Born 1935 in Riga. 1965 co-founder with Volkwin Marg of the architectural partnership von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 1974 appointed professor, chair A for Design, TU Brunswick, head of Institute A for Architectural Design. Member of Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, 2005 honorary doctorate (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan), 2007 honorary professor (East China Normal University College of Design, Shanghai), 2007 president of aac. Numerous awards, incl. Fritz Schumacher Prize, Romanian State Prize, bronze plaque of Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, BDA Prize, Federal Cross of Merit.

Born 1936 in Königsberg/East Prussia. 1965 co-founder with Meinhard von Gerkan of the architectural partnership of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 1980-1985 president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), 1986 professor of Town Planning, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen, member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung, member of the Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, 2007 principal of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). Numerous awards, including Fritz Schumacher Prize, bronze plaque of the Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, BDA Prize, Federal Cross of Merit.

Nikolaus Goetze, partner, born 1958 in Kempen, graduate architect, partner at von Gerkan, Marg and Partners since 1998, management of the gmp offices in Hamburg Elbchaussee, Shanghai and Hanoi, projects in Asia include Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center, International Convention and Exhibition Center, Nanning, Guangzhou Development Central Building, National Conference Center, Hanoi, Lingang New City, Dalian Twin Towers, Hanoi Museum, Siemens Center, Shanghai, National Assembly House, Hanoi.

Stephan Schütz, partner, born 1966 in Duisburg, graduate architect, partner at von Gerkan, Marg and Partners since 2006, management of the gmp offices in Berlin, Beijing and Shenzhen, projects include New Weimar Hall, New Tempodrom, Berlin, Christian Church, Beijing, CYTS Plaza, Beijing, Qingdao Grand Theater, National Museum of China, Beijing, Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center.

Hubert Nienhoff, partner, born 1959 in Kirchhellen, graduate architect, partner at von Gerkan, Marg and Partners since 1993, management of the gmp offices in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, projects include Leipzig New Trade Fair, Berlin Olympic Stadium, Airport Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt, Commerzbank Arena, Frankfurt, World Cup stadiums in Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, Manaus, Belo Horizonte and Brasília (2014) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadion in New Delhi.

Jürgen Hillmer, partner, born 1959 in Mönchengladbach, graduate architect, partner at von Gerkan, Marg and Partners from 1998 to 2017, management of the Hamburg gmp offices in Elbchaussee and Rainvilleterrasse, projects include Hamburg Airport, platform roofing for Deutsche Bahn, Berlin Central Station, Sapper School, Ingolstadt, extension of Frankfurt Airport.

Enno N. Maass, born 19971, graduated from Oxford School of Architecture, England. After projects in London, he joined gmp in 2001 to work on projects in Russia, China and the Baltics. After his stay in Shanghai he became gmp Chief Representative in Abu Dhabi (UAE). In 2009 he was appointed managing director and director of program of the privately funded aac. Since then the Academy has been able to teach in Vietnam and acquire the historic maritime university campus in Hamburg to be the academy’s future home base.

Annika Göttle was born in 1974. She studied architecture at the University of East London and, with the help of a DAAD bursary, at ETH Zurich and Technical University Braunschweig, where she completed her diploma in 2001. Since 2001 she has been working as architect for the practice of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in both Hamburg and Shanghai. During 2005/2006 she established gmp’s competition arm at the Shanghai office. She was in charge of several projects such as Lingang New City, Shanghai, and the Audi Design and Modelling Centre, Ingolstadt.

Anja Meding was born in 1965. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Brunswick, accompanied by an annual scholarship at the Università degli studi di Firenze. She graduated 1994 at the TU of Brunswick. From 1994 to 2000 she worked for gmp in Hamburg. 2001 she joined the office MPP, Meding Plan+Projekt, founded in 2000. In 2005 she was one of the founding partners of the “hamburg architects”.
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Christine Graff was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1979. She studied languages, economics and cultural studies at the University of Passau from which she was awarded her degree (Dipl.-Kulturw. Univ.) in 2005.
Comprehensive experience abroad through a high school year in the USA (ASSIST scholarship) and an academic year at the PUCE in Quito, Ecuador as well as sustainable, non-profit project work. After the completion of her studies she worked in the area of international communications as well as intercultural project and organisational work.

