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UNI proudly presents our jury members from top institutions and design firms across the globe
Pandya Yatin Narendra Ray
Principal Architect, FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H, India
Yatin Pandya, is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as the practicing architect, with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H. (Environment Architecture Research Technology Housing). A graduate of CEPT University, Ahmedabad he has availed Master of Architecture degree from McGill University,...
Asaf T. Mann
Partner Architect, Mann Shinar Architects, Israel
Asaf T. Mann is a Partner Architect at Mann Shinar Architects, one of Israel’s leading architectural firms, leading the design and construction of award winning projects such as the recently opened Ramon Int’l Airport in Timna, Israel; the National Library...
EunSeok Lee
Architect D.P.L.G, Kyunghee university / Atelier KOMA, South Korea
Received a B.A. in Architecture from HongIk University (1987) and a Licence of Architects D.P.L.G. from École d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (1991) Ph D. in the history of Art from École d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (1996). Won the Millennium Gate competition of Korea in...
Andrew Kudless
Founder, Matsys, United States
Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an associate professor at the California College of the Arts. Andrew has taught design studios, workshops, and seminars at The Ohio State University, the Architectural Association (London), Yale...
Quentin Duvillier
Partner Architect, SO/AP, Paris, France
Created in Paris in 2012, SO/AP Architects is a company founded by two partners Quentin Duvillier and Adrien Piebourg. The skills and the expertise gathered within the SO/AP team agency are operating in the fields of commercial and sports facilities,...
Peter Pichler
Architect, Peter Pichler Architecture, Milano, Italy
Peter Pichler was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1982. He studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in the US at the University of California (UCLA). In 2008 he graduated with distinction in the masterclass of Zaha...
Albert Company Olmo
Cofounder & Director, a.gor.a Architects, Barcelona, Spain
Albert Company Olmo is a humanitarian shelter specialist, graduating from Building Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is interested in how architecture and engineering can contribute to humanitarian aid in the field. He has worked in South East...
Manfred Eccli
Co-Founder and Principal Architect Moradavaga, Kaltern, Italy & Porto, Portugal
Moradavaga is a collective born from the collaboration of architects Manfred Eccli (Bolzano, Italy, 1981) and Pedro Cavaco Leitão (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Based in Kaltern/Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal), Moradavaga started working in 2006 around the issues of vacant spaces,...
Henrique Marques
Principal Architect, Spaceworkers, Portugal
Henrique was born in 1981 in Paredes. Architect formed in the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the University "Lusíada" (1998-2003). Worked with some architects such as the office HCAR - Helena Castro e António Raposo (Porto), Architect António Cabral...
Filipa Frois Almeida
Co-founder, FAHR 021.3, Portugal
Filipa Frois Almeida, was born in Germany in 1981, is an architect and photographer. Graduated in architecture from Escola Superior Artística do Porto in 2006, she took Erasmus at Technische Universität Berlin in 2004/05. At the same time, she studied...
Lin Jianjun
Director/GM, Shenzhen AUBE Architectural Engineering Design Co. LTD, China
Mr. Lin Jianjun is the director/general manager and senior architect of AUBE. Since graduating from Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology in 1993, he has gathered rich experience in architectural design and project management. He has completed various construction projects,...
Giacomo Mezzadri
Co-founder, Mezzo Atelier, Italy
Giacomo Mezzadri and Joana Oliveira are Mezzo Atelier, a young Italian/Portuguese architectural and design practice working both as a studio and as a practical laboratory. Since 2013, the two architects, with different professional backgrounds, run a multidisciplinary atelier developing architectural...
Ondřej Chybík
Director, CHYBIK+KRISTOF ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS s.r.o. Czech Republic
Ondřej Chybík (* 1985, Brno, Czech Republic) studied architecture and urban design in Brno, in Graz, and at ETH Zurich. He is a holder of the Rector’s Award from BUT in Brno (Brno University of Technology) and he won the...
Jeff Morehen
Managing Director, fjmt Studio, UK
Jeff graduated with Honours from Deakin University and has over thirty years of professional experience gained throughout Australasia, South-East Asia, and the United Kingdom. As the Managing Director of fjmt, Jeff is responsible for the overall management of the practice...
Stefan Rier
Architect & Founder, noa* network of architecture, Italy
noa* is the essential expression of a collaborative work-ethos: the young team of architects & designers, led by founders Lukas Rungger and Stefan Rier and based in Bolzano (Italy) and Berlin (Germany), explores and examines interdisciplinary methods of design, continuously...
Vesna Petresin
Transdisciplinary Artist and Researcher
Dr. Vesna Petresin is a transdisciplinary artist and thinker. She has a practice as a time-architect, composing and performing with sound, light, rhythm, space, movement, text and code. The format of her work ranges from mixed reality, augmented live performance,...
Marcelo Coelho
MIT & Computation Designer
Marcelo Coelho is a Brazilian/American computation designer working on objects, installations and live experiences. Spanning a wide range of media, processes and scales, his work explores the boundaries between matter and information, fundamentally expanding and enhancing the ways in which...
Kenneth Douglas
Principal, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Ken Douglas is a principal at Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, to which he brings his training in theatrical lighting design and more than thirty years of experience in architectural lighting design. Ken’s work has received awards from the International...
Regina Santos
Associate director & Lighting Designer, Godwin Austen Johnson
Regina Santos is an associate lighting designer and head of the Specialist Lighting Design Department at GAJ. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, a Bachelor of Science in Architecture & Urban Planning and a Master of Science...
Mike Simpson
Global Application Lead, Signify
Mike Simpson has been in the lighting profession for over forty years in a variety of design roles and is currently the Global Application Lead at Signify (formerly Philips Lighting). He has worked with professional institutions in developing lighting guides...
Ana Sofia Ferreira Pachêco
Co-Founder, Oh!land studio, Portugal
Ana Sofia Pachêco (Portugal, 1983) studied landscape architecture at the University of Porto (2001-2006). Between 2006-2013 she worked in studios in Portugal and in creative collectives with other architects. The consolidation of the experience encourages her in 2015 to co-found...
Raanan Stern
Founder, RUST architects, Israel
2006-2011 -The Academy of Art and Design, Bezalel The department of Architecture and Urban Design B.Arch. 2009-2010 - Berlin University of Art (UDK) Abstract city Studio Fakultaet Architektur 2011-2013 -Teaching art and design 6B Studio, Tel-Aviv 2018 Urbanes Bauen Mit...
Rafael Alejandro Plascencia Garcia
Director General, 3Arquitectura y Asociados, Mexico
Realiza sus estudios de Arquitectura en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) 1993-1998. En 2005 recibe la beca de estímulo a la creación y desarrollo artístico para jóvenes creadores FONCA. Ha impartido conferencias, sobre su trabajo en...
Juanjo López De La Cruz
Founding Partner, Estudio Sol89, Spain
Juanjo graduated from the ETSA Sevilla in 2000. After a one-year scholarship at L´École d´Architecture de Paris-la Seine in France, he established his own office SOL89 with his partner María González (1975). Their work has received several recognitions as the...
Zetao Chen
Co-Founder, Creative Director, FCHA, China
Master's Degree, BERLAGE INSTITUTE Architecture & Urbanism ,Netherlands Member of Shenzhen Architectural Design Review Expert Bank Zetao Chen 's design philosophy insists on essential thinking, facing every site and the core issues of every design, insisting on the design method...
Marc Boutin
Principal, MBAC, Canada
Marc Boutin studied architecture and architectural history at the University of Manitoba, the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Calgary. He complimented these studies with sculpture studios at the Ontario College of Art and...
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