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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.

aalto.fi


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.

airlab.sutd.edu.sg


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.

adu.ac.ae
apostoloskyriazis.com


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.

acollective.com.mt


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.

santosprescott.com


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.

adpprentice.com


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.

adrian-parr.com
watershedurbanism.com


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.

puntos.at


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.

akiko-sato.eu


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.

alpexarchitecture.com


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

amalgam.nyc


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.

anahuac.mx


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.

andreasrimpel.de


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.

andreevalley.com


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.

hyperlocalarch.com
temporal.haus


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.

annefloche.dk


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.

aptarchitecture.com


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.

archcoop.am


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.

ardbodewes.com
ardbodewes.nl


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.

arkitektvaerelset.no


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.

architettiartisti.com


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.”

onoko.art
think-utopia.ch


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.

atp.ag


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.

btarchitecture.jp


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.

banz-riecks.de


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.

barbaragrygutis.com


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.

baudokuberlin.de


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.

baum.jp


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.

bethanyspringer.com


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.

sitename.com


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.

blurringthelines.org


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.

barkitekt.no


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.

boir.store


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.

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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.

bunq.ch


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.

bauform.net


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.

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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.

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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.

hlava5.sk


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.

cellule.co.uk
lucyhardcastle.com
cmib.website


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.

chiasma-factory.co.jp


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.

christinecorday.com


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.

christophhesse.eu


Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts

The University of Coburg excels in all fields of applied sciences, including those in humanities, engineering, as well as social and natural sciences. The University is especially well-known in the field of design, with undergraduate courses in architecture, interior design, integrated product design, and civil and structural engineering. It has an established interdisciplinary master’s degree in design, in addition to master’s level courses in preservation of historical monuments, which are offered in cooperation with the University of Bamberg.

The Faculty of Design strives to develop and implement strategies that display and increase the attractiveness of the local historic centers and their environments by working on interdisciplinary projects in close cooperation with the local government and non-government institutions. The goal of these projects is to emphasize and maintain a sense of identity in the architectural and cultural qualities of the existing context. That is why the preservation of buildings and their technical restoration play a major role in these programs. Our curriculum also focuses on sustainable development and expansion, including recycling, upcycling, and reuse of existing buildings and designs.

heritagedesign.de
hs-coburg.de


Columbia University & The Berlage


Cornelia Hammans

Cornelia Hammans has been a sculptor for about 30 years and currently works in Leipzig. She models sculptures which are mostly intended for bronze casting. For several years, her style has been changing from full-body sculptures to dissolving, organic conception of form. The sculptural mass opens up and space is integrated into the object. An exchange discussion is created. The sculpture “Chaotic Harmony” exhibited here, can also be seen in this way. It integrates the space around it and connects time and existence with its lightness. The works of Cornelia Hammans are in public and private collections in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Brazil, Kazakhstan, China and the USA.

cornelia-hammans.de


Cristina Parreño Alonso

Cristina Parreño Alonso is an architect, designer, and educator at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, where her research Transtectonics explores cultural and environmental implications of expanded temporal sensibilities in architectural material practice. Her tectonic translations—material transfers across mediums and temporal scales of technology and geology—embody narratives that are told in the form of essays, exhibitions, and through architectural projects and installations that activate public spaces. She is the director of her eponymous architectural firm and the founder of The Deep Time Project on Climate Change.

Her work has been recently on view at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, and she is one of the architects exhibiting in La Biennale di Venezia 2021: How will we live together? At MIT she runs a series of Option Studios called Igneous Tectonics, rooted in the volcanic landscapes of the planet. These studios start with the premise that instead of being distinct from the environment, we are fundamentally entangled with it and speculate with alternative forms of engagement derived from broader time frames of perception.

cristinaparreno.com


Counterspace


CRU! Architects


Dag Jenssen

Norwegian photographer in the fields of architecture, theatre, commercial photography and art since 2004. Works reguraly for the largest Norwegian Theatre institutions and with some of the country ́s most interesting architects. This is the second Biennale he has attended, the last one was in 2018. The projects displayed in both biennales have been photographed over several days and nights to catch as many lighting variations as possible, and to stay around the subject for extended periods of time is a favorite way of photographing architecture. This particular project changes a lot over the course of a full day and night, and over the seasons of the year, each moment having it ́s own beauty.

dagjen.no


Damaris Betancourt

Damaris Betancourt is a Cuban-Swiss photographer. She was born 1970 in Havana (Cuba) as the daughter of a boxer and a secretary. After two years of study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana, she left to begin a self-taught training in photography. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba fell into a great economic and social depression. As a result, many young people emigrated and the country lost almost an entire generation. At the age of 22 she arrived in Zurich, where she collaborated on several film and journalistic projects related to Cuba, and continued in that way to her visual education. The dialogue with the urban landscape, the research and documentation of the demographic and architectural situation in cities, and the use and interpretation of space are very important in her work. Architecture, as a contemporary document of our history, continues to be at the center of her photography. For more than 20 years, her work has been published in various Swiss media. Today she works and lives with her family in Zurich.

damarisbetancourt.com


Dana Arieli

Dana Arieli was born in Jerusalem (1963) were she lives today. She is a professor of history and a photographer. She completed her PH. D. at the Hebrew University in 1996. Her field of research and creation focuses on the interrelations between Art and Politics in both totalitarian and democratic systems. She studied Photography in Camera Obscura and Bazelel, Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (Partly).

zionist.phantoms.photography


Daniel Winterich

Daniel Winterich’s training in stained glass, painting, and mosaic work began in 1974. Growing up in a family business devoted to the liturgical arts gave him early exposure to art and craftsmanship devoted to religious spaces. During his studies at the University of Cincinnati School of Design, Art, and Architecture, Daniel expanded his education at the German stained glass studio Oidtmann Glasmalerei in 1982 where he apprenticed in glass painting while working with Germany’s leading glass artists. Upon completing his undergraduate design degree, Daniel developed an interest in the integration of art and architecture. This led him to work with three award-winning architectural firms from 1984 to 1994 and become a registered architect. After studies under Johannes Schreiter in 1994, one of Germany’s most renowned glass artists, Daniel launched his own art and architecture practice through Studio Winterich where he pursues large-scale site-specific installations, autonomous artwork, and architectural projects.

winterich.com


David Andréen & Ana Goidea

bioDigital matter are a research lab exploring the intertwined realities of biology, design, and computation. They are architects seeking a radically different future, where principles of self-organization and emergence shape our built environment through cybernetics, organic materiality, and adaptation: the interactive phylogenesis of architecture.

Based at the Department of Architecture at Lund University, one of Scandinavia’s oldest and most multidisciplinary universities, the group pursues collaborations with researchers and students in a multitude of fields and locations. bioDigital matter are here represented by Ana Goidea and David Andréen. They are the joint founders of the research group and share a passion for how a conscious use of technology can change our relationship with the world around us in profound and positive ways.

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David Booth

David Booth is a Fine Artist based in Southport, UK. He is an elected Member of Royal Society of Sculptors and has both national and international collectors. Booth was awarded European Funding to research and explore using future technology to expand his practice. From that research he gained an appreciation of what he wanted to do and how it progresses his work. He is now able to utilise 3D-cad, 3D-printing and 3D-scanning for sculpture projects as appropriate, as in this occasion. Booth often exploits the placement of an artwork, knowing that by responding to the site placement he can imbue the artwork with extra layers with meaning and resonance. ‘‘The Four Horses’’ is Booth’s response to TIME, SPACE and EXISTENCE. Taking inspiration first from The Horses of Saint Mark and the Live Chess Festival of Marostica. Booth sculpted the four knights of a chess game manipulated, distorted, rearing and straining as those of St Marks to represent a battle. In 2021 ‘The Four Horses’ represents that by all coming together, with strategy and ingenuity we can face our battles together and be victorious.

davidboothmrss.com


David Jacobson

David Jacobson’s sculpture, prints, and drawing have been exhibited in the UK, USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and South Africa. His work is represented in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Basler Afrikanischer Bibliotek, the Modena Museum of Art and Castello di Nelson in Sicily. His public commissions include Emergent Property, British Consulate-General and British Council in Hong Kong made for the handover of the colony to China in 1997. ‘’The Pudding Intervention’’ at Cockshaw Burn, a 100-meter long intervention, part of the flood defenses and reinstatement of the river in Hexham Northumberland, with the Environment Agency and Northern Arts. He has won awards for both his sculpture and prints and his work is included in numerous publications. The importance of protecting nature and changing our “bad habits” are topics dear to David; the ideas and reinterpretations that the artist proposes have an ironic flavour, without dramatic or apocalyptic connotations, to better highlight the profound contradictions that represent our age.

davidjacobsonartist.com


David Yepez Studio

David Yepez is an artist and designer based in New York City, and a graduate of the School of Visual Arts. Yepez’s work combines his interests in design and sculpture with astrophysics, mathematics and physical computing, creating dynamic visual and interactive pieces from a diverse range of materials. By continuing to explore within the fields of digital manufacturing, and material experimentation, Yepez’s work utilizes forms which allow a unique combination of disciplines, integrating tradition craft with fine art and mechanical reproduction. Looking forward to the 21st century, art and design will need to better incorporate the integration of technology and interactivity to retain the relevance of the unimaginable object. Yepez’s aim is to create objects that evoke a sense of futurism while being held in the bounds of contemporary technology and reflect on the evolution of material objects over the last century.

davidyepezstudio.com


Davis McCarty

Davis McCarty’s sculptures seamlessly weave shadows of iridescent light into cosmic kaleidoscopes, providing a constantly changing futuristic interaction between the audience and the synchronicity of time. He has built five public art sculptures across America and is a three-time winner of the National Endowment’s 1% for Art award. His sculptures have been featured in The New York Times, ArchitectureDC, and Vogue. His most recent work “Evolve17” redefined the typical Greek column into a space-age light-bending prism. McCarty’s playful designs spark the necessary curiosity and wonder needed to help our generation imagine a brighter future.

davismccarty.com


Delft University of Technology

The Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology is a leading institution in architectural education and research worldwide. The driving force behind the faculty’s success is its robust research profile combined with the passion and creativity of its student body and academic community. It is a place that is buzzing with life from early in the morning until late at night, with four thousand people studying, working, designing, conducting research and acquiring and disseminating knowledge. Academics and students have been working on improving the built environment with the help of a broad set of disciplines, including architectural design, urban planning, building technology, social sciences, process management, and geo-information science. The faculty works closely with other faculties, universities, private parties, and the public sector, and has an extensive network in the Netherlands as well as internationally.

tudelft.nl/en/architecture-and-the-built-environment


DeWitt Godfrey

DeWitt Godfrey is a large-scale sculptor working in Hamilton, NY. His work employs carefully conceived structural processes, combining cutting edge digital technologies with custom craftsmanship, all grounded in empirical knowledge and experimentation. Natural geometries and systems – plant spores, seashells, honeycombs – inspire his sculptures; and through his unique process of packing and stacking of conic and cylindrical steel forms, simple rules give rise to extraordinary complexity. Godfrey completed his undergraduate work at Yale University, was a member of the inaugural group of CORE Fellows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and received his MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Godfrey’s work can be found in private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. His commissioned work includes Capital, in Seattle; Concordia, for Lexarts, Lexington; Quake, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge and Enspire, Traverse City. He is currently working on projects at the Portland International Airport, Portland, Alameda Point, Alameda, and 39th Avenue Greenway, Denver.

dewittgodfrey.com


Doug Edmunds

Edmunds Studios Inc. is a commercial photography studio based in the state of Wisconsin, USA, owned by Doug and Teri Edmunds. Doug specializes in architecture, product, lifestyle and people/portrait photography. Teri is a graphic designer. Clients include architectural firms, Fortune 500 corporations, manufacturers, advertising/design agencies and editorial/marketing publications. The early years were spent in Madison, WI. Eventually they opened a studio in New York City, working with nationally/internationally recognized agencies and publishing houses. After moving back to their native Wisconsin to raise a growing family, they began to collaborate on commercial and fine art projects. After thirty-five years of experience in both arenas they are convinced that beyond delivering a great product, the most rewarding aspect of their business was building relationships. They found striving for excellence and treating people as they’d like to be treated have been essential ingredients to their continued success.

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Douglas Tausik Ryder


DXA Studio

DXA studio is an award-winning design practice that provides a rare balance of expertly crafted design with technical proficiency. Believing in the power of architecture to positively influence the lives of all that engage it, DXA focuses on authenticity, sustainability and innovation in all their projects. Established in 2011, DXA’s expertise spans the full spectrum of design services and project categories including multi-family and single-family residential, commercial, institutional, and hotel design. In-depth research and analysis happen prior to design, identifying opportunities to push boundaries and integrate technological advances in building materials, construction, and sustainable strategies. By capitalizing on these discoveries, the site, program, and unique opportunities of each project, DXA produces creative solutions and distinctive design work that consistently outperforms expectations.

At DXA studio, client projects begin with an open exchange of ideas and full architect-client collaboration. The client’s program and desires, along with the complexities and context of the site are used to create a conceptual framework. From this process, a design of distinctive identity, clarity, and ingenuity is created.

dxastudio.com


e+i studio

e+i studio is an architecture and design practice based in New York City, founded by partners Eva Perez de Vega and Ian Gordon. The work e+i engages examines the built environment’s capacity to contribute affirmatively to the well-being of our human species while also taking non-human life into account. A multi-species approach to architecture is accompanied by an interest in crafting spaces, environments and objects that promote interaction and choreograph movement through carefully sequenced spatial relations. Informed by a background both principals share in movement-related practices, the work of e+i studio emerges from the exploration of the performance of matter and bodies in space. Architecture is thus understood as a material manifestation of choreographed space within the natural environment that sustains it. Eva, a native of Rome with British-Spanish nationality and Ian a native of the Philippines with American-French background, met while in high school in Rome. Spending every possible moment sketching in piazzas and churches these early years had a deep impact on both partners that helped forge a shared passion for design and architecture that Eva and Ian bring to every project the joint practice undertakes.

eistudio.net


Earthasia Design Group (EADG)

Founded in 1981 by British Architect Jon Prescott, EADG is a leading landscape design practice with several decades experience. During the break-neck speed of change in urban development in the Asia-Pacific region, EADG has been integral in shaping urban systems, natural ecologies, and public communities. EADG’s projects are located all over China and they have always been committed to lead new landscape directions and build better urban benchmarks. In 2014, EADG was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code 06128.HK). The head office coordinates firm-wide resources from all offices to form a sharing platform of cutting-edge technology, ideas, and talent. Local branch offices apply international management and operation systems, and now over 500 professionals are working in the fields of planning, design, and management. EADG’s mission is to add value to and extend our client’s core business aspirations. Their work addresses the dynamic balance between natural landscapes and urban communities. EADG strive to identify and grasp the pulse of the times, lead industry trends, and explore trans-boundary idea with the goal of bringing unexpected benefits beyond the initial thinking to clients.

