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Christopher Bardt

Christopher Bardt is an architect, theorist, artist, writer and professor of architecture.

He is a founding principal (with Kyna Leski) of 3sixØ Architecture, named by Architectural Record as one of 10 leading vanguard firms worldwide in 2002. His extensive professional experience includes residential, commercial and institutional commissions, furniture design, and planning studies ranging from small urban interventions to large-scale metropolitan development.

His research, drawings, writing and artifacts based on the geometry of sunlight, materials, materiality and tectonics as critical to architectural making and thinking has been widely published and exhibited worldwide. In 2019 MIT Press published his book, Material and Mind, a cross-disciplinary investigation of how our engagement with materials and physical surroundings are formative of thought and imagination. Chris’s new book The Feeling of Space, released in 2024 by MIT Press, aims to recover the lived physicality of space from its default reductive isomorphic and Cartesian conceptualization.

Bardt has been a member of the Architecture faculty at RISD since 1988. His pedagogical innovations center on introducing architecture students to an artists’ or material-based design process in the development of architectural thinking at the intersection of poetic sensibility and sensuous reasoning. He has taught upper-level studios, architectural history, the history and theory of projective geometry and foundation courses and has coordinated and authored the curriculum of the three core semesters. Notably he led the development of the celebrated drawing curriculum, which fuses digital and physical (hand) approaches to architectural drawing.

Chris has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the National Academy of Design and Art, Slovakia and the China Academy of Art and an appointed member of the Board of Governors of the RISD Museum. He has served as an external examiner at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and PHD dissertation panelist at McGill University, and the Aarhus School of Architecture. Bardt holds a BArch from RISD and a M.Arch from Harvard University. In 2017 Chris was honored with a lifetime achievement award for his design work and inducted into the RI Design Hall of Fame.

Anne Beim

Anne Beim is Professor in Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy - School of Architecture.

She holds a M.Arch. and a Ph.D. in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture.

As a visiting research fellow 1995-96, she studied under late Professor Marco Frascari and Professor David Leatherbarrow at University of Pennsylvania.

Since 2004 she has led CINARK - Center for Industrialized Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture and since 2014, she has (co)chaired the graduate program: SET - Settlement, Ecology and Tectonics. Her research topics are - Ecology in architecture, tectonics, material studies, building culture, theories/ practices of building culture.

She has written books, essays, and scientific articles on the theme of tectonic ecologies, the history of building technology and visionary architecture. Her books include among the many published: Selected books (co)authored: Biobased Materials Tectonics Architecture (2025), Innovation of Nothing (2023), Biogenic Construction: Materials, Architecture & Tectonics (2023), Circular Construction: Materials, Architecture & Tectonics (2019), Towards an Ecology of Tectonics (2015), Tectonic Visions in Architecture (2004). Also, she has led research that has received awards for their originality: Deserta EcoFolie (with Curators Pedro Alonso & Pamela Prado), The Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2025. (Anne Beim et al.), UIA’s Jean Tschumi Prize for Architectural Writing and Critique, 2023, AR Future Projects Awards 2023 – Research and design prize. (Anne Beim et al., Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisbon - Research University Award, 2022. (Anne Beim et al.)

Matej Blenkuš

Matej Blenkuš is a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. Since 2012, he has been teaching his own design studio. Until 2024, he taught the course Structures 2, and later the course Building and Technology 2. He leads the architectural office studio abiro in Ljubljana, has 25 years of experience in architectural design, and has received several national and international awards for his work. Through his teaching and creative practice, he explores the relationships between building structure, architectural space, and the articulation of meaning. Between 2017 and 2023, he served as dean of the faculty.

Nicholas Boyarsky

Nicholas Boyarsky is an architect, teacher and writer. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and completed his practice-based PhD at RMIT University in 2016. He is Professor of Architecture at RMIT University where he supervises practice research PhD candidates in Europe and Asia. He is a partner of the London-based studio Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Before starting BMA he worked for Zaha Hadid, Michael Hopkins, and Rem Koolhaas and Stefano de Martino. He has lectured and taught at many European, North American and Asian schools of architecture and is the author of numerous articles and publications. He is a founding member of the Asian-based Urban Flashes network. Current areas of interest include visual urbanism, ephemera, inflatable architectures, and architectures of memorial. Through his involvement in the development of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive he has facilitated and organised seminars, events, publications and the travelling exhibition Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association, curated by Jan Howard and Igor Marjanovic.

Nathaniel Coleman

Nathaniel Coleman, PhD, MSc, MUP/Urban Design, BARCH, BFA is a workshop facilitator, educational consultant, author, and architectural designer. He facilitates workshops using architectural frameworks to support individuals’ developing capacities for managing structures and upwards management, so they can begin solving complex problems by thinking differently and more openly about them, achieved in settings encouraging organised play and open experimentation.

Working for over 30 years as an architecture academic, more than 22 of them at Newcastle University, UK, where he was Reader in History and Theory of Architecture, his Masters design studios were laboratories of continuous experimentation investigating the invention of anarchist spatial practices.

His books include Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention (2025); Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience in Building (2020); Lefebvre for Architects (2015), and Utopias and Architecture (2005). Other publications include numerous book chapters and journal articles. Nathaniel also presents his research internationally.

Patrick Doan

Patrick Doan is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Virginia Tech. He holds a Master of Architecture from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University.

