Biographies of Contributors:
Matthias Ballestrem
Germany
Matthias Ballestrem is an architect living and working in Berlin. Since his
Fulbright scholarship at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles in 1999 he has been investigating
the interrelationship of architectural space and the human nervous system. He
finished his degree at the Institute of Technology of Berlin and worked for several
architecture offices in Germany including Barkow Leibinger Architects. During his
time there he was leading the competition team and was part of the design team for
the TRUTEC Building. Matthias has established a small architectural practice in 2006.
At the same time, he started to teach as assistant professor at the Department of
Architecture of the Institute of Technology in Berlin. Matthias has served as a guest
design critic at various institutions including the GSD Harvard. Student work of his
design studio has recently been exhibited in the Pavilion show at the Deutsches
Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt and the 2009 International Architecture Biennale,
Rotterdam. Matthias is currently working on his PhD on the ambiguity of spaces.
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BAR berlin—Base for Architecture and Research
Germany
BAR was founded in 1992 by Antje Buchholz, Jack Burnett-Stuart, Jürgen Patzak-
Poor and Michael Matuschka. Since then BAR’s architecture and research practice
has explored three main themes: Documentation of urban everyday space, Use of
models to explore both spatial and conceptual ideas, Redefinition the architect’s role
through direct involvement in the initiation, financing, and construction of projects.
Projects range in scale from the Durchgangsbad (1993), a prototypical passage
bathroom for one-room apartments, to strategies for urban infill in towns in Mark
Brandenburg (1996). BAR’s activity has focused recently on mixed-use buildings in
Berlin (Oderberger Strasse 56, 2007–2010, and Schwedter Straße 26, 1999–2002),
and on urban research and development projects (City in Conflict, 2003–2004;
Building Initiative, 2004–2005).
Members of BAR have taught at SCI-ARC and Woodbury University in Los Angeles,
at the TU and FU in Berlin, the University of Ulster, Belfast and the TU, Cottbus. BAR
has received several awards, most recently the KfW-Award 2010 for the mixed use
project Oderberger Strasse 56. BAR’s work has been exhibited at Archilab 2004 in
Orléans and at the NAI in Rotterdam in 2006.
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Kathrin Böhm—public works
United Kingdom
‘Public Works’ is an art and architecture practice working within and towards
public space. All public works projects address the question of how the public
realm is shaped by its various users and how existing dynamics can inform further
proposals. Their focus is the production and extension of a particular public space
through participation and collaborations. Projects span across different scales
and address the relation between the informal and formal aspects of a site. The
work produces social, architectural and discursive spaces. Outputs include socio-
spatial and physical structures, public events and publications. public works is a
London based non-for-profit company. Current members are Kathrin Böhm, Torange
Khonsari, Andreas Lang and Polly Brannan who work with an extended network of
project related collaborators. The practice has been growing organically since 1999,
with its initial founding members Kathrin Böhm, Sandra Denicke-Polcher,Torange
Khonsari, Andreas Lang and Stefan Saffer working in different constellations
until 2004. Current and recent projects include “Today’s extension” for South
London Gallery, “Colchester Inn” for firstsite, “Chodzenie” for the Polish Festival in
Southend,“ 1000 Bags here and now” for Whitechapel Gallery, London, “Folk Float”
for Creative Egremont, and the “International Village Shop” a joint initiative with
myvillages.org and Grizedale Arts.
www.publicworksgroup.net
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Brandlhuber+ ERA, Emde, Schneider
Germany
Arno Brandlhuber is the founder of brandlhuber+ Berlin (since 2006). Since 2003
he has held the chair of architecture and urban research at the Academy of Fine
Arts, Nuremberg and is directing the nomadic masters programme a42.org. He is
co-founder of the public seminar Akademie c/o, currently researching the spatial
production of the Berlin Republic. His architectural practice extends from the
‘Neanderthal-Museum’ (Düsseldorf/Mettmann 1996) to multi-usable structures such
as the ‘Kölner Brett’ (Cologne 2000) and currently the ‘HybridHouses’ (IBA Hamburg
2010–2012). For ‘Brunnenstrasse 9’ he collaborated with ERA (Bruno Ebersbach,
Philipp Reinfeld, Florian Steinbeck), Markus Emde (professor for designing and
engineering at Hochschule Regensburg) and Thomas Schneider.