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École Nationale supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille

The chair «Acclimatize post-mining territories » is a pedagogical and research project within the Lille National School of Architecture and Landscape. Taking the term climate in a meteorological sense, but also in a social, ecological and economic sense, acclimatizing post-mining territories implies paying particular attention to existing situations by seeking to grasp their capacity for evolution. Faced with soil and water pollution, energy insecurity, the disappearance of small shops and cafés, the development of mass distribution, the increase in automobile mobility, creative solutions are imagined. Faced with ecological and social challenges, new forms of education, based on the exchange of knowledge between local populations and designers, are being tested. These collaborative practices make it possible to imagine collective uses and to include projects in a social and solidarity-based economy. The objective of each project is to offer proposals adapted to the essential conditions for the life of beings and resources.


Edwin Hamilton

Edwin Hamilton, based in Northern California, has been working with stone as a sculptor and stonemason for 35 years. His work is inspired by the remarkable presence conveyed by ancient architectural stonework on those who encounter it- it seems to tap into a universal human psychic content- particularly when realized on a monumental scale. This presence informs his sculptural work. Over the years he has developed a particular skill set, steeped in the craft of stonemasonry, which has allowed him to capture in sculpture what elicits such a universally powerful experience. His sculptural works are inspired by simple forms found in the natural world, re-imagined in complex assemblages that aspire to be a part of this stone continuum that continues to captivate.

hamiltonstoneworks.com


Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Yale School of Architecture (YSOA) is one of the constituent schools of Yale University and one of the leading architecture schools in the U.S.Exhibit Space, Time, and Experience is based on course Space-Time-Form, which was initiated in 2019 to mark the centennial of the founding of Bauhaus and celebrate the legacy of Josef Albers, who taught at Yale in the 1950s. The now recurring seminar is taught by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Trattie Davies; Pelkonen is an award-winning author, Assistant Dean and Professor at Yale, where Davies, a founding partner at the New York-based DaviesToews Architecture, which was recognized in the 2019 Emerging Voices competition by The Architecture League, serves as a critic. The exhibition is based on the fall 2020 class, which included the following students: Charis Armstrong, Ana Batlle Cabral, Ariel Bintang, Martin Carrillo Bueno, Bobby Chun, Sosa Erhabor, Josh Greene, Jiaming Gu, Luka Pajovic, Abby Reed, and Qizhen Tang. The curatorial team included students Armstrong, Cabral, Erhabor, Green, Pajovic, and Reed.

architecture.yale.edu


Erin Moore - FLOAT

This work is developed by Erin Moore with her research group “FLOAT” in the School of Architecture & Environment at the University of Oregon, USA where Moore is Director of the School of Architecture & Environment, a faculty member in the Department of Architecture and the Environmental Studies Program, and Associate Dean in the College of Design. Recent work addresses the architectural space of fossil fuel transportation, biogenic carbon sequestration, and environmental justice in the context of new materialisms, critical spatial practice, and the environmental humanities. Moore is the designer of the Pipeline Portals–three pavilions installed in protest of a major natural gas pipeline planned for construction across the Pacific Northwest of North America. Research and fabrication assistants: Mike Kwilos, Garrett Leaver, and Heather Tietz.

floatwork.com
archenvironment.uoregon.edu


Estudio Ramos


ETH Zurich - Block Research Group (BRG) Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa Noncrete PTY

ETH Zurich – Block Research Group (BRG)

Established in 2009, the Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich is led by Prof. Dr. Philippe Block and Dr. Tom Van Mele. Research at the BRG focuses on structural analysis of historic masonry vaults, computational form finding, digital fabrication and construction technologies, specialising in unreinforced masonry and concrete shells. Inspired by master builders and learning from the past, the BRG develops novel design and engineering approaches for highly efficient and expressive structural form and proposes and implements new and economical construction paradigms. Addressing the environmental crisis, the group’s research and built prototypes follow the motto “strength through geometry” to reduce embodied carbon emissions and utilise fewer first-use resources. To minimise construction waste, the group develops structurally-informed digital fabrication strategies. The BRG translates its research into practice in both high- and low-tech contexts, confronting varied social, cultural, and geographical conditions. It is committed to sharing its new algorithms and tools through the open-source computational framework COMPAS.

block.arch.ethz.ch

Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries – Republic of South Africa

The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) is mandated to give effect to the right of citizens to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being, and to have the environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations. To this end, the Department provides leadership in environmental management, conservation and protection towards sustainability for the benefit of South Africans and the global community. The Department’s strategic objectives are to: provide leadership, strategic, centralised administration, executive support, corporate services, and facilitate effective cooperative governance, international relations, and environmental education and awareness; promote the development and implementation of an enabling legal regime and licensing/authorisation system to ensure enforcement and compliance with environmental law; promote, manage and provide strategic leadership on oceans and coastal conservation; improve air and atmospheric quality, lead and support, inform, monitor and report efficient and effective international, national and significant provincial and local responses to climate change; ensure the regulation and management of all biodiversity, heritage and conservation matters in a manner that facilitates sustainable economic growth and development; implement expanded public works and green economy projects in the environmental sector; and manage and ensure that chemicals and waste management policies and legislation are implemented and enforced in compliance with chemicals and waste management authorisations, directives and agreements.

environment.gov.za

nonCrete™

There are low-carbon alternatives to the use of conventional concrete for the construction industry which are available, safe and affordable. nonCrete™ was established in 2019 to explore, research and promote low-carbon building materials and design practices through international collaborations and building projects. An emphasis is placed on developing innovative materials and intelligent design systems that significantly reduce the use of cement and steel, optimise context appropriate construction methodologies and rehabilitate natural ecosystems in the process. The objective is to create safer, more dignified, sustainable housing alternatives by creating a market driven demand for the use of more sustainable aggregates and low-cement binders. The creation of local gender-neutral jobs is also a vital component of our work. nonCrete™ looks to create interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborations that further these objectives within the design, architectural and construction sector by co-innovating and co-creating with like-minded people and organisations around the world.

noncrete.com


ETH Zurich - Block Research Group (BRG) & Zaha Hadid Architects - Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE) with incremental3D and Holcim

ETH Zurich – Block Research Group (BRG)

Established in 2009, the Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich is led by Prof. Dr. Philippe Block and Dr. Tom Van Mele. Research at the BRG focuses on structural analysis of historic masonry vaults, computational form finding, digital fabrication and construction technologies, specialising in unreinforced masonry and concrete shells. Inspired by master builders and learning from the past, the BRG develops novel design and engineering approaches for highly efficient and expressive structural form and proposes and implements new and economical construction paradigms. Addressing the environmental crisis, the group’s research and built prototypes follow the motto “strength through geometry” to reduce embodied carbon emissions and utilise fewer first-use resources. To minimise construction waste, the group develops structurally-informed digital fabrication strategies. The BRG translates its research into practice in both high- and low-tech contexts, confronting varied social, cultural, and geographical conditions. It is committed to sharing its new algorithms and tools through the open-source computational framework COMPAS.

block.arch.ethz.ch

Zaha Hadid Architects – Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE)

Founded in 2007 by Patrik Schumacher, Nils Fischer and Shajay Bhooshan, the Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design (ZHACODE) group is a practice-embedded research team focussing on computational geometry and strategic innovations that bridge from disciplinary advances to project-based applications. We explore novel spatial and experiential affordances of new technologies in structure and fabrication-aware geometry creation, robotic fabrication and industrialised construction. We also incorporate these advances into workflows at ZHA to address pressing issues of participatory and sustainable development of the built environment. Our ever-increasing design and project contributions at ZHA are powered by a bespoke computational framework. This framework continues to accrue collaborative and field-tested research spanning computer graphics, digital design, maturing robotic construction technologies, and participatory, end-user-oriented technologies of game engines and web services. Together, our ethos, projects and technologies aim to create an architecture suited for the 21st century – interaction dense, experience-rich, user-focussed and resource-effective.

zaha-hadid.com

incremental3d

Founded in 2017, incremental3d GmbH specializes in the production of individual and complex objects utilizing 3d concrete printing (3DCP). The founding and management team consists of the architects Georg Grasser, Lukas Härtenberger and Johannes Megens. Through years of joint research at the University of Innsbruck they developed digital tools, processes and experience for 3DCP that allowed them to take their knowledge to the market. The team combines creativity and technology to produce high quality concrete objects that push the limits of concrete design. incremental3d collaborated on a number of furniture design commissions and is currently approaching applications in architecture and construction. They are constantly updating processes and tools in order to improve and explore the design potential in additive manufacturing of concrete. A new addition is selective coloring with 3DCP, which allows to dye concrete in various colors and intensities (supported by AWS).

incremental3d.eu

Holcim

As the world’s global leader in building solutions, Holcim is reinventing building to shape a world that is greener and smarter for all. A world that is low-carbon and circular, a world driven by innovation and digitalization, a world that improves quality of life for all. On its way to becoming a net-zero company, Holcim enables carbon-neutral construction with products such as ECOPact green concrete and Susteno, which reuses construction and demolition waste. The company is pioneering the use of technologies, such as 3D printing, to set the next frontier of green building, and more than half of our R&D projects are dedicated to greener solutions. Holcim is committed to improving the quality of life for its communities, to build a world that works for people and the planet.

lafargeholcim.com


ETH Zurich - Digital Building Technologies (DBT)

The Chair of Digital Building Technologies is part of the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich. Professor Benjamin Dillenburger and researchers investigate new building technologies based on the seamless integration of computational design methods, digital fabrication and new materials. Specifically, additive manufacturing strategies in architecture which have the potential to challenge traditional paradigms of construction. The aim is not only to rationalize the fabrication process and improve the quality of buildings, but also to open up radically new design-solutions.

dbt.arch.ethz.ch


Fabio Bascetta

The straight and minimal lines of modern architecture and the clean and unobtrusive spaces of the contemporary interiors are the basis of the architectural photography by Fabio Bascetta. After some years spent in experimentation, which always accompanies the search for his own personal style, he found his form of self-expression in architectural photography. Inspired by structures and environments which are very different from each other, he finds the representation of his artistic research – with the primary objective of depicting stories through his own images, in the play of light and shadows and in a minimal style of “less is more”. In the most representative shots of his works, a story always seems indeed to emerge, a not explicit reference to a story that awaits only its protagonists, but which finds in the portrayed image the environment suitable for its expression.

fabiobascetta.com


Fei Che & Weihan Li - Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

CHE Fei is chief architect and Co-Founder of CU Office focusing on architectural practice in transforming social space and finishing a series of architectural and urban projects on China’s urbanization, urban renewal and rural revitalization during last 10 years. As a scholar on urbanism and architecture, CHE Fei had books pubilshed regularly: Introversion and Extroversion of Space (2019), The Socio-spatial Transition of Beijing – A Fundamental Concept of City Spaceology (2013) and Concussion (2009). Since 2017, CHE Fei has been the deputy dean of the school of arts and design of Beijing institute of fashion technology. He is contributing to education innovation on architecture and design with background of total digital era and developing a new direction: media fabrication. CHE Fei is also the director of the smart environment research center of BIFT guiding a long-term research cooperation with ANCB on the urban renewal project of Berlin TXL airport since 2017.

bift.edu.cn


Felipe Gonzalez Arzac

Felipe Gonzalez Arzac is a young studio, located 15km from the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The studio approaches a small scale, such as housing. At the time of projecting it takes into account essential factors to merge architecture with everyday life. The value of textures as a language is the main idea of the studio, where the temperature of each material composes the living environment. Working on the powerful connection between light and matter, are some of the many key slogans that remain present in all his projects.

felipearzacarquitecto.com


Fortunen Arkitektur As

Fortunen arkitektur AS is a Norwegian architectural company based in the city of Bergen, with national assignments that have gained international recognition and architectural prizes since 1997. The company’s vision is to be exploratory and socially engaged in the making of outstanding, respectful, dignified and sensitive architecture. Architecture of water is a topic Fortunen have consciously been working on for some time. As Venezia is the queen of the Laguna and the Canali, the city of Bergen is the princess of the Norwegian Fjords.

In the presented projects, the wish is to create architecture that act to the water and its different shapes and energy. The architecture should reflect the difference of the water in each situation, over time, over seasons. In that matter, the intention is to make the architecture to perform the reflection of the water and lift it to be a symbiosis of a more existential character.

fortunen.no


Franz Brueck

Franz Brück (born 1981) is an architectural photographer and photographic artist. His mission: To bring buildings around the globe to life and at the same time make the unnoticed visible. He achieves this by exploring the limits of photography, through unusual perspectives and his keen eye for changing lighting moods. Bright sunshine, golden hour or deep night – Brück captures the way the character of urban landscapes is shaped by temporal structures and how buildings help shape everyday urban life.

After his studies at the Lette-Verein-Berlin , his projects “Illuminated Buildings” and “City Lights” were shown in several group exhibitions.”Singapore Colours” is shortlisted for the Vonovia Award for Photography and received recognition at the prestigious European Architectural Photography Prize in 2021. The series has been exhibited at the museum of art Bochum and will next be shown at the German architectural museum in Frankfurt. Franz Brück is a founding member of BV/AV (Federal Association for Architectural Photography).

franzbrueck.com


Frontoffice Tokyo

frontoffice is based in Tokyo and Toronto, and is currently involved with projects in Japan, Europe, and North America. The office grew from the shared interests of 4 PhD students studying architecture and urban planning at the University of Tokyo. With backgrounds in real estate, urban planning and architecture, the group began their professional careers in Japan at offices including Fumihiko Maki and Isozaki Arata before coming together to start frontoffice Tokyo in 2008. Their approach to design is unsurprisingly grounded in research of the city and takes many lessons from a deep study of Tokyo itself. Recognizing that the most significant challenge of our time is to manage massive change, they are focused on developing new ways to live in the city. The architecture and urban plans that emerge from that effort do not conform to a particular style. Creating pragmatic and comfortable places they are interested in architecture that takes advantage of, and builds on, the attributes of its location, whether it is urban, rural, or somewhere in between.

frontofficetokyo.com


Georges Kachaamy, Ph.d.

Dr. Georges Kachaamy is the Director of the Center for Research, Innovation, and Design (CRID) at the School of Architecture, Art, and Design, the American University in Dubai. He has served as the chairperson of the Department of Architecture under which the program has received the NAAB Accreditation. As an academician, Dr. Kachaamy’s research interest relates to future and virtual environments, space planning, design, phenomenological theory in architecture, and evidence-based spatial experiments. He is mostly known for his vision towards a futurist architecture that deals with Gravity Defiant Architecture (GDA).

