Born 1935 in Riga, died 2022 in Hamburg. 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.

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. Since 2019 Professor of Design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT).
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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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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

Karoline Liedtke-Sørensen, head of landscape at COBE architects in Copenhagen since 2019, has lived and worked there for 10 years and is responsible for innovation, design and concept. She studied landscape architecture in Dresden and Copenhagen, worked for TOPOTEK1 in Berlin and was assistant professor at HafenCity University in Hamburg. She shares her expertise at international conferences and universities. Conceiving of and introducing nature as a fundamental part of the city is an essential part of her understanding as a landscape architect.
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Sven Plieninger has been a partner at schlaich bergermann partner (sbp) since 2000 and managing director of sbp's Shanghai office since 2012. He specialises in lightweight, long-span structures and building construction projects and has received numerous national and international awards. He and his team are also experts in timber construction with hybrid and modular structures. He is a regular lecturer at universities and conferences and the author of numerous publications on lightweight construction.
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Gustav Düsing studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and the Architectural Association in London. He has participated in numerous art and architecture exhibitions including the first ever Antarctic Biennale (2017). His work has been award with the 2020 Rome Prize for Architecture the 2023 German Architecture Prize (state prize) and the 2024 EUmies Award. In 2020/21 he was an Artist in Residence at the German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo. Since 2015 he has taught at different Universities including the TU Braunschweig, the UDK Berlin, the University Roma Tre and the Cornell AAP.

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Johannes Pilz, Senior Project Leader at MVRDV since 2013, focuses on mixed-use and high-rise projects in the German-speaking market. He has been involved in MVRDV’s Franklin Mitte project in Mannheim from day one, starting with its urban plan in 2014 and further developing the center (The Hill, HOME residential towers). He was also responsible for the 1st-prize winning competition of ‘Traumhaus’, a diverse single-family-housing quarter for a variety of users on 27.000 m² in Mannheim and ‘The Stack’, a mixed use super-highrise in Melbourne, Australia.

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Chris van Duijn is a partner at OMA since 2014 and leads OMA’s work in Asia. He has been involved in some of OMA’s most renowned projects such as Universal Studios (LA), the Prada stores (LA, NYC) and the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing. Among his recently completed projects are Hanwha Galleria department store in Seoul, MEETT Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Centre and the Axel Springer Campus in Berlin. Ongoing projects include the Hangzhou Prism, the expansion of Hongik University in Seoul, CMG Times Center in Shenzhen, and Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux.

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Anne-Julchen Bernhardt (*1971), Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing., studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and at the RWTH Aachen, where she graduated in 1997. She worked as an architect in Berlin and Cologne and as an assistant professor at RWTH Aachen. Since 2008 she is the professor for Building Typologies at RWTH Aachen. In 2000, she founded the BeL Sozietät für Architektur together with Jörg Leeser.  Based in Cologne, Germany, the firm employs an average of 10 architects and has worked on more than 200 projects. The reconstruction projects include the conversion of the Breuer department store into a residential care centre (Eschweiler, 2006). www.bel.cx/

Robert Schmitz is an award-winning Swedish architect and one of White Architect’s leading partners. He has been head of several of the company’s flagship projects from competition to completion with a special focus on designing public, civic and cultural buildings that encourage a sense of belonging. He is a modern-day pioneer of timber design and construction and the lead architect of the international awarded Sara Cultural Centre, the world’s largest, carbon negative timber building. Robert Schmitz is director of the Stockholm competitions team, while providing strategic input into the management of the Stockholm studio.Furthermore, he takes part in international Architectural juries and is a highly appreciated keynote speaker worldwide.
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Werner Sobek is an architect and consulting engineer. Founder of the internationally active office Werner Sobek AG in 1992. Founder and long-time member of the Institute for Light weight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart. Initiator of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1244. Founder and honorary president of the "aed" for the promotion of architecture, engineering and design in Stuttgart and co-founder of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). Awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit and honorary doctorates from Graz University of Technology and Dresden University of Technology. 
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Born in Hamburg, Chris Middleton is founding partner and owner of the Kinzo office in Berlin, which works with an interdisciplinary team at the interface of interior architecture and design in the broad spectrum of living and working environments. Middleton studied architecture at the University of the Arts and the Technical University of Berlin. Before founding the office, he worked for various architectural firms in Berlin and New York. Project-relevant references include Axel Springer Berlin (2008), Zalando Headquarters Berlin (2019), rbb Medienhaus Berlin (2020) and MOL Skycampus Budapest (2021 ).

