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Dagur Eggertsson is the founder of Rintala Eggertsson Architects in 2007 together with Sami Rintala. The company is based in Norway with activities centred around furniture design, public art, exhibition design, architecture and urban planning. In 2008 Eggertsson and Rintala were joined by Vibeke Jenssen, who is now a full partner in the company. All three studied under Juhani Pallasmaa in Helsinki and are informed by his phenomenological and cross-disciplinary thinking. Their generous, open approach to making architecture, their unique ability to design and build beautiful buildings and bridges, and their natural ability to engage with people and with the specifics of each place has offered them the opportunity to develop projects around the world. The work of Rintala Eggertsson Architects has been exhibited at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and at the last Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018 with the special project “Corte Del Forte”. The company has received prestigious awards over the years such as The Global award for Sustainable Architecture, Wan 21 for 21 Award, Architizer A+Award, Travel & Leisure Award, American Architecture Award and the International Architecture Award. Their projects and texts have been published in architecture magazines around the world Eggertsson has taught architecture in Europe, Australia and North America and most recently in 2019 as Gensler Visiting Professors at Cornell University in New York.

Andrew Whalley has been an instrumental part of Grimshaw since the earliest days of the practice. His award-winning projects include the International Terminal at Waterloo, the Eden Project in Cornwall, the redevelopment of the historic Paddington Station in London and the Experimental Music and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York. In 2001, Andrew played a key role in establishing Grimshaw’s New York studio. He was Partner-in-Charge of Grimshaw’s New York office during its first ten years. During this time Grimshaw in New York was one of eight architectural practices selected for major public projects under Mayor Bloomberg’s design excellence program. He is currently overseeing the design of the Sustainability Pavilion for the World Expo 2020 Dubai. Andrew has also been involved with academia for many years, including teaching positions at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College’s Industrial Design Department as well as the Architectural Association, University College London, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew was appointed as Grimshaw Chairman in 2019. The Chairman’s Office is responsible for managing the practice's core design ethos, brand identity and working to build relationships that strengthen the profile of Grimshaw around the world. Andrew is a registered member of the AIA and RIBA and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2019.

William Feuerman is a designer, academic, and writer working in Australia and the US. He is the Director of Office Feuerman (OF), a Sydney based design and research office, founded in New York in 2007. Before starting OF, William worked at several leading international architecture firms including five years at Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York. In 2010, he began teaching at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he has served as the Course Director for the Bachelor of Design in Architecture program. He has coordinated and taught in graduate and undergraduate architecture programs in Australia and the US including Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design as well as the at Pratt Institute’s School of Art and Design. He came to Sydney in 2010 via New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He is a contributor to The Conversation and the New York-based website Untapped Cities, where he writes about art, architecture and the city.