ESRAWE Studio | Mexico

Héctor Esrawe

DIRECTOR OF ESRAWE STUDIO

Esrawe Studio is a design studio and conceptual laboratory, a highly qualified, creative and professional team with international recognition, based on solid methodologies, systems and research, dedicated to the task of generating design solutions for products, interiors and architecture.

For the studio, Design is a living process of creating a dialogue, to promote a solution and an interaction between a specific need and an individual. It’s intuiting how design evolves, to understand a solution in a specific moment and context. The studio’s philosophy is based in a strong belief of collaboration, which has allowed us to work with professionals from different fields and capabilities. This passion has led Héctor to co-found projects like EWE, VISSIO and MASA, which aim to promote the artisans’ heritage and skills to showcase Mexican collectible design.

Superimpose Architecture | The Netherlands + China

Ben de Lange

DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDING PARTNER OF SUPERIMPOSE ARCHITECTURE

Superimpose Architecture is an award-winning Sino-Dutch design practice based in Beijing, Rotterdam, and Hong Kong founded by three accomplished partners Carolyn Leung, Ben de Lange and Ruben Bergambagt. Since 2015 Superimpose has worked on a wide range of project typologies and scale in Europe and Asia. With a international team of innovative designers, Superimpose creates meaningful and sustainable spaces through architecture, masterplan, interior and exhibition design.

Superimpose employs a bold and creative Dutch design approach hand-in-hand with a tactile and sensible Asian design philosophy. Superimpose doesn’t advocate any particular design style but rather focus on applying problem-solving strategies to find functional, sustainable, innovative, crisp, balanced, well-detailed and striking design solutions.  

MASK Architects | Italy

Öznur Pınar Çer

FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL AND LEAD ARCHITECT AT MASK ARCHITECTS She is an International award-winning Turkish Architect and founder,founding partner and principal at MASK Architects in Italy. She graduated from the first place prize of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Cyprus International University in 2014. She has led award-winning international competitions  such as the “Oasys+System” artificial breathing modular palm structure system that has been one of ten winners of the “Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge” competition between 1,540 participants. The same project has been awarded A+Architizer 2021 in the USA and Golden Trezzini Awards 2021 in Russia as one of three finalists. Another important project that she led is “Villa G01” new generation Luxury Villa was awarded honorable mention prize by LOOP Design Awards 2021. She won first prize at World Architecture Community Award 29th circle with the “Kırşehir Automobile & Aeroplane Museum” project. Another project of her “Seoul Photography and Art Museum” was awarded the “one of the best Museum of the Year” in Turkey by the “UNIMUZED 2021” International University Museum Association Platform. The same project has been awarded the 2020 Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design in the Best Architectural Design for a Museum category In Russia. With her partner, they led the world’s first steel 3D printed structure of modular houses which is named “Exosteel Mother Nature”.

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos | Spain

Sevak Asatrián

ARCHITECT AT FRAN SILVESTRE ARQUITECTOS Fran Silvestre Arquitectos was founded in 2005 by Fran Silvestre, architect with honors by the UPV and Urbanist by the TU / e of Holland, Professor of the Department of Projects of the UPV and the European University of Valencia, Director of the MArch programs Architecture and Design, as well as Doctor Cum Laude by the UPV. In 2011 he was deputy director of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia. In 2018 he won the Victor L. Regnier chair of the KSU in the United States. FSA has the collaboration in Alfaro Hofmann’s projects in Interior Design. He has also collaborated with international studies, highlighting the collaboration with the Pritzker Álvaro Siza Prize. He has received first national and international awards such as the German Design Award 2019 (Frankfurt), the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2016 (Granada), the Red Dot Design Award 2013 (Essen), the IFCC Awards 2016 (New York) , or the National Competition Fundación Caja de Arquitectos (Barcelona), among others. His projects are spread all over the world, highlighting places such as China, the United States, Brazil, Croatia or Spain, and have been published in international architecture and interior design magazines. Among them, Architectural Record, GA Houses, On Diseño or Interni. Also in publishers such as Phaidon, Taschen, Thames & Hudson or GG. Likewise, several monographs have been published that collect much of the study’s work, such as those carried out by TC Cuadernos, A.Mag or Arianuova.