www.kinzo-berlin.de

Martin Fröhlich (1968, Magdeburg) studied architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. In 1999, he founded the architecture office AFF Architekten together with Sven Fröhlich. He was a research assistant and lecturer at the Bauhaus University and held a visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). Since 2012, he has been teaching together with Anja Fröhlich at EPF Lausanne in Switzerland. AFF has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Saxon State Prize and the BDA Prize Saxony for the conversion of Freudenstein Castle, as well as the BDA Prize Saxony for the refuge on the Fichtelberg.

www.aff-architekten.com

Peter Kulka completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then completed training as an engineer specialising in architecture at the building trade schools in Görlitz and Gotha. He then studied architecture at the HBK in Berlin-Weißensee from 1959 to 1964. After working with Hermann Henselmann and Hans Scharoun in Berlin, he founded his office in Cologne in 1979 and in Dresden in 1991. From 1986 to 1992 he held a professorship for constructive design at the RWTH Aachen. His buildings include the campus university in Bielefeld, the redesign and extension of the Königsmünster Abbey or, currently, the renovation and expansion of the Saxon Parliament.

www.peterkulka.de

Growing up multilingual, Jette Hopp is the director for acquisition and new projects and part of Snøhetta`s executive management. She has extensive international experience in complex projects, leading major international projects and competitions. She regularly lectures, sharing Snøhetta´s philosophy and design ideas, is also regularly invited as a jury member and as a critic. She is member of the Board of Trustees of the Schelling Architecture Foundation, appointed President of Jury for the Italian Architecture Award and is holding a teaching position in Wismar.

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Oliver Thill was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany, in 1971 and studied at the TU Dresden. He is a founding partner of the Rotterdam based firm Atelier Kempe Thill, which he directs together with André Kempe. Oliver Thill has been engaged as studio master at the Delft University of Technology, the Academie van Bouwkunst in both Arnhem and Rotterdam, and the Berlage Institute Rotterdam and Delft. He was an invited professor at the EPF Lausanne, the PSBA Düsseldorf, Polytechnico di Milano and the TU Berlin. In 2020 he was appointed as full professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover.

www.atelierkempethill.com

Elif Tinaztepe (Master of Architecture, The Southern California Institute of Architec-ture) has been working for Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects since 2005, where she currently leads the firm’s library specialist work. As partner and design principal she has been involved in all of the company’s major libraries of the past decade including projects such as Dokk1, Scandinavia’s largest public library; Christchurch Central Li-brary in New Zealand; University of Bristol New Library and State Library Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.shl.dk/

Born in 1967 in Stuttgart, Martin Bez studied architecture at the TU Karlsruhe and the ETH Zurich from 1989 to 1996. After working for Jourda & Perraudin Architectes in Lyon (1996-1997) and Kaag + Schwarz Architekten in Stuttgart (1997-2000), he founded the office Bez+Kock Architekten in Stuttgart together with Thorsten Kock in 2001. From 2003 to 2011, he taught at the University of Stuttgart with Thomas Jocher and Arno Lederer. In 2017-2018, he took on a substitute professorship at the TU Darmstadt for the subject area of design and industrial methods of building construction. Martin Bez is a member of the BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten Baden-Württemberg and has been a regular expert judge since 2009.

 
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Prof. Florian Nagler studied architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern after an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studies of art and Bavarian history, where he graduated in 1994. In 1996 he founded the architectural office Florian Nagler Architekt, since 2001 Florian Nagler Architekten. After various guest professorships, he has been Professor of Design and Construction at the TU Munich since 2010. He is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and a founding member of the Bundesstiftung Baukultur and the research association TUM.wood.

www.nagler-architekten.de

Born on 12.10.1980 in Bezau, Markus Innauer began studying architecture in 2002 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 2005 follows a stay abroad with studies at UCLA, Los Angeles. In 2009 he accomplishes his Diploma thesis with Zaha Hadid in Vienna in. During his studies he has permanent internships with architect Oskar Leo Kaufmann in Dornbirn. Since 2009 independent work and different project partnerships. After successful completion of the civil engineer examination in 2012 foundation of the office Innauer Matt Architects with Sven Matt based in Bezau, Bregenzerwald.