Studies of architecture at the TU Braunschweig and IUAV Venice, fine arts at the HBK Braunschweig. 1993 – 1997 work with Massimiliano Fuksas, Rome and William Alsop, London. Founding of the architectural practice IMKEWOELK + Partner, Berlin. 2000-2003 academic assistant at the TU Berlin, Laboratory for Integrative Architecture. In 2003 Rome Prize, Villa Massimo. 2005-2009 guest professor of the Duksung Women’s University, Seoul. 2010 PhD at the TU Berlin. 2015 research scholarship, Danish Arts Foundation. 2016 appointment to the Adv. Board on Art, for architecture and urban planning, Berlin.

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Born 1967 in Hamburg. She studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and the TU Braunschweig, where she graduated in 1994. A recipient of a DAAD stipend Kristina also has a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University in NY. She is a LEED accredited professional and a licensed architect in California and New York. In the US she was mostly involved with large scale projects for work, education and research. 1995-96 and 1997-2006 she worked with Morphosis/ Thom Mayne in Los Angeles, 2006-2011 with Michael Maltzan Architecture in Los Angeles, 2012-2013 with WORK AC in New York.

Henrik Leander Evers was born in Vejle, Denmark, in 1983. After his studies both in Denmark and Mexico and an internship at the R&D department GXN 3XN (gxn.3xn.com), Copenhagen, he graduated with a M.Sc. in Architectural Design from Aalborg University in 2011. Since then he has been conducting research in computational strategies in the architectural domain – from algorithmic and parametric design through digital registration technologies to computational approaches in renovation, retrofitting and fabrication – as an architectural research assistant at CITA, KADK. www.cita.karch.dk

Born in Albany, New York in 1973. He is an architect and researcher, currently a PhD Fellow at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. His research investigates development strategies for adaptive computational modelling. He is currently engaged in the application of machine learning techniques for model generation and as a dynamic means to search design space. His professional work has focused on bespoke detailing for advanced architectural geometries, computational design implementation and the deployment of digital fabrication and documentation techniques. www.cita.karch.dk

Born in 1981. Completed the Advanced Design Visualisation course at Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. Received his M.Sc. Eng. in Architecture & Design from Aalborg University, Denmark. Worked for the architecture practice Aedas as a computational design researcher. Prior to this he worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA/KADK) where he is now a tutor and PhD fellow. His research project investigates integrative development strategies for nonlinear computational design models. Lecturer at e.g. KTH Stockholm, TU Delft, IE University. www.cita.karch.dk

Christian Dahle was born in Hamburg in 1977. After studying Architecture at TU Braun-schweig, graduating in 2003, he worked at the office von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Archi-tects (gmp) in Hamburg until 2010. Christian Dahle with Timo Heise and Christian Dirumdam established SCHALTRAUM ARCHITEKTUR in 2011. Current, awarded projects of their architectural office include the Congress House Baden-Baden, the New Office Building Winter Garden Area Leipzig, the Vocational School H7and20 City Nord Hamburg as well as the hall of residence with day-nursery Landshut.
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Mr. Wentrup was born in 1980 in Lübeck. During his course of studies at the TU Braunschweig, he completed overseas traineeships at M.A.D.A spam in Shanghai and 3XN in Copenhagen. After graduating in 2007 he was employed for over two years at allies and Morrison in London with an emphasis on public housing. Following that he worked as project manager for Gerkan, Marg and Partners in Hamburg. In 2011 he switched over to the architectural office blauraum, also located in Hamburg. In 2012 he became independent, founding the architectural practice Wentrup.

