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 Paola
Antonelli
Acting Chief Curator, Architecture
and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Paola Antonelli, an
alumna of Milan's Polytechnic's School of Architecture,
joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994. In addition to her
work at The MoMA, Paola has been a Contributing Editor
for Domus magazine (1987-91)
and an editor of Abitare (1992-94). In 1991-93,
she was a lecturer at UCLA, and more recently a lecturer
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is currently
working on an exhibition on the relationship between architecture,
design, and science; a book about
foods as outstanding examples of design; and on trying to
get a Boeing 747 into the collection of The Museum of Modern
Art. Paola is co-curator of the Venice SuperBlog. (Photo credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
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  Tim
Balaam and Kate Sclater
Hyperkit
Hyperkit is a London-based graphic design studio founded in 2001 by Tim
Balaam and Kate Sclater working on print, web-based and three-dimensional
commissions. Their approach to visual communication has led to a diverse
range of projects including the website and catalogue for the Interaction
Design course at the Royal College of Art, a new Art Trolley for Tate Britain,
and a self-authored book, Life Size, for Victionary publishers. Their website,
www.hyperkit.co.uk, allows them to publish their commercial output along
with self-initiated work in the form of a journal, and frequently features
photographic stories of trips and experiences. |
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 Shumon
Basar
Writer, curator, editor
Shumon Basar is an editor at sexymachinery and Tank magazines; director
of the newly established Curatorial and Cultural Practices initiative at
the Architectural Association, teaches at the Royal College of Art; and
is co-founder of the curatorial/design group Newbetter. He has written
for Art Review, Blueprint, Domus and Modern Painters, and is co-editor
of Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press/Revolver).
He is also undertaking a PhD. at the Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture,
London. |
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 Barry
Bergdoll
Architectural historian and critic
Bary Bergdoll is Professor of Art History at Columbia University and Chair
of the Department of Art History there. In January 2007 he will become the Philip
C. Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA. He has published
numerous books and articles on the history of architectural theory and
practice in the 19th and 20th centuries, was co-curator with Terence Riley
of Mies in Berlin (2001) and has written extensively on contemporary architecture
and on architectural exhibitions in both the professional and scholarly
press.
Photo credit: Eileen Barroso, courtesy of Columbia University |
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 Stefano
Boeri
Architects and editor in chief, Domus
Stefano Boeri, born in 1956, is a Milan-based architect. He studied architecture
in Milan and obtained his PhD in 1989 from IUAV in Venice. He is currently
editor in chief of Domus magazine and teaches Urban Design at Milan Polytechnic.
His studio in Milan (Boeri Studio) focuses on architecture and urban design.
He has organised numerous interdisciplinary exhibitions as well as initiating
various research projects, among which Uncertain States of Europe (USE) and Border Device(s), as well as the Multiplicity network. A Multiplicity
installation, Solid Sea, was exhibited at Documenta XI in
Kassel in 2002. |
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 Lucy
Bullivant
Curator, consultant, author, and critic
Heinz Curator of Architectural Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts
in the early 1990s, and an RCA-trained cultural historian,
Lucy Bullivant has since curated international exhibitions including Space
Invaders (with Pedro Gadanho) for the British Council, The near and the
far, fixed and in flux for the XIX Triennale di Milano and Kid size: the
material world of childhood for Vitra Design Museum.
Correspondent to Domus, a+u, AD, among others, she has written several books including 4dspace: interactive architecture (Wiley). She has organized several conferences and regularly lectures
and chairs events. She is a consultant to international
agencies, museums, galleries, and corporate bodies. |
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 Michele
Brunello
Architect, writer, and educator
Michele Brunello is an architect and PhD candidate at the IUAV University
of Venice in Urbanism since 2005. He is coordinator of the cultural association
attualAmente, where he is curator of projects and exhibitions in private
and public spaces, a member of studioplano, an architecture and urban planning
studio based in Venice, and Assistant Professor of Laboratory of Photography.
Michele is also partner of the design and furniture company Laima srl. |
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Jose
Castillo
Arquitectura 911sc and Universitat Ibero Americana
Biography to follow. |
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 Sam Causer
Artist/Co-founder PANKOF BANK
Sam Causer is an artist and architect. Through producing spaces, words and
images he explores the curious situation humans construct for themselves.
