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Andrus Kõresaar is the co-founder and partner at the largest Estonian architecture office KOKO architects, created in 2000. He is a flying creative mind in many ways. After the initial success as the designer of the Estonian pavilion at Hannover EXPO 2000, Kõresaar went on to fill Tallinn with landmark buildings from old industrial sites, museums to the city’s only synagogue. While working on the Seaplane Harbour – the Europa Nostra 2013 Grand Prix winning maritime muuseum reconstruction Project – he wanted to get to know the topic in depth and learned to fly. KOKO architects’ passion is rethinking old buildings, the conversion of old into new, always in a bold and unexpected way.

Fuensanta Nieto has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1983. She is a professor at the at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. She chairs and participates in international conferences and juries and is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. She is the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2015) and Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2017.

Architect and Postulant to Master in Philosophy with the thesis: "The aesthetics of the music of Iannis Xenakis in the architecture of the twentieth century" both by the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has collaborated in the offices Serrano, Serrano, Nava; Albin and Norten and Legorreta Architects between 1982 and l988. He was a founding Partner of Springall + Lira from 1988 to 2018 With offices in both Mexico and Spain. In 2019 he becomes Co-Director and Founding Partner of lira.velasco.arquitectos. Among its most important and award-winning buildings are: Dairy factory for Danone Group in Irapuato, Social Interest Module in Santa Cruz Meyehualco, Iztapalapa, International Call Center for Santander Bank in Querétaro. He is currently collaborating on the following projects: Althaus 1 and 2, large-scale housing and services buildings for the Arhea group in San Ángel and Pedregal. The Mitikah Tower, for Park’s in Coyoacán. ISSSTE City for the Institution in San Fernando, Tlalpan. Housing, Offices and Services Building in Guadalajara for Nemesis Capital. Academic at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNAM and Universidad Anáhuac and Co-Director General of PREPOSITIONS, digital platform for architecture, design, and urban planning. He has won the Mexican Architecture Biennial in the genre of schools with the CIDE Classroom and Auditorium Building.

Rachel Luchetti is an accomplished, experienced, and multi award winning Interior Designer. Her hospitality spaces are renowned for their conceptual integration, commitment to function, and inspired artisanal details. Each and every design represents one specific and individual creative concept that has been incubated to its own aesthetic conclusion. There is no ‘signature style’ represented in her portfolio - the continuity is to be found in the philosophy and approach that guides every project. Rachel co-founded the Practice in 2008 with Stuart Krelle. This was initially a partnership born of friendship and operating on a shoestring budget in a sublet office space. Luchetti Krelle was named Emerging Designer at the 2010 Australian Interior Design Awards and swiftly became a recognised industry leader with celebrated designs around Australia and more recently Japan and New Zealand. Rachel was awarded ‘Business Woman of the Year’ at the 2014 NAWIC Awards for women in construction, Best Restaurant (Australia Pacific) in the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards and most recently, Luchetti Krelle took out the most coveted prize - Overall Winner at the 2018 IDEA awards. Born and raised in inner metropolitan Sydney, Rachel is mother to two very young children whilst leading a team of 20 designers tackling complex projects ranging in scale from complete hotel refurbishments to food courts, restaurants and even hole-in-the-wall cafes.

Manuel Zornoza Principal Architect at Latitude Architectural Group Registered Architect of the Spanish Board of Architects (COAM) Master's Degree Landscape Urbanism (Architectural Association School of Architecture, London) Visiting professor Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Manuel Zornoza is the Principal Architect at Latitude Architectural Group, a company that founded and is rooted in the genuine understanding of the social, ecological and symbolic specificity of each territory. He is originally from Spain and, after graduating in Architecture in Madrid, continued his studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he obtained a Master's Degree in Landscape Urbanism. After several years of training in the architectural design, he observed the proliferation of generic and repetitive architecture throughout the world. As a counterpart, Manuel proposes a more empathetic approach to the design and development of architecture through buildings that naturally settle in each of those latitudes for which they were designed. This vision would result in a closer link between architecture and the environment, between people with their communities and, by extension, between people with each other.