Born in 1962. Furniture restorer and industrial technician in Libya before studying architecture in Atlanta (World Student Fund bursary) and at the TU Braunschweig. After his degree in 1992 he was responsible for major projects for gmp (until 2004), at the same time founding the office Walter Gebhardt | Architekt. Active member of the Chamber of Architects of Hamburg, chairman of competition committee since 2008. 15 first prizes, exhibitions and publications give evidence of the excellence of his work.
www.gebhardt-architekt.com

Annika Göttle was born in 1974. She studied architecture at the University of East London and, with the help of a DAAD bursary, at ETH Zurich and Technical University Braunschweig, where she completed her diploma in 2001. Since 2001 she has been working as architect for the practice of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in both Hamburg and Shanghai. During 2005/2006 she established gmp’s competition arm at the Shanghai office. She was in charge of several projects such as Lingang New City, Shanghai, and the Audi Design and Modelling Centre, Ingolstadt.

Anja Meding was born in 1965. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Brunswick, accompanied by an annual scholarship at the Università degli studi di Firenze. She graduated 1994 at the TU of Brunswick. From 1994 to 2000 she worked for gmp in Hamburg. 2001 she joined the office MPP, Meding Plan+Projekt, founded in 2000. In 2005 she was one of the founding partners of the “hamburg architects”.
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Johann von Mansberg was born in 1965. He studied architecture at Technical University Zurich (ETH) and Technical University Braunschweig, where he com-pleted his diploma in 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was employed by gmp in Hamburg. From 1998 to 2011 he worked as an independent architect, and from as early as 2008, was one of the tutors at the aac. In 2009 he became assistant lecturer at HCU (HafenCity University) in Hamburg. In 2011 he re-joined gmp as Director, and since then has been working primarily on projects in China.

Born in Mainz in 1982, he attended the TU Darmstadt and the Università degli studi Roma Tre Architektur. After graduating in 2009 he worked at Faerber Architekten in Mainz and took part in the workshop “TXL+” in Hamburg. From 2010 till 2012 he worked at Gerkan, Marg and Partner in Hamburg. In addition to taking part in several architectural competitions, he designed the residence “von Gerkan” and the German House in Ho Chi Minh City. Since 2012 he has been employed as project manager at Faerber Architekten in Mainz.
www.faerber-architekten.de

Nicolas Pomränke, associate partner, born Wuppertal 1970, graduate architect, associate partner at von Gerkan, Marg and Partners since 2010, project management of Zhongguancun Cultural Center, Grand Theater/Qingdao, Kulturpalast/Dresden etc.
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Benjamin Gutsche was born in 1981 in Berlin, graduated in landscape planning from the Technical University Berlin and is currently completing his architecture studies at the same institution. Following study visits to Switzerland and Japan he worked as a student in a number of Berlin architect’s offices. In 2007 he began an internship at Atelier Loidl where he now works as a landscape architect in the area of competitions as project manager at the interface to architecture. In the summer of 2009 he participated as a fellow in the aac workshop TXL+ in Hamburg.

Born in 1974. Studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig. Associate Professor (since 2006) at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA), Copenhagen. With a background in scientific research and architectural practice, his work links the speculative and its realization. The projects are of collaborative nature and include installations, competitions and interiors to architectural projects. Besides lectures, he has taught workshops in various locations worldwide.

Sona Kazemi was born in 1970. She studied architecture at Florence University and at Braunschweig Technical University, from where she graduated in 1997. From 1997 to 2003 she worked for gmp in Hamburg. From 2003 to 2010 she worked as an architect with the Andreas Heller studio, most recently as Managing Director. Following, she has been working for the De Picciotto practice and, in parallel, was undertaking a Masters in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. Since 2015 she has been a freelance architect with practice in Hamburg.

