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Born in Mexico City, studied Architecture, Art and Art History at Rice University in Houston Texas and established a profesional practice upon his return to Mexico after a few years spent at Bofill´s Taller de Arquitectura in Barcelona. In 1993 he designed, and with a an a group of friends founded, El Pendulo bookstore/coffeeshop (www.pendulo.com) which has grown to seven locations around the city, the latest of these, in San Angel, has received multiple international recognition and awards for its design and special contribution to the social fabric of the neighborhood where it stands. El Pendulo Polanco has been listed among the most beautiful bookstores in the world by many international publications. He has also been active in Urban Policy by being a founding member and director of the first two Business Improvement Districts in the country, in the popular Condesa and Polanco areas. To this day, he continues on a path in the arts that he started in early childhood.

Born in Venice, Italy, from a famous family of artists and glass makers, Filippo Gabbiani developed very early a multidisciplinary interest for art and design. Starting to cooperate with his family in designing and producing artistic glass he completed his studies at University of Architecture of Venice where he graduated with an innovative research sponsored by the European Community on usage of alternative energies in architecture. Following his instinctive curiosity for different disciplines and other cultures he worked in several European countries and in the U.S.A. cooperating with prestigious firms of architecture, interior and industrial design prior to the founding of Kokaistudios. Kokaistudios is an award winning architecture and interior design firm founded in 2000 in Venice by Italian architects Filippo Gabbiani & Andrea Destefanis. Headquartered in Shanghai since 2002 we have grown into multi-cultural firm of 60 people working on a global scale with projects in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Kokaistudios partners with our clients to collaboratively develop innovative & ground breaking projects in diverse fields of design. Primarily focused on developing cultural, corporate, commercial, hospitality & retail projects we have also worked extensively on urban regeneration projects involving the requalification of heritage locations. Kokaistudios aims to develop projects that add positively to the built environment and social fabric of the cities and countries in which they are located.

MINIMO is the architectural studio specialized in the optimization of space that arises to respond to a generational demand: "we want to live big" We make architecture and collaborate with offices of engineering, quantity surveyors and landscape studios. We are: Sergio Sánchez Grande Founder / Principal Architect Arquitecto por la Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) Fakulteta za arhitekturo in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Colegiado COAM 21370 Alberto Rubial Alonso Founder / Principal Architect Arquitecto por la Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) Colegiado COAM 22041