Our authors, editors, and partners.

Born in 1965 is a Norwegian architect, editor, teacher, and writer. Almaas is editor-in-chief of the Norwegian architectural magazine Arkitektur N.

Geoff Andrew (1954) is head of the Film Program at London's British Film Institute Southbank, and contributing editor of Time Out London. He writes regularly for Sight & Sound and is the author of numerous books on film, including studies of Nicholas Ray, Abbas Kiarostami and Krzsystof Kieslowski. He also occasionally writes about music.

Assistant Research Professor Michael Asgaard Andersen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture M.Arch. (Columbia University, 1998), Ph.D. (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2006) Co-curator of The Architect's Universe. Jørn Utzon at the 2008 Architecture Biennale in Venice. Editor of Nordic Architects Write. A documentary anthology (Routledge, 2008). He has contributed internationally to magazines and books on the history and theory of Nordic architecture, and is currently writing a book on the work of Danish architect Jørn Utzon.

Iwan Baan is a Dutch photographer that has been documenting works from a wide range of contemporary architects. His work has introduced a new, more dynamic and socially conscious style of architectural photography.

Silvia Bächli * 1956 in Baden,Switzerland. Lives in Basel and Paris
2009 Biennale di Venezia, Swiss Pavillon
2007 Night and Day, Centre Pompidou, Paris
         Museu Serralves, Porto
2006 Poèmes sans prénoms, Mamco, Genève
         nordiska akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
2005 Lines, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
2002 Frac Haute-Normandie, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Strasbourg
1997 Kunstmuseum Bonn
1996 Kunsthalle Bern
1994 Centre d’art contemporain, Genève
 
Silvia Bächli works with:  Peter Freeman Inc, New York | Friedrich, Basel | Barbara Gross, München |
Vera Munro, Hamburg | Nelson-Freeman, Paris | Skopia, Genève

Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Born in Paris in 1956, he received a degree in graphic design. In 1989 in Paris and in 2002 in Zurich, respectively, he founded his two studios: intégral ruedi baur et associés and integral ruedi baur zürich. Since April 2004 Ruedi Baur, as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, has been in charge of Design2context, a recently founded institute for research on design.

Bélanger is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, and Co- Director of the Centre for Landscape Research (CLR). His pedagogy and public work are focused on the convergence of landscape and infrastructure. He collaborates with public agencies, regional authorities, and private landowners towards the reclamation, redesign, and reconstruction of large urban-industrial landscapes with dual objectives of ecological performance and economic durability.
Bélanger's research work is published in journals and books including Topos, Landscape Journal, and Canadian Architect. His design work has received honorable mentions for competitions including Columbus Re-Wired, Venice Lagoon, Steedman Fellowship, Unioncamere Piemonte, AA Environmental Tectonics, and the Chicago Prize. He was awarded the 2008 Professional Prix de Romein Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Bélanger's projects are funded by public/private partnerships including Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and City of Toronto, leading to the construction of a mapping/prototyping lab and the organization of the Landscape Infrastructures Symposium at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the TRCA Etobicoke-Mimico Watershed Coalition Task Force and a director on the Ontario Food Terminal Board.

Professor Andrew Benjamin
Monash University, Australia MA, BA (ANU), DEA (Paris 7), PhD (Warwick)
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the Centre. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Philosophy's Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004). He also edited The Lyotard Reader(1989), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: the Work of Julia Kristeva(1990) and Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (1993) and Walter Benjamin and Romanticism (2002).

Laura Bieger
Born in Kiel in 1971. She is junior professor in the department of culture at the John F. Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin. Research focuses on visuality, textuality, spatiality, physicality, theories of aesthetic experience, and theories of modernism. Her current research, under the working title 'The Poetics of Belonging,' concerns ideas of homeland in American literature.
","Laura Bieger
geboren 1971 in Kiel. Sie ist Juniorprofessorin in der Abteilung Kultur am John F. Kennedy-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Visualität, Textlichkeit, Räumlichkeit, Körperlichkeit, Theorien ästhetischer Erfahrung und Theorien der Moderne. Ihre aktuelle Forschung beschäftigt sich unter dem Arbeitstitel 'The Poetics of Belonging' mit Vorstellungen von Heimat in der amerikanischen Literatur.

Ketil Bjørnstad (1952) is a Norwegian pianist who embarked on an early career as a classical musician before devoting himself to jazz. Along with his activities as a composer, arranger and performer, which are documented on some fifty recordings and have often been used in movies, Bjørnstad has published more than thirty books, including novels, poetry and essays.