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Stephan Wachtel was born in 1968. He studied Energy and Building Services Engineering at the FH Wolfenbüttel. He was subsequently project manager for various engineering companies. In 1993, Stephan Wachtel set up as an independent consulting engineer. In 1995 he founded NEK Energy Consult AG focusing on innovative environment-friendly energy concepts. From 2000, NEK expanded under the management of Stephan Wachtel to a national company operating throughout the country. Following the takeover of NEK by Kofler Energies, in 2008 Stephan Wachtel was appointed director of Technology and Organization at Kofler Energies.
www.koflerenergies.com

Hakki Akyol was born in 1958. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Brunswick, graduating in 1985. From 1986-1991, he was research assistant under Volkwin Marg at the RWTH in Aachen. From 1992–2000 he worked for gmp in Hamburg before becoming a founding partner of Akyol Kamps Architekten in Hamburg in 2000. In the same year, he was appointed lecturer at the University of Lüneburg. Since 2002, Hakki Akyol has been a visiting professor at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel.
www.akyol-kamps.de

Michael Biwer was born in 1966. He studied architecture at the Technical Universities in Munich and Brunswick, graduating at the latter in 1996. From 1996-2001, he worked for gmp in Hamburg before becoming founding partner of the firm of kramer biwer mau architekten in 2001. In 2005, he was a founding partner of the "hamburg architects" group of architects.
www.biwermau.de

Bertel Kehlet Bruun was born in Köge, Denmark in 1964. After studying architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts from 1986 to 1992, he worked for German landscape architect Prof. Gustav Lange. The following year, Bertel Bruun went back to the Academy of Arts to do a degree as a landscape architect. From 1995, he lived in Hamburg as a freelance landscape architect. From 1995–1996 Bertel Bruun taught at the University of Kassel as a visiting lecturer. Since 1999, he has been a partner at Breimann & Bruun. His particular field is design.
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Joachim Zais was born in 1951. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Brunswick, where he graduated in 1982. From 1983-1989, he worked under Meinhard von Gerkan at the Technical University in Brunswick and then as an architect at the Brunswick office of gmp, which he ran from 1989-2000. From 1993-2005 he was a partner in the gmp office. Since 2005, Joachim Zais has had his own architectural practice.

After an apprenticeship as mason, Mr. Kamps studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig, graduating in 1995. His diploma thesis, ‘Goethe Institute Prague’, was awarded a scholarship. From 1995 till 2000 he was employed at gmp Hamburg. Together with Hakki Akyol he founded the firm ‘Akyol Kamps Architekten’ in 2000. Since 2010 he has been the managing partner of ‘akyol kamps: bbp architekten gmbh’. From 2002 to 2006 he lectured at the FH Buxtehude and since 2008 has been a tutor for the Academy for Architectural Culture in Hamburg. In 2011 he became professor for structural design at Hochschule 21.
www.akyolkamps-bbp.de

Licensed architect from UIC (International University of Catalonia) in 2005, PhD in 2017. Founding Partner Architect of OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona) together with Xavier Martí, Carlos and Lucía Ferrater in 2006. Vice-Dean of Culture Publications and International Relations (2008-2011) and director of workshops and lectures at the school of Architecture, UIC. Author of the book “Synchronizing Geometry”. He has received several awards for his designs, given lectures and participated in round tables and juries in more than 20 countries.

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Níall McLaughlin received his architectural qualifications from University College Dublin in 1984. He worked for Scott Tallon Walker and established his practice in 1990. He won Young British Architect of the Year in 1998 and received the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for Simultaneous Contribution to Theory and Practice in 2016. Níall exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 2016 and 2018. Níall is Professor of Architectural Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and was visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles and Yale.

www.niallmclaughlin.com

Jette Cathrin Hopp is a graduate architect and has been working with Snøhetta since 2005. She is part of the management group as project director and head of acquisitions and new projects. Jette has extensive experience in complex both Norwegian and international projects and led major international project developments and competitions. She has lectured in several architectural symposia, sharing Snøhetta´s philosophy and design ideas and she is also used in jury work in several architecture competitions.

