urbanautica Institute, FOTODOK, the European Cultural Centre, Fujifilm Italy, and Faservice. The platform’s primary goal is to support photography education, particularly in times in which the educational systems are shifting so rapidly (i.e., formal, informal, non-formal), through three major lines (1) the yearly call with its exhibition and publication, (2) the annual conference, and (3) the different professional and educational actions developed with the partners. In five editions, the platform has received more than 400 project proposals from 38 institutions worldwide; and successfully managed to exhibit the selected works at fotofever and Espace F15 in Paris, at HKU in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the Palazzo Mora at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Blurring the Lines has also contributed to the academic field with two international conferences on photography and education developed in collaboration with its partners; and published three books.
Bjørnådal Arkitektstudio
Bjørnådal Arkitektstudio is a studio located by the Atlantic Road in the northwestern part of Norway. It explores landscape, social-anthropology, materiality, form and sacral spaces. The studio works with projects within the private and public sector and has an artistic approach to each of them. It has won numerous awards and is widely published for its work.
BOIR
BOIR is an award-winning Croatian design studio focused on making products that represent
materiality and process.
The studio was founded in 2018 by an interdisciplinary team: Vlatka Leskovar Zidar, a product
designer, and Ivan Zidar, a designer-turned-chef.
Ivan’s understanding of local ingredients and endless love for culinary experimentation blends with
Vlatka’s ever-evolving exploration of the way how physical objects inspire rituals and incite
memories. Together, they create a unique platform for the development of design concepts.
Bryanoji Design Studio
Bryanoji Design Studio is established by Takako Oji in 2014. Having studied architecture in Japan and worked as an architect in her early career in Tokyo, she soon gravitated towards landscape architecture. Landscape architecture taught her one thing: so long as we try to draw a line between inside and outside, we will never create a satisfying living environment. When was the last time you noticed a change of wind, empty seed pods on grounds, angle of the sky, and brood leaving their nests? Nature still nurtures us. Considerably more gratifying than what 3 hours of Youtubing can bestow. Bryanoji Design Studio tries to capture this “time lag” between the two worlds.
bunq architectes
bunq care, above all, about the site and the people who use or will use a place. The architectural project lays the foundation stones of inhabiting a place, an act that continues long after the construction. Planning a building means defining a place that take shape during the construction process and that will develop with the use and life of the users and inhabitants. This explains the importance bunq give to the act of building, which is the substance of the office work. Therefore, bunq care to keep control of the project during its realization, a way to experiment, learn and exchange with the construction craftsmen. Its buildings express ways of living and ways of building in a specific place. They are inseparables from their context and the time that shapes them. Access to mandates through competitions allows the office to work on new public programs and different contexts. Filmmaker Daphné Bengoa explores the new ways of living and working, and how they impact both individuals and communities. Her work tries to understand how mankind is challenged by the expansion and hardening of urban life. PHD Architect, Frédéric Frank is associate professor of architectural and urban theory at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Western Switzerland in Fribourg.
büro für bauform
The architects‘ practice büro für bauform, that was founded by Jürgen Lehmeier in 2011, regards itself as a
platform for architecture and urban research.
After training as a metal worker, Jürgen Lehmeier studied first interior architecture and design at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and then architecture under the chair of a42.org with Arno Brandlhuber.
He received the title of a master-class student in 2006. Since then, the office has been working together with
various partners on projects primarily associated with social and community issues, especially concerning
the coexistence of individuals, value cycles and the role of mankind in urban nature. Over the last years, the
topic of urban nature, in particular, has led to numerous publications, exhibitions and international awards.
The office is currently researching and working in an interdisciplinary way on projects combining circular
economy-based, sustainable architecture with a renaturalisation of urban spaces.
Caples Jefferson Architects
Caples Jefferson Architects is a design and architecture firm founded in 1987, in New York City, by principals Everardo Jefferson and Sara Caples. For over thirty years the firm has focused on creating works that are drawn from nuanced formal design principles and grounded in social and cultural context – almost all of their work is designed for public and institutional clients, committed to engaging in the needs of the community. Sustainability is crucial to the firm’s design philosophy: projects are built to last, designed carefully with consideration for their long-term footprint.
Their 2016 building for the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn drew wide recognition for its thoughtful, community-focused design. The firm has been honored with numerous national, state, and local design awards in addition to recognition by architectural organizations in New York City. They are currently designing new buildings for The Africa Center in Harlem and the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens.