His teaching and scholarship interests focus on architecture’s constructive nature as it relates to the measure and play of detail, craft, poetics, and placemaking. This work has been presented and exhibited at national and international conferences and exhibitions. Selected publications include: ‘Proximity Within Distance’ in the book Lewerentz Fragments (ACTAR, 2021), “What Lies Beneath the Surface” in the Building Technology Educators’ Society Conference Proceedings (2017), and “Construction Curtains” in the book Center 19: Curtains (University of Texas: Center for Architecture and Design, 2014.)

In 2016, Patrick received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Design Build Award along with colleagues William Galloway and Frank Weiner. He is the recipient of several awards at Virginia Tech including the University Certificate for Teaching Excellence (2017) and the J. Stoeckel Design Lab Teaching Excellence Award (2017.)

He is a registered architect in Virginia and Texas, holds an NCARB Certificate, and maintains an architectural practice, barker doan architects, with partner Meredith Doan.

Maja Dobnik

Maja Dobnik graduated with a master’s degree in architectural theory from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. She works in the field of architectural theory and criticism, focusing on social infrastructures in space. Her research explores the relationship between architecture and social practices and the role of architecture in shaping community spaces. She is based at the Centre for Creativity within the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana.

Orsolya Gaspar

Orsolya Gáspár is an assistant professor of architecture at the Stuckeman School, Penn State University. She holds an MSc in architecture and a PhD in historical structures from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Form Finding Lab, Princeton University in 2023. Her research focuses on structurally informed architectural design. Leveraging emerging technologies and methodologies, she endeavors to maintain a dynamic dialogue between historical precedents and contemporary approaches. Her work appeared in journals and edited volumes such as the International Journal of Architectural Heritage, Architecture, Structures and Construction and Cold War Interactions (Bloomsbury).

Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek (1954- ) is professor of the history and theory of architecture at MIT, where he has been teaching since 1995. Before that (1987- 1994) he was teaching at Cornell University. He got his architectural diploma at the E.T.H. in Zurich (1980), where he also had a small practice for about a year. He is the author of numerous books on a wide range of topics ranging from modern architecture, digital philosophy to global history. His most recent book is Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline (Bloomsbury, 2023) that studies the fraught history of the architecture / contractor divide. With Vikramaditya Prakash (professor at the University of Washington, Seattle) he founded the Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative to help solve the crisis of teaching in the expanded field. In 2020, also with Prakash, he cofounded the Office of (Un)certainty Research. Their work has been featured in two Venice Architecture Biennales and elsewhere. O(U)R focuses on the unsteady relationships between humans and cosmos.

Line Kjær Frederiksen

Line Kjær Frederiksen, born in Copenhagen in 1986, is an assistant professor, cand.arch. at the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, from which she holds a PhD. Line currently teaches at the internationally recognized master program Extreme Environments and is affiliated with the research center Center for Material Studies. For the past ten years her research has focused on circular economy in architecture, biogenic and reused materials, ecology, and tectonics of disassembly in industrialized building systems as strategies for increasing sustainability in the built environment. Line has co-edited and contributed to several publications and books of which the latest is “Biogenic Materials, Tectonics and Architecture- Three perspectives on biogenic materials properties and their use in construction”, 2025.

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.

Magnus Reffs Kramhøft

Magnus Reffs Kramhøft, born 1981, is a trained architect, Cand. Arch, and current industrial PhD fellow at the architectural firm Henning Larsen and CINARK, Center for Industrialised Architecture at The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. With a background as a lead design architect, Magnus has, over the past 15 years, focused on developing projects with a curious, exploratory, and value-based approach. Construction techniques, resources and sustainability have been a central theme in many of the projects Magnus has led. His research in the PhD-project stems from the same comprehensive interest in implementing increased awareness and ethics in architectural practice. This includes, among other things, investigations of existing buildings' diverse inherent values, and development of approaches to adapt and transform them for new purposes that can both create new relevance and anchoring to the place.

Anne-Catrin Schultz

Anne-Catrin Schultz is a German-born architect, architectural historian, and author. Anne-Catrin writes about historic and contemporary tectonics, exploring the links between technology, performance, and culture. Her primary field of research is the work of the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa and the phenomenon of layering in architecture. Her book publications include "Carlo Scarpa–Layers" and “Time, Space and Material–The Mechanics of Layering in Architecture,” exploring layering as a non-hierarchical framework for a continuously changing architectural environment. Tracing the boundaries between reality and imagination, the book “Real and Fake in Architecture–Close to the Original, Far from Authenticity” was published with Menges Editions in 2020. More recently, the impact of technology, politics, and social change on architectural production has been the focus of Anne-Catrin’s research and writings. She is a member of the editorial board of Technology|Architecture+Design (TAD) and a council member of the International Organization for Structures and Architecture (IASA).

Aleš Vodopivec

Aleš Vodopivec is professor emeritus at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, a practicing architect, publicist and designer; he has authored several books and published both professional and scientific articles and is the recipient of awards and recognition for his architectural works.

James Williamson

James Williamson studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Architectural Association. He has won numerous design and teaching awards, including a first place in the Shinkenchiku Competition, an ACSA design award, three Graham Foundation grants, the Martin Dominguez Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University, and the Reconocimiento Escpeical por Excelencia Docente from the Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Williamson has taught at Georgia Tech, Harvard, and at Cornell where he directed the Master and Bachelor of Architecture programs. He has held invited professorships at RISD, Cooper Union, Columbia, Rice, and Washington University among others. Between 2016-2021 he was Dean of College of Architecture at Texas Tech University.

Williamson worked with John Hejduk on The House of The Suicide and The House of The Mother of the Suicide constructing these projects on five different sites. He co-edited The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture with Renata Hejduk, and is presently completing The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence and the Radical Imagination with Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer and Kim Skapich.