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Paulo Barbaresi

Paulo Barbaresi is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has a degree in architecture from the FAUDI, National University of Córdoba, Argentina and ETSAM, Madrid, Spain. He is a practicing architect since 2006. He is a qualified architect at CAPC, Argentina and at ZAPS, Slovenia. He worked for Chapman Taylor Spain, Richards Partington Architects UK and Atelier Arhitekti, Slovenia and has collaborated with MetroStudio UK, Trije Arhitekti, Slovenia and Marcello Rodriguez Pons & Partners, Argentina. He runs his own practice since 2011. His work is emboldened by parallel research for the Secrtary of Science and Technology SECyT, National University of Cordoba, Argentina. As a continuum of his academic degree concerning Light and Hybrid Cultures (2005-2006), his is current body of research—which defines his PhD thesis—explores the Generative role of Light in design processes.

Colleen Chiu-Shee

Colleen Chiu-Shee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She has a professional background in architecture and urban design and has received scholarly training in architectural history and theory as well as social sciences. Her work and life experiences in Asia, North America, and Europe have inspired her curiosity about various people, places, cultures, political regimes, and their interactions. Colleen’s expertise lies at the intersection of four interlocking fields of study—city design and development, urban governance, environmental studies and global studies. Building on the discourses in the four fields, she explores innovative interventions in the built environment and in societal systems that transcend preexisting paradigms to address human and environmental problems and that stimulate social progress on a transnational scale. She is appointed as the International Expert by CCICED (China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development) to support the “Green Urbanization” task force, initiative
by the Development Research Center of China’s State Council. At DUSP, she co-instructs design studios and graduate courses on city design and development. She also co-organizes Urban China Workshop, sponsored by MIT China Future City Lab to enable research dialogues on China’s urban issues.

François J. Bonnet

François J. Bonnet is a Franco-Swiss composer, writer and theoretician based in Paris. He’s been a member of INA GRM since 2007 and became its director in 2018. He has published several books (The Order of Sounds, a sonorous Archipelago and The Infra-World have been published in English by Urbanomic). His last work to date Après la mort, has been published in 2017 by éditions de l’Eclat. He’s also editor of the SPECTRES book series (Shelter Press) and the Recollection GRM record series (Editions Mego) and produces radio show for national radio France Musique. His music has been played in renowned venues and festivals all over the world.

Levent Kara

Levent Kara is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida and teaches design studios and theory courses. He is a registered architect in Turkey and has many awards for his design projects from the American Institute of Architects. Supporting his architectural practice and teaching, Kara’s theoretical research concentrates on the epistemology of design thinking, from the fundamental modalities of architectural design in terms of the relation between thinking and making, to the more contemporary discussions on the conceptual and practical aspects of design processes. Kara’s writings range from formal philosophical subjects in epistemology, aesthetics, and culture theory, to architectural design, theory and criticism, and architectural pedagogy.

Marina Lathouri

Marina Lathouri is the director of the Graduate Programme in History and Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association in London and visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain and the Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile. She studied architecture, philosophy of art and aesthetics. Her research, writings and teaching lie in the conjunction of history and politics of historiography, architecture and writing practices, the city and political philosophy. She co-authored Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (Routledge 2008), directed the AA research project City Cultures: Contemporary Positions on the City (AA Publications 2010) and published numerous articles. In her teachings and writings, she aligns histories of the architectural and urban project with contemporary arguments as well as textual, visual and design practices.

Robert McCarter

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, author, and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He has also taught at the University of Florida, Columbia University, and at six other institutions in the US, Netherlands, Peru, and Italy. During his 38 years in academia, McCarter has taught at least one design studio every semester, and he has taught more than 2,000 students. He has had his own architectural practice since 1982, in New York, Florida and St. Louis, with twenty-five realized buildings. He is the author of twenty-five published books to date, including A Moment in the Sun: Robert Ernest’s Brief but Brilliant Life in Architecture (2023); Louis I. Kahn (2nd edition 2022); Place Matters: The Architecture of WG Clark (2019); Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Aldo van Eyck (2015); Herman Hertzberger (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience (2012, with Juhani Pallasmaa); Louis I. Kahn (2005), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1997). Among other awards and honors, the curators of the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture selected McCarter as an International Exhibitor, and his exhibit was entitled “Freespace in Place: Four Unrealized Modern Architectural Designs for Venice; Carlo Scarpa’s Quattro progetti per Venezia Revisited;” and he was named one of the “Ten Best Architecture Teachers in the US” in December 2009.

Michael McGarry

Michael McGarry was born Dublin, educated at the School of Architecture UCD Dublin and UVa Virginia, worked in London for the Richard Rogers Partnership, and then in Germany and West Berlin as both architect and urban designer for Josef Paul Kleihues and International Building Exhibition Berlin. In practice in Ireland with Siobhán Ní Éanaigh as McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects since 1984, he is a Fellow of the RIAI, a founder member Group 91 Architects, RTPI Gold Medal winner, RIAI Silver Medal for Housing winner, RIAI Annual Awards winner, AAI Annual Awards winner, CCCB European Prize for Urban Public Space winner, and the 2017 Union of International Architects Medal Winner for Inclusive Spaces. Published and exhibited internationally. Adjunct Professor of Architecture at RMIT Melbourne 2014/18. Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University Belfast involved in design teaching and design practice research since 2009. External examiner and reviewer in various schools of architecture in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, and Japan.

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936), architect, designer, writer, professor emeritus. Practiced design in collaboration with other architects since 1962 and in 1983-2012 through his office in Helsinki. He has held positions, as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and several visiting professorships in the USA. He has taught and lectured in numerous universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008-2014.