www.innauer-matt.com

Prof. Felix Waechter studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at Harvard University (USA). In 1998 he founded the architectural office Waechter + Waechter together with his wife Sibylle Waechter. Since 2001 he has been a member of the BDA Hessen. In 1997 he had a teaching position at the BAC in Boston (USA), since 2016 he is professor at the TU Darmstadt. The firm has received numerous prizes and awards, including for the Petrusgemeinde Wiesloch community centre, for the GIZ Academy on the Kottenforst Campus and for the extension of the theatre and philharmonic orchestra in Heidelberg.

www.waechter-architekten.de

Jörg Friedrich studied architecture, Italian and art history in Perugia, Siena and Stuttgart. Since 1982 self-employed, first joint office with Jürgen Böge, Ingeborg Lindner and Bernd Sammek, since 1988 own studio in Hamburg and Genoa. He has received numerous awards for his work, including Förderpreis NRW für junge Künstler, Fritz-Schumacher-Förderpreis, scholarship of the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, Staatspreis Thüringen and Sächsischer Staatspreis für Baukultur. In 1989 he was appointed professor. Since then he has taught in Hamburg, Mendrisio, Genoa, Rome and Hanover.

www.pfp-architekten.de

Fabian Hörmann was born in 1978 in Bielefeld/Germany, architect and musician living and working in Zurich since 2001. He studied architecture in Stuttgart and Las Palmas and worked in the fields of film, media and architecture in Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2009 he became an associate at EM2N’s management board, heading the competition and design department which also develops research-based publications and exhibitions. In 2010 he co-founded the alternative-rock band GRAN NOIR. Recently he was assistant curator for the exhibition ”Together!“ of the Vitra Design Museum.

www.em2n.ch

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.

www.ferrater.com

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

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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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 1967 in Ludwigsburg. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, the abk Stuttgart and the University of Stuttgart. He has been working for David Chipperfield Architects since 1996, first in London and since 1998 in Berlin. In 2006 he became one of the managing directors and in 2011 partner. As design director he is responsible for the design of numerous projects and competitions, including the Neues Museum, the James-Simon-Galerie and the Museum Folkwang. After various academic teaching positions, he took over the chair for 'Public Buildings and Design' at the University of Stuttgart in 2015.
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

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.

www.transsolar.com

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.

Johannes Kuehn is founding partner of Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin and professor for building construction and design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Public spaces, museums and exhibitions are the main focus of the work of Kuehn Malvezzi. The practice recently completed an office building with a greenhouse for urban farming on the roof. Current projects include the Insectarium in Montréal and the interreligious House of One in Berlin. The office participated in the several Biennials as the 14th Architecture Biennial in Venice and the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017.
www.kuehnmalvezzi.com

Founder of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter and merz merz gmbh & co. kg. 1993-2007 professor for
Exhibition Design and Visual Communication at Pforzheim, 2008-2013 professor for Conceptual and
Experimental Design at TU Darmstadt. 2013-2017 chairperson of the University Council of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. 2014 awarded honorary doctorate of the TU Darmstadt. Member of the Akademie der
Künste since 2018. His office is specialized in exhibition and museum design, visual communication and media
planning and the restauration and repair of historically significant buildings.

www.hgmerz.com

Architect Antonio Cruz was born in 1948 in Seville, Spain and graduated from the Superior Technical School of
Architecture of Madrid in 1971. He is a member of the Andalusian Architects' Association. Since 1974 he 
taught at the Escuela de Arquitectura, Seville. He also taught at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule 
(ETH) in Zurich and Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1974 he and Antonio Ortiz founded the 
architectural office of Cruz y Ortiz in Seville, which employs 30 people at present. In 2002 another office was 
opened in Amsterdam. There are further studios in Lugano and Madrid

www.cruzyortiz.com

José Mario Gutierrez Marquez, born 1958 in Rosario/Argentina, is an architect and co-founder of the studio 
Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten. Multiple times a guest professor, between 2007 and 2010 he has been 
invited as professor for "Building within existing Architecture" at the Brandenburg University for Technology 
Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Since 2011, he is Professor for Architectural Space and Design at the 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. Since 2013 he is a member of the Architectural Advisory Board of the 
Hanseatic City of Stralsund.