www.brandlhuber.com
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Anthony Coleman
United Kingdom
Anthony Coleman is a photographer based in London. He began his career in
photography working for the features desk at the Daily Telegraph. Having achieved
a first degree in architecture he went on to graduate with an MA in fine art
photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. Since then he has worked as a
photographer chiefly for architects and magazines and continues to pursue personal
photographic projects and exhibition participations.
www.anthonycoleman.com
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Fran Cottell
United Kingdom
Fran Cottell is an artist and Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts in MA
fine art/BA Context. In 2008 she curated ‘Concrete Dreams: Art, Architecture and
Social Space’ with Liz Harrison for Apt gallery/Open House, bringing together
27 artists, motivated by diverse issues such as pathos, humour, desire, history,
power, wealth and neglect (www.concretedreams.org). Other exhibitions include
2005/6—‘Collecting Time: the Living and the Dead’, 2003/4—‘Still Live‘ and
2001—‘Display’ which are an ongoing series of live installations displaying the
contents, visitors and occupants of her house. Her 2008 work ‘Gold Balls’ is a
large scale public art project, part of the Deptford X projects, From 1996–1998 she
worked on public art projects/design teams with Terry Watts, London Boroughs
of Merton and Newham, Mike Walker, David Powell Associates, Price and Myers,
Electrosonic, Common Ground and Levitt Bernstein Associates. She has been
Executive of the Public Art Forum from 1997–2002.
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Christian Derix
United Kingdom
Christian Derix set up the Research & Development initiative at Aedas Architects,
London in 2004. He is Head of the Computational Research and Design group [CDR]
where new design methodology is developed from a blend of computing science and
other disciplines. The research has been implemented over various scales on many
live projects such as furniture; VITA shelving system, 2008, architecture; World Trade
Centre Memorial Museum visual analysis, 2007 and urban design; Masdar City
Mixed neighbourhood MIST 340, 2009. Christian has been a senior lecturer of the
Masters’ in Computing & Design at the University of East London since 2001. He set
up the Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture (CECA) in 2002 with Paul
Coates, and has taught Algorithmic Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic, Technical
University Vienna and University College London. He is currently pursuing a PhD in
Simulation of Spatial Conditions at TU Vienna.
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Isabelle Doucet
Belgium
Isabelle Doucet is a Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of
Manchester, School of Environment and Development / Manchester Architecture
Research Centre. She completed her PhD research at the Delft University of
Technology, Architecture Theory, with Prof. Arie Graafland, under the title ‘From
Penser la Ville to Faire la Ville: Brussels and Architecture’s Engagement with the
Real’. Recent publications include, the fourth issue of Footprint Journal, on the theme
‘Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice’, co-edited
with Kenny Cupers (www.footprintjournal.org); and the book ‘Transdisciplinary
Knowledge Production: Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry in Architecture and
Urbanism’, co-edited with Nel Janssens, Springer Verlag, forthcoming 2010. www.
sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/staff/doucet-isabelle.htm
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Easton + Combs
USA
EASTON+COMBS is an award winning, internationally recognized architectural office that operates as a laboratory for innovative building strategies at the intersection of material practice and applied architectural research. EASTON+COMBS approaches the production of architecture as a context for exploration of environments and the development of new spatial typologies towards critical models of social and cultural production at the scale of architecture and urbanism.