The Center for Research, Innovation, and Design (CRID) is an explore-imagine-create-learn environment. It’s a think tank that fosters growth in all its forms. It’s essentially a lab where the three main strands; Academia, Private sector, and governmental entities, come together to research, innovate, design, and collaborate in order to generate creative ideas. It is an environment that will serve and reach out to local, regional, and global communities and will be a place for professionals outside the AUD campus to continue their education. Its mission of becoming the premier platform in Dubai that delivers high standards research, innovation, and design in the field of Architecture, Interior Design, and Visual Communication parallels AUD’s remarkable mission of fostering different perspectives, diversity, excellence, success, and advancement.

georgeskachaamy.com
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Gherardi Architetti

Edoardo Gherardi was born in 1973 and graduated with honor in 1999 at the University of Architecture of Venice. He established Gherardiarchitetti in 2000. He won the third prize in the International Competition Young&Design 2006 and 2007, the Iconic Award 2017 and 2020, the German Design Award 2018 and 2020, a honorable mention in The Plan Award 2019 and the InArchitettura Prize 2020. He was selected for the Compasso d’Oro Award in 2018. He is art director of many companies in the furniture sector. The office works in many fields: urban and architectural design, interior design, industrial design and ship design. It has followed the setting-up of the major art exhibitions in the last decade in Italy and currently is following over 80 projects in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Middle East and all over the world.

Gherardiarchitetti conceives the project like a complex entity, made up of many aspects. Each of these is managed by an international and specialized team, included architects, graphic designers and others technicians, who are able to coordinate in a unified project. The multiplicity of the projects is undertaken with the same approach, whether it is small or large scale: attention to detail, environmental quality, architectural quality.

gherardiarchitetti.it


GRADE New York

GRADE New York is an award-winning residential design firm led by Thomas Hickey and Edward Yedid. GRADE was founded in 2004 based on a uniquely holistic design approach and shared vision for what sophisticated living should be—ordered, inviting, artful and enduring. The firm’s process is rooted in the belief that integrating architecture and interior design from the outset produces the most beautiful, balanced, and cohesive solutions; and it is their obsession with creating beauty through contemporary living spaces that inspires and drives the practice. Each project is grounded in historical precedent and informed by global perspectives acquired through travel, art and culture coupled with the expertise of an established team of designers, suppliers, artists and galleries. Through these collaborations, individual needs, desires and aspirations are seamlessly translated into sophisticated, materially sensuous environments.

gradenewyork.com


Greenskins Lab - University of British Columbia School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture

Founded by Professor Daniel Roehr in 2007, Greenskins Lab is international group of researchers based at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Vancouver, Canada. The lab disseminates information on urban design retrofits and new approaches that improve the ecological functions of public urban open spaces. The lab’s mission is to monitor and advocate the holistic environmental performance of Low Impact Development (LID) in cities. The lab works globally, especially in North America, Europe and Asia. Current research focuses on the development of an internationally useable LID application.

blogs.ubc.ca/greenskinslab


Happycheap Architecture - Tommy Carlsson

Tommy Carlsson architecture started in 2007.
In 2011 Happycheap started as a postmaster thesis at the royal college of art and was then realized as a prototype building system.

Each project starts with an assessment of resources in collaboration with the client. The concrete surroundings, historic and cultural heritage and economy. Within those conditions, the aim is to make architecture that affects, both in a direct visual artistic way and in a sense trying to push the boundaries for what each project can do. Material, space, use and light are basic needs. The right combination of these qualities creates lasting architecture. But still, the terms for the project like its financing, its social status, its history or expected role in society are as crucial. So Before an idea materializes it must be thought right and be clearly.

Happycheap developed out of the local prerequisites in Sweden and are building cheap housing without compromising regarding architecture. But the need for architecture that can change and evolve the conditions for housing to include the usual excluded is needed all over the world. Socioeconomic hinders are an international wealth problem. If architects would use their interdisciplinary capabilities many of society’s housing problems could be solved.

tommycarlssonarkitektur.se


Harvard University Graduate School of Design - REAL - Responsive Environments & Artifacts Lab


Helene Høyer Mikkelsen


Hélène Jacubowitz

Hélène Jacubowitz’s favourite mode of expression is abstract figurative bronze, all in feminine curves, allowing the spectator to use their own imagination and life experience. At the end giving them a privileged personal artwork to admire with acquired freedom that gives a fourth dimension to my sculptures. The curves, the rounds, the lines, the curls leave room for the imagination and the dream. ”The woman” is a central figure in her work, very receptive to her surroundings she has the power and strength to express feelings. This allows to promote an emotional bridge between people of various origins, philosophies, religions, ethnicities, etc. Presenting a monumental sculpture, she would like to point out the importance of integration of art in architecture by quoting the late Professor Marcel van Jole (AICA) “..It is primordially important to put that the way the viewers experience both architecture and the fine arts is largely determined by the space in which they are situated, this also determines the way of experiencing their sensations. The truly integrated work of art must be closely linked to the spirit, the style of the architecture and must be part of it by its function.

Hélène Jacubowitz created life-size sculptures which have been integrated into existing or new architectural structures. Thus her sculptures increased the aesthetics of the building, the complex or the site and gave it a new value. A well-integrated sculpture will give relief and life to its environment.

helenejacubowitz.com


Henriquez Partners Architects

Henriquez Partners is a Vancouver-based architectural studio that designs complex mixed-use projects that aspire to integrate poetics and ethics to create inclusive communities. Our mission is grounded in the optimistic belief that architects have a meaningful role in the creation of citizen cities. They have mastered the development process to actively lobby for densification to balance the necessary transfer of equity towards socially valuable objectives. To some within the architectural community, this may appear as participating in the profane world of development; however, Henriquez acts as a bridge where public works are underfunded and require the creativity of private partnerships. In this role as impartial navigator, the architect within the process of complex rezonings supports the development community to achieve their financial objectives in tandem with meaningful public benefit. To share their experience and to encourage meaningful dialogue, they have published four books that articulate a new role for the 21st century architect in building cities where all belong: GHETTO: Sanctuary for Sale (2021), Citizen City (2016), Body Heat: The Story of the Woodward’s Redevelopment (2010) and Towards an Ethical Architecture (2006).

henriquezpartners.com


Herbert W.H. Hundrich

Hundrich is a freelance artist: sculptor, painter, photographer, filmmaker, choreographer, author of artist books, performance and installation artist. "It is the necessity that determines what happens. It doesn’t matter whether the issues are artistic, cultural-political or social based. He has worked and lived as an artist in Germany, France and Spain, traveled to countries in Asia and America. Not as a tourist, but to experience the country intensively in temporary settlement and to be artistically active. Inner and outer world are in direct, also colorful communication, high light permeability and light sensitivity with the greatest possible stability and lightness. On these bases Hundrich has developed and realized completely new exhibition possibilities, space conquests. As Hundrich’s next component, the light. From colored descriptions of space, lines and signs are set. With light, sculptures are built or drawn, his kneeling, Black life matters 2020; as a figural light installation and as a light-written sentence, his current project: the ocean begins under your feet from 2019, which is now being realized for this exhibition in Venice.

hundrich.de


Hidemi Nishida

Hidemi Nishida studied Spatial Design in Sapporo and obtained a Masters of Fine Art at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. His architectural background brings together functional making with an interest in intimate transformations of our environment. Nishida questions our milieu, deconstructing and adapting existing structures or materials or even whole landscapes in order to refresh our view of the world. His structures create a presence but are also ephemeral, often using reclaimed or found materials to create a bricolage of references to place, time, and memory.
Nishida’s work has been exhibited at Nakanojo Biennale 2019, Nakanojo (2019); By the mountain path, London (2015); Ung. Lovende, Moss (2014); 10th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju (2014); Sapporo International Art Festival 2014, Sapporo (2014), etc. He has been selected to Fellowship for Young Artists Cultivation Program by Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan in 2015; Delfina Foundation Artist Residency Program Winter 2017 by Delfina Foundation in 2017; Bamboo Curtain Studio Artist Residency Program Summer 2018 by Bamboo Curtain Studio; Over Sea Researcher Program 2018 by Pola Art Foundation in 2018.

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Hofrichter-Ritter Architekten - ÖWG Wohnbau

Hofrichter-Ritter Architects is an architectural firm founded by Veronika Hofrichter-Ritter and Gernot Ritter in 2003 in Graz, Austria. In the awareness that every building exists for a long time, the way the office works is based on a sensitive examination of the location and the respective use, which is worked out and implemented intensively with the client. Overlaid with an appropriate architectural gesture and the composition of the outside space, interior and lighting, this creates places of “spatial synergy”. In addition to specializing in religious buildings, the office also works in residential, sports and office buildings.

Our project fort the biennale, Flexliving, is a platform and an open process. The ideas are boundless, with space for whatever is needed. One goal in developing the system, a project involving experts from different disciplines headed by the ÖWG Wohnbau and Hofrichter-Ritter Architekten from Graz, is to intensify input and further evolve the system.

hofrichter-ritter.at
oewg.at


How do we Live? - Johanna Muszbek & Jocelyn Froimovich

How do we Live? is a housing research group, based in the Liverpool Architecture School, founded by Johanna Muszbek and Jocelyn Froimovich in 2015. The group leads a series of research and pedagogic programmes in urban housing, finding different forms in teaching, exhibits, publications and events. The project aims to negotiate the practical, theoretical and speculative aspects of housing design. The attempt is to bridge through design between the conceptual and technical challenges, rethinking housing for future urbanities.

How do we live? London, Santiago, Shanghai-Suzhou looks at the current housing production in three different metropolitan contexts. The research has been carried in collaboration with University of Liverpool, Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China through a series of international housing workshops and symposiums that investigate housing typologies. Johanna and Jocelyn´s current project, How do we live Now?, Housing Performance During Lockdown and Beyond examines how Covid-19 lockdown measures have impacted the use of our homes and will challenge our living and working conditions for the future.
The research produced in the last six years by How do we Live? has prompted awareness and critical thinking towards housing design. Its future outcome is the launching of a MSc. programme on Global Housing Design at the Liverpool Architecture School in collaboration with Universidad Católica de Chile.

howdowelive.com


Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Built Heritage Research Centre, School of Architecture and Urban Planning HUST Huazhong University of Science and Technology has established the Built Heritage Research Centre as a research platform and academic community based on the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, in conjunction with the School of Humanities, the School of Social Sciences, the School of Economics and the School of Journalism and Information Communication, through the intersection of disciplines and the combination of industry, academia and research.

The program is dedicated to building heritage and excellent traditional culture, and to achieving important results in the areas of research and interpretation, education and popularization, conservation and heritage transmission, innovation and development, and dissemination and exchange. It focuses on the built environment of small towns and villages, their conservation and development, and explores the characteristics of rural cultural heritage from the human and social perspectives of rural economy, culture, population, as well as daily life space and lifestyle, with a focus on value, and through conservation and adaptive reuse, to achieve value gain and sustainable development of the countryside by making the past new. The working team serves national development strategies such as precise poverty alleviation, rural construction and the regeneration of historic districts, and carries out a large number of practices based on extensive social research and in-depth studies, winning commendations from the Ministry of Education as well as awards such as the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Conservation Award and national and international awards for planning and architectural design.

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ISTUDIO Architects & Virginia Tech WAAC

The ISTUDIO X WAAC team is a collaboration of practitioners and students built on a long-standing relationship between ISTUDIO Architects and the Virginia Tech Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC).

ISTUDIO Architects is a mission-driven practice dedicated to creating artful, sustainable communities. The firm has received international acclaim for bold work that redefines design excellence in the service of climate action.

The WAAC is a student-centered, design-focused urban lab that views the city as the locus of imaginative exploration and critical reflection on the human condition in the built environment. Since 1980, the WAAC has served as an urban extension of the Virginia Tech’s internationally-renowned School of Architecture + Design.

For the last 20 years ISTUDIO Principal and Founder Rick Harlan Schneider, FAIA, and WAAC Director Susan Piedmont-Palladino have addressed issues facing America’s capital city with a new vision of Washington DC in its third century. Award-winning work has been featured in the Washington Post and the History Channel City of the Future program.

istudioarchitects.com


iVY Design Associates

Founded by Roberto Viola Ochoa and Junko Yamamoto, iVY Design Associates strives to produce work that thoughtfully responds to the idiosyncrasies of each project. With their unique backgrounds and experiences in art and architecture, iVY engages in theoretical practice and rigorous research as an indispensable component of projects, ranging from small-scale furniture design to large-scale urban planning. Roberto, originally from Argentina, educated in Spain and the US, brings experiences working on projects in various countries, including Lebanon, Egypt, Abu Dhabi, Greece, Croatia, India, China, Korea, Mexico, Canada, Chile, Guatemala, and the US. He teaches architecture at Roger Williams University in the US and UNIS in Guatemala.

Junko, originally from Japan, educated in her home country and the US, brings experiences working as an artist and architect in Japan, Ghana, and the US. While practicing as an architect and teaches architecture at Boston Architectural College, she explores her theoretical inquiries in artworks and spatial installations and exhibits internationally. Combining the two unique voices, iVY enhances its practice with the cultural diversities and intellectual curiosities from the realms of academia and practice.

ivydesign.associates


James Bernardo Cinquemani

James Cinquemani is a unique maker. He has a background in art, craft, and design development with a strong sense of how things of metal can be produced. Very early James worked with his father who taught him the intricacies of precision metal machining. In his late teens he worked as a sculptor’s apprentice gaining more skills while working with a wider range of processes and materials. With that early background, James has devoted a career employing old world methods while incorporating new world technologies in the creation of special items made of metal. The processes, may involve cutting, machining, welding, brazing, hot-forging. James has frequently collaborated with architects and designers actualizing their concepts for homes, churches, and civic spaces.

He also has the respect of many artists who come to him as a consultant or fabricator of their small to large projects. Jim’s greatest strength may lie in his understanding of the limits and potentials of different metals and processes. This knowledge is an indispensable resource when working with clients. Along the way, James has also had the opportunity to design and produce many of his own one-of-a-kind utilitarian items.

metalscraftsman.com


Jim Nickel

Jim Nickel was raised in Chicago and resides in New York City. He has a BA in philosophy and later earned an MFA in sculpture at Columbia University,1986. As a studio assistant for the Hungarian artist, Ernö Koch, he enlarged welded sculpture. After Koch’s death, he produced large geometric paintings, black and white photography, etchings, sculpture, and outdoor works.