www.bfm.berlin

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

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

Maxie Strauch completed her studies at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning in Hanover after finishing an trainee programme at a tree nursery. At the same time, she worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig and gained experience in landscape and architecture offices. Since 1992 she has been a member of the team at WES LandschaftsArchitektur, where she currently works as a project manager specialising in competitions and the informed use of plants. From 1993 to 1997 she was a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

www.wes-la.de

Eike Wolf is Director of Studio Operations and Marketing and a member of the Management Board at Studio Babelsberg. He has been with the company since 2006, initially as company spokesperson and head of corporate communications and investor relations. Prior to this, the trained banker, graduated in business economy and communication studies worked in the advertising industry and as an independent management consultant.

www.studiobabelsberg.com

Guido Roth (*1972 in Lisbon) graduated in architecture in Hamburg and worked at offices such as Herzog de Meuron before joining ADEPT as Office Director in June 2022. ADEPT focus on building architecture, urban development and public spaces and with an aim to push users, clients, industry and the world around us towards a deeper responsibility for the limited global resources. Today, the office counts approximately 50 architects, urbanists and landscape architects working with a wide range of architectural scales, from urban planning and strategic development to building architecture, landscapes and public space.

www.adept.dk

After studying architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Annekathrin Bake worked in architectural offices in Copenhagen, Zurich and Hamburg. In 2022, she completed the master's programme "Urban Future" at the FH Potsdam and worked as a project developer for public welfare-oriented projects. Since March 2023 she has been responsible for the project "More Urban Quality of Life in Hamburg's Old Town" in cooperation with the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband Hamburg e.V. and the cooperative Gröninger Hof eG, with the workshop in the former car park as an anchor point and steppingstone into the neighbourhood. She also works as a freelance project- and district developer.
www.paritaet-hamburg.de

Caroline Nachtigall-Marten (*1974, Hamburg) has been working as a project manager at Duplex Architekten Hamburg since 2021. She studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles and at the Technical University Berlin. After several years at Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris, she worked in Hamburg for Carsten Roth Architect, Gaebler Architekten and Baumschlager Eberle Architects. Her special interest and focus is on conversion and reuse of existing buildings.

www.duplex-architekten.swiss

Prof. Petra Riegler-Floors studied architecture at RWTH Aachen and ETSAV Barcelona. From 2004 onwards, she worked as an architect and project manager in architectural offices in Vienna and Cologne. At the same time, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Housing and Design at RWTH Aachen (2007-08) and at the Chair of Building Construction, Design and Materials Science at the University of Wuppertal (2013-2020). Since 2020, she has been Professor of Circular Building, Construction and Materials at Trier University of Applied Sciences. She is one of the main authors of the "Manual of recycling" published in 2019.

www.hochschule-trier.com

Alexandra Mrzigod is project manager at Werner Sobek AG, where she has worked since 2014. She studied civil engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since 2020, she has been the spokesperson of the WS task force "Triple Zero". Her professional expertise is in life cycle analysis, steel structures and prestressed concrete. Her most important projects include the World Expo 2017 (Astana/Kazakhstan), the adidas office building "Arena" (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and the Diablos Stadium (Mexico City/Mexico).

https://www.wernersobek.com/

Tilmann Jarmer studied architecture in Erfurt and Munich. He was project manager for medium-sized and large public building projects in various architectural offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. Since 2016, he has been a research and teaching assistant at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on simple building (“Einfach Bauen”), construction and building physics. Since 2018, he has been a member of the “Einfach Bauen” team at Florian Nagler Architekten. Here, the means of architecture are used for a good indoor climate, with the aim of reducing complexity in construction and building technology.

https://www.einfach-bauen.net/

Daniel Schöning studied design at the HFG Offenbach and architecture at the TU Darmstadt. He worked as an independent architect at Schöning Spalt Architekten and as a managing partner at WRS Architekten & Stadtplaner. Since 2018, he has been managing director and partner at PLY Atelier in Hamburg, which accompanies interior processes in all work phases. The following projects were realised under his direction: Redesign of the k3 Centre for Choreography at Kampnagel Hamburg (2007), redesign of the foyers, catering and ticket office and renovation of the Small Hall at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg (2012), furnishing of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2015) and planning of the offices for Ramboll in Hamburg and Berlin (2021).
www.ply.de