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Lukas Einsele
Germany
Lukas Einsele is an artist. He lives and works in Darmstadt. He is represented in
the following collections: Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, DG Bank,
Deutsche Bank, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Grafische Sammlung der
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,
Dresden, Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt. He received the German Photo
Book Award 2006/07 for the book ‘One Step Beyond’ and was Nominated for the
Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize 2008. Recent exhibitions include 2010—’War /
Individuum’ Ausstellungshallen f. Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, 2009—’Territories
of the (In-) Human’, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2009—‘The Bitter
Years Contemporary’, Kunstforum Casino, Luxemburg, ‘War and Medicine’
Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden. He works for several NGOs internationally,
from 1999–2000 he was appointed Guest Professor at Merz Academy, Stuttgart.
www.one-step-beyond.de
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Studio Elmo Vermijs
The Netherlands
Studio Elmo Vermijs is a studio that works on the intersection of visual art,
architecture and design. In 2006 Elmo Vermijs graduated with honours from the
department of architectural design of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
The studio designs and realises autonomous architectural objects, which arise from
a social context in combination with fascinations for a location, space, material
or construction. It is the intention to make people aware of what the influence of
space has on every person, physically and mentally. Realised projects include:
Cupboardcrates (crates which are built up as a cupboard), Peopleskitchen (mobile
cook&eat event), Connectingcorridor (two narrow corridors of 17 metres between
two buildings.), ‘From plinth to ceiling’ (exhibition design for CODA museum
Apeldoorn), Extrapoolpavilion (pavilion for artist collective Extrapool presented
at the Kunstvlaai 2008), Cratecupboard (cupboard of old wooden crates, beams
and wedges), Kastzitbeeld (installation for gallery E105, Bonn), Staircasepavilion
(proposal for Noord/Zuidlijn, Amsterdam), Settlingtankkitchen (open caboose
on a former water purification area). Works in progress include: Floating Bridges
(a village of floating bridges for the Sloterplasfestival), Swingpavilion (pavilion
with 50 swings), Hooliganpavilion (pavilion/stadium where hooligans can fight),
Hammockpavilion (floating pavilion with 30 hammocks), Deejaypancakeset (mobile
set to play records and bake pancakes at the same time).
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Bettina Gerhold
Switzerland
Bettina Gerhold was born in Munich, studied architecture at the Technical University
of Munich, the Academy of the Arts in Vienna and colour design at the International
Association of Colour consultants in Salzburg. She is working as an architect and
colour designer in Zurich.
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Jaime Gili
Venezuela
Jaime Gili, born in 1972, grew up in Caracas, andstarted art studies in Prodiseño In
the 1990’s he moved to Barcelona to continue studies at the University of Barcelona.
He has been based in London since 1996, when he started an MA in painting at the
Royal College of Art. In recent works he depicts the clash of utopia and reality, his
work always engaging with the surrounding architecture. His paintings expand
to take over visually and physically ever larger spaces, as in his “Superestrellas”
at Riflemaker in 2008, and at the warehouses of Periférico Caracas in 2006.
Recent exhibitions include Bienal do Mercosul in Brazil in 2007 and Demons, Yarns
and Tales’, a tapestry project seen in London and Miami and John Moores 25 in
Liverpool. Future exhibitions include Kunsthalle Winterthur in Switzerland in October
2009, and NEWSPEAK: British Art Now at Saatchi Gallery. He is represented by
Riflemaker in London. Since 2002 his work has been contextualised as continuing
a tradition of Latin-American abstract art, especially the Venezuelan optical and
kinetic tradition of artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero, with an
input from popular art and London’s energy. He recently won an international
competition for one of the world’s largest public art project (261,000 sq.ft or 25.000
m2). The tops and sides of 16 large oil tanks along the Fore River in South Portland,
Maine will be painted with a site-specific design by Jaine. Work started in 2009 and
will take a few years.
www.jaimegili.org
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Rachel Harding
United Kingdom
Rachel Harding designs fictional curiosities for grisly scenarios. Her work is driven by
the aesthetics of human dysfunction, it provides a glimpse into the possible futures
that we might expect as a result of our current desires and fears. Based on rigorous
scientific and cultural research, her designs are hybrids of technological possibility
and societal ruin.
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Susanne Hofmann
Germany
Susanne Hofmann was born in 1963. She received a DAAD scholarship and a
Diploma from the Architectural Association She was nominated for the RIBA Silver
Medal in 1992. She has been teaching since 1997 at several universities (RMIT,
Melbourne, Westminster University, HCU, Hamburg, Technical University of Berlin),
and is now a guest Professor at the Technical University of Berlin. She is the founding
director of the Baupiloten at the Technical University of Berlin —an experimental
new architectural studio bridging education, practice and research. There have
been worldwide publications, exhibitions, workshops and lectures detailing her
innovative design strategy of Participation and Architecture.
