Strays 2020

Rania Alomar is an award-winning architect practicing in Los Angeles. She was educated in Britain before coming to Los Angeles in the late 90’s to complete a Masters in Architecture. After a decade of working as a Design Lead on large international projects for two prestigious US firms, Ms Alomar founded RA-DA, envisioning it as a nimble and highly creative entity. RA-DA has quickly built its reputation as a strong burgeoning design force in the region, taking on a range of project types from graphic design, to interiors, to architecture, and working for a variety of clients. RA-DA’s success is in always pushing established norms and exploring architectural opportunities within the current discourse whenever possible. Our work has been published internationally in culture and design magazines, newspapers and blogs, and has won a dozen design awards in 2013 alone, including the AIA National Honors Award for the Doc Magic Headquarters. RA-DA was selected as one of the 40 architects in SCI-Arc’s 40/40 celebration and exhibit and featured in the AIA’s Emerging Professionals Exhibit at the 2013 National Convention.

Chilean architect (UCH 2001). Co-founder and director of 57STUDIO, architecture and design company based in Santiago since 2002. Most renowned works are a wooden stable in Coelemu (X-BIAU Prize 2016), the Kübler House in Colina and Rocas House in Zapallar in association with Marcio Kogan (BR). He´s assistant professor at USS Santiago since 2012, and caricaturist since the 90´s.

Chilean architect (UCH 2001). Co-founder and director of 57STUDIO, architecture and design company based in Santiago since 2002. Most renowned works are a wooden stable in Coelemu (X-BIAU Prize 2016), the Kübler House in Colina and Rocas House in Zapallar in association with Marcio Kogan (BR). He´s in the board of directors at Elemental and other companies.

Bas ten Brinke (1972) studied architecture and urban development at Eindhoven University of Technology. His very distinctive signature was quick to make an impression; ‘Spartan hypermodernism’, is how one colleague dubbed it. With top marks for his graduation project, he was immediately recruited by a leading architectural office. At the age of 27 he established 70F architecture, so that he could build according to his own aesthetic vision and put however much time and energy into it as it takes. After all: the simpler the design, the more time it takes to get it right. Now, twenty years on, his passion for architecture remains as strong as ever. He has assembled a team of dedicated architects around him, but wants to stay involved with every 70F project. Bas inspires fellow architects as a speaker at international events and is a visiting professor at several universities in Europe.