Faith

Haobo Wei is the lead architect and founding partner of West-line Studio, WAN Awards 2020 judge, Opening speaker of Peter Brendel Jones Memorial Forum, member of American Society of Landscape Architects, honorary professor at Tiangong University, postgraduate's tutor at Chongqing University, special allowance expert of the State Council. He has won dozens of international prizes, such as the Wan Award 2019 - Architect Practice of the Year - Gold, Dezeen Awards 2019 - top 15 International Architects, A+ Awards 2019 Architecture +Stone winner, Wan Award 2019 - Small Space - Gold, German Design Award 2018 - Architecture - GOLD, LEAF Award 2018 - Best Public Building - Winner, LEAF Award 2018 and 2019 - Best Mixed-Use Building - Winner, A+awards 2018 - Architecture +concrete Winner, ArchDaily China Building of the Year Awards 2017 - 1st Place. His works appeared on many professional books: "STONE" (Phaidon, 2019), "RED - Architecture in Monochrome" (Phaidon, 2018), "Chinese Brutalism Today - Concrete and Avant-Garde Architecture” “Brick Stone Metal Wood: Building on Tradition” (ORO Editions). They have also been featured on main architectural magazines and media worldwide, Casabella, Domus, Dezeen, Detail, Arquitectura Viva, Architecture Asia, Kanto, Hinge, Architecture China, ArchDaily among the others. He participated in the Asia Design Pavilion (Milan Design Week 2018), the 3rd China Design Exhibition 2019, the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Urban Architecture Biennale in 2007, and in 2013.

Jingsong Xie is co-founder and chief architect of West-line Studio. She is professor, director of the ASC Institute of Chinese Architects and member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Among the different prizes won, there are the Wan Awards 2018 - FACADE - Winner, Wan Awards 2018 - Civic Buildings - High Commended, A+Awards 2018 - Architecture + Stone - Winners, German Design Award 2020 - Urban Space and Infrastructure - Winners, German Design Award 2020 - Architecture - Winners and Architecture MasterPrize 2019 - Restoration & Renovation - Winners.

Md. Rafiq Azam is one of the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi architects practicing for the last 27 years and developed a remarkable style of his own. His architecture is a fusion of tradition, nature, and mysticism with significant harmony. Rafiq’s green architecture is not a mere a mechanism of energy-saving rather it seems like an inspiring process of energy gaining. As a visiting faculty, he taught at the National University of Singapore, NED Karachi, Jadavpur University India, BRAC University, University of Asia Pacific, North South University Dhaka, and Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka. Rafiq Azam is a 1989 graduate from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). His practice name is “SHATOTTO architecture for green living” since May 1995. In 2004, he participated in “Glenn Murcutt Master Class” and selected as one of the ten emerging designers of the world by “Urban Land”, the USA in 2008. He won a line of awards such as ARCASIA Gold Medal 2017, World Architecture Festival (WAF) Award 2017, Four times Cityscape global Award, Leading European Architecture Award (LEAF) 2009, Malaysia Property Award, The Edge PAM Green Excellence Award 2015, Five times World Architectural Community Award, A R Emerging Architecture Award, Finalists for AGA Khan Award 2004 and 2007, and The South Asian Architecture Award for six times to name a few. He served as an international juror and attracted to media all around the world.

I was born in Porto in 1980. In 2004, I've concluded a degree in architecture at the College of Architecture and Arts, University Lusíada of Oporto, variant Urban and Architectural Recovery and I'm a member of the Portuguese College of Architects (OA) since 2005. From 2004 to 2006 I've collaborated with architects António Brandão and Raul Silva. In 2007 I have completed a degree in Photography at the Portuguese Institute of Photography (IPF). I was co-founder and partner of ASVS Architects between 2009 and 2018. While in ASVS Architects I've developed several projects in Portugal and abroad, covering Urban Planning, Architecture, Interior, Product, and Graphic Design. I have been awarded in several international architectural competitions such as the 'Piraeus Cultural Coast Masterplan and Museum of Underwater Antiquities', Athens, Greece (Piraeus Port Authority SA) with the 1st Honourable Mention (2013) and the ‘Caffe Aroma’s Competition’, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the 1st Honourable Mention (2014). In 2012, Santa Catarina’s House was awarded the prize ‘Respect for Architecture’ by the Portuguese College of Architects (OA-SRN).