Stefano Boeri (http://www.stefanoboeri.net) was born in 1956, studied architecture in Milan, and in 1989 received his PhD from the IUAV, in Venice. Since September 2007, he has been editor-in-chief of the international magazine Abitare (http://abitare.it/), and from 2004 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of Domus magazine. He is professor of urban design at the Milan Polytechnic, and has taught as visiting professor at Harvard GSD, MIT and the Berlage Institute among others.
His Milan-based Boeri Studio is active in urban design and architecture and he is the founder of the international research network 'Multiplicity' (http://www.multiplicity.it). His research has focused mainly on the transformation of European urban areas and the forms in which different disciplines observe and represent the contemporary city. He has organized several interdisciplinary exhibitions and coordinated various research projects, including the Uncertain States of Europe (USE) and Border Device(s). Co-author of different volumes such as Mutations, with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas, he has designed installations reflecting contemporary urban conditions for the Paris IFA, the Venice Biennale, and the Milan Triennale.

Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, was born in Florence in 1938 and graduated from university in 1967; he currently lives and works in Milan.
From 1964 to 1974 he was a partner of Archizoom Associati, an internationally known vanguard group whose projects are preserved at Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione in Parma and at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Since 1967, he has worked in the fields of industrial and research design, architecture, urban planning, education, and cultural promotion. He is a Professor at the Third Faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design of Politecnico di Milano.

Mayo Bucher (1963) is a Swiss artist. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, now the School of Art and Design (HGKZ) Zurich, and lives and works in the city. Since 1996 he has taught at various institutions, including the Lucerne School of Art and Design, the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig, and the University of Boston.

Lawrence Buell (AB, Princeton, PhD, Cornell, both in English), is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. He teaches courses in the history of American literature and culture, and has a particular interest in environmental(ist) discourses, issues of cultural nationalism, and comparatist approaches to American literary study, including transatlantic and postcolonial models of inquiry. The nineteenth century, particularly the antebellum era, is his period of greatest expertise. He is the author of Literary Transcendentalism (1973), New England Literary Culture (1986), The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995), Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001), Emerson (2003), and The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005). He is co-editor, with Wai Chee Dimock, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as WorldLiterature (2007).
Writing for an Endangered World won the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations' Cawelti Prize for the best book of 2001 in the field of American Cultural Studies; Emerson won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism.
Professor Buell won the 2007 Jay Hubbell Award, Modern Language Association, American Literature Group, for lifetime contributions to American literary studies.

Lizabeth Cohen is Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Chair of the History Department at Harvard. She authored Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990, 2008), winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer, and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003). She is co-author of a college-level U.S. history textbook, The American Pageant (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010). Her interests focus on integrating social, cultural, and political history in the twentieth century, probing how social and cultural experiences and identities have shaped political orientations. She is currently writing 'Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age,' a book that explores the rebuilding of American cities after World War II through the career of a major figure in urban renewal, Edward J. Logue. During 2007-08, she was the Harmsworth Professor at Oxford; she has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research is supported by grants from the Real Estate Academic Initiative, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Margaret Crawford is Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She teaches courses in the history and theory of urban development, planning, and design, including: Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions; Listening to the City; Reality Check: Implementing Ideas in the Real World; and Temporary Urbanism. She has also taught the GSD studios: 101 Urban Salvations, and Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta. Her research focuses on the evolution, uses, and meanings of urban space. Her book, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, examines the rise and fall of professionally designed industrial environments. She edited The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and has published numerous articles on issues in the American built environment. Crawford was previously Chair of the History, Theory and Humanities program at the Southern California Institute for Architecture.
She has taught at the University of Southern California, the University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Florence, Italy. In Fall 2009, she will be a Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dilip da Cunha is an architect and city planner. He is visiting faculty at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Dilip is author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001) and Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore's Terrain (Rupa & Co., 2006) with Anuradha Mathur. He is currently working on an exhibition and book titled 'Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary.' The exhibition is scheduled to open at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai in May 2009.

Pete Davis has been photographing aspects of the landscape for over thirty years and has been extensively exhibited and published internationally. His work is represented in many public and private art collections around the world. His photography deals with both the inherent beauty of the landscape and how the interaction with humanity throughout history has shaped the look of the land. Pete is senior lecturer in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport and also lectures and teaches workshops and masterclasses around the UK, Europe and the United States. 

Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron gründeten im Jahre 1978 zusammen das Architekturbüro «Herzog & de Meuron». 2001 gewannen sie den Pritzker Architecture Prize 2001.

Catherine de Smet ist Doktor der Kunstwissenschaft und Autorin zahlreicher Artikel über die Geschichte und die Aktualität des Grafikdesigns wie auch über zeitgenössische Kunst. Sie lehrt die Geschichte der Grafik an verschiedenen französischen Kunstschulen.

