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Juanjo Otero
Architect, MOL Arquitectura, Spain
I developed a lot of retail shops projects in ADOLFO DOMINGUEZ, including the realization of whole architectural projects, and supervising the construction process “in situ” in different countries as France, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Belgium, United States, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kazakstan,...
Manuel Bailo Esteve
Co-founder, BAILORULL add Arquitectura, Barcelona, Spain
Ph.D. Architect Associate Tenured Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia Research Bailo Esteve’s research explores how public space is activated by Urban Catalysts - energy and informal agents. The resulting dissertation, Urban Catalyst, has been published by Actar Publishers. Manuel...
Yudai Niimori
Co-founder / Architect, NIIMORI JAMISON, Japan
Yudai Niimori (MArch, Architect AAM) studied Design at the University of Shiga Prefecture and studied Architecture at the University of Italian Switzerland, Academy of Architecture Mendrisio. In 2018 Yudai Niimori and James Jamison (MArch) co-founded NIIMORI JAMISON, operating in both...
James Jamison
Co-founder / Architect, NIIMORI JAMISON, Australia
James Jamison (MArch) studied Architecture at RMIT University and the University of Italian Switzerland, Academy of Architecture Mendrisio. In 2018 Yudai Niimori (MArch) and James Jamison co-founded NIIMORI JAMISON, operating in both Victoria, Australia, and Osaka, Japan. They have trained...
Benjamin G. Saxe
Founder & Design Director, Studio Saxe, Costa Rica
Benjamin G. Saxe set up his own practice in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2004, with the aim of exploring our relationship with the natural environment through architecture. Since then, Studio Saxe has grown into an award-winning international practice made...
Michel Da Costa Goncalves
Lead Architect / Co-director, DROO — Da Costa Mahindroo Architects, United Kingdom
After studying in France and Spain, Michel da Costa Gonçalves graduated in architecture with honors from ENSAPL in France. He later completed a Master’s degree in Emergent Technologies & Design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before...
Rodrigo Carazo
Founder/Principal, Carazo Arquitectura, Costa Rica
Rodrigo Carazo, born in Costa Rica in 1978, founded Carazo Arquitectura in 2005 where he is the principal of design. He has lived in a very direct connection to natural environments; this has molded his perception of space, guiding him...
Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
Founder / CEO / Design Director, FGP Atelier, United States
Born in Mexico City in 1970. In 1991, he graduates from Monterrey Tec with a Bachelors's in Architecture. In 1993, he completes his first residential project, a 5,000SF villa in the north east of Mexico. From 1993-1997 he continued to...
Jose Moragues Puga
Principal Architect, SINGULAR STUDIO, Spain
After working in several international architecture offices, he decided to found Singular Studio with the clear goal of offering its clients alternatives of excellence in architecture, landscaping, interior design and urbanism. Vocational architect, he directs the studio with the same...
Kentaro Yamazaki
Chief Architect, YAMAZAKI KENTARO DESIGN WORKSHOP Co.,Ltd., Japan
Kentaro Yamazaki, who represents director/chief architect, was born in Chiba in 1976. He graduated from Kogakuin University with M.A. in 2002 and worked as an architect and engineer in Irie Miyake Architects & Engineers. In 2008, the architectural design company...
Zach Poole
Senior Associate, MBB Architects, United States
Zach Poole is an architect with over 18 years of experience, with an emphasis on institutional projects and a focus on the design and detailing of complex exterior envelopes. His experience includes a wide range of project types of different...
Yuusuke Karasawa
President, Yuusuke Karasawa Architects, Japan
Born in Tokyo in 1976. Architect.President of Yuusuke Karasawa Architects. Graduated with an MA in Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University in 2001. Worked at MVRDV as a trainee for the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists from...
Fuensanta Nieto
Founding Partner, NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS, Spain
Fuensanta Nieto 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 1983. She is a professor at the at the Universidad...
Miguel Angel Lira
Founding Partner & Co-Director, lira.velasco.arquitectos, Mexico
Architect and Postulant to Master in Philosophy with the thesis: "The aesthetics of the music of Iannis Xenakis in the architecture of the twentieth century" both by the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has collaborated in the offices Serrano, Serrano, Nava; Albin...
Rachel Luchetti
Principal, Luchetti Krelle, Australia
Rachel Luchetti is an accomplished, experienced, and multi award winning Interior Designer. Her hospitality spaces are renowned for their conceptual integration, commitment to function, and inspired artisanal details. Each and every design represents one specific and individual creative concept that...
Manuel Zornoza
Principal Architect, Latitude Architectural Group, Spain
Manuel Zornoza Principal Architect at Latitude Architectural Group Registered Architect of the Spanish Board of Architects (COAM) Master's Degree Landscape Urbanism (Architectural Association School of Architecture, London) Visiting professor Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Manuel Zornoza is the Principal Architect at...
Miguel Rosales
President, Rosales + Partners, United States
Miguel Rosales is president and principal designer of Rosales + Partners. Mr. Rosales has over 30 years of experience as Lead Designer for major infrastructure projects across the US and abroad. Prior to forming Rosales + Partners, Mr. Rosales served...
Maria João Durão
Professor Dr., Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maria João Durão, Professor at Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon since 2001. PhD ‘Colour and Space’, The University of Salford, UK, 2000; Post-doc fellow The University of Salford, “Art, Science and Technology-Architectural Drawing and Representation”. Her research topics...
Javier Gonzalez
Principle, Balmori Associates, United Sates
Javier González-Campaña joined Balmori Associates in 1998 and has had responsibility for managing projects including: Yale Engineering Research Building and Farmington Canal Greenway in New Haven, CT; the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth, TX; Campa de los...
Kirsten Bauer
Director, ASPECT Studios, Australia
Kirsten is a Director of ASPECT Studios, a global, Australian-based, urban design, landscape architectural and green infrastructure design practice. A respected design leader with 20 years expertise in public realm and infrastructure strategy and design across Australia and internationally. She...
Apeksha Gupta
Founder, The Right Brained, India
Founder and Creative Director. I have been associated with leading designers and young corporates for more than 8 years. After several internships, full-time jobs, team-lead roles and being a design consultant for some iconic brands, I setup The Right Brained....
Daniel Bonilla
Director, tab>I taller de arquitectura de bogotá, Colombia
Architect with bachelor degree from Los Andes University (Bogotá, 1986), Master degree in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, 1990) and further complimentary studies at the College of Technology in Dublin and Milan Polytechnic.After a thorough professional experience both...
Pauline Marchetti
Founding Partner, Ferrier Marchetti Studio, France
Pauline Marchetti is a qualified architect graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and a Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She develops a humanist approach to architecture propounding design and research methods...
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