He has published 60 books and over 400 essays, articles and prefaces, and his writings have been translated into 35 languages. His widely known books include: The Embodied Image, The Thinking Hand, The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema, and The Eyes of the Skin.

He is Honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA, Academician of the International Academy of Architecture, and has received numerous Finnish and international awards and five Honorary Doctorates.

Nader Tehrani

Nader Tehrani is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. Tehrani is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department from 2010-2014.

Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award for the Northeastern University Multi-faith Spiritual Center and the Hobson Award for the Georgia Institute of Technology Hinman Research Building. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous AIA, BSA and ID awards. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Over the past seven years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 U.S. Firms List, ranking as First three of those years.

Georges Teyssot

Georges Teyssot is Professor at Laval University’s School of Architecture, Quebec City (QC, CA). He was the curator with Diller + Scofidio of an exhibition on The American Lawn at the CCA in 1998. He is the author of many books, including Die Krankheit des Domizils (1989), The History of Garden Design (1991, 2000), and The American Lawn (1999). More recently, he has published a volume entitled A Topology of Everyday Constellations, in the “Writing Architecture Series”, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013), of which he has edited the French version: Une topologie du quotidien, (Lausanne, CH: PPUR, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2016).

Marco Tirelli

Marco Tirelli was born in 1956 in Rome, where he actually lives and works. He begins to exhibit already in the second half of the Seventies. His first participation at the Biennale di Venezia is in 1982, in the section Aperto 82 with a personal room. The collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad are numerous in the Eighties, among others: the PAC in Milan and the XI Quadrennial in Rome in 1986; Dal ritorno all’ordine al richiamo alla pittura 1920-1987, a traveling exhibition hosted by the Kunsternes Hus in Oslo, the Anteniim Taideemusee in Helsinki, the Matildenhöhe in Darmstadt and finally the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld in 1987; at the GAM Bologna in 1988; Diptych, Aspects of Abstract and Figurative Art in Italy, traveling exhibition between the Modern Art Gallery of Istanbul, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ankara and the Museum of Modern Art in Tel Aviv in 1989. The Nineties open with the exhibition at the American Academy in Rome, which puts into dialogue a series of his drawings with some Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt, followed by the participation in the XLIV Biennale di Venezia with a personal room. Among the art exhibitions of this decade, noteworthy it’s the Sidney Biennial of 1990, the San Paolo Biennial of 1991, Prospect ‘93 at the Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1993, the XII Rome Quadrennial of 1996. In 2001 he presented a site specific installation at the Fondazione Volume! in Rome, in which he engages painting in an environmental dimension. In 2002 the Institut Mathildenhöhe in Darmstad dedicates an important anthological exhibition entitled Das Universum der Geometrie, showed the following year at the Modern Art Gallery (GAM) in Bologna. In 2004 he exhibited in a collective show at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, in 2005 at MART in Rovereto and in 2006 in the group exhibition San Lorenzo in Villa Medici, home of the French Academy in Rome. Among the most recent exhibitions: Excelle. Around the silence, Gori Collection - Fattoria di Celle, Santomato (PT), 2009; Marco Tirelli, Museum of Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2010); Marco Tirelli, MACRO, Rome (2012); a personal room in the exhibition Vice Versa, Italian Pavilion, LV International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia (2013); Soltanto un quadro al massimo, the German Academy of Villa Massimo, Rome, together with Bernd and Hilla Becher (2013); Marco Tirelli, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome (2013); Osservatorio, Fondazione Pescheria - Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro (2014); Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2015). Between 2016 and 2017 he exhibited at the Fondazione Cerere in Rome, in France at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Saint-Etienne Métropole and again in Italy in the Sala delle Pietre of the Palazzi Comunali of Todi. In 2018 it is often abroad, with solo exhibitions in Switzerland, Hong Kong and Antwerp. He realized the work Proteo, commissioned by the MAXXI Museum of Rome and exhibited in its collection since 2019.

His works are part of the collections of some of the most important international museums among the others MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo – Rome; La Galleria Nazionale – Rome; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Rome; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Farnesina Art Collection, Rome; European Parliament, Art Collection – Bruxelles; MART, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto – Rovereto; Il Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci – Prato; Palazzo Fortuny – Venice; the Albertina Museum – Wien; Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - Wien; Kahosiung Museum of Fine Arts – Taiwan.

Billie Tsien

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been working together since 1977 and founded their New York architecture practice in 1986. Their studio focuses on work for institutions such as schools, museums, and not-for-profits. Their buildings are carefully made from the inside out in ways that speak to both efficiency and the spirit. A sense of rootedness, light, texture, detail, and most of all, experience, are at the heart of what they design.

Over the past three decades, their dedication to this work has been recognized by numerous national and international citations including the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama and the Firm of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects.

In parallel with their practice, Tod and Billie are devoted participants in the broader cultural community with longstanding associations with many arts organizations. They both maintain active academic careers and lecture worldwide. As educators and practitioners, they are deeply committed to creating a better world through architecture.

Tod Williams

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been working together since 1977 and founded their New York architecture practice in 1986. Their studio focuses on work for institutions such as schools, museums, and not-for-profits. Their buildings are carefully made from the inside out in ways that speak to both efficiency and the spirit. A sense of rootedness, light, texture, detail, and most of all, experience, are at the heart of what they design.

Over the past three decades, their dedication to this work has been recognized by numerous national and international citations including the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama and the Firm of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects.

In parallel with their practice, Tod and Billie are devoted participants in the broader cultural community with longstanding associations with many arts organizations. They both maintain active academic careers and lecture worldwide. As educators and practitioners, they are deeply committed to creating a better world through architecture.