Arturo+Lauren | Los Angeles + Spain + Hong Kong

Arturo+Lauren

PHOTOGRAPHERS/VIDEOGRAPHERS AND FOUNDERS Arturo Sanchez and Lauren Engel are photographers and cinematographers focusing their shared expertise on architecture, interior design and hospitality. Together, they have more than 25 years of experience capturing various brand’s visual language and elevating their stories with compelling imagery. Arturo+Lauren are international professionals that are split between Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, and Spain. Arturo, having grown up in Mallorca, and Lauren in Hong Kong, both share a global nature and a distinctive understanding of how to holistically capture a location’s influences and surrounding context. To shed light on better understanding photographers’ inspirations and process, they manage and produce the online community for photographers Shiftercom, where they feature and interview leading architectural and interior design photographers.

Marin Architecture | Ecuador

Jaime Andres Marin

PRINCIPAL & FOUNDER OF MARIN ARCHITECTURE Born in Ecuador, Jaime’s diverse portfolio includes high-end residential, commercial, cultural, retail, restaurant and hospitality design, which led him to highly recognized national and international awards. Jaime is considered of the best upcoming Architects in Ecuador and has member and a jury on very important architecture organizations and architectural design awards and festivals worldwide. His work has been published in highly recognized architecture books, magazines and has been the recipient of the Esmeraldas Ornate Prize in 2014, UIDE gold medal for the Quito Biennale 2008, Ecuador Architects in 2015 and 2017 and The Esmeraldas Mayor’s Career Recognition 2018. He is currently based in Laguna Beach, California, with a satellite office in Cumbaya, Ecuador and planning to expand his work to other locations.

Totem Architects | Côte d’Ivoire

Ahmed Sangaré

CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER OF TOTEM ARCHITECTS Totem Architects was founded by Ahmed Sangare and Sionfougo Soro in 2015. Ahmed and Sionfougo have pooled their respective professional experiences to bring together a talented multidisciplinary team. The strength of the firm lies in its youth, dynamism and excellent collaboration with the best local skills. There is no architecture without a client. The latter is therefore at the center of Totem’s design approach. In the dialogue that is established with him at the beginning of the project, each of his needs is regarded as an opportunity for the confrontation of ideas and a challenge to the team’s creativity. Totem’s design philosophy is resolutely turned towards modernity, but proudly anchored in the local context, the African cultural heritage.

WALLPAPER* | UK

Ellie Stathaki

ARCHITECTURE EDITOR AT WALLPAPER*

Ellie Stathaki is Architecture Editor at Wallpaper* magazine. She trained as an architect and architectural historian before focusing on journalism.

Wallpaper* is the world’s number one global design destination, championing the best in architecture, interiors, fashion, art and contemporary lifestyle.

Architecture Hunter | Brazil

Amanda Ferber

ARCHITECTURE HUNTER’S FOUNDER & CEO Named as Forbes 30 Under 30 Brazil in 2019, Amanda Ferber is an architect and the founder & CEO of Architecture Hunter, a digital media startup with one of the biggest Architectural Instagrams in the world. With more than 2.7 million followers, Architecture Hunter is followed and respected by great names, such as Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Marcio Kogan, Stefano Boeri, Toyo Ito, Snøhetta, and even Facebook’s founder himself, Mark Zuckerberg. Amanda has already been a jury member of international awards, such as Architizer A+Awards, and Loop Design Awards. She is the ambassador of Morpholio, the north American App Network for architects and designers and also of Arkos Brazil. In the end of 2020, Amanda was listed as #1 out of the top 125 architecture influencers in the world.

Arquitectura en Blanco | Spain

César Jiménez Gonzaléz

ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER OF  ‘ARQUITECTURA EN BLANCO’

Cesar Jimenez is an Architecture graduate from Valencia Polytechnic University. He graduated with honors on his Final Thesis, as well as achieving one of the best overall scores among his colleagues. He studied one year abroad, at Porto Architecture School. His work has been focused mostly on landscaping projects, architecture and interior design. Along with these tasks, he also manages the account “Arquitectura en Blanco” through different social media platforms. This account has several thousand followers and it has a monthly impact of over one million views. Its mission is to publicize different projects so that they can become a reference for architects.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) | Italy

Antoine Chaaya

ARCHITECT, PARTNER / DIRECTOR OF RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP (RPBW)