Birgit’s trend research is about the future of human working and learning. Her findings derive from expert interviews, excursions to pioneers in Scandinavia, USA and China as well as from consulting jobs for clients like Swisscom Real Estate or Lufthansa Group. Her cross-industry consulting is based on 12 years of project management in Trendbüro, a German-based consultancy for social change, which she has lead from 2007-12 as Managing Director, before working as author and consultant under her own name. In her “New Work Order”- studies, commissioned by IBA (Interior Business Association), she demands for a new learning and working culture.

https://birgit-gebhardt.com/birgitgebhardt.html

Antti Nousjoki, founding partner of ALA Architects. ALA has been one of the frontrunners of a new generation of Nordic architecture practices and has completed among others Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand, Norway, as well as Helsinki Central Library and Kuopio and Lappeenranta City Theatres in Finland. Antti was responsible of the Kuopio and Oodi projects, as well as of the Courtyard Tampere City hotel in Tampere, Finland. He currently works on the new campus buildings of Estonian Business School and La Ruche - the new learning center of Université Lumière Lyon 2. Antti has held various visiting professorships, so as Columbia University.

http://ala.fi/

Daniel Gebreiter was born in 1982. He holds engineering and architecture master degrees from Nottingham University (2005) and TU Berlin (2011). In 2012, he completed a post-graduate degree in Digital Architectonics at the University of Bath, focusing on the computational design of free-form structures. Daniel Gebreiter has since joined schlaich bergermann and partner, Stuttgart, where he is a member of their dedicated architectural geometry and structural optimisation group. Previously, he worked for UNStudio, Amsterdam and Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London.

Nikolaus Bernau, born 1964 in Bonn, studied art history, classical archaeology and ethnology, then architecture in Berlin. He researches the history of architecture, museums and libraries and publishes as a journalist for Berliner Zeitung, trade journals, Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk, RBB, among others. In 1995 he received the Journalism Award from the German National Committee for Monument Protection, in 2011 the “Silberne Halbkugel”, and in 2011 the Journalism Award of the German Library Association. Bernau has held teaching positions at BTU Cottbus, FHTW Berlin, HU Berlin, Dawidson College / NC., currently back at TU Berlin. Since 2002 he has been 2nd Chairman of the Richard Schöne Society for Museum History e.V.

Much Untertrifaller studied architecture at the TU Vienna. From 1982 he worked together with his father Much Untertrifaller senior, and in 1992 he marked a change in alpine building with the Silvrettahaus on the Bielerhöhe. In the mid-1980s, the successful collaboration with Helmut Dietrich began in parallel, which led to the founding of a joint office in Bregenz in 1994. In 2004 he opened the office in Vienna, followed by Paris in 2016. After several guest professorships, Much Untertrifaller has been an honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance since 2016.

www.dietrich.untertrifaller.com

In addition to his role on the Schmidt Hammer Lassen leadership team, Rasmus has spent the last decade leading the Concept Development department. He has a rich, diverse portfolio that includes the strategic conceptual development of complex cultural projects. Rasmus has worked with projects in a variety of cultural and geographical settings and has a profound belief in the need for a project to engage with its context. He prioritizes the balance of architecture with function, aesthetics, economy, sustainability and technology when approaching any project.

www.shl.dk

Born in Castelo Branco, Portugal in 1961. Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in 1987, PhD in Architecture from Universidade de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 2013. He worked among others with Peter Eisenman (1987-1991) and with Daniel Libeskind (1991). Together with José Mateus he founded ARX Portugal Arquitectos in 1991. He has been Director of the Architecture Department at UAL in Lisbon, 2004-2007 and received  a number of teaching assignments from UAL and FAUTL in Lisbon, UIC Barcelona and ESAP in Porto.

www.arx.pt

Honorary Professor for the Architectural History of the Modernity at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich; previously research and teaching at the TU Munich, Technion in Haifa, Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, University of Augsburg and TU Delft. Numerous publications on 19th and 20th century architecture with a focus on New Building in the Mediterranean region, migration research and nation building, most recently on Eretz Israel as an experimental laboratory for European settlement concepts and on the project of the European Mediterranean Academy.

