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Thomas CORBASSON, Architect Leader, CHARTIER-CORBASSON ARCHITECTES, France

The competitions on UNI have been one of the most innovative and instructive in true sense. The projects that I got a chance to evaluate and the opportunity I've got to be a part of shows real reflection of tomorrow.

Thomas CORBASSON

Architect Leader, CHARTIER-CORBASSON ARCHITECTES, France

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Juanjo Otero

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,...

Conquer
Manuel Bailo Esteve

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...

One World
Yudai Niimori

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...

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James Jamison

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...

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Bruno Santa Cecília

Bruno Santa Cecília

Founder Partner, Arquitetos Associados, Brazil

Bruno Santa Cecília is an architect and urbanist, with an MA in theory and practice of design and a PhD in the theory, production and experience of space (EA–UFMG, 2000, 2004 and 2016). He is a professor of architectural design...

Carnival 365
Benjamin G. Saxe

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...

Abode
Matteo Inches

Matteo Inches

Partner / Owner, Inches Geleta Architetti, Switzerland

Matteo Inches dipl. fas usi sia otia reg a from 2019 . BSA / FAS board member, Ticino section from 2018 . BSA / FAS member, Federation of Swiss Architects from 2017 . Partner at Inches Geleta Architetti Sagl, Locarno...

Abode
Michel Da Costa Goncalves

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...

Abode
Rodrigo Carazo

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...

Abode
Francisco Gonzalez Pulido

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...

Abode
Jose Moragues Puga

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...

EHC - Pacific
Takuro Yamamoto

Takuro Yamamoto

Representative, Takuro Yamamoto Architects, Japan

Takuro Yamamoto is a Japanese architect, founded his Tokyo office in 2005. Creating spacious open spaces inside the building to incorporate an unlimited extension of external space.

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Kentaro Yamazaki

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...

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Zach Poole

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...

Grassroots
Yuusuke Karasawa

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...

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Andrus Kõesaar

Andrus Kõesaar

Partner, KOKO architects, Estonia

Andrus Kõresaar is the co-founder and partner at the largest Estonian architecture office KOKO architects, created in 2000. He is a flying creative mind in many ways. After the initial success as the designer of the Estonian pavilion at Hannover...

Salut Paris
Fuensanta Nieto

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...

Salut Paris
Miguel Angel Lira

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...

Salut Paris
Rachel Luchetti

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...

Salut Paris
Manuel Zornoza

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...

Salut Paris
Miguel Rosales

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...

The City Link
Mitchell Joachim

Mitchell Joachim

Co-Founder, Terreform ONE, United States

He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED,...

Tinker Project
Timur Shabaev

Timur Shabaev

Partner, DROM, Netherlands

Timur Shabaev, Architect, Partner of DROM Graduated in architecture from Ufa State Petroleum Technical University in 2001 and received an advanced master's degree from The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in 2010. He is a winner of Europan 10, 11 and...

In Plain Sight
Maria João Durão

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...

Leap
Pere Buil

Pere Buil

Principal, Vora, Spain

Barcelona, 1973. Graduated from ETSAB, 2000. Co-founder and lead architect of vora since 2000. vora is an architecture studio located in Barcelona since 2000. It is lead by Pere Buil and Toni Riba. They work on building and urban design...

Hyperblock
Javier Gonzalez

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...

Hourglass
Kirsten Bauer

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...

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Jeff Kovel

Jeff Kovel

Principal, Design Director, Skylab, United States

Jeff Kovel is the founder and primary creative force behind Skylab in Portland, Oregon. Kovel has been a leading creative force in the dramatic evolution of Portland over the last two decades and his work can be found in wildly...

Tinker Project
Apeksha Gupta

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....

Smudge
Daniel Bonilla

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...

Liberty Today
Siddharth Kalra

Siddharth Kalra

Creative Director, Dreamjar Studios, India

Siddharth is the Founder and Creative Director at Dreamjar Studios, an award-winning design studio that was set up in New Delhi, India in 2015, and later extended to Adelaide, Australia in 2018. In a brief but heavy career span of...

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Pauline Marchetti

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...

Opera by the sea

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