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Viggo Haremst belongs to the partner group of Henning Larsen, operating worldwide. He has vast international experience leading prize-winning competitions and projects of different scales in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He initiates and develops projects with a strong conceptual identity and coordinates the design direction of ongoing projects. His focus is on large public buildings, headquarters, universities and mixed-use projects in diverse cultural contexts. As partner of Henning Larsen, he actively represents the company as keynote speaker in various parts of the world.

www.henninglarsen.com

Born in Madrid in 1957. He has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1981. He is a professor and holds the chair of Principles of Design at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities and was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA (1986-1991). He chairs and participates in international conferences and juries and is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
www.nietosobejano.com

Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a Partner at BIG who brings his expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He heads up BIG’s business development in over 20 different countries as well as overseeing BIG’s Communications. He compliments his professional work through previous teaching assignments at the University of Florida, the New School of Architecture in San Diego and the University of Virginia. He also sits on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works of BIG.

www.bik.dk

Jörn Walter, born in Bremen in 1957. Studied at Dortmund University, after 1990 Head of the Urban Planning Office Dresden and since 1999 Chief Planning Officer of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Teaching activities at the Technical Universities Vienna and Dresden as well as at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg and the HafenCity University Hamburg. Publications on questions of urban development and architecture.

Declan is a partner at Grimshaw Architects with a specialist knowledge of rail and transport projects. He has had a central role in expanding and consolidating Grimshaw’s work in the rail sector, playing a vital part in winning and leading both the Reading and London Bridge Station projects. Declan led the masterplan for Waterloo Station and is currently partner in charge of the High Speed 2 (HS2) redevelopment proposals for London Euston. He is a recognised industry leader in the masterplanning, design and delivery of transport interchanges.

www.grimshaw-architects.com

Born in Amsterdam in 1953, studied architecture and urban planning at TU Delft. He worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) 1980 – 1989, since 1983 as a Partner. In 1989 he founded his own company in Rotterdam operating under the name of KCAP Architects&Planners since 2002. He was co-founder and Partner of the office ASTOC Architects and Planners in Cologne 1990 – 2002. 1996 – 2003 he taught architecture and urban planning at TU Berlin. He has been a professor at ETH in Zurich since 2003. In 2009 he was curator of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR).
www.kcap.eu

Stefan Forster was born in Rockenhausen in 1958. After his studies at TU Berlin from 1978 to 1984 he received a scholarship for Venice in 1985. Following, he worked with Langhof in Berlin as well as with Kuhler in Mannheim from 1986 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993 he worked as an assistant to the chair housing construction at the TH Darmstadt. He founded Stefan Forster Architekten in Darmstadt in 1989. Today, the office is located in Frankfurt am Main being engaged in various facets of urban housing construction.

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Chris van Duijn (Master of Architecture, TU of Delft) joined OMA in 2000 and is based in Rotterdam. He has been involved in many of OMA’s most renowned projects incl. Universal Studios (LA), the Prada stores (NYC, LA), Casa da Musica (Porto) and CCTV Headquarters (Beijing). He has also worked on interiors and small-scale projects including private houses, product design and temporary structures such as the Prada Transformer in Seoul. He is overseeing several projects incl. the Fondazione Prada (Milan), the Parc des Expositions (Toulouse) and product development projects.

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Born in Altenrhein, Switzerland, studied architecture at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/M and at the HdK Berlin. Founder and head of the architectural practice of the same name founded in 1992. He has transferred his conceptual approach into ever new contexts from urban planning, transportation infrastructure, conversions, preservation tasks, exhibitions to furniture design. Numerous awards, among others most recently the BDA award “Nike 2010” for the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum. Since 2004 Max Dudler teaches as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

www.maxdudler.com

Born in Prague in 1957. He studied architecture at the TU Prague and Berlin as well as at the AA in London. With Thomas Müller he founded the architectural practice Thomas Müller Ivan Reimann Architekten in 1994. Professor for Design and Building Theory at TU Dresden since 1999, visiting professor at UMPRUM, Prague in 2014. Among his most important projects in Berlin are the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the office and commercial buildings at “Leipziger Platz” and “Hackesches Quartier” as well as faculty buildings at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M.