Nickel has long recognized the power of the diagonal black and white slashes in the landscape. He found this “Venture” language ubiquitous, in cautionary urban signage, billboard imperatives, law enforcement commands, and attention-getting logos. He found implications for binary thinking and polarized relationships in contemporary times – a regimenting force in society, even in piano keys.
Nickel paints a black and white skein on rough hewn slabs of wood, sometimes a bar or QR code, makes precise saw cuts, and reorganizes the given material in a carefully planned reassembly, losing only sawdust. The black and white areas randomizes in the process. His New Venture Series merges process with the Venture Language, which achieves definition only after the work assumes its final form.

jim-nickel.com


JJRR/ARQUITECTURA

Time, space and existence is very close to jjrr/arquitectura studio’s philosophy because it is always thinking in considering the place, the context and time in which they will be designing their projects. One of the most important aspects is respecting what is happening around, trying to provide an adequate architectural proposal.
Consequently, the studio takes into consideration all these factors and the exposition’s theme is in accordance with jjrr/arquitectura philosophy.
Actually, the studio statement is “analyze and listen to the site, context and time; they will tell you what to do”.
jjrr/arquitectura also thinks that the architecture speaks by itself, so the studio believes it does not need to be explained; architecture can be felt, seen, and touched so everyone can have their own personal opinion of each place.

jjrrarquitectura.com


Joe Osae-Addo - ArchiAfrika Pavillion


John Marx, AIA

John Marx AIA is the Chief Artistic Officer of San Francisco based Form4 Architecture.
In early 2021 he was awarded the James Gates Percival International Prize for Literature. The award was primarily based on his new book “Etudes: The Poetry of Dreams”. The work displayed in this exhibit comes from that book. Marx was especially touched by the narrative from the Prize Committee which elucidated the powerful relationships between architecture and poetry along with the concept of the Poet-Architect.
Ultimately Marx’s intention is to create buildings that achieve an emotional resonance and clarity akin to that of poetry. This requires an emotional and formal richness matched with the rigor and discipline that poetry aspires to. Something that has all too often gone missing in architecture over the last 50 years. This award validates this connection and provides another base from which to advocate for a change in the way Architects design buildings and spaces that will seek to return a sense of humanity to the “Second Century of Modernism” in architecture.

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Julia Rutherfoord Architect

Julia Rutherfoord Architect studio is located in the sub-tropical coastal region of Salt Rock, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. The studio practice aims to design contemporary homes using sustainable means. We take It upon ourselves to be responsible innovators, striving to create spaces that promote sustainability using locally sourced, sustainably farmed materials, materials that can be recycled. Creatively we endeavour to create original buildings by designing a home that tells the story of the people who occupy it, this together with the story of how the building responds to its context. The story of a home creates an authentic experience for the client- making the extraordinary out of the ordinary. Our designs are the culminative spirit of the story of their occupants and context.

JRA completed university in South Africa then studied at the Journeyman in Budapest, Hungary. A movement following anthroposophy and Steiner philosophy. In light of an oppressive context, it developed to celebrate the creative spirit and to nurture it in design together with respect for nature, craftsmanship, place and metaphor.

rutherfoordarchitect.co.za


Julian Abrams

Specialising in interiors and architecture Julian Abrams has worked as professional photographer for over 20 years, developing a unique ability to balance creativity and commerce. This has led to long-term collaborations with many of the world’s most successful designers, artists and innovative brands including Nike, Airbnb, Punchdrunk Theatre, The Saatchi Gallery, Bulgari, Swatch and Alexander McQueen a long with a host of internationally recognised interiors designers and property developers . Julian has also worked extensively for Artangel alongside a stable of globally renowned artists and has himself exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Some of the work from this book will be featuring at the Venice Architectural Biennale in the summer of 2021.

A BA(Hons) graduate from the West Surrey College of Art and Design, he worked in the music and fashion industries before focusing on the architectural and it was through this that he developed the style he is now renowned for and the seductive imagery that appeals to the visually literate across many disciplines. A passion for light – that evolved from both a love of perceptual art and from shooting the hidden light of nocturnal landscapes (as well a deep love of live music) – is combined with the graphic sensibility that informs much of his work. His development of labour intensive post-production techniques have enabled him to effectively control both available daylight and electric light and seamlessly blend them to create naturally stylised imagery.

julianabrams.co.uk


Júlio Caseiro Arquitectura

Júlio Caseiro is a Portuguese senior architect, teacher, painter, and CEO at Júlio Caseiro – Arquitectura Lda, with twenty years of professional work. For him, a good architect needs to understand the others, himself, the place, the materials, the technology and always strive to improve his own work. As such, he has submitted different projects to this exhibition, which are related to the concepts of “Space”, “Time”, and “Existence”. What was selected was a residence, new and sustainable construction with a prefabrication mode made of wood, a building housing under an efficient rehabilitation of an important and singular memorial example of architecture in the cultural and social world of an historical village such as Arouca, in front of Arouca Monastery and, finally, an example of architecture where the masterpiece is the domain of the light and the nature’s value of a valley.

One of his life quotes is: Remember, work hard, control the material and the light, respect and “feel” the environment and always try to create something you are proud of.

juliocaseiroarquitectura.com


Kamakura Design - Sekkei Kobo

Kamakura Design Studio Co., Ltd. was established in Kamakura, Japan in 1981. Founder Yukimitsu Fujimoto has been working to preserve and revitalize traditional Japanese homes from his student days to the present. In doing so, he discovered that reimagining older works in modern, present-day contexts can often reveal new futures.
Fujimoto has a particular fondness for bengara, a red pigment offering the strength, simplicity, energy and color found in earthenware from Japan’s Jomon period approximately 10,000 years ago. The dark, nearly black hue created by mixing bengara with black sumi ink lends the beauty of shadows to architectural works.
Through their designs featuring bare wood and natural materials appreciated just as they are, Kamakura Design Studio Co., Ltd. strives to highlight the history of these remarkable traditional materials in today’s Japanese architecture.

kamakobo.com


Karen McCoy

Karen McCoy, is a visual artist who prefers working in the natural environment with indigenous materials or taking participants on creatively designed walks. Exploring how we experience by amplifying and intensifying ordinary phenomena, her subjects are there for everyone to see, but so woven into the fabric of the everyday they are not usually noticed. Through her work McCoy seeks to encourage an aware state of being; she supports the effort of understanding how things interconnect to make the world work by slowing our pace enough to make sense of complexity. At present her concern for planetary distress is growing. McCoy feels compelled to make work that vividly addresses the ecological destruction of our home as it pragmatically models positive responses to what humanity faces. After receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, McCoy taught at Williams College and Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been shown in the U.S., Europe and Asia and is featured in publications such as The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field; Ways to Wander: Walking, Somatics, Movement; Gardens Without Boundaries; Earthworks and Beyond; The New York Times; Sculpture Magazine and The Land Report.

karen-mccoy.com


Katherine Jackson

Katherine Jackson is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has long been exhibited in numerous galleries in New York, elsewhere in the U.S, Berlin and Rome. In addition, she is often invited to create large scale installations and exhibitions in public spaces. From her early days as a painter, she has been fascinated by light, and eventually developed her distinctive medium of etched glass, edge-lit with LEDs. As she learned more about LED technology, she gravitated to RGB LED’s, her layered etched glass panels vibrating with color. This has been the medium of her public art and she has loved lighting up the streets of New York with windows installations.

Recently, she has been casting colored glass oil cans, setting them on lightboxes so that they seem to glow from within. She has cast over 90 pieces, no two alike, creating installations that vary in size from around 60 pieces, to a single oil can. The work is called Little Oil, an allusion to Big Oil, as Jackson is passionate about the climate crisis. But “oil” can mean many things, and her goal is that these pieces enact a kind of transformation – from their origin as (often greasy) metal oil cans to glowing objects, speaking to viewers in multiple ways.

katherinejackson.com


Kathryn Dean - Dean/Wolf Architects

About New York City-based Dean/Wolf Architects have been praised for their uncanny ability to turn architectural constraints into powerful generators of form. Kathryn Dean and her office have completed residential and institutional projects at a variety of scales. The office uses architectural design to reinforce the identities of individuals and institutions — supporting a rich dialogue between buildings, their users, and the environments they inhabit. Through constructive collaborations with clients, agencies, consultants, and builders, Dean/Wolf has a reputation for providing unique transformational designs. All of these projects are distinguished by a highly thought-provoking manipulation of light and space. The firm’s award-winning loft interiors are small-scale wonders precisely crafted from sensual materials such as concrete, steel, maple, and glass. Dean/Wolf activates these highly resonant materials with deliberately focused light in order to dissolve boundaries of interior and exterior space. For Dean/Wolf, this requires not only a consideration of physical space, but also a psychological engagement between the client’s mind and the space they inhabit.

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Keely Macarow, Neal Haslem & Marcus Knutagård

Keely Macarow (School of Art, RMIT University), Neal Haslem (School of Design, RMIT University) and Marcus Knutagård (School of Social Work, Lund University) have explored the notion of Homefullness through exhibitions, symposia, events and publications in Australia and Sweden since 2012. Keely, Neal and Marcus combine social practice, participatory design and housing activism to advocate for Cities of Homefullness (cities of welcome, care, opportunity and housing for all) and for social and climate justice. Keely Macarow also works on creative care projects with art, design and health colleagues which are presented in exhibition, performative events and publications. Neal Haslem’s practice-led design research investigates the conjunction of communication design and intersubjective action through projects, writing, teaching and discourse. Marcus Knutagård is a leading advocate for Housing First in Nordic countries.

homefullness.net


Keng-Fu Lo - Chain10

Ken Lo is a well-known architect operating a boutique firm in the south of Taiwan. While having no formal training in architecture, he has managed to assemble many projects that have won numerous awards. Most recently he has received an award for The International Architecture Awards 2020 and IIDA Global Excellence Awards 2020. His projects are all energy-saving green buildings: they ensure adequate ventilation and airflow to minimize the need for extra cooling. Within a building, the interweaving of natural light and artificial light provides a sense of stability in the indoor environment. His relationship with the green environment, architecture and interior space are all presented in his work. This bears similarities between people, life and living space. The thread of nature is something that he has held dear throughout his life and is something he hopes to carry forward into the future.

chain10.com


Kirstine Mengel

Kirstine Mengel is an award-winning Danish architectural photographer specializing in creating space and capturing the lines in architecture, art and design. Her photographic style is influenced by visual calmness and purity, light and minimalism. Through the space she creates in her photos she tells a visual story; striving to generate visual calmness and sense of space. Her eye for minimalism makes her perpetually strive for calmness in each image. She is intensely fascinated by photographing architecture: to visualise architecture and to collaborate with architects and architectural practices. To her, architecture is immensely interesting and highly important to all of us. She is not an architect, but a professionally trained photographer with 20 years of experience. This sparks curiosity towards architecture, and, in the best possible way, provides her with what she likes to call a regard on architecture emerging from the outside of the field. This curiosity is also the reason why she has obtained a fine-tuned sense of the particular DNA of the different practices she works with and each building, she portrays in her work.

kirstinemengel.dk


Korea National University of Arts

Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) is a higher education institution in Seoul that encompasses every aspect of the arts including architecture. Accredited by the Korean Architectural Accrediting Board and validated by the Royal Institute of British Architects, Department of Architecture offers 5-year course composed of strong theoretical foundation and practical theory education with unique studio systems. The Design Studio focuses on a different theme each year to discover new perspectives on architectural environments whereas the New Media Studio helps students expressing their unlocked ideas in the language of architectural design.

As affiliated to an art school, K-Arts’ Department of Architecture highlights a creative aspects of the field, encouraging students to explore spatial, social, and urban potentials of architecture with intellectual curiosity. Students are equipped with a depth and breadth of education in architectural design, interior, environmental design, residential planning, and city planning. In this project, they developed sensitive approaches to the complex context of Seoul, re-defining its urbanity in a new relationship between constructed and natural environments for a better way of living in future.

karts.ac.kr/en/


LASALLE College of the Arts

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, School of Fashion presents The Deconstructed Zone, a project by Kelvin Ng Choon Hean. The project situates itself between the parallels of art, fashion, and design – Exploring the impact and boundaries that are spurred through current debates about sustainability and exclusivity. Highlighting themes that are pervading contemporary youths such as mental health and identity, the debut collection is a playful riff on Exquisite Corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver, a method through which a collection of words, images, and textures of clothing are redistributed and recontextualized as a form of inquiry into the state of the modern world.

The clothing and images highlight the aberrant beauty in flaws, giving precedence to garments that are spliced, restitched and deconstructed. Injecting a more sustainable take on the art form, the clothes are specially reconstituted from existing materials of various resources. The mixed-print pieces not only represent the fractured nature of the mind but also catered to the multihyphenate generation where limit is endless.

lasalle.edu.sg/schools/school-fashion


Krystel Ann Art Gallery


Lebanese American University

The School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University is a progressive school, serving the country and the region, bringing together a diversity of programs under one roof. The School offers bachelor degrees in architecture, fine arts, interior design, graphic design, and fashion design, and a master’s degree in Islamic Art.

The School promotes a design culture that is creative and experimental, involving students in various international activities and workshops. It is engaged in active collaborations with other schools in the Arab World, Europe and the United States. The Bachelor of Architecture program at LAU is the only NAAB accredited degree in Lebanon.

sard.lau.edu.lb


Lesley Richmond

Lesley Richmond was born in Cornwall, England and received her art teacher training in London. She obtained her MEd in the USA and developed and taught the Surface Design program at Capilano University, BC for 30 years, while continuing her practice as a studio artist. Lesley now works full time in her studio. Natural forms and textures inspire her. She has always enjoyed the processes of surface design techniques and the countless possibilities of their different combinations. Her artwork suggests organic structures and surfaces made by changing the structure of the fabric, rather than imposing a design on the surface of the cloth. She uses distressing techniques and chemical processes to change the surface structure of the fibre into an illusion of organic growth and decay.

Lesley photographs trees, focusing on the intricacy of their branching structures and then prints these images on cloth, using a medium that creates a dimensional surface. She then eliminates selected background areas, leaving the structural images of trees as the dominant feature. The images are then painted with metal patinas, dyes and pigments and strengthened with kozo fibre. Lesley has work in collections in Canada, USA, UK, Japan, Poland, Gabon and Korea.

lesleyrichmond.com


LOD - Laliving and Opr Design

LOD was founded as an architectural experimental laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between form and function, architecture and urbanism, economics and sustainability. It creates an open platform for developing new ideas and designs through innovations and collaborations across different disciplines. Committed to the cultural inheritance and innovation, they explore and attempt to a breakthrough in spatial design, structure and materials.
LOD design team is based in Barcelona Spain, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, providing a full spectrum of design consultation services including branding, master planning, architectural and interiors design and visual identity system. LOD is committed to designing far beyond the known limits. They are convinced of the benefits of integrating architecture, science and art to overcome the current shortcomings. Their aim has always been to explore the relationship between form and feelings and for many years they have done extensive research in morphogenesis and emotional response.