Following ten years of re-building the inner London suburbs he co-founded
Pankof Bank, an arts practice committed to spatial exploration whose recent
projects for the Hayward Gallery and the Architecture Foundation threaten
the way our homes and public institutions are procured and perceived. He
lives and works between the UK and Germany. |
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Neha Choksi
Neha Choksi's interdisciplinary art explores the idiosyncratic intersections of nature and culture, of how humans interpret and recreate their inherited environment, natural or otherwise. Past projects include *Floral Futures Series *(2001) and* Gravity's Playthings* (2005), which explore domestic and childhood consumption of artificial flora and fauna, and the need to create a space for oneself within that artifice. The abandonment of domestic stability has also played a role in past projects, such as *Renouncing the World *(2000), *Homeless Encounters Series *(2004-5), *Absent Decay *(2006). Most of her projects reflect her interests in the natural world, in simple, solitary and compact living, and in the effect of the limits and pressures of time and space on personal object, public memory, and the built environment. She has had several solo and group exhibitions at art venues in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Istanbul, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Mumbai. |
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 Alessandra
Cianchetta
Architect and curator
Alessandra Cianchetta is a partner at AWP, a Paris-based interdisciplinary
studio for architecture, landscape, and design founded in 2003 by five
architects and one philosopher. Current projects include several urban
redevelopments for the City of Lille, a cultural equipment in Bois le
Rois, a park for the Balzac Museum, Château de Saché, and
a contribution to museology in the Modern and Contemporary Gallery of
the City of Architecture
and Heritage, Paris Palais de Chaillot. AWP is part of the pan-european
collective a-graft, runners up in The Architecture Foundation's
new building competition. Alessandra is also co-author of the following
books: Park
Güell (GG, Barcelona 2002); Alvaro Siza: Private
Houses (Skira, Milan 2004); Nightscapes (GG,
Barcelona 2006).
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 Nigel
Coates
Architect & Professor of Architecture, the Royal College of Art
Nigel Coates has consistently explored design from an experience-led point
of view in his ongoing project, Ecstacity. His Guide to Ecstacity was
published in 2003. He co-founded the NATO (Narrative Architecture Today)
group in
1983. His practice Branson Coates Architecture has completed many projects
in Japan, the UK, and Europe, including the National Centre for Popular
Music in Sheffield and the Body Zone in the Millennium Dome, London. He
is also Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. The RCA's
exhibition, Babylon:don, is featured at the Italian Pavilion in
this year's
Biennale in Venice. |
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Tina Di Carlo
Assistant Curator, Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Tina Di Carlo, whose main focus is contemporary architecture, is
currently organizing the exhibition OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Ole Scheeren and Rem Koolhaas (opening November 15, 2006), and curated an exhibition on the same project at the Courtyard Gallery in Beijing in May 2006. Ms. Di Carlo has curated numerous exhibitions at MoMA alone and in conjunction with Terence Riley. Educated at Courtauld Institute, London and Harvard University she holds advanced degrees in Philosophy and Art History as well as a Master's of Architecture. She is a regular contributor to Log: Observations on Architecture, Landscape and the Contemporary City, has published in Domus China, Urban China and 34, and is currently working on an article on Beijing urbanism for Yale's Perspecta. |
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 Ed
Dorrell
News editor, The Architects' Journal
Ed Dorrell, a politics graduate, was born and brought up in London and
is a committed Londoner. The only other city he'd consider living in is
New York. An architectural hack with the Architects' Journal in Britain
for nearly five years, he is particularly interested in urban design and
master planning, especially the socioeconomic consequences of attempted
regeneration. Other interests involve booze, gossip and sausage rolls. |
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 Marcus
Fairs
Editor, icon magazine
Marcus Fairs is the founding editor of international architecture and design magazine icon. A furniture design graduate, Marcus wrote for a number of publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Condé Nast Traveler before launching icon in 2003. Marcus has won numerous awards, including journalist of the year (2002) and architectural journalist of the year (2004). He also regularly appears on radio and TV, most recently writing and presenting a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck for the BBC. His forthcoming book, 21st Century Design, will be published in October. www.icon-magazine.co.uk
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 Paul
Finch
Editor, Architectural Review
Paul Finch was appointed Editor of Architectural Review in March
2005. Previously he was Editor of Building Design, 1983-94; Editor
of the Architects'
Journal,
1994-1999; and Group Editorial Director of Emap Construct, from
1999. He is also a commissioner at CABE (Commission for Architecture and
the Built
Environment) from 1999, deputy chairman from 2000; chair of Design Review
Panel 1999-2004, and Joint Editor, Planning in London since 1994. He was
Architectural Association council member 1992-1997, an honorary FRIBA in
1994, and awarded an OBE in 2002. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate,
University of Westminster, in 2004, and an honorary fellowship, University
College London, in 2006. |
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 Simon Fujiwara
Artist/Co-founder PANKOF BANK
Simon Fujiwara is an artist that lives and works in Berlin. |
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 Guta
Moura Guedes
Guta Moura Guedes is founder of Experimenta, an organisation
devoted to promote design and architecture culture in Lisbon
with conference, symposia, and a renowned biennial show.