www.gta.arch.ethz.ch

Sanne van Manen graduated, after studies in Delft and Zurich, with honourable mention from Delft University of Technology in 2010. She joined MVRDV in 2015 and has been specialising in large high-rise projects in several stages of the design, from early master planning to final design phases. As a project leader Sanne manages the design of competitions and commissions within international, interdisciplinary design teams. Reference projects among others are “Valley”, mixed use, in Amsterdam and “Grotius”, residential tower, in The Hague.

www.mvrdv.nl

Mark Sarkisian (PE, SE, LEED; BS Degree in Civil Eng., Univ. of Connecticut, MS Degree in Structural Eng., Lehigh Univ., honorary Sc.D degree, Clarkson Univ.) is a Partner of Structural and Seismic Engineering at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in San Francisco. His career has focused on developing innovative structural engineering solutions for over 100 major building projects worldwide. Var. patents for high-performance seismic structural mechanisms and environmentally responsible structural systems. He teaches div. studio design courses e.g. at Stanford and Berkeley.

www.som.com

Uwe R. Brückner studied architecture at TU München and costume and stage design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. He is co-founder of ATELIER BRÜCKNER in 1997 and a professor at the Institute for Interior Design and Scenography in Basel and at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is widely regarded as an opinion leader in innovative architecture, contemporary scenography and development of narrative spatial concepts. By his design philosophy of "form follows content" he has created more than 100 exhibitions and worlds of experience for museums and corporate brands worldwide.

www.atelier-brueckner.com

Born in Stuttgart in 1967. He studied architecture at the Univ. of Washington, diploma in architecture at RWTH Aachen in 1996. After his project management with BRT Architekten BDA, since 2002 he has been founding member and managing director of blauraum Architekten GmbH, Hamburg. He was awarded lectureships at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and the HCU HafenCity University Hamburg and conducted a research project on behalf of the BBR. Since 2012 he has been board member of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects (HAK), since 2014 chairman of the Working Group Housing of the HAK.

www.blauraum.eu

With Richard Meier & Partners since 1988, an Associate Partner since 2001. Design Partner for the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden and Coffee Plaza office complex in Hamburg. He has lent his design and management expertise to numerous projects, e.g. 165 Charles Street apartments in New York City, Arp Museum in Rolandseck, Canal+ Headquarters in Paris and Siemens Corporate Headquarters in Munich. He studied architecture and literature at the University of Stuttgart, the ETH Zurich, the TU Darmstadt and Cornell University (DAAD fellowship).

www.richardmeier.com

Prof. Dr. Braungart is founder and scientific director of EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Hamburg, co-founder and scientific head of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), USA and founder and scientific head of the Hamburger Umweltinstitut e.V. (HUI). He teaches at the Rotterdam School of Management and is a professor at the Leuphana Univ. of Lüneburg as well as Univ. Twente in Enschede and at the TU Delft. He has been awarded the honorary professorship at TU Munich. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the Univ. Hasselt in Belgium through the Excellence Initiative.

Angela Köckritz, born in Munich in 1977, studied Political Science, Sinology and Art History in Berlin, Munich and Taiwan. She completed her trainee position with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, working then for the German weekly DIE ZEIT. She worked as an international reporter for East and South East Asia and Latin America. From 2011 to 2014 she was the Beijing correspondent of DIE ZEIT. Having just returned to Germany, she was awarded in 2015 with the first prize of the “MERICS China Media Award” for outstanding and expert reporting on China.

Born in Modena in 1950. He completed his Master in Architecture at the Politecnico of Milan in 1975, finishing his master thesis at Princeton University in 1977. He taught at the Politecnico of Milan and Udine and was visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, University of Edinburgh, Fudan University in Shanghai and CUJAE of La Habana. Since November 2000 he has been a full professor in History of Architecture and Urban History at the IUAV in Venice. International lectures and publications in Italian are also part of his comprehensive work.