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London South Bank University


Louise Braverman Architect

Practicing locally and globally Louise Braverman Architect is an internationally acclaimed studio that is committed to designing architecture of art + conscience. Founded by Louise Braverman, a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the aesthetically driven practice has taken a leadership role as an early advocate of inventive architecture that is situated in its time, place and culture. Working with diverse populations, the firm takes on the challenge to innovate, always searching for impactful design excellence in the context of amplified sustainability and community engagement. Recent projects that embrace distinct populations include Centro de Arts Nadir Afonso, an art museum in Portugal that encourages public participation with art; the Derfner Museum, an art museum in New York that facilitates multi-generational engagement and Village Health Works Staff Housing, an off-the-grid dormitory in post-genocide Burundi. The studio has won numerous design awards resulting in inclusion in Phaidon’s pivotal book, Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, and multiple invitations to present at the Venice Biennale, both at the USA Pavilion and the Time Space Existence exhibit.

louisebravermanarch.com


LOVE architecture and urbanism

“To make a long story short: we love to do the things we do – that’s the reason why we are called this way, namely LOVE architecture and urbanism. Our name represents our passion for Architecture. Challenging tasks are our motivation – we like solving problems; we analyse and develop ideas, design, plan, construct, integrate, build and create ambience, accessible form and places. Meanwhile, we have already created these kinds of places on several spots on the map.“

L O V E architecture & urbanism was founded in Graz (Austria) in 1997 and is being managed by three associates (Mark Jenewein, Herwig Kleinhapl, Bernhard Schönherr). Since its foundation, the team is heavily engaged in developing and realizing intelligent and innovative solutions for architectural and urban concepts. The team has already realized projects in Austria, Japan, USA, South Korea and has been invited to take part in international competitions as well as Exhibitions (i.e. Biennale Venice 2004, Sculptural architecture in Austria – China 2006, Arch Moscow 2014) and lectures

love-home.com


Lucila Aguilar Arquitectos

Lucila Aguilar Arquitectos is a firm in Mexico City that strives to serve the earth through an architecture that inspires others to dream and innovate in order to achieve a socially conscious and sustainable future. It aims to find balance and harmony with nature through designs that use bamboo as a structure; understanding its capability to integrate into the natural cycles, taking advantage of the strength, lightness and flexibility of this incredible renewable material. Through the work of Lucila Aguilar, founding partner and architect, the firm has positioned itself as a pioneer in bamboo architecture in Mexico.

Lucila Aguilar founded the firm in 2016. Since then, the firm has received recognitions such as an Honorific Mention in the XIV Mexican Architecture Biennial and in the 2020 Chapultepec Ethnobotanical Garden Contest. It was invited to participate in the 2019 Biennial in La Habana, the 2021 Biennial in Venice and to exhibit at INK Talk India 2020 as well as to design the Pavilion for Design Week Mexico 2020. Aguilar aspires to demonstrate with creativity and innovation that natural materials and artisan processes can be the solution for a promising future.

lucilaaguilar.com


Magda Mostafa

As an architect, educator, researcher and advocate, Mostafa believes in the power of design- a power which can be celebrated and embraced to facilitate and uplift the lives of others; or abused and ignored to exclude and disable those that fall outside the normative hegemony of design standards.
With this comes a responsibility to expand our definition of “user” to include the entire spectrum of the actual human condition- across gender, race, ability, age, and sensory perception.

She has dedicated her career to creating a better understanding of the role architecture can play in the lives of those on the autism spectrum, culminating in the development of the Autism ASPECTSS Design Index in 2013. Since, the index has informed architecture across the globe- in studios, practices, projects and policies.
She continues to explore scales where the autistic perspective can inform- from objects, interiors, buildings, university campuses to cities and their infrastructures. Her dream is that one day her expertise will no longer be a specialisation, and designing from the autistic persepctive will be part of the canon of responsible architectural production of space.

autism.archi


mahl gebhard konzepte

The office mahl gebhard konzepte was founded in 1986 and changed its name to a partnership company in 2009 with its two office owners Andrea Gebhard and Johannes Mahl-Gebhard. The office focusses the entire spectrum of landscape architecture, urban planning and landscape design. Thus, 40 employees from various disciplines handle urban development concepts, urban planning and landscape planning as well as urban land use planning and object planning with execution and construction management. Further focal points of the office are public participation and the implementation and moderation of workshops and events.

The office is broadly positioned, which allows to serve every planning scale. This requires adaptability, flexibility and an enormous amount of creativity. In doing so, the office likes to discover and open up new fields of activity (cooperation with new partners is a welcome side effect).

mahlgebhardkonzepte.com


Maker Mile

Maker Mile is a project born with the goal of promoting and valorizing the different crafts that contribute in defining the identity of a place. Not only Maker Mile seeks to enhance the knowledge and techniques of the craft activities, but also to reactivate and put them in contact with the current realities related to design, architecture, branding, digitization and much more. Thanks to continuous research in situ, and through installations, debates, workshops and events, Maker Mile is revealing all the talented craftsmen and their valuable work. Each of these artisans express themselves in their workshops, by authentic creations, but also by their peculiar tools, which distinguish the different techniques, and their talented hands. Although with different specializations in the handicraft field, they all have in common the skills in crafts, excellent use of materials and unique design.

The ambition of Maker Mile is to be an itinerant project in continuous exploration and expansion: Venice represents the appropriate context from where to start, as it is a lieu extremely rich in secular and unique crafts, but also very delicate and challenging to preserve.

instagram.com/makermile


Mário Martins Atelier

The company, Mário Martins – Atelier de Arquitectura, Lda (MMA) based in Lagos and Lisbon, Portugal, has worked for many years in the fields of architecture and urbanism, which has led to the company’s continuing and sustained growth.

MMA has clients from different countries and from the most diverse backgrounds and cultures. It always aims to respect people and places, the past and the present, and to contribute to a more sustainable, balanced and better future.This company focuses on human relationships and knowledge. As enthusiastic as ever, they believe that the best project is still to be done. The intense activity results in a considerable amount and diversity of built projects. The work done over the years has received several international awards and has been widely featured in national and international publications and at conferences and in audiovisual media.

mariomartins.com


Masaki Komatsu

Masaki Komatsu is a photographer skilled in taking architectural photographs. Based in Tokyo, he is active throughout Japan, but in the future, he hopes to work overseas as well. He continues his research with the goal of expressing the beauty of architectural space. His architectural photographs accurately depict the texture of materials, and are highly appreciated for their soft light and shade. As for his personal work, it targets plants and shows them quietly in the city. His private works are exhibited at art fairs not only in Japan but also overseas.

masakikomatsu.com


Mais al Azab

Mais al Azab is an architect, designer and artist practicing out of Amman, Jordan. As an architect, she is interested in site-specific works and has been investing in architectural installations as a creative pursuit, an experimental model for interventions in the public domain and an early form of an independent practice. In her works, and aside from reading contexts for better design interventions, she explores the intertwined synergies between artisan arts and cutting-edge construction and fabrication techniques.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture with first-class honors from Jordan University and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard for which she won the Fulbright fellowship. Her designs and ideas have been exhibited in Jordan and abroad and received rewarding recognition including a feature in Venice Design in 2018, and a nomination to the James Templeton Kelley Prize for her final graduate design-studio project in 2011. She lectured about her architectural design works at Amity Dubai and later in Amman for visiting students from Washington State University, School of Design and Construction. Alazab taught as a guest lecturer at the American University of Madaba in summer 2016 and serves as a frequent design critic in other architectural schools in Jordan including Petra University, Jordan University and the German Jordanian University.

maisalazab.com


Maison de l’Architecture de Genève (MA) with G8A Architecture & Urban Planning, and Singapore ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory

G8A Architecture

G8A is an architecture, urban planning and interior design company with offices in Geneva, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore, led by two founding architects Manuel Der Hagopian and Grégoire Du Pasquier, each with more than twenty years’ experience, they are assisted by two Directors Armand Devillard and Laurence Savy. From design principles established in Switzerland, then learning from the contrasting context of the East, the company has been able to strengthen their designs with projects in Asia for over a decade. Integrating cultural added-value into each project remains a central part of all actions and discussions within the team. G8A’s workshop culture offers satisfaction and synergies through teamwork at both local and international level. All projects are submitted to the same rigorous internal process, whatever the scale, from the study for a simple birdcage to the development of a mixed-use complex or the master planning for a new town. All of the firm’s partners actively participate in professional associations for architects, both in Switzerland and Asia. G8A is also part of the theoretical debate in architecture through its involvement in a number of lectures, exhibitions and pedagogical endeavours all over the world.

g8a-architects.com

Maison de l’Architecture de Genève (MA)

The mission of the Maison de l’Architecture de Genève (MA) is to bring together people interested in disciplines related to architecture and to foster exchange of ideas about the art of building. Every year, the MA organizes thematic conferences and exhibitions on topics related to the city, urban planning, engineering and architecture. These events are open to other disciplines as well, with the aim of raising awareness and sensitizing the public on the culture of the built environment in general. Established in 2007 as a nonprofit organization, the MA has been able to become a real, active and recognised cultural platform on the Geneva and European cultural landscape.

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Future Cities Laboratory (FCL)

The Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) was established by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the National Research Foundation Singapore in collaboration with key academic partners including the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in 2010 to study sustainable future cities through science, by design, and in place. FCL’s agenda is the development of new integrated planning paradigms, research methodologies, and implementation processes to support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability, and enhanced liveability.

fcl.ethz.ch


Maxwell MacKenzie


Melike Altinisik Architects | MAA

MAA is a leading international architecture practice with offices based in Istanbul, Turkey and Seoul, South Korea. MAA is dedicated to develop innovative and visionary projects that ranges from architecture and urban design to interiors as well as installations and product design. MAA’s approach to developing the relational thinking capacities of the architecture in its relation with design techniques through generative processes of technological, material and computational innovation have afforded the practice a visionary perspective on all aspects related to architectural building design. MAA draws inspiration from a wide range of sources not traditionally associated with architecture, such as organic and natural systems. MAA has participated in various national, international and invited architectural competitions, exhibitions and publications.

Melike Altınışık’s work received numerous prestigious awards including the Europe 40 under 40, FEIDAD Design Award 07’ and Swiss Art Award. MAA’s work includes prize-winning projects such as Istanbul TV and Radio Tower in Turkey and Seoul Robot and AI Museum in South Korea.

melikealtinisik.com


Mian Wei

Mian Wei is a designer and multimedia artist currently based in Hangzhou, China. His work focuses mainly on industrial design, human interface, and multi-media art, often wandering on the edge of forgotten history and human condition. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in the United States and worked on art and design in Boston for several years. Experiences in diverse domains gave him the urge to explore the boundary of culture perception. His works are shown in exhibitions around the world.

mian-wei.com


Michihiro Matsuo - Metaph Architect Associates


Miguel Franco Botticelli

Miguel Franco Botticelli is an international awarded professional Architecture and Art Photographer, who specialized in the historic processes of photography, which are hand-crafted. These processes he studied at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, USA, and also in Germany. As well, he loves contemporary art and creates his works in Conceptual Art, Mixed Media and Interdisciplinary Arts.

He is of German nationality of Spanish/Italian descent. He studied painting at the art academy and later graphic design. Due to his passion he additionally studied four semester architecture. This artistic vein led him to photography. In the year 2012, after completing his studies in cinematography at the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California, USA, he founded his company Cinema Fotoreisen.

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Milt Friedly

Milt Friedly received recognition locally, regionally, nationally and internationally for his work in a variety of media. He is sometimes referred to as “the Chameleon” because he is so versatile in style and media. Exhibitions include: Urban Center for Contemporary Art; Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition; Yellowstone Art Museum; Nicolayson Art Museum; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts; Susquehanna Art Museum; Denise Bibro Fine Art; George Krevsky Gallery; Lesher Center for the Arts; the University of the Arts, Demuth Museum and more. Recent projects include: Time Space Existence, European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy; This Land; Print-Making an Impression; Peacemaking: An American and European Exchange of Art and Writings, Gallerie Kerstan, Stuttgart, Germany and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: An American Cultural Icon, Elizabethtown College. He received Fine Arts Degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Wyoming. He is Professor of Art at Elizabethtown College.

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Mirjana Lozanovska

Mirjana Lozanovska is an architecture academic and art practitioner and Director of the Architecture Vacancy Research Lab (11 members) at Deakin University, Australia. Mirjana spearheaded the Vacant Geelong (VG) project with a collaborative architecture-art team (Cameron Bishop, David Beynon, Anne Scott Wilson, Akari Nakai-Kidd; with Diego Fullaondo 2015-2018, Ciro Marquez 2017-2018). Works including exhibition of six artists Iconic Industry (NWM), film Industry Tracks (Geelong After Dark), GroundPlane Opera (M~M), engage the community in re-imagining ex-industrial building sites in future urban strategies. Mirjana’s creative work explores the entanglement of architecture and human subjectivity and its vacillation between in-dwelling, mobility and estrangement. It confronts the (in)visibility of architecture and inverses visual strategies through the lens of otherness, whether this is past factory workers from the industrial periphery “ORO” (Geelong After Dark 2019) or elderly immigrants (Venetian Blinds 2021).

architecturevacancylab.deakin.edu.au
deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/mirjana-lozanovska


Mirko Zrinšćak

Mirko Zrinšćak was born in 1953 in Volosko. He studied painting at the Accademia di belle Arti in Venice(1983.), class of Emilio Vedova. He spent a year in Kiel, in Kunstlerhaus, as artist in residence. In 1992, he moved his studio to Mt. Učka located in the forest. Since 1997, he lives and works in the village of Velaučka. Together with Marina Kramer and Goran Petercol, he represented Croatia at the 46th Venice Biennale.
He is the founder of the Multimedia Reasearch Centre Učka and he is a member of the artists’ associations HZSU and HDLU of Rijeka and the Sculptors workshop of the Gorski kotar. In 1996, he won the City of Rijeka Prize and was decorated in 1997 for particular services to culture (Order of the Croatian Day Star with the Figure of Marko Marulić). His works are kept in collections of the Modern Gallery in Zagreb, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, as well as the collections of collectors at home and aboard.

zrinscakmirko.com


Monika Casutt

The many years Monika Casutt spent in Tuscany have deeply shaped her life: the nature, the repeatedly changing landscape with its almost endless expanses, the light and – above all – the silence, as well as the periods of solitude. This is the environment in which she began her artistic work with clay. This is the place where she had the space and all the time she needed to work on a developing piece. The artworks of ancient cultures have interested Monika Casutt ever since her youth. They are an inspiration to her and she feels a strong inward attachment to them. They repeatedly impress her all over again with their archaic power, their simplicity and their connection to a deeper reality. This becomes visible in her sculptures.

The path of searching and working, during which a figure develops into the form that Monika Casutt would like to give it, is usually a long one. Before beginning a new work she often sits down to grow silent and to keep in touch with herself. She deliberately forms simple figures, in order to create room for that which is essential.

ateliermonikacasutt.ch


Myefski Architects

Myefski Architects was built on creative instincts. The firm strives to differentiate itself from others in the industry by constantly thinking differently. They are a team of architects but prefer to think of themselves as problem-solvers, dreamers, investigators, and visionaries.
Founded by John Myefski, the firm’s focus has evolved over its 27-year history to embrace the needs of myriad clients. With the goal to create buildings that contribute to communities and foster the local economy, the firm’s technical prowess and design-savvy draws on John’s 35 years of experience.
As flexible thinkers, the team thrives in an open studio environment that fosters creativity and produces meaningful design. Creative discussions are a collaborative effort and an essential part of the firm’s design approach with every client. The goal is to improve the way we live, work, play and learn. Myefski Architects is committed to understanding aesthetic and functional goals to create lasting solutions.

myefski.com


NANO Architecture | Interiors

NANO is an architectural and interior design firm that serves commercial, residential, municipal, industrial, hospitality, and educational clients throughout the Gulf South Region of the United States. NANO is present in a multitude of architectural and design arenas including new construction, renovations, historic preservation and restoration, and custom furniture design. NANO’s motivating philosophy and ethos of their success is one of spatial relationships based upon a series of scales. They think of every project as encompassing not only the most removed, observable viewpoint, but also the most detailed. They approach every project not only at the scale of the city, the block and the street, but also at the level of the smallest minutiae the joint, the reveal and the grain.