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) is an internationally renowned architectural design practice with offices in Genoa, Italy and Paris, France. Since its founding in 1981, RPBW has successfully undertaken more than 140 projects on five continents, including major museums, academic buildings, civic institutions, campuses, and urban master plans. RPBW is led by nine partners, including founder and Pritzker Prize laureate, architect Renzo Piano. The RPBW method is a collective way of thinking and working. The practice employs a diverse international team of over 130 architects, designers, model makers and supporting staff. RPBW provides architectural design services across all project phases, from programming to construction close-out. Our approach is integrated and multidisciplinary including interior design, town planning, urban design, landscape, and exhibition design services.

Zaha Hadid Architects | UK

Maurizio Meossi

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AT ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Zaha Hadid Architects was founded in 1979 and has been at the forefront of architecture, art, and design for 40 years. Now 400 strong, based in London and with offices in Beijing, New York, Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Dubai, we are known internationally for dynamic and innovative projects which build on Zaha’s revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture, and design. Over four decades of practice, Zaha Hadid Architects has created a unique aesthetic that is at once unclassifiable and yet instantly recognisable for its clarity of vision. We strive to create something unique in every project: something which is both different from our previous work and unique to its surroundings. Every new building is an opportunity to create something which will become a fundamental part of daily experience, an opportunity which should neither be wasted nor taken for granted. Our design approach consistently positions us in the vanguard of technology. Maurizio originally joined the office in 2002, working primarily as 3D designer for several international competitions (BMW Leipzig, Florence Train Station and many others). He moved to Italy in 2002 to join the MAXXI team, leaving the office to collaborate with the structural engineering team working on the MAXXI project in 2003. He re-joined the office in 2006 as Project Architect for the Citylife Housing project, completed in 2013 in Milan. Back in London the same year, Maurizio became Associate Director in 2020. He is now directing several international projects, including the New Science Center in Singapore and other large developments around the world.

MASK Architects | Italy

Danilo Petta

FOUNDING PARTNER, CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER AND LEAD DESIGNER AT MASK ARCHITECTS Danilo Petta is an international award-winning Italian Watches and Luxury Industrial Designer at MASK Architects in Italy. He studied Architecture at Polytechnic of Milan and Interior Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan. He began his multidisciplinary career in the design center of “Bvlgari” in Rome as a “Watches Designer.” He led the design of “Serpenti Tubogas” with other many successful timepieces for the brand. In November 2010, he joined the brand “OMEGA”, and his new challenge was the development of the new collection of “DeVille” products and central tourbillons as a Senior Product Manager. He has been awarded “ Europe 40 Under 40 ®” as one of the most innovative and contemporary emerging talents as a Watch and Luxury designer worldwide by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum. Between 2015-2018, he designed many different Luxury goods like the “Astronomia Sky,” “Astronomia Solar,” and “Astronomia Table-Clock” for Jacob & Co. “Astronomia Sky” was awarded in 2019 with the MUSE Award in the Fashion Design Category.

SPARK Architects | Singapore

Stephen Pimbley

PARTNER AND DIRECTOR OF SPARK ARCHITECTS SPARK is a Singapore, Shanghai and London based team of designers and thinkers working in the disciplines of architecture, urbanism, interior design, landscape design, research and branding. Using the evocation of the studio’s name “SPARK”; we produce stimulating, innovative, award winning buildings and urban environments that generate significant added value for our clients. SPARK’s studios have built a large number of award winning projects throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Our work is influenced by the constant evolution of contemporary life and the influences upon it that require a fresh approach to urban thinking. SPARK’s work ranges in scale from boutique shops, residential, mixed-use waterfronts, and civic buildings to urban planning.  Our projects are enjoyable to use, functional, beautiful to look at and easy to understand.

Kim Smith Photo | USA

Kim Smith

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER Kim is a USA based architectural photographer who studied and worked in the architectural field as a designer. Now, her kinship with thoughtful designers and her sensitivity to spaces drive her to show how the built environment has an impact on quality of life. Her abilities to empathically read spaces and translate them into two dimensions often move her clients to call upon her with the aim of winning awards and accolades. As one of the few women in the field, she founded “Women Architectural Photographers” featuring notable architecture photographed by women.

