Pura

A chartered landscape architect based in the UK with extensive experience of design communication, landscape design, planning and development, working on projects including small-scale urban sites through to large-scale masterplanning and historic parks and gardens.

Label architecture is an architectural practice based in Brussels, a city the three founding partners, Jean-Didier Bergilez (b. 1974), Michel Lefèvre (b. 1978) and Thibaut Rome (b. 1977) call home. All three are graduates from the La Cambre Institute of Architecture in Brussels. The office opened in 2004 and started off with a participation to the 10th Venice Biennal of Architecture, by curating the Belgian Pavillon. In 2008, while Jean-Didier leaves the office to concentrate on a more theoretical and critical approach to architecture, Christophe Pham (b. 1979) from the St Luc Institute of Architecture in Brussels joins the team. Projects by Label architecture, on various scales, are as much an opportunity to play with existing space, from their common reference points, as not to take themselves too seriously while being serious about their work. An insatiable will to play with the obvious to maximum effect.

Faith Okuma is a principal of Surroundings Studio in Santa Fe, NM. Surroundings Studio is founded on planning and designing exceptional projects that creatively address environmental, social and fiscal challenges and opportunities. Faith’s career has included projects across the nation and internationally. Growing up and practicing in the Southwest throughout her career has led to a particular focus on issues of water conservation and sustainable resiliency for arid regions. Her perspective is that projects are opportunities to learn and engage in the unique complexities and richness of place, culture and people. Those primary attitudes permeate her projects from large scale regional planning to residential. A graduate of Arizona State University, she was previously a principal with Design Workshop and Campbell Okuma Perkins Assoc. She has served on national advisory teams for AIA and ULI. She had been on planning and design juries for ASLA and various other award entities. Her projects have been published in books, national magazines and garnered national awards for excellence in planning and design from ASLA, APA and AIA.