She originally studied piano, biology and management,
and started working as a designer in 1992. From 1997 onwards
Guta has been involved in several inter-disciplinary design projects,
acting as a designer, writer, consultant, TV journalist or
curator. She is the Communication, Design and Development
Consultant for Casa da Música, the new Rem Koolhaas
building in Porto. In 2005 she was awarded the title of “'Chevalier
de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French
Government. www.experimentadesign.pt
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Kapil Gupta
Design principal
Kapil Gupta is the design principal at Contemporary Urban, an architecture firm he founded in 1999 in Mumbai after completing his studies at the Architectural Association in London. From the beginnings Kapil Gupta has collaborated with Chris Lee, Unit-Master at the Architectural Association in London. The collaborative practice is fascinated by the evolution and mutation of building types in today's cities and projects these forms of intelligence into spatial solutions. The practice consistently pushes the boundaries of architectural and master planning projects worldwide. The projects have been extensively published in design journals and magazines, and have received many awards. Kapil Gupta is the director of Research and Publications at the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai, where he is currently leading a series of research projects on the city. |
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Zaha
Hadid
Architect
Biography to follow. |
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 Edwin Heathcote
Architect and critic
Edwin Heathcote is an architect and critic living and working in London.
He is the Financial Times Architecture Critic and the author of a number
of books about architecture and design. In 2001 he founded design
manufacturer ize and is currently setting up a company commissioning and making art objects which question the boundaries between art, design
architecture, the useful and the useless.
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 Jacques
Herzog
Architect
Jacques Herzog was born in Basel in 1950 and studied architecture at
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) from 1970
to 1975 with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli. He established
his own practice with Pierre de Meuron in 1978. In 2001, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were jointly
awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. After such notable projects as Tate Modern London (2000); Prada Epicenter Tokyo (2003);
and more recently the new de Young Museum in San Francisco
(2005), current projects include the National Stadium for the
Olympic Games of 2008 in Beijing (2007); the
new Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg (projected completion 2009);
and the new development of Tate Modern (projected completion
2012).
Photo credit: Adriano A. Biondo
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 Cathy Lang Ho
Co-editor-in-chief of The Architect's Newspaper
Cathy Lang Ho is a founder and co-editor-in-chief of The Architect's Newspaper, a bimonthly architecture and design tabloid based in New York. She was formerly a senior editor of Architecture and, prior to that, editor of Design Book Review, an award-winning quarterly literary design journal. Her writing has appeared among others in The New York Times, Domus, and Metropolis. Her books include American Contemporary Furniture (Universe, 2000) and House: American Houses for the New Century (Universe, 2001). She contributed the essay The World in Motion, on the global dissemination of football, to ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
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 Sarah
Ichioka
Exhibition and catalogue content coordinator, 10th International
Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Besides her involvement in this Biennale, Sarah Ichioka is also
a research associate of the Urban Age project, and previously managed several
interdisciplinary consultancy projects and courses at the London School of Economics Cities Programme.
During a fellowship at New York City's Department of Housing Preservation & Development,
Ichioka gained a breadth of experience in land use planning, housing policy,
and local economic development. She holds an MSc in City Design and Social
Science from the LSE and a BA from Yale University. |
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 Kaori Ito
Lecturer
Born in Tokyo. PhD. given by the University of Tokyo in 2001. Lecturer of urbanism at Architecture Department, Tokyo University of Science. Visiting Researcher at Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo. One of her major works is PopulouSCAPE, 3D animation to visualize the world's urbanization. She also has some artistic projects for public spaces under the name of "Picnicienne" of Tokyo Picnic Club. She contributes to Cities, Architecture and Society exhibition in dell'Arsenale with collecting, handling and integrating of the social and physical GIS data of Tokyo. |
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 Tomas
Klassnik
Architect
Tomas Klassnik is an architectural designer working in London. A graduate
from the Royal College of Art and Cambridge University, his project Desktopolis is
on show as part of the RCA's exhibit Babylon:don at this
year's
Venice Biennale, and also appeared at the recent exhibition Best in
Show.