Since her graduation cum laude in Rome, her enrolment to the Order of Architects in 2004 and her DRL MArch degree at the AA in London, she worked as an architect, curator, author, editor and assistant professor in Asia and Latin America. From 2007 to 2011 she taught at Hong Kong University and joined OMA HK in 2009 focusing on cultural design projects. In 2011 she opened a platform for OMA in Buenos Aires conducting research in the region and working on design projects with OMA NY. In 2013/14 she shifted her attention to Venice as part of Rem Koolhaas’ “Fundamentals” team and authored “Elements of Venice”.
www.oma.eu

Born in Rodewisch in 1976. He graduated in architecture from TU Dresden (diploma in 2003) and studied at the TU Delft (Erasmus scholarship 2000-2001). He worked as a Project Architect at NL Architects in Amsterdam as well as at gmp International in Beijing and was a Partner at Hellgrün in Berlin. Since 2010 he is a Project Manager at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group in New York. Sören Grünert received numerous awards and participated in exhibitions several times. Internationally, he works as a guest critic and publishes in specialist journals and literature.
www.big.dk

Magdalene Weiß was born in 1964. She studied architecture at the FHT Stuttgart (diploma in 1989) as well as at the University GH Kassel (diploma in 1992). She started her career as an architect with Bieling & Bieling Architekten. Magdalene Wwiß has been working for the architectural practice of gmp since 1997, as Director and Head of the gmp office Shanghai since 2006, as gmp Associate Partner since 2010. Her extensive portfolio of outstanding projects includes successful commissions such as the Swiss Hotel Berlin, Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, HNA Plaza, Poly Plaza Shanghai or COMAC Headquarter Shanghai.
www.gmp-architekten.de

Graduation as a civil engineer and experience as a construction engineer and supervisor at home and abroad. In 1971 he became project manager and in 1974 partner at the company which later became known as Drees & Sommer and now is the leading company for project management, real estate consulting and engineering. From 1992 to 2007 he was CEO of Drees & Sommer with 1,350 employees worldwide. With his integrated approach to project management he has shaped major developments in the building industry. Since 2008 Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and in addition intensive study of sustainability in the real estate, construction and energy industries.

Michael Sachs was born in Hamburg in 1947. Following his studies of sociology, history, German language and literature, he began work in 1974 as a member of staff and project manager at the GEWOS Institute. He was active as Managing Director of the Wohnungsverwaltung Nord (Housing Administration North) and a consultant for the development of an entrepreneurial housing industry in Russia. From 1995 to 2009 he was Managing Director and member of the board of the City Housing Association SAGA/GWG. Since 2009 he has been Coordinator for House Building in Hamburg and since 2011 State Councilor of the Authority of Urban Development and Environment.

Born in 1980, studies of architecture at TU Berlin. Worked as an architect at Brisac Gonzalez Architects, London. 2009-2012 Senior Architect at Kazuhiro Kojima + Kazuko Akamatsu / Cat, Tokyo. International planning of universities, schools, libraries and museums. In charge of successful Japanese competitions. Currently investigating Virtual and Real Architecture of Knowledge at Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt-University Berlin. Publishes in architecture magazines and is internationally invited as a guest critic.

Sinds autumn 2000 Christoph Elsässer is member of the design team of West 8 urban design & landscape architecture b.v. The main working field of Elsässer as project leader and senior designer can be found in urban the development and execution of urban design concepts in the Netherlands and abroad. As guest lector Elsässer speaks at several Dutch and German universities, academies and cities. Also Christoph Elsässer frequently guides students of architecture academies during their graduation projects as external teacher.
www.west8.nl

Fanny Hoffmann-Loss was born in 1970. During her architectural studies at the TU Berlin, she spent one year in Beijing, where she studied Chinese and one year in Shanghai, where she studied architecture at Tongji University. After her diploma in 1998 with a design for “A Jewish Center in Shanghai” she worked as a project manager at Drees & Sommer in Berlin, one of her projects being the Embassies of the Nordic Countries in Berlin. Since 2006 she is employed with gmp in Shanghai. As a member of the think-tank “Shanghai Flaneur” she gives lectures on the urban development of Shanghai with a focus on the new city Lingang New City.
www.gmp-architekten.de

Born 1955, Master of Arts in philosophy, psychology and mathematics from Berlin Technical University. Further studies and Doctorate in the history of science and technology. Since 1983 at Deutsches Technikmuseum (at the time called Museum of Transport and Technology), voluntary scientific service from 1985 to 1987, from 1987 Head of Maritime Transport Department. Second Deputy Director since 1994, Deputy Director of Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin since 2001. Acting Director from 2003, appointed new Director of the Deutsches Technikmuseum Foundation in 2004 by the Berlin Senate.
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