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Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell
Canada
Jane Hutton is a researcher and landscape architectural designer, currently teaching
at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Her practice focuses on
collaborations with activist groups re-thinking constructed urban ecological systems,
and a detailed investigation of materials of landscape architecture. Recent projects
include a prototype soil regeneration project at Downsview Park, a fruit orchard in
a public Toronto park, and a study of public housing landscapes in Toronto. In 2010
she curated Erratics: a genealogy of rock landscapes at the Gund Hall Gallery at
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Adrian Blackwell is an artist and urban and architectural designer, whose
work focuses on the spaces and forces of uneven development produced through
processes of Postfordist urbanisation. Since 1996 his art projects have altered
existing spaces to encourage common uses. Public Water Closet (1998) and How
to Open a Car Like a Book (1999) open private enclosures to the city. Recent works
such as Light Net (2004), Car Pool (2005) and Model for a Public Space (2000,
2006) produce new locations for collective action and public discourse. In 2005
Blackwell co-edited Unboxed: Engagements in Social Space and in 2007 he won the
competition to redesign Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square in collaboration with three
other design practices. He is an assistant professor of Architecture and Urban Design
at the University of Toronto.
criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com
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Tim Ireland
United Kingdom
Tim Ireland is a registered architect in the UK, having worked for large commercial
and small scale private practices. He has worked on various building and project
types, in the UK and overseas. After studying architecture he worked with the
Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau on the regeneration of the residence and workplace
of Lucas Cranach the Elder (a German Renaissance painter), before spending two
years working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He moved to London, where he has been
practicing and researching architecture, since 2000. His research focuses on the
application of the computer, from an artificial life perspective, to generate systems
of architectural production. In 2008 he was awarded an EPSRC research grant and
so resigned from his position as senior architect to focus on his research full-time. He
is currently engaged in his PhD full-time at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies,
University College London under the guidance of Professor Philip Steadman and Paul
Coates.
www.thearchitectureofspace.co.uk
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IwamotoScott Architecture
USA
IwamotoScott Architecture is a San Francisco-based architecture and design
practice led by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott. As a practice committed to pursuing
architecture as a form of applied design research, ISAr engages in projects at
multiple scales and in a variety of contexts. These include full-scale fabrications,
museum installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, design competitions
and commissions. Their design approach proceeds from in-depth research coupled
with creative experimentation. Responses to project circumstances and client
requirements are directed along multiple lines of inquiry, where generative
concepts are tested through speculative form-finding and iterative modeling
in both physical and digital media. The work of ISAr centres on amplifying the
perceptual performance of architecture, establishing strong environmental and site
relationships, and pursuing innovation in use of material and configuration of space.
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Toni Kotnik
Switzerland
Toni Kotnik is an architect and founder of kotnik.architecture, a Zurich-based
architectural office. He studied architecture and mathematics at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the University of Tübingen, and the University
of Utah. He received a Master of Advanced Studies in Computer Aided Architectural
design from the ETH Zurich and a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich.
He was research fellow at the Center for the Representation of Multi-Dimensional
Information (CROMDI), postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich, assistant
professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne, and principal researcher
in OCEAN, an interdisciplinary design research network. Currently, he teaches at
the Architectural Association and works as senior researcher at the ETH Zurich with
focus on the interplay of architectural design, geometry and construction.
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Graziela Kunsch and Rafi Segal
Brazil, USA
Graziela Kunsch is an artist based in Sao Paulo. She is currently developing the
Projeto Mutirao, a never-ending video project formed by one take videos that show
the collective production of a new city. She also assumes curatorial and editorial
roles as forms of her artistic practice. Between 2001–2003 she opened her house
as a ‘public space’ (Casa da Grazi) and there she organised many residencies
and exhibitions, involving collaborations from all around Brazil. Since then she
has opened her personal library for public use, and brings parts of the library to
exhibitions. She is co-organiser of the project Art and the Public Sphere and editor of
the magazine Urbania. Among her current shows are the 29th Sao Paulo’s Biennial
(2010) and The Grand Domestic Revolution (Casco, Utrecht, 2010). She is a member
of the architecture collective USINA, which works with community design in Brazil.