www.mueller-reimann.de

Carlo Cappai and Maria Alessandra Segantini are principals and directors of C+S Architects, Treviso, Italy. They have lectured internationally e.g. at the MoMA and Columbia University GSAPP, the MIT and Syracuse University, where they have also been visiting professors. Presently they are visiting professors at the Hasselt School of Architecture in Belgium and the UEL in London. C+S works have been published and awarded internationally and e.g. exhibited in the Biennale of Architecture of Venice, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris and the RIBA, London.
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Born in Ludwigsburg in 1967. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart and the University of Stuttgart. He has worked for David Chipperfield Architects since 1996, initially in London and since 1998 in Berlin. In 2006 he became a managing director and in 2011 a partner in the Berlin office. As design director, he is responsible for the design of numerous projects and competitions, including the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island and the Museum Folkwang in Essen. He has furthermore held a number of academic teaching positions.
www.davidchipperfield.co.uk

Born in Stuttgart in 1966. Studies of Architecture and Urban Development at the TU Stuttgart (diploma), DAAD scholarship for the Architectural Association, London. 1988-1989 at the office Alsop & Lyall in London, founding with Armand Grüntuch the office Grüntuch Ernst Architects in Berlin in 1991. Regular lectures and judge at competitions. Commissioner of the German Contribution at International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2006. Since 2010 member of the committee for town planning in Munich, chair at the Institute for Design and Architectural Strategies at the TU Braunschweig since 2011.
www.gruentuchernst.de

Born in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1968. He studied at the ETH Zurich (Diploma in 1994, cum laude) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York. Project leader at OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1995–1997). Independent architect since 1997, founding E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten with Wim Eckert in 2001. Regular lectures and workshops at universities and institutes. Visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology, the HCU Hamburg and senior lecturer at the ETH Zurich. Guest professor at the USI - USI Università della Svizzera italiana at Mendrisio since 2014.
www.e2a.ch

Ben van Berkel, born in Utrecht in 1957, the Netherlands, is the Co-Founder and Principal Architect of UNStudio in Amsterdam and Shanghai. Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987. Currently he is Professor Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main and was recently awarded the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor's Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
www.unstudio.com

Born in Heilbronn in 1964. Studied civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Dipl.-Ing.). Since 1991 engineer for schlaich bergermann und partner, Beratende Ingenieure im Bauwesen, Stuttgart; in 2000 Partner, Managing Director in 2002. Worldwide construction projects especially in the field of education, sports and culture. Numerous awards, among others the bridge-building prize for the bridge Gänsebachtal and an award at the German Steel Construction Prize for the Dongguan baseball stadium, the IAKS award in 2013 for the Baoan stadium. Publishes in technical magazines.
www.sbp.de

Studies of architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) and University College London. PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture/Dept. of Computer Science (University College London). Her research centres on the intersection between architecture and computer science: the changes that digital technologies instigate in the way architecture is thought, designed and built. Founder of the Centre for IT and Architecture research group (CITA/KADK) in 2005. Full Professor in Architecture and Digital Technologies in 2010.
www.cita.karch.dk

Born in Stuttgart in 1958. He studied mechanical engineering, focusing on energy saving technologies, at the University of Stuttgart, at which he was a research assistant at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering from 1987 to 1992. In 1992 he founded the company TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik GmbH. For many years, he was in parallel to working in the office also already lecturing in Germany, before then being appointed visiting professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. From 2008 till 2014, after seven years as a visiting professor, he took up the adjunct professorship for Environmental Technologies there.

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Prof. Paolo Fusi was born in Lecco, Italy. Graduated in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan, he was working since 1989 as an independent architect in Italy and Switzerland. In 1999 he has been an invited professor at the ETH Zürich and is since 2000 Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the HafenCity University Hamburg. In 2004 he founded Fusi & Ammann Architekten in Hamburg together with Stefanie Ammann Fusi. They aim to create minimal and pure architecture as an essential synthesis between a logic attitude and creativity.
www.fusi-ammann.com

Born 1957. Studied architecture at the ETH Zürich, 1983 “Diplom” degree. Freelance architect since 1991. Shared office and cooperation with A. Nieuwenhuizen since 1996. 2002–2004 visiting professor at the TU Berlin, 2005–2007 visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences Münster. 2005 Member of the Academy of the Arts Berlin. 2007 Partnership with A. Nieuwenhuizen. 2008 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. 2008–2009 visiting professor at the University of Arts Stuttgart. 2009 BDA Grand Prix. Professor at the Technical University Braunschweig since 2012.
www.staab-architekten.com