Recent other work includes More-numents for London, a hypothetical
look at the future of London's landmarks seen in The Architecture Foundation's
exhibition Airspace, and writing on both the psychological importance
of the corridor in architecture and the relationship between architecture
and installation art. www.klassnik.com |
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Charlie
Koolhaas
Biography to follow. |
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 Liane Lefaivre
Scholar, journalist, and curator
Liane Lefaivre (Ph.D.) is the Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Universität fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and is a research affiliate of the Urbanism Department at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Her work is devoted to architectural culture and architectural criticism in the framework of cognitive history, architectural history, creativity, and the cognitive/conceptual aspects of the modern in Western culture. Her work relates to two periods: early modern (Renaissance to the end of the 18th century), and post-World War II. |
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 William
Menking
Architect, editor, curator, and educator
William Menking, is a co-founder and editor of The Architect's
Newspaper and is Professor, School of Architecture,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has organized, curated and created
catalogues for exhibitions on architecture for venues in the
U.S. and Europe including Archigram:
Experimental Architecture 1961-1974, Superstudio Life
Without Object's and FRAC Orléans:
Experimental Architecture 1964-2000. He is currently preparing
the exhibition The Art and Architecture of the Counter
Culture on
the utopian community experiments of the 1960's and 1970's
with Alessandra Ponte, as well as editing a book on the British
American architect Michael
Webb.
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 Rowan Moore
Director of the Architecture Foundation
Rowan Moore was appointed Director of The Architecture Foundation in September 2002. He is also architecture critic of the Evening Standard and was formerly editor of Blueprint. He curated Vertigo, an exhibition for Glasgow 1999, and the Denys Lasdun exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. He commissioned Zaha Hadid's Blueprint Pavilion, 1995, and has written books on Tate Modern, the New Art Gallery Walsall, and other subjects. He was a founding partner of Zombory-Moldovan Moore architects. |
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 Toshiko
Mori
Harvard University Graduate School of
Design, and Principal, Toshiko Mori Architects
Toshiko Mori is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor
in the Practice of Architecture and the chair of the Department
of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
since 2002. Mori taught at
the Cooper Union since 1983, until joining the Harvard GSD faculty
with tenure in 1995. She has edited a
volume on material and fabrication research, Immaterial/Ultramaterial,
and is currently preparing Textile Tectonic in Architecture. In 2003, Mori was awarded the Cooper Union Inaugural
John Hejduk Award. In 2005, she received the Academy Award in
Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
the Medal of Honor from the New York City AIA. Mori earned a
Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Cooper Union and an
Honorary Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. (Photo credit: Nana Watanabe)
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 Peter Murray
Founder/ Director of the London Architecture Biennale
Peter Murray is the Founder/ Director of the London Architecture Biennale, Exhibition Director of New London Architecture and Chairman of Wordsearch. Formerly editor of Building Design and the RIBA Journal, he was co-founder of Blueprint magazine and has curated a number major architectural exhibitions including Foster Rogers Stirling and Living Bridges, both at the Royal Academy London. He is also Editor in chief of London Property Review and Honorary Secretary of The Architecture Club and of the Bedford Park Society. |
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 Gerrard
O'Carroll
Architect and curator
Gerrard O'Carroll is a Senior Tutor in Architecture at The Royal College
of Art, London, and Co-Curator of Babylon:don, the RCA installation at the
Padiglione Italia for the Tenth Architecture Venice Biennale. Gerrard has
worked with Nigel Coates at Branson Coates Architecture and has been Project
Director at The Architecture Foundation. He has designed and curated exhibitions
for clients such as the British Council with his company O:N:E and written
for architectural magazines in the UK. He is currently writing a new architectural
anti-manifesto Towards Autopia. |
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 Shane O'Toole
Architect and critic
Founding member of Docomomo International (Eindhoven, 1990) and Group 91 Architects (Temple Bar, Dublin, 1990), Shane O'Toole writes on architecture for The Sunday Times (Irish edition) since 1999, and was winner of the UIA (International Union of Architects) Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for town planning and territorial development, 2002. He is a jury member of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award) and Irish Commissioner for the Venice Biennale in 2004 and 2006, as well as the inaugural Curator-Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation, 2005. www.irish-architecture.com/tesserae |
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 Alicia
Pivaro
Independent curator and consultant
After training as an architect at the Bartlett, Alicia Pivaro held key
positions at the Arts Council, the RIBA Architecture Gallery and The Architecture
Foundation creating projects that promoted architecture to the public.