Adam Mørk Architectural Photography | Denmark

Adam Mørk

FOUNDER OF ADAM MØRK ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY Adam Mørk graduated as an architect in 1997 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. He worked for five years as an architect doing competitions at Dissing+Weitling architecture. Based with a studio in Copenhagen, He has since 2002 worked worldwide as an architectural photographer. He is both highly regarded and frequently consulted by international architects in Scandinavia, Germany and China for portraying their works. In all his work Adam Mørk shows a special attention and sensitivity of light – and how light sculptures and creates the space in harmony with material and people.

Ema Peter Photography | Canada

Ema Peter

PRINCIPAL EMA PETER PHOTOGRAPHY

Based in Vancouver, Ema Peter Photography was founded in 2005 to bring Ema’s creative vision to architectural photography. Ema’s training in both the visual arts and photojournalism, with experience at the Magnum Photo Agency in Paris, created the foundations for her approach to lighting and composition. With over 20+ years of experience and shear determination, she has photographed internationally renowned projects and received countless awards. Ema deeply believes that a space has life and she makes it her mission to harness that character in every photograph.

HONG DESIGNWORKS COMPANY | China

Dang Ming

FOUNDER AND CHIEF DESIGNER OF HONG DESIGNWORKS COMPANY Honoured as one of the 40 most influential young designers under the age of 40 in Asia, Dang Ming leads in the 2002 established multi-disciplinary, Xi’an-based design company Hong Designworks. The firm’s projects, which range from offices and commercial properties to boutique hotels and healthcare facilities, are informed by their local context but approached with an international perspective. Ming is also a lecturer at the Art and Design faculty of the Xi’an University of Science and Technology. 40under40 China Design Young Leader CHINA INTERIOR DESIGN TOP100 IF Awards, INSIDE Awards, GOOD DESIGN Awards, REDDot

HW STUDIO | Mexico

Roger Bores

ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER OF HW STUDIO HW Studio is an architectural office created in Morelia, Mexico in 2010, at the peak of a violence outbreak in our country. The studio had the original purpose of stimulating and connecting Eastern artistic and philosophical principles with Western ones within the architectural process. This would create spaces that evoked and promoted our already threatened state of peace. Meditation, as part of our creative process, became the natural and obvious answer for the creation and design of spaces that would manage to convey a feeling of serenity, tranquility and silence among an increasingly noisy and violent world. We constantly seek to promote an appreciation of what is really important in life, eliminating from our architecture anything that is not essential, thus reaching states of inner peace through conscious contemplation. Good architecture pauses the mind, makes you enter into silence and in that silence you might find a small glipse of peace. Our name: HW Studio comes from combining the letter H, which in Spanish is considered the silent letter, the graphic representation of silence, and W, which comes from the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi. Concept that we prefer not to try to explain on the understanding that words are the enemy of understanding. Winners of the Firenze entremuros 2020 – Public Architecture Award 3rd place LOOP Design Awards 2021 – Architecture Design of the year 2021 LOOP Design Awards 2021 – New Talent Award LOOP Design Awards 2021 –  Category Winner 2021

FG+SG | Portugal

Fernando Guerra

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHER & CO-FOUNDER OF STUDIO FG+SG Fernando Guerra has been a pioneer in the way architecture is photographed and divulged in the past 22 years. Fernando Guerra is an architectural photographer. His training, however, is as an architect. Guerra understands the architect’s process of understanding spatiality through wandering, scrutinising and associating ideas, shapes and dimensions. When he photographs buildings, it is more of an examination rather than a recorded perception. Guerra’s work is regularly seen in international publications such as Casabella, Wallpaper, Dwell, Icon, Domus, A+U and many more. FG +SG has collaborated with many Portuguese architects including Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira, Manuel Mateus, Manuel Graça Dias, Gonçalo Byrne, ARX Portugal, João Luís Carrilho da Graça and Promontório Arquitectos as well as international architects such as Márcio Kogan, Isay Weinfeld, Arthur Casas, Zaha Hadid, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, among others. In 2012 he was nominated for Canon Explorer, having been appointed ambassador for Canon Europe in Architectural Photography. In 2015 the MoMA acquired six of Fernando’s projects for their permanent collection, and in the same year Fernando won Arcaid Images Architectural Photographer of the Year and Plataforma Arquitectura’s Photography Prize Project of the year. In 2016 he was an award winner in Architizer’s Architecture + Photography category.