In the process of developing their clients’ projects, no scale is superior and they all must work together to structure the overall design concept. NANO’s mission is to consistently design quality architectural environments by adding enriching value to clients’ atmospheric and operational experiences. NANO’s ongoing innovation in design and within the community heavily focuses on building viable, resilient projects that operate as efficiently as possible

Nanollc.net


New York Institute of Technology - School of Architecture and Design

The School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology delivers a unique technology-infused professional design education at campuses in New York City and Long Island. They offer students innovative, in-demand degrees in Architecture, Architectural Technology, Urban and Regional Design, Computational Technologies, Health and Design, and Interior Design. The mission within the School of Architecture and Design is to provide a design- and technology-based 21st-century professional education that enables leadership in the profession and within the community, and they’ve identified three core values, or educational aspirations, to guide their approach: Design intelligence, Building Technology and Leadership.

nyit.edu


New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS)

The New York International Contemporary Art Society, known as NYICAS, is an organization located in New York bringing together professionals from around the world. Our mission is to collect, preserve and disseminate contemporary art forms from multiple languages through exhibitions, fairs and other events as an effort to educate professional in the international market and to share contemporary works with a multicultural perspective.

nyicas.org


Nic Lehoux

Nic has been an architectural photographer for 25 years, and a passionate observer of light, architecture and the human condition his entire life. His worked is grounded in the rigour of large format film photography that defined his earlier career. That rigour is combined with a truly progressive approach to the documentation of spaces with people. His work has a uniquely strong and distinct signature. It is informed by the traditions of architectural photography, the sensitivities of modern photojournalism, and a keen understanding of both architecture and the way people move within a space. Using an arsenal of medium format photographic tools and lighting techniques, Nic relies primarily on in-camera approaches to documentation and less on postproduction digital manipulation.

Nic works closely with some of the world’s most respected architects, defining in photographs what makes their work unique. His work has been published regularly in every major architectural publication, and in hundreds of books. His work has also been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. His interests in social documentary work has resulted in several personal projects that bridge architecture and society. Some of these include: The adobe architecture and people of the Dogon, Mali Mazar-i-Shariff: An urban exploration of an Afghani City at the crossroads Dystopia: Explorations in a marginal landscape of post modern America Dystopia: Eexplorations of contrasts and contradictions in China Modernism in Cuba 1950-1970

Nic is French Canadian in origin, and lives in Western North America with his wife and daughter.

niclehoux.com
instagram.com/nic.lehoux


NOTAN OFFICE

NOTAN OFFICE is a Brussels based architecture practice founded in 2014 by Frédéric Karam. Aware of the specificity of each project, the studio often collaborates with others and works on projects in Switzerland, Lebanon, England and Belgium. The work of NOTAN OFFICE is socially and programmatically committed. With a rational approach, the studio boldly manipulate the established, resulting in a unique architecture. Whatever the scale, the approach is contextual and seeks to enhance the essence of a place, the people and their concerns in line with today’s society. With sustainability in mind, architecture needs to be generous and let the users make it their own. NOTANs projects offers sensorial experiences; from spaces to material, the projects are textural.

notan-office.com


NOTE Architecture Gallery


O(U)R - Office of (Un)certainty Research

OUR: Office of (Un)Certainty Research is a design research practice dedicated to rethinking architecture in terms of the emergent scientific, social and political parameters of the 21st century.

Founders and design principals: Vikram Prakash (Professor: University of Washington), Mark Jarzombek (Professor: MIT)

officeofuncertaintyresearch.org


OGIA - Gi Son

Gi Son graduated with Interior Architectural Design at Sangmyung University (South Korea), and Architecture & Urban Design at Berlage Institute in the Netherlands. Gi worked in the projects of interior and architectural design, and worked with OMA in the Netherlands, participating in various projects of architecture and urban planning in regions of Europe. Currently, Gi Son is the founder of OGIA, Seoul and deals with various scale’s projects in the relationship considering social sustainability.

OGIA was founded Seoul, Korea by Gi Son and works in various fields like urban, architecture, interior and research focusing on the relationships between people’s life and the connection.
OGIA suggests the integrated approaches in the sensibility and strategy resulted from the analyzing via spatial, functional, and programmatic ways based on the research about the effects caused by the relationship between architecture and the conditions about diverse issues of the environment we live in.
OGIA aims the design practice for creating the maximized synergy generated by them and pursues the value that the whole process could contribute to social sustainability for people from all walks of life.

o-gia.com


Patricia McKenna

Finding a way to make sense of the world. Navigating through the complexities of everyday life, discovering the connections and inter–connections between people, place and the environment. Questioning how Art can give shape and voice in forming personal and public identities, creating narratives of cultural heritage are among the concerns in artist Patricia McKenna’s work.

The construction of meaning in landscape and the built environment its impact and relationship with people as a constant evolving story has led to McKenna’s interest in the meeting points of Art and Archaeology. Since 2015, she has been working in collaboration with the Swedish–Irish Experimental Heritage Group Karum-Creevagh whose focus is on the landscapes of the Burren in Ireland and the island of Öland in Sweden. Her multi media work involves sculpture, video, sound and drawing. She has created large installations and site-specific work. Materials, natural, found and recycled are a key element in her work. Her garden studio is not far from the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland sandwiched between the sea and the mountains.

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Patrick Arotcharen Architecture Studio

Based in Bayonne (South-West France), the studio built its practice in the hilly suburban zones of the Basque country, with intense vegetation and a temperate climate. Avoiding concept, dogmatism or abstraction, its work is at the crossroads of research and iterative experimentation, making architecture responsible for restoring a relationship of both confidence and proximity between man and his environment. Whatever the programme or the location, the approach is identical and can be resumed as a sort of question: how can the project use the site but also nourish it, prolong it and even protect its growth? Through this connection, the human body and mind are always stimulated: the experience of a building is imagined as a sensitive, almost hedonistic, journey, in keeping with its planned function.

arotcharen-architecte.fr
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Paul Chamberlain - Lab4Living

Paul’s interest lies in designing and developing tools and methods to encourage and engender social innovation applied with a focus on wellbeing and ageing. His work explores the role of artifacts that help define pertinent societal questions as much as present solutions. He adopts an inclusive co-design approach to challenge existing power structures and traditional frames of reference through the collision of bisociation, ambiguity, and metaphor. He has led major interdisciplinary projects developing innovation strategies and sustainable approaches to design and manufacture that have played a significant role in regional industrial reconstruction. He is currently leading a major project funded by Research England that explores the 100-year life with a focus on the future home.

lab4living.org.uk


Paul Eis

Paul Eis is a photographer and aspiring architect born and raised in Berlin. He photographs buildings and then digitally colorizes their facades. Starting with adding colors to the iconic socialist “Plattenbauten” from the former GDR he now is doing makeovers of modernist facades all over the world. His artistic intent is to demonstrate how the use of color effects on primarily grey, modern buildings can elicit inspiration and appreciation for joyful architecture. The series is not primarily meant as critique on the buildings design itself but rather on the mostly uninspiring city planning in our time. Currently, Eis is living and studying architecture at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.

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Peter C. Stitt

Since 2016, Peter Stitt has been working full-time as an artist/photographer. His work centers mainly around the southern region of the United States where he was raised and currently lives. His recent work centers on the landscape of rural southern communities; attempting to honestly depict their current state through the eyes of a knowing outsider. His work has been featured in many shows internationally and was a finalist for the 2018/2019 Arte Laguna Prize. His first book, "A Southern Verse", will be published in the Fall of 2021 by Daylight Books.

petercstitt.com


Petra Kempf

Petra Kempf, PhD. is an architect, urban designer, and educator. She has worked at institutions within the public and private sector, including the NYC Department of City Planning, the Project for Public Spaces, and Richard Meier & Partners. In 2019 she joined the Sam Fox of School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she works closely with the Center for the Humanities on the Divided City Initiative. Prior to her arrival at Washington University she has taught at schools throughout the United States and Europe, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, Cornell University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the University of Dortmund, Germany. Petra earned a DAAD Fellowship, the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architect Award, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions and museums in the United States and Europe and has been featured in multiple publications. She is the author of You are the City (2009) and (K)ein Ort Nirgends, Der Transitraum im urbanen Netzwerk (2010).

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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú & University College London

CASA [Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amazónicas] | HOME [Self-Sustainable Amazonian Cities] is an interdisciplinary research group from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru with an emphasis on collaborative practice and multi-stakeholder engagement and networking to improve the living conditions of urban citizens in the Amazon Rainforest, particularly climate refugees and displaced populations.

Cities should respond to their unique and dynamic social, territorial, and climatic conditions. We must cease the current imposition of architectural and urban models that fail to adapt to diverse and flexible realities. CASA seeks to bring this about by co-producing recommendations to improve current models of relocation projects. The team actively engages with the local government, academia, NGOs, and citizens (from the elderly to children) to collaboratively design and implement urban and architectural strategies and places that foster socially just and climate compatible prosperity. These communal places serve as platforms for the consolidation of communal activities, dialogue, and capacity building.

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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotà & Politecnico di Torino

“The collaboration between Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (PUJ, Colombia) and Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO, Italy) is based on common principles in teaching and research, taking advantages from crossing experiences between the two universities. The collaboration is strengthened by an international agreement aiming on developing joint investigations dealing with the relation between city, culture and life quality.
“The culture of the city” is the first collaboration experience and it aims at analysing the morphological construction of the Colombian cities in relation to the XVII-XVIII centuries European cities.

Two other investigations followed. “Italian contemporary architects in Colombia” studied the influence of the European architecture of the XX century on Colombian architects such as Vicente Nasi. The second one, “Which city for which future?” (Ongoing) aims at analysing the post-Fordist production architectures and their impact on the cities of Bogotà and Torino developing new interpretative layouts and trajectories of investigation. The most recent didactic and research activity is the participation to the Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean, where university teams design and build highly efficient buildings, optimizing affordability, resilience, and occupant health. “Máquina Verde – El Arca” is a Housing module, which was built by students and professors from the two universities during the competition in Cali in 2019.
The success achieved in this important international competition is an example of successful and strategic collaboration and synergy.”

javeriana.edu.co


PorterFanna Architecture

PorterFanna Architecture was established in 2007 with the goal of promoting excellence in design and responsibility in execution. Based in Brooklyn, NY, PFA strives to create projects that are both unique in design and responsive to their context, transforming abstract concepts into innovative built works. Solutions are achieved through a process of comprehensive analysis and distillation to create the most beautiful, economic and sustainable work possible.

The partners of PFA; LJ Porter and Maria Elena Fanna were trained as Architects but moreover, as meticulous project managers and stewards of the design as it is executed in the field and carried through to the final building. LJ Porter earned a Master of Architecture from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Kent State University. He taught architecture design at Cornell, The University of Kentucky and Pratt Institute in New York. Maria Elena Fanna earned a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where she also taught Undergraduate and Graduate Architecture Design.

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Project - Realization Architectural studio

The architectural studio “Project-realization” was found 25 years ago as an opportunity to express its founder’s greatest love in life – love for architecture. Olga Bumagina, the architect, who founded the bureau, takes great pleasure to see how the building appears out of nothingness, grown up by gaining walls, ventilation and water supply like its own flesh and blood, windows like eyes, curiously looking around. Finally, they dress up in different clothes-facades and then live their own lives with people. Over the years, architectural studio became a team of people who share this love and passion of it’s founder. Now it is a professional community for whom the drive of creativity and its result is no less important and necessary, like a breath of a fresh air, like a ray of sunshine in the glass of windows on their project’s facades.

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Qun Wen - aoe

aoe is a newly established architectural design firm based in Beijing, aiming to recreate the new lifestyle and reconfigure the social life and space influenced by the fast-changing technologies. Before aoe, Mr. Wen Qun, the founder of aoe, has worked as the design director in several top-level international architectural firms, with abundant professional experiences including Mixed-use, Retail, Office, Hospitality, Educational, Residential, and Master Planning. The technical director, Mr. Ma Jianning served as technical director and chief architect of several famous design companies,planned and executed many large-scale commercial complex projects, including the design of five-star hotels of Marriott, Hilton, Crowne Plaza, and Shangri-La, etc. aoe is a research-based design firm, of which all team members have international design backgrounds, bringing rich project experiences and broad trans-cultural visions, providing practical, innovative, and contemporary design solutions. aoe’s goal is to make livable dynamic social spaces influenced by modern technologies, art, and social environment.

aoe-china.com


RAIL - Think! Architecture and Design

Think! Architecture and Design is a firm based in Brooklyn, New York working on a diversity of projects in the metropolitan area with a commitment to quality design and community-focused projects. As part of the practice, the firm works on self-initiated research projects to explore issues affecting the city.
For the exhibition ‘Time Space Existence’, Think! created ‘RAIL’, a research team of six architects focused on the transformation of an existing freight line that extends from the New York City Harbor, across South Brooklyn into Queens and The Bronx. Our team members include Enzo Cordova, Don Flagg, Brendan O’Shea, Marta Rodrigues, Olivia Tarro, and Ernesto Vela.

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RIBA Education


Ricardo Palma University - Architecture Schools


Richard Wesley - University of Pennsylvania


Rolf Berte

Rolf Berte lives and works in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, Germany. His installations are created at his workshop near the Danish border and feature microcontrollers, lights, touch displays, pictures and cans. During his worldwide adventure tours, Rolf documents wildlife, landscapes, and urban life with his photography. Always on the lookout for unusual details with his photography, Rolf generates compositions from motives and colors, resulting in a new synthesis. In addition to the objects and photos that convey impressions and moods, the artist works on installations intended to relay critical insight or that aim to change the causal chain. The projects attempt to exhaust the extent of these possibilities – always under the assumption of free will. The interactions represent the flapping of a butterfly's wing, which can have far-reaching consequences according to chaos theory. Influencing the causality and confronting the viewer with the fact that he or she can knowingly do this through artwork is an exciting endeavour.

rolfberte.com


Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge

Studio Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge is an architectural office based in Barcelona. The innovation and clear conceptualization of his work reflects a constant concern to find new forms of expression. His creative process starts from an attitude of pursuing the beauty of the simple, trying to understand the nature of the existing space and its environment. The projects blur the boundaries between the artificial and the natural, giving rise to sceneries full of calm and harmony, where the interaction of light plays a poetic role. The studio covers diverse fields of design, from urban planning and architecture to interior design and furniture.