Rafi Segal is a practicing architect and a writer. His work includes the Palmach
History Museum, designed with Zvi Hecker and built in Tel-Aviv (1999), and Villa
003 of the ORDOS100 project currently under construction in Inner Mongolia. He is
co-editor of Cities of Dispersal (Wiley and Sons, 2008), Territories—Islands, Camps
and Other States of Utopia (KW ,Walther Konig, 2003), and A Civilian Occupation—
The Politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso, Babel, 2003), which gained extensive
recognition and led to a series of exhibitions at Storefront, New York City, KW
Berlin, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam, Kunsthall, Malmo, and UC Berkeley, among
others. In addition to architecture, Rafi has been continuously involved in both the
study and practice of urbanism. Between 2006–2009 he led urban design projects
as an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in NYC and is currently
teaching Urban Design and Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of
Design.
www.rafisegal.com
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Kieran Long
United Kingdom
Kieran Long is an architecture journalist, critic and teacher in London. He has
also curated exhibitions, written two books and appeared on a wide variety of
broadcast media commenting on architecture and the city. Kieran is currently the
architecture critic of the Evening Standard newspaper, is filming a television series
about historic architecture for BBC2, and is pursuing a PhD in the history and
philosophy of architecture at London Metropolitan Unviversity. One of his main
activities a the moment is consulting for the London Development Agency and
Design for London. He has previosuly been editor-in-chief at Architectural Review
and Architects Journal, the launch deputy editor of Icon magazine in 2003, and its
principal architecture critic for three and a half years. He is also the former deputy
editor of Building Design and World Architecture magazines.
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Robert Mantho, Martyn Horner & Jo Crotch
United Kingdom
Martyn Horner studied Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University
of Cambridge from 1968 to 1977. After that he worked in commercial software,
variously creating or co-creating the earliest image processing packages and 3d
modellers on mainframes, minicomputers and PCs with his own companies and the
global brand-leaders in the field. After a period in the 2000s working on Semantic
Web search engines and on Web standards definition, he joined the Glasgow School
of Art as a research programmer and is now the RCUK Academic Fellow at the
Digital Design Studio.
Joanna Crotch graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture in 1986.
She practiced with several Glasgow offices working on a variety of projects and
competitions before establishing the partnership of Crotch Design Associates. In
1998 she began teaching part time. Joanna became a full time studio tutor at the
Mackintosh School. She has worked exclusively in the undergraduate programme
and currently runs the Stage 3 and teaches Structures. Joanna’s research is centred
on digital processes relating to space generation as well as the development of the
‘Review’ as a learning and teaching tool and she has presented papers in London,
Brighton, Lisbon, Antwerp & Montreal.
Robert Mantho graduated from the Architectural Association in 1991. He has
practiced with a variety of firms in New York., London, Portland, and Vermont,
working on a wide range of building projects and competitions. Robert has taught at
The University of East London, The Architectural Association, and Norwich University
and is currently the Stage 2 leader at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the
Glasgow School of Art. Robert’s research is focused on collaborative design, the
exploration of spatial definition and digital processes in the generation of space.
This research has been presented in Portugal, Antwerp and Aberdeen. Robert has
exhibited widely in Vermont, Glasgow and Virginia.