Caspar Lam & YuJune Park - Synoptic Office
Synoptic Office is an award-winning design consultancy founded by Caspar Lam and YuJune Park. We
work globally with leading cultural, civic, and business organizations to communicate ideas, build
experiences, and cultivate new audiences.
The studio’s mission is to help organizations unlock human stories and reveal connections through
design, language, and information. We believe in the potential for every organization to activate its data
and institutional archives in ways that resonate personally with audiences. By integrating products,
experiences, and spaces with backstage data through thoughtful and beautiful design, organizations can
extend their influence beyond physical walls and communicate in new and meaningful ways.
Synoptic Office has been recognized internationally and selected to participate in BIO23 and BIO26, the Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana and exhibited at the Ningbo Museum of Art in China and the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno.
Catch 5
Catch ***** is a response to the current state of public sculpture and other artworks in the city of Trenčín. At the time they were created, these works were designed as a “humanizing” element of predominantly panel house construction. The post-war period, the second half of the 1960s to the 90s, was a period of strong normalization. Clearly, however, it was the richest period for the creation of public works of art, but in the current political and social situation public access to the works is largely indifferent. Our intention is therefore to alert the public to the presence of these works, to gradually map them all, but also to critically evaluate them and to find a way to continue working with them.
Cellule Studio
Cellule studio is a design studio led by Salomé Bazin envisioning healthcare and technology futures. Combining art direction with emerging technologies. Cellule develops new ways to engage people with healthcare, their own body and data.
Lucy Hardcastle Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice based in London, utilising interactive technologies, 3D visuals and the moving image to tell complex and emotionally resonant stories.
Prof. Pablo Lamata is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow working within the vibrant School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King’s College London. His research focuses on the combination of imaging and computational modeling technologies in cardiology.
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CHIASMA FACTORY Inc. Shingo Tsuji
After graduating from GSAPP, Columbia University (M.S. in Urban Planning) with honors and working for a couple of non-architectural firms in Tokyo, Shingo Tsuji has started his career as a professional architect by founding CHIASMA FACTORY in 2009. With his unique background in multicultural environments (notably his childhood experience in Las Palmas, Spain, and in the United States in his 20s) and interdisciplinary practice (psychology, music, and real estate), he has been passionately involved in many projects in and outside of Japan, regardless of locations, sizes and building types – ranging from architectural design, construction management, real estate development to various educational/research activities.
His recent works include ENISHI RESORT VILLA in Taiwan (won the 1st Prize in ADA Awards for Emerging Architects 2018, a collaborative project with N.Maeda Atelier, A.S.Studio, Kai Architects, and Atelier SHARE), and two major hotel projects in Japan (Dogo Miyu and Dogo hakuro). Regardless of place, size, and programs, his works are characterized by his commitment to the phenomenological understanding of time and space, as well as his awareness of locality, human sensibility, and interactive nature of architecture.
Christine Corday
Christine Corday engages a material-based practice that interrogates the evolving human scale of perception and fundamental forces. Working with temperature, pressure, material states, and elemental metals as well as self-invented media, Corday often collaborates with international scientists and engineering organizations to develop her distinctive forms. Corday’s compositions are materially informed and informing, heightening awareness of perceptual bias as well as broadening sensory engagement with touch and the indexical register of memory on their material surfaces. Other sculptural works explore the intimacy of shared public surfaces in a broad range of scales, and draw from studies in astronomy, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology.
Christoph Hesse Architects
ChristophHesseArchitects was founded in 2008 by Christoph Hesse in Korbach. In 2018, a branch office was set up in Berlin. The practice has won numerous prizes and its projects have been exhibited in several museums and galleries around the world. Currently, the office employs an international team of 15 people. The aim of the office is to create self-sufficient, solidarity-based and identity-forming projects that actively involve users in the design process. In the last ten years, Christoph Hesse Architects worked together with local communities on the realization of visions, which can be subdivided into two categories: system changers and perspective changers. System changers are projects that have the ability to break through prevailing global structures at the local level to transform them fundamentally. “Villa F”, an off-the-grid house in Sauerland, started a collective bottom-up process in which the local people have built an eco-friendly energy network that made entire communities CO2 neutral and independent of the global energy market. Perspective Changers, such as the “Open Mind Places” offer the possibility of changing one’s perspectives. Places where people can step out of everyday life and see the world differently.