Roman Izquierdo Bouldstridge combines his professional practice with artistic experimentation and research. His creative sensitivity and Japanese influence are reflected through a warm architecture where nature, light, and time merge into unique atmospheres. In the past years, his work has been recognized by prestigious international prizes, such as the International Design Awards IDA and the Rethinking the Future Awards. He has also been a finalist in the Society of British Interior Design SBID Awards, the World Interiors News WIN Awards, and nominated for the Building of The Year Awards. Recently, the studio has been invited to participate at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 and has been a finalist in the Dezeen Awards 2020, as Emergent Interior Designer of the Year.

romanizquierdo.com


ROOI Design and Research

ROOI Design & Research is an architectural and interior design firm dedicated to empowering clients and designers to create unique buildings and interior spaces. ROOI was founded in 2018 to meet the needs of clients worldwide through its diverse team of designers, architects and artists. ROOI ’s vision is to create living environments that positively influence people’s lives. ROOI employs an innovative approach to modern and sustainable living environments.
Lead Designer Zuoqian Wang and his partners, Dan He and Jiaji Shen, who recognize that design concepts are inherently connected to the surrounding environment and culture. By designing architectural spaces that inspire and invigorate, ROOI builds environments that connect and transcend.

rooidesign.com


Ruta Krau

Ruta Krau is a Photographer and Visual Designer. Ruta was born in Lithuania and since childhood had interest in Art. She finished Arts Gymnasium, graduated Bachelor of Architecture in Vilnius.
Ruta’s passion for architectural aesthetics came naturally as a form of meditation while studying in Portugal and wandering its streets. Since then, the artist is encountering a unique collaboration with charismatic pieces of architecture which are found by accident throughout her travels. The time spent analyzing each of them helps to discover unique portraiture, its shapes, structure and (im)perfections while using various gear to capture it ranging from smartphones to full-frame cameras.
The desire for adventure inspired her to come to Canada and since 2017 she is exploring and improving herself at WZMH Architects in Toronto.

rutakrau.com


RWTH Aachen University, Department of Urban Design - Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches Revier


Sabah Shawkat

Sabah Shawkat is a structural designer, specializing in lightweight structures, such as tensile structures, tensile integrity structures, grid shells and reciprocal frames. He focuses on transforming these beautiful structures into design components such as chairs, tables, illuminated lamps or hammocks for interiors, gardens or public spaces. Sabah Shawkat is also a passionate expert in traditional fiber reinforced and pre-stressed structures.
He has published numerous articles in professional journals and has written several books. He teaches students of architecture and building engineering. Moreover, he regularly organizes workshops for students and exhibitions of his own as well as student projects and construction models. He is also actively involved in projecting and building constructions as well as reconstructions and modernizations of buildings.

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Saphira & Ventura Art | Design | Architecture

Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture focuses on exhibiting cutting edge international architects, designers, and contemporary artists. They represent a group of professionals from the US, Canada, Brazil, China, and Ukraine. Saphira & Ventura aims to provide access to its clients to the international market by creating partnerships with public and private companies, museums, art fairs and other international entities. It develops projects for the global market customizing each one according to the objectives of the customers. It transforms spaces into exclusive and unique experiences. The mission of Saphira & Ventura is to find creative solutions that connect people to their ideas and spaces through sustainable practices and cutting-edge technology. These selected 12 projects are a collective work of artists, architects and designers that demonstrate how our society can live together harmoniously in TIME SPACE EXISTENCE.

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When Art Meets Architecture:

ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS: Patrick Berminghan, Carl Skelton, Jee Won Kim, Neil Kerman, Antonio Spinosa, Nicolas Fiedler, Samuel Garcia, Edo Rocha, Patricia O’Reilly, Alexandre Mavignier, Meireles Junior, Howard Zi Hao Qiu, Alan Ritchie, Anna Persia Bastos, Christoph Diewald, Michael Schucht, Cristina Côrtes, Danielle Garcia, Rayra Lira, Graziele de Souza, Juca Maximo, Ostap Patyk, Tufi Mousse, Adriana Mavignier


SBGA | Blengini Ghirardelli


SCAAA


SCULPT

Founded in 2007, SCULP &#91IT&#93 architects, comprises a progressive and complementary team of young architects with a keen passion for architecture and design. They gained ground with the brave, thoughtful and neat realization of their own house and office, better known as “the narrowest house of Antwerp”, which resulted in the renowned 2008 Belgian Building Award. Later, in 2012 they realized the largest floating public swimming pool in the world, “the Badboot”. In 2017 they moved into their renovated warehouse “‘t Glorie” (constructed in 1875), where they keep on focusing on their architectural design practice. A large share in the designs of SCULP[IT] architects goes to the innovation of physical elements such as material, structure, and construction, which is clearly visible in their work presented at the exhibition “TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE” in collaboration with Jansen Steel Systems. On the other hand, to perceive atmospheres, light and darkness, earth and sky, old and new, and sensuous experiences in spaces. Spaces whose enveloping surfaces and materials, textures, emptiness, resonance, light, air, and accessibility are handled with passion, innovation, and care. Resulting in architectural designs, affected by the fundamental integrity of its context, presence, durability, imagination, time, and space.

sculp.it

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Severino Alfonso and Loukia Tsafoulia - Thomas Jefferson University

Severino Alfonso and Loukia Tsafoulia are architects, educators and researchers. Their research – both applied and scholarly – is positioned at the intersection of responsive environments, digital technologies and the computational theory of design in the 1950s-1970s in Europe and North America. Severino and Loukia are founders of PLB studio architecture practice and Assistant Professors at the College of Architecture and Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University where they have founded the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab – SR&DL- in collaboration with health institutions within Thomas Jefferson University.

The SR&DL serves as a collaborative research and prototyping platform where interactive design and emergent health sciences meet, highlighting the recursion between the individual and their environment. The Lab is a newly minted platform that aims to take risks in developing methodologies that engage critically with interactions of humans, objects and environments.

synestheticdesignlab.com

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ShubinDonaldson

ShubinDonaldson (SD) is an architecture firm led by partners Russell Shubin, Robin Donaldson, and Mark Hershman; with offices in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Orange County. We are informed by modernism, craft, and our culture of experimentation. We respond to each client and site (or space) through an investigative design process, mining the tension between real-world constraints and art to excavate each project’s unique opportunities. We have strong interests in materials research and fabrication that amplifies sensory experiences, and it is germane to our work

shubindonaldson.com


Sim Ateliers

Sim Ateliers is an emerging architectural practice in the Philippines established by partners Luther Sim and Joy Sim. Armed with their vast international exposure, Sim Ateliers aims to inject fresh ideas into the local setting. Passionate and solution-driven, the partners take projects head-on armed with their belief that architecture is a conversation, it always has a story to tell, but in order to achieve a successful project, the solution should not only meet the architect’s artistic hunger but also address the client’s need.
In 2020, their work, the B residence, is featured in ArchDaily and other international publications. The project showcases the firm’s discipline in terms of its holistic approach to a project. “Crafting spaces in its most powerful form,” their design mantra grounds the partners in terms of how they approach and attack a design challenge. The company not only aims to excel locally but also expand its playing field internationally.

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Sofia Verzbolovskis

Sofia Verzbolovskis is a Panamanian documentary photographer based in New York City. A member of Foto Féminas, she graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Documentary and Photojournalism Program (2010-2011).
Her work won a Juror’s Pick at the 2020 LensCulture Street Photography Awards, and has been featured in The New Yorker Photo, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Musée Magazine, Witness (World Press Photo), Arch Daily, Arquitectura Viva, Designboom, among others. She has participated in exhibitions at the Head On Photo Festival in Australia, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Alliance Française (Panamá), Casa de América (Madrid), Museum of Contemporary Art (Panama), Allegro Gallery (Panamá) and the Central American Isthmus Biennial (BAVIC) in Guatemala.

sofiaverzbolovskis.com


Spatial Futures Lab - Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Architecture

Spatial Futures Lab (SFL) was launched by Keith Kaseman at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture in 2019 as a research incubator for new modes of cooperative architectural production. Incorporating technologies such as mixed reality (MR), computer vision, aerial robotics and interactive modeling into customized interfaces, immersive design environments and interactive workflows, SFL is inherently interdisciplinary. With research assistants from Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the essential mission of Spatial Futures Lab is to amplify architectural imaginations through accessible collaborative exchange and facilitate this approach with accumulative seeds of technical capacities to do so.

arch.gatech.edu/spatial-futures-lab
arch.gatech.edu/people/keith-kaseman


Stephen Spartana

“Stephen Spartana’s views on photography have been shaped by 40 years as a commercial photographer, with the constant objective of creating images that were specific to a time and place. Alternately, Spartana’s artwork was a platform to break free of the constraints of assignment work. His professional experience and skills in imaging techniques enabled him to explore abstract and surreal landscapes, where his subjects appeared and then faded. Similar to a dream, the work suggested the ephemeral quality of life, constant change, the passage of time, and the uncertainty of the future. His current research utilizes a number of images that function in the same way that painters use brushes and paint palettes; but his paints are moments of time captured through photography, his tools, a combination of various analog films mixed with digital media.

Spartana participates regularly in solo and group exhibitions and many of his artworks have won awards at international competitions such as the Tokyo, Budapest and Moscow International Foto Competitions, Prix de la Photographie de Paris, CFA Artist of the Year, Siena and Umbra International Photo Awards, 12th Annual Color Awards, China International Digital Photography Exhibition.”

stephenspartanaartist.com


Studio SKLIM

“Studio SKLIM is an award winning design agency crafting bespoke interior and architectural spatial solutions. Based in Singapore and operating globally. Studio SKLIM was founded in 2010 by Architectural Association alumnus Kevin Lim.

Design Opportunities are Inherent. We firmly believe that these opportunities are waiting to be given a new perspective. The organization of “raw materials” in the form of environmental data, typographical conditions, cultural peculiarities and technological limits form a new platform from which we initiate these extractions. Our fast-changing contemporary life demands a rethink of existing spatial parameters, making conceptual clarity and contemporary investigative research instrumental to our design process.
Banality breeds Creativity. Each of our projects stems from its own unique set of constraints. We believe that the most basic design solutions are intrinsic and able to conjure the most complex relationships with this simplicity.
Understanding Materialities involves both Craft and Experimentation. We like to play with materials, understanding their sensitivities, and pushing them beyond their boundaries. We identify local crafts and resources to possibly bring a context to our work, believing in this mutual learning process to produce for the future.
No man is a Design Island. We embark on design journeys with our clients and consultants, as a collective experience to explore market demands, environment sustainability, design technology and socio-cultural landscapes with the hope of creating built environments that resonate with our design values.”

sklim.com


Swinburne University of Technology

SoDA

Marcus White (SoDA & CDI Swinburne/ Harrison and White)

Daniel Prohasky (SoDA Swinburne/ Curvecrete)

Mehrnoush Latifi (SoDA Swinburne)

Nano Langenheim (University of Melbourne)

Xiaoran Huang (North China University of Technology)

swin.edu.au


T SAKHI - Tessa & Tara Sakhi


Technical University Darmstadt


Tecnològico de Monterrey

The School of Architecture, Art and Design (acronym in Spanish: EAAD) of Mexico´s Tecnologico de Monterrey offers an academic experience focused on facing new challenges in the architectural task. The School has 20 campuses around the Mexican Republic where more than 5,000 students are immersed in activities influencing the improvement of the quality of life for people who inhabit cities and territories. By conceiving the city as a theme, the territory as a responsibility, and social innovation as an alternative, the School of Architecture generates diverse solutions to complex problems through teaching based on real-world challenges. By developing skills in research, design, construction, and administration, conflicts are addressed at different scales responding to the plurality of communities that inhabit the spaces. The current dehumanized panorama reveals the failure of the dominant individualized architecture. To achieve equitable and just environments, it has become Tec de Monterrey´s duty to promote efficient, inclusive, and sustainable community projects.

tec.mx


Terry Meyer

Terry Meyer has worked as a multimedia artist for over 50 years. His work is inspired by the world around him, nature and the elements of energy and motion. Raised in an encouraging environment for artistic expression, Meyer has engaged in painting, silkscreen, sculpture, metal work and poetry. The concepts of Time, Space and Existence have always had a strong influence on Meyer’s work. The horse, as a symbol either painted or sculpted, represents these concepts, while evoking a powerful sense of energy and motion. What better representation than the horse to reflect time, space and existence on the human psyche? Horses are at the center of most human mythology, and have been an integral part of our existence, so we can’t help but feel drawn to them; they feel like a part of our being. Our evolution is tied to theirs.

‘From the Earth Into Time’ is a depiction of the metaphorical horse’s struggle to free itself from the constraints of earth, to its own existence, and ultimately to the ethereal. Meyer feels a strong connection to the past; our ancestors, history and evolution, and connects the physical existence of the horse to the moment of emergence, whether as birth, evolution or transformation. The steel sculpture has a base depicting symbols used by our ancient artist ancestors. Cave explorations have revealed 34 of these symbols, found in areas inhabited by early humans as long ago as 40,000 years. The partially covered areas on the sculpture represent the foundation from which emergence happens. The fine, overlapping steel wires represent the structure and muscle of the horse, (influenced by Australian Aboriginal xray art). The sketch-like quality of this creates an ethereal movement towards the abstract nature of time. The horse is thrusting, making the effort to rise, using all of its strength as it strains, twists, reaches and pulls itself up from the earth. This effort can be felt in all the senses, almost hearing the horse’s breathing/snorting, smelling the dirt and feeling the power of transformation. Like the horse, we are all manifestations of what we perpetuate through space and time; that is our existence.

terrymeyerfineart.com


Testa Associates

Testa Associates prioritizes three key aspects of architecture in its work: sociality (environment), practicality (function) and artistry (design).
A church (design) evoking an atmosphere of humble prayer within and without (environment) must also be planned (function) to ensure that religious rituals run smoothly.
A comfortable and relaxing home (function) must also lend greater beauty (design) to the local area (environment).
And of course, a factory built to increase productivity and bolster consumer confidence needs more than just a meticulously planned factory floor (function). Its external appearance (environment) must also offer a reassuring and confident impression (design).

As its fundamental concept, Testa Associates focuses on linking these three aspects together while providing professional expertise. Furthermore, the studio sincerely hopes for the philosophy behind its design work to have an impact on the architecture industry as a whole – playing a part in creating a more sustainable social environment.

testa-ats.jp


Tetro Arquitetura

Located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tetro Arquitetura is formed by architects Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes and Igor Macedo. The office’s professional practice is based on the careful study of the premises and conditions presented by the location and the client, always seeking a unique and irreplicable solution to each Project. Fundamentals, such as the integration with nature, the use of apparent materials, and the exploration of empty spaces are characteristics that permeate all the work, from urban scaled projects to furniture designing. Allied to these questions, the team’s work takes the tradition of Brazilian modern architecture as a starting point, rethinking some of its main concepts in order to answer with innovation contemporary problems in architecture.

tetro.com.br


The Digit Group (TDG) and VIM

The Digit Group (TDG) and VIM have collaborated to exhibit at the 2021 Venice Biennale Architettura. Led by architect Paul Doherty, TDG is a world-leading and award-winning Smart Cities real estate developer who partners with world-renowned Arol Wolford and his team at VIM to design and deliver digital assets of the physical world.

