A New Wood

PhD in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, ETSAM (2015, International Mention, Degree with Honors, UPM), MArch Degree (ETSAM, 2002, Outstanding). Assistant Prof. at Graphic Architectural Ideation Dept., ETSAM, UPM, since 2007 and at IE Architecture (Segovia) since 2003. Teaching experience in USA (California) at Woodbury University (2016-18), Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design (LAIAD, 2019) and Cuesta College San Luis Obispo (2020). Participation as speaker in relevant international Conferences such as ACSA 2019 Fall Conference in Stanford, ACSA 2019 Teachers Conference in Antwerp, UID2019 Congress in Perugia, 2018 EGA Congress, and so on. As a researcher, she works on the analysis of the different processes of communication and expression in architecture, as well as the architectural publications and the graphic strategies followed. Her thesis, "Rem at both sides of the mirror", reflects on OMA/AMO’s communicative strategies in the past forty years. It was honored with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, UPM, 2016. She is the author of several referential congress’ papers, journal articles and teaching books in the field. She began her professional activity at MVRDV (Rotterdam, 2002) and she has collaborated with prestigious architectural offices such as SMAO, PO2 or Soriano & Co. Since 2007 she runs B2bConcept, a collaborative office that has developed multiple projects and competitions in the field of architecture and urban environment.

Giacomo Costa was born in 1970 in Florence, where he lives and works. He teaches photography at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Catanzaro and his work was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, at the 13th Quadrenniale in Rome, at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, at the Centre Pompidou, the 53rd Venice Art Biennale, at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, at the UQ Museum in Brisbane, at the Hamburg Triennial of Photography and at the Museum of Palazzo Fortuny in Venice.

1991 “Meisterschueler” at the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf. Masterclass Prof. O.M. Ungers. 1994 Founding the studio “remote-controlled“ 1994–2001 Assistant Professor at the RWTH Aachen (Technical University Aachen) at the chair of building construction and design. 1997 Awarded the Villa Massimo Fellowship, Deutsche Akademie Rom (German Academy Rome), sojourn in Rome 1999. 2002 Visiting Professor in the field of “experimental design with new media” at the TU Darmstadt (Technical University Darmstadt), College of Architecture. 2003 Visiting Professor at the Muthesius Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung, Kiel (Muthesius University of Art and Design, Kiel), in the field of “Simulation”. since 2003 Professor of “design and typology of the built forms and their depiction”, at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture, at University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf. 2005-2015 Professor of the Practice in Architecture at Texas A&M University, USA Several Publications, Exhibitions and lectures since 1994

Prof.M.Arch. Sotirios Papadopoulos : Architect,Artist, Designer and Production Designer. He graduated in Architecture from I.U.A.V. – Venice, Italy, then he followed the fine arts school of venice and after that he got his Master’s degree from U.S.C.- Los Angeles USA in 1992., he lives and works between Greece and Italy applying Architecture in 360ο. Since 2000 he creates great combinations of art works and design insisting on the fusion of the artistic ideas and function. He is one of the first supporters of “FRAGILISM” a new way to conseve design and art through the nowardays social phenomenon.He operates in the fields of Digital Painting, public and private constructions, industrial design, set design, outdoor and green design, and he works on the concept and supervision of various exhibitions, too. Many of his art-design works make part of private collections around the globe. He is teaching Design in Verona – Italy Fine Arts Institute.

RIET EECKHOUT (M.Arch (St-Lucas Brussels), MA (RMIT), PhD (RMIT) holds a full time post-doctoral position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven, Catholic University Leuven (Belgium). As a practitioner and researcher, she develops and writes about her drawings within the architecture discipline. Her drawings have been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale 2014 (IT), Tchoban Foundation, Museum for Architectural Drawing Berlin (G), La Gallerie d’Architecture in Paris (FR), Museum for Architecture, TUBerlin, Berlin (G), COAAC in Barcelona (SP) and ART OMI:Architecture, Ghent, New York (US). In 2014, she concluded a PhD titled ‘Process Drawing’ under Dr Martyn Hook within the invitational practice based research program at RMIT University (Melbourne), led by Leon van Schaik. She is a guest speaker and teacher at universities and conferences internationally where she talks on her research in relation to practise.

Alexander Daxböck studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo and Zurich. Besides his interest on emergent forms of urban planning and urban development, he particularly focuses and researches on the value and importance of architectural drawings, illustrations and stills as communication tool and transmitter of information, time, emotion or atmosphere. Trying to blur and combine certain limits and elements between architecture, graphics, comics and fiction. The result, images equipped with mannerism and characteristics, handling different scales, driven by diverse inspirations, detailed and vague at the same time, almost limitless in a digital environment. Like a playful topography that can be explored, looked at, coded or shaped, always open for speculations, experiments and ideas. Occasionally being more relational or abstract than architectural, spatial or figurative, presented and positioned between a technical draft and an artistic expression and never afraid of relying on the observer for [further] explanation. Apart form working as an architect and illustrator he teaches an urban design studio at the Technical University of Vienna.