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Eric Martijn
The Netherlands
Eric Martijn is an artist working with site specific installations, Exhibitions include
2010 ‘Turning the Tiles’, the Hague 2009 ‘Van Straten en Huizen’, JCA de Kok, the
Hague, ‘Against Pragmatics’, Departement voor Filosofie en Kunst (DeFKa) Assen,
‘Blind Chance, Possible Futures’, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, 2008—De Kraai van
Walter, Departement voor Filosofie en Kunst (DeFKa) Assen, Gelijk waar mogelijk,
afwijkend waar nodig MuseumgoudA, Gouda. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
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Christine Rusche
Germany
Christine Rusche is a German artist. Residencies include Cité Internationale des
Arts Paris, Los Angeles, Academie of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Chicago and the DAAD
postgraduates residence grant, Rotterdam. She has had Solo Exhibitions at PIT/
Argument, Tilburg, Gallery Realace, Berlin , Konsortium, Düsseldorf , Kasseler
Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel , Gallery ZINGERpresents, Tilburg , International
Art Biennial, Robert Bermann Gallery, Los Angeles. Group shows include
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin , Kunsthalle Mainz , KIT Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf,
VAN ABBEMUSEUM, Eindhoven , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Villa
Merkel, Esslingen, Commissions/Art in public space include Room-Drawing for
Kranbau, Eberswalde (2010), CROSS CUT, Room-Drawing, Project: SKOR Amsterdam,
CIRCUIT, Room-Drawing, Project: Rijksgebouwendienst, (Netherlands, 2008) RAK—
Rechtsanwaltskammer, Room-Drawing, Munich, (2003) From 2008–2009 she held a
guest professorship at Kunstakademie Münster.
www.christine-rusche.de
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Kai Schiemenz
Germany
Kai Schiemenz was born in 1996 in Erfurt and lives and works in Berlin and New
York. From 1992–1998 he studied Visual Cultural Studies at UdK Berlin and in 1999
took a Master’s class in Visual Cultural Studies under Prof. Lothar Baumgarten, UdK
Berlin. He received the 2000 Gasag Promotion Awardin Berlin and in 2001 and 2004
he received a working grant from the Senate of Science, Research and Culture of
Berlin. In 2004 he received a Projects Grant from Kulturfonds, in 2005 a fellowship
from Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, in 2006 a grant from the City of Madrid and in 2007
a catalogue grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds. In 2008 he was Artist in Residence at
Monash University Melbourne and in 2009 he had a one year residence in New York
City (alias PS1 residency programme). He has had work at the 2010 International
Garden Festival Berlinische Galerie, 2009—Kappatos Gallerie, Athens, Harburger
KV, Buga Schwerin, 2008—Skulpturen Quadrinale Riga, Villa Romana, Florenz,
Kappatos Gallerie, Athens, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, 2007—Galerie Fahnemann,
Berlin, Kunstraum München; club Transmediale, Berlin, Open Space, ArtColone,
2006—INVISIBLE CITY/IDEAL CITY, Zamosc (PL)/ Potsdam, Westfälischer Kunstverein,
Pori-Art-Museum (FI), Madrid Procesos, 2005—Westfälischer Kunstverein,
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Badischer Kunstverein, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto and
Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin.
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SMAQ—architecture urbanism research
Germany
SMAQ is a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism
and research. SMAQ was founded by the architects Sabine Müller and Andreas
Quednau and is based in Berlin. Sabine Müller is an architect and an assistant
professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany where she teaches architectural
and urban design and urban theory. Andreas Quednau is an architect and professor
of Architecture and Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture at Stuttgart State
Academy of Art and Design. SMAQ has conducted urban research projects as well
as architectural, landscape and urban projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and
South America and received an AR Award for their public bath in Stuttgart and the
Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction for their masterplan Xeritown, Dubai.
Their current projects include an art hotel in Bejing, and a masterplan for the urban
regeneration of the harbour area in Magdeburg, as a science quarter as well as a
sustainable masterplan for the regeneration of a suburban centre in Oslo. SMAQ’s
work has been published and exhibited widely, most recently at the International
Architecture Bienniales in Rotterdam and Venice.
www.smaq.net
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SPAN Architecture & Design
Austria
Vienna based Architecture Firm SPAN, headed by Matias del Campo and Sandra
Manninger, is driven by a compulsive desire to speculate about architectural
opportunities in the presence of animated matter, organic entities and their
underlying geometrical and mathematical presence. Their award winning
architecture designs are informed by a manifold variety of sources reaching from
Science Fiction and Fashion to Biology and Botany. The multiplicious inspirations are
fused into projects applying the most advanced digital design tools and casted into
form by computer controlled machinery. Their activities include architectural design,
exhibitions and lectures as well as teaching in various countries and institutions,
such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Bauhaus Dessau and the ESARQ in
Barcelona.