The TDG/VIM team will showcase in their exhibit the Qingdao International Virtual Reality Industrial Park in Qingdao, China. This project provides an example of how physical real estate and its architecture, when represented in the digital world, transforms and transcends into amazing new opportunities aesthetically, financially, and functionally that were dreams only a few short years ago. Join us in Venice to experience this inspirational exhibit by two of the world’s leading firms who have joined forces to bring a new vision to the world of architecture.

thedigitgroup.com
vimaec.com


The Scarcity and Creativity Studio

The Scarcity and Creativity Studio (SCS) is a design-build studio within The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, whose focus is on ‘translations from drawing to building’. The studio’s aim is to expose students to the full architectural process, from interacting with clients to building their designs. SCS seeks challenging contexts in which local conditions and creativity are employed to make the most of scarce resources. The Studio has been in existence for 10 years and has built 18 projects.

scs.aho.no


Tono Mirai Architects

Tono Mirai connects the earth and the world through the soil. With the theme of contemporary earth, he has been designing buildings and creating spaces in Japan and worldwide. Born in Sendai in 1962, he completed his master's degree in architecture at Waseda University in 1988 and established Tono Mirai Architects in 1995. Having a desire to recover the manual side of architectural creation, he came across earth architecture. In the process of renovating his house in a building in the centre of Tokyo due to his family's health problems, he found that the raw earth is a material full of vital energy and potential to heal the stresses of modern life.
In 2011, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, he was shocked by the sight of most of the buildings being turned into waste. He became acutely aware of the need for earth architecture that could be turned to earth, and began full-scale research and study in collaboration with universities.

For his characteristic organic form made from the vibrant energy that gives human relief and vitality, the sustainability through the use of local and natural materials, and the modern use of traditional techniques, he has won many awards such as the Build Architectural Award, the A+Award and the TERRA AWARD.

tonomirai.com


Toshihiko Suzuki SQOOL

“SQOOL is an architectural design firm established in Kobe, Japan in 2015. The founder, Toshihiko Suzuki, is a young architect born in 1981. He was inspired by Tadao Ando to become an architect, and after graduating from Kyoto University, he has designed more than 150 buildings so far. The uniqueness of SQOOL is that each time they design differently, fully taking into account the client’s needs and the surrounding environment. Toshihiko Suzuki has designed a wide range of architecture from low-cost housing to luxury housing. He always presents his clients with an original hand-drawn presentation, not a CAD drawing. It can be said to be a letter to the client. In this exhibition, SQOOL will present some of the drawings made for their clients. The firm continues to challenge the idea of creating architecture from people.”

sqool-archi.com


Touloukian Touloukian Inc.

Touloukian Touloukian Inc. is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA specializing in complex and diverse building types.

Advancing design that revitalizes urban landscapes is at the core of the practice. People at Touloukian Touloukian are inter-disciplinarians who believe their achievements are centered on their civic responsibility, and their dedication to socially and environmentally responsible design. As they encounter a diversity of project types, their design approach remains consistent through a set of guiding principles. These fundamentals are a flexible framework fostering their collaborative approach into a clear project narrative that illustrates their client’s mission; demonstrates their stewardship for the environment; reveals their passion for the craft of architecture expressed as a tectonic art, and reflects their appreciation to context by uncovering the poetic identity through a sense of place.
Their ultimate ambition is to enhance each community’s quality of life, and to create sustainable places that are to be used and enjoyed for the civic good by being equitable and inclusive for all. The results are projects with a balance of art, function and utility; with a style all their own.

ttarch.com


Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

The Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil is an Ecuadorian higher education institution, founded on May 17, 1962. Since its creation in 1965, the Faculty of Architecture and Design has contributed with professionals who have had a significant role in shaping the built environment of Guayaquil and its conurbation. The school encourages students to work critically with ideas related to local identities, sustainability, and collective interests.
A team of 15 researchers, students, and external collaborators participated in this project. Each one of the project leaders is a professor with a particular focus within the field of architecture: Gilda San Andrés — theory and critic of architecture, and the history and heritage of Guayaquil; Jorge Ordóñez —criticism and design of architectural projects; and Filiberto Viteri-Chávez — research and design in urbanism and architecture, especially associated to the use of collective spaces.

ucsg.edu.ec
instagram.com/arquitectura.ucsg


University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning embraces the grand global challenges of the day as openings for radical action toward more just, resilient, and enriching communities for all. Deep-rooted traditions in hands-on, activist teaching and research situate student work in the surrounding community and translate ideas into built works and realized plans. Embedded in the City of Buffalo, on the western edge of New York State, the School engages the transitioning landscapes of its host city in globally relevant investigations in inclusive design, food systems planning, community-based economic development, climate-resilient design, and sustainable housing.

Top-ranked for research among its peers in the Association of American Universities, the School collaborates with industry and across the disciplines at UB, the most comprehensive public research university in the northeastern United States. The only school of architecture and planning in The State University of New York (SUNY), the School offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, including a nationally accredited MArch and MUP, SUNY’s only MS in real estate development and nine dual-degree programs.

ap.buffalo.edu


University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design


University of Guelph

The University of Guelph has two accredited, professional programs in landscape architecture. The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA), which is the only undergraduate BLA program in Canada, and the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. These programs are part of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) that brings together major academic fields concerned with creating strong communities, in Canada and around the world.

uoguelph.ca


University of Kentucky - College of Design

The School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky has a rich academic tradition as an open-minded setting that supports diverse intellectual approaches within a rigorous architectural curriculum. As the flagship institution for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University plays a critical leadership role in our region while providing a unique environment to study architecture. Its combination of cities, small towns, and landscapes offers an opportunity to learn about Architecture at multiple scales with diverse histories and varying influences.

Our graduate and undergraduate programs offer students the opportunity to learn about real issues confronting the Commonwealth by interacting directly with its communities. We believe this setting affords a new perspective on how local issues, as explored in the Somewhere Project, often have broader national and international relevance and impact. As the only accredited school of architecture in Kentucky, our School has been an educational foundation, as well as a platform for architectural discourse and debate for over fifty years. Established in 1965, the School of Architecture employs 30 full and part-time faculty, who teach over 300 graduate and undergraduate students.

design.uky.edu


UNSW School of Built Environment

The UNSW School of Built Environment shapes future cities, cities that are resilient, informed, connected, healthy, smart, liveable and inclusive. Its vision is to be a global leader through high impact research and education that are vital to cities, their built environments and inhabitants. Its research responds to pressing urban challenges through academics and industry professionals who are leaders in their fields, Scientia Fellows and Scholars, higher degrees scholarships, practice-based PhDs, cross-school research, industry partnerships and consulting.

unsw.edu.au
ada.unsw.edu.au
be.unsw.edu.au
ainsliemurray.com


UrbanSoup Architects and Urban Designers


Urban Transformation Program Colombia (UTPC) Switzerland

The ̈Urban Transformation Program Colombia (UTPC) Switzerland is a collaboration of the State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation and Development (SECO), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), led by the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). Together with local municipalities, NGOs, and academic partners, they design and build prototypical architectural projects to promote urban transformation. In the support of local culture and capacity building, they empower the peace process and the inclusion of vulnerable communities. As architects bridging Colombia / Switzerland, they engage in solving some of the most pressing social and environmental problems through design. Urban transformation by architecture for education, health, work, housing, culture in selected communities, in Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla, and Cartagena.

The first pilot project in progress is the Fabrica de Cultura, a maker space for the Barrio Abajo community translating the disciplines of the UNESCO world heritage Carnival culture into professional education. Fabrica de Cultura is the first of a series of projects changing the mindset from segregation, to the inclusion of all citizens through an architectural toolbox for urban development.

klumpner.arch.ethz.ch


VCUarts Qatar MFA in Design

The Master of Fine Arts in Design at VCUarts Qatar is a two-year graduate degree in applied interdisciplinary design research. The program trains students to understand audiences, collaborators and clients in original and authentic ways, combining aspects of fine art studio practice, graphics, digital craft, architecture, fashion and product design, to form a hybridized education. Designers, increasingly, need to navigate between and blend disciplines, maximizing resources and working adaptively to create new environments, visuals, messaging, and products. The program’s strength lies in its ability to support each student’s unique interests, providing a custom education, tailored to each individual.

qatar.vcu.edu/mfa


Verstas Architects


Victor Elias

“To look at Victor Elias’s architecture photography is an invitation to transport yourself to that idyllic place where you want to escape in time. The spaces are captured in their best light, carefully crafting every detail as if they are waiting for you, motionless. His work appears on a daily basis on thousands of travel websites around the world helping travelers make the right hotel choice. He considers himself a visual poet and the images He captures are representations of his vision of the world from experiences along this journey called life. Traveling is his passion and a necessity, and photography has enabled him to fulfill his creative life beyond his dreams.”

victoreliasphotography.com
eliasgallery.com


Walter Hunziker

The work of Walter Hunziker retraces ideals of the Renaissance: Architectural practice being inalienably interconnected with artistic expressions, studies on nature and cultural history, but also academic teaching and research. His early commitment to architecture found its temporary conclusion in a degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and several years of architectural practice in various Swiss firms. In the 1970s a period of learning and working at a renowned printmaking studio led to a series of etchings, which – on the basis of Swiss Federal Grants – allowed a stay at the Swiss Academy in Rome, followed by years of teaching on behalf of US universities in New York, London and Florence.
Nowadays, after more than 35 years of challenging architectural practice at the head of a small and dedicated team, Walter Hunziker focuses his attention anew on the roots of architecture, to visionary concepts and a deeper understanding of the constitutional role of architectural drawings in the creation of our built environment, in particular with regard to the absence of masterly craftsmanship.

walter-hunziker.ch


Wantian Cui

Wantian Cui believes that life is sacrifice, that art is the creation of sacrifices, and that artists are to become priests. In an age of overabundance of information media and the Internet, the primary responsibility of artists is to determine how and in what ways truth is expressed. Our eyes and senses pick up on about 4% of the information in the world. The most difficult aspect, let alone expression, is cognition. We live in space and time as a result of a multi-universe, multi-matter superposition and fusion, symbiosis, and interaction process.

How should we express the fact of multi-subject and ectopic symbiosis? How should we represent the so-called “immediate world” that our subjective consciousness has helped to shape? How can he, as an honest artist, use art to pave the way and build a bridge to truth and justice?
Cui Wantian is attempting to peel back the world’s veil, to devise a visual method and manner of presenting the truth, to see the unseen world. This is not the catharsis and performance of postmodernism, but the demonstration and adventure of factualism.

art579.com


Wearable X

Wearable X specializes in integrated electronics in apparel that help the wearer feel through haptic technology. This form of guiding technology is transformative for the industry. Wearable X asks that its customers return their products to them at the end of their life so that there is reduced E-waste. This space showcases the electronics used by Wearable X. Designed to ask you to consider what you do with your electronics and how to create experiences that span over time.

wearablex.com


Whipsaw

Whipsaw is a product design and experience innovation company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Founded in 1999, we are now one of the world’s most highly acclaimed and accomplished product design agencies. We have introduced more than 1000 products to market in sectors including medical, scientific, consumer electronics, housewares, and robotics. Our clients include top international companies like Google, Uber, Ford, Nike, Samsung, Brita, and emerging startups like Tonal, Blumio, Bossanova, Harry’s, and Tile.
We strive to create smart, unique and intuitive solutions that profoundly connect with users on both rational and emotional levels. Whipsaw has demonstrated a keen ability to break through the noise with design solutions that are beautiful, functional, unique, appropriate, lasting, and simple. We have won over 300 industrial design awards, including many Red Dot, iF, IDEA, and IDAs.

Whipsaw has creations in the Smithsonian, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design, The Henry Ford Museum, and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Fast Company ranked Whipsaw among the Top 5 design firms in the world and selected Dan Harden, CEO, as “One of the 100 Most Creative People.

whipsaw.com


Winking · Froh Architekten

For the past twenty years, Bernhard Winking and Martin Froh have been taking on the full spectrum of architectural and urban planning tasks in Germany, Europe and China. With their award-winning redevelopment of Spiegel Island in Hamburg and their extension of the city’s Esplanade, Winking-Froh-Architekten have demonstrated in exemplary fashion how listed post-war modernist ensembles can be carefully preserved as they are augmented and enhanced to meet contemporary demands. The architects’ characteristic residential buildings, examples of which can be found in cities including Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg, are harmoniously integrated into the respective setting and make use of sustainable and durable materials. Judiciously applied sculptural elements go hand in hand with attractive floor plans. Another focus of the firm’s work is on large-scale urban development projects such as Europaplatz in Heidelberg.

winking-froh.de


World Architects

World-Architects is a membership-based, premium network of selected contemporary architects and building professionals, advocating quality in architecture. Members and projects are curated by a highly discerning group of architects and critics from around the world.
Launched in 1994 by PSA Publishers Ltd in Switzerland, World-Architects pioneered the online publishing of architecture. Today, over 20 online national and regional platforms represent architects, landscape architects, interior designers, engineers, lighting designers, manufacturers, and architectural photographers from over 50 countries.

World-Architects – For Quality in Architecture.

world-architects.com


YBGSNA

YBGSNA was founded by Yuval Baer and Galit Shifman-Nathan and has emerged as one of the leading firms on the Jerusalem scene. The firm has designed wide range of significant public projects for the government of Israel, major universities, municipalities and regional planning authorities, as well as, a variety of projects worldwide, in China, Ghana, Nigeria and the Middle East. In addition, the firm has been involved in international collaborations with the BBC and Foster + Partners. YBGSNA participates regularly in international design competitions and has received numerous awards.

ybgsna.com


Yiorgos Kordakis


Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK - Design - Knowledge Visualization

The two presented projects Expedition 2 Degrees and VR Glacier Experience were made possible by the dedicated collaboration of an interdisciplinary team containing specialists from science and design. The Department of Geoscience at the University of Fribourg is a leading Swiss institution in cryospheric research with a main focus on the dynamics and evolution of the alpine and arctic cryosphere (glacier, permafrost and snow) in the context of a changing climate. The research group of Knowledge Visualization at the Zurich Universities of the Arts focuses on design and knowledge transfer in the field of 3D visualization and virtual reality. Didactic concepts and questions about design and aesthetics are investigated with the aim of gaining new insights and developing innovative tools for knowledge transfer.

kvis.zhdk.ch
unifr.ch