KEIVANI ARCHITECTS | IRAN

Nima Keivani

CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF KEIVANI ARCHITECTS He is an award-winning International architect, researcher, and university lecturer. In 2009, along with his brother, he founded the architectural studio of “Keivani Architects”. The projects done by this studio are in different architectural spheres, including residential and commercial buildings, as well as the restoration of ancient monuments. Keivani Architects has already designed and implemented many architectural and interior design projects in the Middle East and Europe. In addition, their projects also were exhibited in architecture and design exhibitions such as the Design Museum of Como in Italy 2020, and modern & contemporary architecture of Iran in Tokyo contemporary museum May 2018, and GAP 2017 Melbourne University School of design and etc. Nima Keivani has won several prestigious international architectural awards and has invited to be a jury participant in international architecture awards, keynote speeches, panel discussions, lectures as well as lectureships in architecture academies and societies. His articles and architecture works have been published in many world-leading and famous journals and publications.

MAD Architects | China

Andrea D’Antrassi

MAD ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATE PARTNER Founded by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects is led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano. It is committed to developing futuristic, organic, technologically advanced designs that embody a contemporary interpretation of the Eastern affinity for nature. With a vision for the city of the future based in the spiritual and emotional needs of residents, MAD endeavors to create a balance between humanity, the city, and the environment. MAD’s projects encompass urban planning, urban complexes, municipal buildings, museums, theaters, concert halls, and housing, as well as art and design. Their projects are located in China, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. MAD has offices in Beijing (China) Jiaxing (China), Los Angeles (USA), and Rome (Italy).

Area Colectiva | Mexico

Sofía Benítez

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, AREA COLECTIVA Area Colectiva is a Mexican architectural communication studio, formed by Mexican architects, that creates strategies. It aims to showcase offices and projects to expand its positioning, worldwide, in specific spheres, with the firm intention of creating “less egos, more friends” connections. Architecture, as a transdiscipline, requires the inclusion of different perspectives for its analysis and dissemination. The philosophy of Area Colectiva is expressed through the creation of narratives applied to communication strategies, which aim to display spaces created for human endeavor in different typologies: residential, interior design, social housing, hospitality, commercial, offices, multipurpose and urbanism. Sofía Benitez is the founder and director of Area Colectiva, a Mexican studio focused in developing communication strategies for Mexican architecture projects and offices in relevant media worldwide.

STIR | India

Amit Gupta

FOUNDER, CURATOR, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF STIR A designer, thinker and conceptualizer for things creative, provocative and challenging, Amit  traversed into promoting design and architecture by establishing the first Indian design gallery- vis a vis, in 1997. vis a vis curated highly acclaimed architecture and design events. Amit founded STIR (See. Think. Inspire. Reflect) in 2014, a global entity that offers exclusively curated, carefully analysed and meticulously presented content in the domain of architecture, art and design. STIR also offers an arena for cross-disciplinary collaborations, industry connects and community building. Under his leadership as Editor-in-Chief, STIRworld today is a globally recognised media house and a curatorial agency.

A for architecture | India

Ajay Sonar

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF A FOR ARCHITECTURE A for architecture is interested and invested in offering contextually relevant spatial interventions in the transforming urbanization in India. Our practice is located in Nasik -a city in the state of Maharashtra, India- which is witnessing today a rapid shift in the form of urbanization. As an architectural practice situated in the midst of this transforming urbanization, we are conscious that our practice is shaped by this changing urbanization. We are also aware of the fact that our practice is contributing to the changing urban scenario and culture. It is in this kind of changing landscape that we see the role of contemporary architecture and particularly our practice to contribute relevant architectural and spatial imaginations. Imaginations that mitigate the speed of transformation, mitigate exclusions from transformation, mitigate existing and new cultural and spatial practices, mitigate change in the spatial transformations, among other things. It is for that reason, for us, spatiality is as crucial, or more crucial, than typological thinking. Besides our engagement with the built environment, we as a practice are also engaged in several professional and cultural engagements that also aspire to act as indirect interventions to the practice and discipline of architecture.