www.span-arch.com
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Kim Steele
USA
Kim Steele is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture at Arizona State University. She received a master of architecture,
a master of landscape architecture and a bachelor of arts in mathematics from
the University of Colorado as well as a master of arts in art history from the
University of North Carolina. Working from the belief that design and research must
breach traditional categories to be relevant today, Kim Steele seeks to transform
narrow disciplinary boundaries in her own work as well as in her role as an
educator. She has worked on a variety of design/research projects ranging from
public art installations to master planning and developing design guidelines for
residential communities for adults with autism. Her current research and creative
work investigates design in the public interest addressing disability and healthy
communities. The former focuses specifically on autism and the impact the built
environment has on people with autism both perceptually and pragmatically. The
work on healthy communities takes a broader view, exploring how design may
be employed to promote environmental and social justice and contribute to active,
healthy living in the Maryvale neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona.
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Atelier Tekuto
Japan
Atelier Tekuto is a Japanease architecture studio established in 1991 and renamed
Atelier Tekuto in 1995. The firm has received numerous awards including the Japan
Association of Architectural Firms award, Excellent prize, the Archip Architecture
Award, the Japan Society For Finishing Technology in Japan, Residential Award,
Wallpaper Award, Good Design Award, ar+d award and many others. Their work
has been published extensively nationally and internationally.
www.tekuto.com
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Laura Vaughan
United Kingdom
Dr Laura Vaughan is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Suburban Settlement Patterns
at University College London the Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment. She
has written widely on the spatial form of society, with a focus on space syntax
as a method for fine grain analysis of built form. Currently she is heading the UCL
Grand Challenge: Sustainable Cities on ‘Cities and Migration’. She has recently
finished work with colleagues on a three-year Engineering and Physical Sciences
(EPSRC) research project ‘Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres: a Study of
the Relationship between Morphology, Sociability, Economics and Accessibility’
(www.sstc.ucl.ac.uk). Prior to that she headed a two year EPSRC study into ‘Space
and Exclusion: the Relationship between Physical Segregation and Economic
Marginalisation in the Urban Environment
space.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/projects/exclusion/
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Ines Weizman
United Kingdom
Ines Weizman is an architect and theorist based in London. She is director of the
MA, Cities, Design and Urban Cultures at the Department of Architecture and Spatial
Design, London Metropolitan University. She also teaches History and Theory at the
Architectural Association, and Syracuse University Architecture Programme, London.
In 2001–2004 she was a Diploma Unit tutor of Diploma 12 at the Architectural
Association. In 2005 she was guest professor at the Berlage Institute of Architecture
in Rotterdam. Ines is currently working on a book about the urbanism of East
Germany. Recent projects include ‘Celltexts: Books and Other Works Produced in
Prison’ (with Eyal Weizman) (www.celltexts.org) and a reenactment of Adolf Loos’
House for Josephine Baker (1927, Paris) in Ordos, Inner Mongolia (with Andreas
Thiele).
www.bakerhouse.org
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Vincent Wittenberg
The Netherlands
Vincent Wittenberg is a designer always looking for the latent potential of a location, considering design less in terms of problems to be solved and more as a discovery of hidden possibilities. In his work he reacts to existing locations, situations and plans, both physically and conceptually. He was born in 1980 in Winterswijk. He graduated in 2009 from the Design Academy Eindhoven and studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He did his internship at ZUS, [Zones Urbaines Sensibles], Rotterdam (2008) and set up a non-profit organisation and work- expo- and project space VERS, Eindhoven (2008). Projects include Streeeeeet, International Bienniale of Landscape Urbanism Bat Yam, Israel (2010), Familiar Site (2009), Museumstreet, public facade-expo, Eindhoven (2008). Expositions include: Graduation Galleries, Design Academy, Eindhoven (2009), (o)verhuizen, Dutch Design Week, Woonbedrijf, Eindhoven (2009), Scale model Mortoduct Borkeld, IAMA1 manifestation, AkkuH, Hengelo (2008). www.vincentwittenberg.com