These included Strangely Familiar, Zuppa Inglese, Greetings from London and Architecture Week. Her latest project is a major exhibition on Formula
One for the Design Museum, London. |
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Carlo
Ratti
Director, MIT Media Lab's SENSEable City Laboratory
An architect and engineer, Carlo Ratti directs SENSEable City Laboratory,
a new research initiative that explores how technology is transforming
urban design and living. Carlo is also founding partner and director of
carlorattiassociati, a rapidly growing architectural practice that was
established in Turin, Italy, in 2002, and is currently involved in a number
of architectural schemes, both nationally and internationally. A junior
fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has co-authored four patents and over
forty scientific publications. Carlo contributes articles on architecture
to the magazines Domus, Casabella, Abitare and the Italian newspapers La
Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica). |
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 Elias
Redstone
Curator, The Architecture Foundation
Elias Redstone, in collaboration with Paola Antonelli, is the curator of
the Venice SuperBlog. He joined The Architecture Foundation in 2003. In July 2005, he oversaw the opening of The AF's
Yard Gallery with Hairywood, an award-winning installation by 6a Architects
and Eley Kishimoto. At the Yard he also curated I Shot Norman Foster,
featuring new work by art, fashion and reportage photographers, and Renegade
City, a season of exhibitions and events throughout summer 2006. This included
Glory Hole, Proclamations for a Beautiful City and Best in Show. Elias
also runs Architecture Rocks for the AF and the London Architecture Biennale
and occasionally writes for art and design magazines. |
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 Peter
Reed
Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Modern Art
Before being appointed to his current position in 2005, Peter Reed was
Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, a department
he joined in 1992. Reed organized Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary
Landscape (2005) and AUTObodies: speed, sport, transport,
an exhibition devoted to the Museum's automobile collection (2002). He
also organized Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism (1998),
and The United
Nations in Perspective (1995). At MoMA, he also assisted Terence
Riley with the organization of The Long View, an exhibition
on contemporary architecture (2000), and with Frank Lloyd Wright:
Architect (1994), the most comprehensive presentation of Wright's
architectural work since his death in 1959. |
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 Angeli
Sachs
Art historian and head of exhibitions, the Museum für Gestaltung
Zürich (Museum of Design Zurich)
Angeli Sachs has worked at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the German Architectural
Museum, the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the
ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and as editor-in-chief
for architecture and design at Prestel Publishing. Her works include several exhibitions and publications such as Museums for a New Millennium:
Concepts, Projects, Buildings (with Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani) and Jewish
Identity in Contemporary Architecture (with Edward van Voolen). Currently
she is preparing the exhibition and book Nature Design: From Inspiration
to Innovation (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Lars Müller
Publishers, 2007). |
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 Teresa Sapey
Superstar architect
Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura is a Madrid based Architecture and design Studio first founded in 1990. A team with great curiosity, energetically designing projects of spaces and many other areas (eg. ephimeral display, graphics, editorial, etc). Projects stem from emotions and feelings, and produce results which can convey them to the users just as they were felt by the team. This would have to be atributted to their ability of expressing their sensibility property, rather than to any action of intention. Design, in fact, squeezes the act of creation into a few manualised frames - consistent concepts, harmony with the users, purpose of space, etc. A designer's accuracy would depend on how much he/she can expresshis/her freedom in their own terms. Created by designers who lay out verses in spaces and say they are inspired most by light, their projects may come as abstract at the first glance. Blending creativity, functionalism,art and design appropriately, their intuition produce spaces that communicate ideas clearly. |
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Saskia
Sassen
University of Chicago and London School of Economics
Saskia Sassen is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights:
From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006).
She has completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human
settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists
in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia
of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers). Her books
are translated into sixteen languages. Her comments have appeared in The
Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International
Herald Tribune, Vanguardia, Clarin, Financial Times, among others. |
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Andres
Sevstuk
MIT
Biography to follow. |
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  James
Soane and Christopher Ash
Principals, Project Orange
Project Orange is an eight-year-old, London-based architecture practice
with a broad and original portfolio of work that spans retail, hotels,
and residential.