Co-owner/manager of the architectural practice Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten. Self-employed since his degree at the TU Munich. Teaching assignments for architecture and urban development at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2005, the École Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Nancy (F 2007), the CIAD at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences since 2013. Temporary professorship at the Cologne UAS (2009-2013). Since 2010 organizer “International Workshop in Corporate Architecture”, international lectures, publications and competition juries.

Born in 1962, Vienna. Studied at TU Vienna (Dipl.-Ing.) and at ETH Zurich (Dr. sc. tech.). Teaching at TU Vienna since 1989. Research areas: History and Theory of Architecture, CAAD, Didactics of Architecture. Chairman of the Austrian Architectural Foundation since 2000. Member of the OECD Working Group for Educational Buildings (2005 – 2011). Architectural critic for newspapers and journals (e.g. Architektur- und Bauforum, Architecture d`aujourd´hui, ARCH+). Commissioner for the Austrian Contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014.

Born in 1974. Studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig. Associate Professor (since 2006) at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA), Copenhagen. With a background in scientific research and architectural practice, his work links the speculative and its realization. The projects are of collaborative nature and include installations, competitions and interiors to architectural projects. Besides lectures, he has taught workshops in various locations worldwide.

Born 1969 in Hamburg, Germany. 1989 – 1998 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany and Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Diploma M. Arch. 1989 – 2001 DKV Architecten, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Since 2001 Kuehn Malvezzi, Berlin, Germany.
2009– 2010 visiting professor at the RWTH Aachen, Germany.
www.kuehnmalvezzi.com

Founder and CEO of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter and mm+. 1993-2007 professorship for Exhibition Design and Visual Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, since 2008 professorship for Conceptual and Experimental Design at TU Darmstadt. Since 2013 chairperson of the University Council of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His office is specialised in exhibition and museum design as well as visual communication and media planning, second focus is restauration and repair of historically significant buildings.

www.hgmerz.com

Born in 1957, degree in architecture from Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, postgraduate with Peter Cook at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M. Freelancer for Sir Norman Foster. Since 1988 with Till Schneider founder, owner and manager of the office schneider+schumacher, since 2008 various subdivisions as well as additional offices in Austria and China. Visiting professor at the Städelschule (1999-2000), since 2007 professor for design and constructing at Leibniz University Hanover. 2004-2009 regional chairman/Association of German Architects (BDA Hesse).

Gerhard Hausladen was born in 1947. He studied mechanical engineering at TU Munich, before becoming research associate at the chair for building services & building physics. With his PhD completed in 1980 he founded his engineering office for MEP, building physics and energy technology in 1986. From 1992 to 2001 he was professor for Technical Building Services at Kassel University. During this time he was co-founder of the “Center for environmentally aware Building” (ZUB). In 2001 he became Professor at TU Munich. Furthermore he is the CEO of ClimaDesign e.V. and received numerous awards.
www.ibhausladen.de

Herbert Girardet is an author, consultant and filmmaker. He is chairman of the Schumacher Society UK, an honorary fellow of Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA), a patron of the Soil Association, and a recipient of a UN Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievements’. In 2003 he was "Thinker in Residence" in Adelaide, developing sustainability strategies for South Australia. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria, Middlesex University, and the University of West of England.
www.worldfuturecouncil.org

Brian Cody has been at the helm of the Institute for Building and Energy at the Graz University of Technology since its inaguration in 2004. His prime focus being maximising energy efficiency of cities and buildings. Before his appointment to Graz he was an associate director at the internationally reknowed firm of Arup as well as Design Leader and Buisiness Development Leader of Arup GmbH. He continues to be a scientific advisor to Arup. Brian Cody holds a variety of memberships to councils and juries and is Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
www.tugraz.at

