The City Link

Miguel Rosales is president and principal designer of Rosales + Partners. Mr. Rosales has over 30 years of experience as Lead Designer for major infrastructure projects across the US and abroad. Prior to forming Rosales + Partners, Mr. Rosales served as lead architect and urban designer for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. Mr. Rosales helped to develop the innovative cable-stayed bridge and guide it through a complex public participation process. His current projects include the 54th Street Pedestrian Bridge, New York City, NY, the Trinity River Vision Bridges, Fort Worth, TX, the Hickory Riverwalk Signature Bridge, Hickory, NC, the Marion Street Pedestrian Bridge, Seattle, WA and the North Washington Street/Charlestown Bridge replacement, Boston MA. Mr. Rosales is recognized internationally as an expert on bridge aesthetics and design. He has received grants from the NEA, AIA/AAF, and MIT to research bridge and infrastructure design and is the recipient of several awards including a 1993 Young Architects Design Award from Progressive Architecture magazine. Born in Guatemala in 1961, Mr. Rosales received a Diploma in Architecture from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City in 1985. In 1987, he completed a Master of Science in Architectural Studies at MIT.

Silvia Rizzo was born in Padova in 1975. She graduated from I.U.A.V. Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2003 and she has worked with many studios in Italy and abroad. She is a founding member of the architectural firm LD + SR, active in Genova and Padova, which operates in the various fields of architecture, integral restoration and urban transformation. Each project carefully looks at the motifs of history, techniques and materials that a place makes available, and tries to establish a close link with the identity that significantly characterizes a place. Particular attention is paid to the redevelopment and recovery of urban spaces and sustainable mobility. The firm has participated in numerous competitions and cultural initiatives, it also designed public and private buildings, open spaces and urban plans for historic cities too. It has won several awards as well, including the Restoration of the Chiesa Fortezza in Lingueglietta (IM), the Restoration of Castello dei Doria in Dolceacqua (IM), the Passerella sul Nervia, the recovery of the Oasis, the Pelagos Ciclovia and Urban Park in Ventimiglia and Camporosso (IM).

Evren Başbuğ was born in Ankara in 1981. He graduated from METU (Middle East Technical University) Faculty of Architecture in 2003. He earned a M.Arch degree from İstanbul Bilgi University, Architectural Design Graduate Program in 2009. Throughout his professional career, he has won over 20 awards (including 4 first prizes) in national architectural competitions and multiple various professional awards and commendations from national / international platforms / programmes. In 2018 Evren Başbuğ was awarded the National Architecture Award in the 'Buildings / Public Space' category with Bostanlı Footbridge & Sunset Lounge. Evren Başbuğ has been entitled as the Coordinator of Archiprix Turkey since 2020. Besides his ongoing professional career in İzmir and Ankara within his practice 'Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects Co. Ltd.', Evren Başbuğ is teaching as a part-time studio instructor at TED University Faculty of Architecture and Ankara Medipol University Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture. He is also a member of the Architects’ Professional Committee in the İzmir Chamber of Commerce.

Preliminary Research Office PRO is a team of international designers researching and practicing architecture.

Xavier Font, MEng Civil Engineering and CEng MICE, founder and owner of Alfa Polaris, is a thirty year experienced engineer, skilled in regional planning, site development and structural and bridge design. For the last twenty-five years he has been involved in the design and construction process of more than thirty bridges, half of which have been built under his supervision. His designs are characterized by a search for a balance between functional, social, cultural, technological and economic conditions in which a project is set. But, overall, his main goal when he designs is to create locus, to make apparent the Genius Loci —the spirit— of the place. He do share Andreu Ulied's opinion that there can be nothing more uncultured, less civilized, than a landscape with no places. Since the foundation of ALFA POLARIS he has taken and artisan course of action characterized by the love of craft and detail, and the hands-on approach to his work. He sees craft work as a way to keep himself rooted in material reality; he feels himself an artisan of the built environment.