The company's
two principals, James and Christopher, lead a team that is passionate about
design and detail. Based in London, recent Project Orange clients include
Myhotels, Moran Hotel Group, Virgin, SAS Rezidor, Monsoon, and Oakham School.
They have just completed their first major building in Sheffield and are
currently working on projects in Russia and India. A monograph of their
work, Catalogue, is published by Black Dog Publishing. |
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 Jeremy Till
Architect
Jeremy Till is an architect and educator. He is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield where he has established an internationally leading reputation in educational theory and practice. Books include Architecture and Participation and The Everyday and Architecture. As an architect, he is a Director in Sarah Wigglesworth Architects best known for their pioneering building, 9 Stock Orchard Street (The Straw House and Quilted Office), which has received extensive international acclaim and multiple awards. Books include Architecture and Participation and The Everyday and Architecture. He is curating the British Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, having assembled the cream of Sheffield’s creative industries to present the installation ‘Echo City.’ |
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 Gemma
Tipton
Writer, critic, and curator
Gemma Tipton is an independent writer and critic of contemporary art and
architecture. Based in Dublin, Gemma is the editor of Space: Architecture
for Art, an investigation of the architecture of contemporary art
galleries; and author of Home, a study of contemporary memorials.
Reviews, features and interviews are published in The Irish Times, Art
and Architecture
Journal,
CIRCA, Fuse, and VAN, among others. She has been manager of CIRCA Magazine
and editor of Contexts, as well as a judge for the Museum of the Year Awards,
and for the AIB Prize. She was awarded the Arts Council's Critic's
Bursary in Contemporary Architecture Writing. |
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Füsun
Türetken
Shrinking Cities
Biography to follow. |
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Hans
Ulrich Obrist
Curator
Biography to follow. |
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Henry
Urbach
Curator and writer
Henry Urbach has recently been appointed Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of
Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For
nearly ten years he directed Henry Urbach Architecture, a gallery of contemporary
art and architecture in New York City, and frequently writes about architecture,
design, and culture. |
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 Pieternel Vermoortel
Independent Curator
Pieternel Vermoortel is an independent curator and arthistorian working in london and a recent graduate from the curating course at Goldsmiths College. Togheter with Judith Vaninghen she curated Best in Show for the Architecture Foundation within the series Renegade city. She is one of the starting members of Wehen, an international artproductionagency and is developping the ongoing project Confusion as a Mode of Sensibility that will take of with the exhibition First sudden Gone the One, First sudden Back in London. www.confusionproject.net |
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 Nathalie
Weadick
Deputy Director, The Architecture Foundation
Nathalie Weadick joined the The Architecture Foundation in 2005. Previously
she was Curator at the Butler Galley, an Arts Council-funded gallery near
Dublin. In her time there she curated over fourty exhibitions of
varying sizes and of national and international significance. Among some
of the most ambitious were on Ernesto Neto (2004), Paul McCarthy (2002), Roman
Signer (2001), and Tony Cragg (2000). She recently contributed to the Architecture
as Art conference in Cork and Spatial Imagination, a symposium organised
by The Bartlett School of Architecture. |
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 Debbie
Whitfield
Assistant Director, New London Architecture
Debbie Whitfield is Assistant Director of New London Architecture (NLA),
a centre dedicated to the future of the built environment
in London. The capital is undergoing a period of massive change and NLA
is a place where everyone - professionals, politicians and the public -
can find out and get involved in what is happening to the city. Debbie
is also a founding member of the London Architecture Diary, an online portal
into the capital's architecture scene providing full daily listings along
with exclusive commentary and recommendations from architects, designers
and journalists, illustrated by London's emerging graphic design talent.
www.newlondonarchitecture.org / www.londonarchitecturediary.com |
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 Stephen Witherford
Architect, Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Stephen Witherford studied at Plymouth and Cambridge, and worked for Eric
Parry Architects, before setting up his practice in 2001 with William Mann
and Christopher Watson. The practice completed Amnesty International's new
UK headquarters last year, in East London, with Gregori Chiarotti Architects.
Current projects include the extension and renovation of the Whitechapel
Art Gallery (with Robbrecht en Daem Architects), their winning Europan housing
scheme for Stonebridge in west London, and new offices for the Arts Council
England, in Manchester. Stephen taught for the LSE Cities Programme from
2003 to 2006, and has been a London Development Agency Design Advisor for
the past 3 years. |
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Sevin
Yildiz
Architect
Biography to follow. |
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