Gesine Weinmiller was born in 1963. She studied architecture at the Technical University in Munich. She founded her own practice in Berlin in 1992, which she has been operating in partnership with Michael Grossmann since 1999. From 1999-2000 she was a professor at the Bergische University in Wuppertal. Since 2000, she has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 2003, her firm opened an office in Cologne.
www.weinmiller.de

Yuhang Kong was born in 1962. He studied architecture at Tongji University and Ohio State University, graduating from there with an M.Arch. in 1988. In 1989 he completed his Master in Design Studies course at Harvard University. From 1989 – 1990 he worked for Eisenman Architects in New York; from 1990 – 1994 he was Chief Designer with the Retail Design Group in Columbus, Ohio. Since 1997, he has been the director of the School of Architecture and Fine Art at Dalian University of Technology in China.
www.dlut.edu.cn

Rainer Hascher was born in 1950. He finished his studies of architecture at the University of Stuttgart in 1975 and established his own architectural practice in 1979. Since 1992, he has been in partnership with Sebastian Jehle in a joint practice. Following offers of chairs at the technical universities in Aachen and Berlin and the University of Stuttgart, he has headed the department of Structural Design and Climate-Responsive Architecture at the Technical University in Berlin since 1993.
www.hascherjehle.de

GRAFT is three architects: Lars Krückeberg, born in 1967, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, both born in 1968. All of them graduated at the Technical University of Brunswick. In 1998 they founded their office GRAFT in Los Angeles, which sees itself as a "Label for Architecture, Urban Planning, Exhibition Design, Music and the pursuit of happiness". 2001 saw the opening of the Berlin office, 2003 that of the Beijing office.
www.graftlab.com

Born in Hittisau in 1952, Austria. He studied architecture at the TU Wien. 1984-2009 co-work with Carlo Baumschlager. The conservation of resources and optimizing the planning process are his main focal points. Today, he conducts the internationally renowned architecture practice baumschlager eberle with ten branches worldwide. Since the 80s continuous teaching at universities, e.g. in Hanover, Vienna, Linz, Syracuse (N.Y.), Darmstadt, Madrid, Jerusalem and Hongkong, since 1999 professor for Architecture and Design at the ETH Zurich, head of the ETH “Wohnforum”/ETH CASE.

www.baumschlager-eberle.com

Hinnerk Wehberg was born in 1936. He graduated in painting from HfbK, Hamburg University of fine Arts in 1962. During his time as freelance painter and sculptor he also worked on art comissions relating to building projects. Between 1966 and 1969 he was visiting professor at HfbK and since 1969 founding partner of the office for landscapedesign "Wehberg-Lange". From 1982 onwards he has been professor at the faculty of urban and landscape design at TU Braunschweig and has been called into the Council of Building Culture.
www.wesup.de

Werner Sobek was born in 1953. In 1987 he took a doctorate in structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart. From 1991-1994 he was a profes-sor at the University of Hanover. In 1992 he founded his own structural en-gineering firm Werner Sobek Ingenieure in Stuttgart. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the University of Stuttgart, and since 2006 chairman of the college council of Hafen City University in Hamburg. In 2007, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University. Werner Sobek currently operates seven offices worldwide.
www.wernersobek.com

Sebastian Jehle, born 1965, graduated in Stuttgart in 1992. In the same year, he founded his own architectural office in Berlin, together with Rainer Hascher. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the University of Stuttgart, and since 2004 he has been Professor for Design and Construction at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Sebastian Jehle is a founding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen e.V. (German Society for Sustainable Construction).
www.hascherjehle.de

From 1989–1996 Kai Babetzki studied physics at the University of Siegen, Germany and joined TRANSSOLAR in 1996. He is a specialist in everything regarding daylight. Since 2007 he has been a visiting professor for sustainability and concept design at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart where he also supports the artificial sky lab. He worked on some very important projects such as the Sheikh Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi (UAE) with Foster + Partners (London), the Louvre Abu Dhabi (UAE) with Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris), the e.on Energy Research Center at RWTH University, Aachen with Zaha Hadid Architects.
www.transsolar.com