Born in Dortmund in 1959; studied art history, urban planning, and history in Bochum, Freiburg, and Bonn. From 1990 to 2007 he was resident correspondent for Kunstforum International; since 1993 he has been an editor, and since 2000 editor in chief, of the journal Der Architekt. In 2008-2009 he was a lecturer in architectural theory at the Fachhochschule Köln. Andreas Denk works in Berlin and Bonn.

The Institute Design2context at the University of the Arts Zurich, Department of Design, explores and develops methods, discourses and strategies of critical design research and practice at the interface of science and society. The broad international and transdisciplinary research, design, developing, exhibiting and publishing activities correlates with the postgraduate programmes and expert colloquia such as public lectures, symposiums and workshops. The interrelation of Disorientation and Orientation is one of the current exploratory foci. The institute, led by Ruedi Baur, Stefanie-Vera Kockot and Clemens Bellut, fosters a context-reflexive, political approach towards a design with commitment in research and practice.

Gareth Doherty is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where his dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary landscape and urbanism in Bahrain. He spent the 2007-2008 academic year in Bahrain on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. He has worked with Chora in London and taught at design schools in Europe, North America, and Australia. At Harvard, he has been an Instructor in Landscape Architecture and a Teaching and Head Teaching Fellow, and he received a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in 2007. He has an M.L.A. and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Agr.Sc and M.Agr.Sc. from University College Dublin.

Herbert trained as an artist through apprenticeships in England, Norway, and Germany. As a young man he did his required civil service as an art therapist in the drug rehabilitation center 'Sieben Zwerge.' In 1980, inspired by a vision for water, architecture, environment, and art, Herbert founded the Atelier. For over 20 years he has been the creative and moderating link between the Atelier's staff, encouraging a synergistic interface of art, ecology, engineering, and hydrology. Herbert continues to delight in collaborating with a diverse array of partners from local craftsmen to renowned architects such as Foster and Partners.

Prior to forming BDa, Bill worked for Michael Hopkins and Partners for over 14 years specialising in low energy and sustainable development. Nottingham University New Campus unit was the final project Bill completed as an associate for MHP. As project architect in charge, he took the scheme from the initial competition bid through to completion.
Opened in December 1999 by HM the Queen, the campus has since been awarded the Stirling Prize, Sustainability Award 2001.
Before Nottingham, Bill developed the environmental strategy and detailed façade design for Portcullis House. This work followed 4 years of research in the European Union funded Joule Research Project, collaborating with the leading environmental consultants in Europe, including Arup, CSTB Nantes, Christian Bartenbach, and Conphoebus. Bill has also taught at the Architectural Association and Kingston University and regularly speaks at seminars and conferences all over the world.
In 1995, Bill built his own house - Hope House - which is a prototype low energy live/work unit in which he and his family now live.

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City. Her book “Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades” (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A previous book, “Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America”, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, “Extrastatecraft”, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity.

Christoph Egger (1947) studied German, Romance, and Scandinavian Studies in Zurich, Montreal, and Stockholm. Since 1978 he has been a critic and editor of the film section at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He has had a deep interest in photography since his youth. His work is informed by an affinity to the North, its peoples and their cultures.

Peter Eisenman (1932), is a leading contemporary architect, and author of numerous publications on architectural theory.

born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark of Icelandic parentage. He attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen from 1989 to 1995. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and his work is represented in public and private collections including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Deste Foundation, Athens and Tate. Recently he has had major solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe and represented Denmark in the 2003 Venice Biennale. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Other works: The basic elements of the weather – water, light, temperature, pressure – are the materials that Olafur Eliasson has used throughout his career. His installations regularly feature elements appropriated from nature – billowing steam replicating a water geyser, glistening rainbows or fog-filled rooms. By introducing ‘natural’ phenomena, such as water, mist or light, into an un specifically cultivated setting, be it a city street or an art gallery, the artist encourages the viewer to reflect upon their understanding and perception of the physical world that surrounds them. This moment of perception, when the viewer pauses to consider what they are experiencing, has been described by Eliasson as ‘seeing yourself sensing’.

Many of Eliasson’s works explore the relationship between the spectator and object. In Your Sun Machine (1997) viewers entered a room which was empty apart from a large circular hole punctured in the roof. Each morning, sunlight streamed into the space through this aperture, at first creating an elliptical, then a circular outline on the walls and floor. The beam of light shifted across the room as the day progressed. The movement of the ‘sun’ across the room was apparently the central focus of the work, but in observing this, the viewer was reminded of his or her own position as an object, located on earth, spinning through space around the real sun.

For The Mediated Motion at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria (2001), Eliasson created a sequence of spaces filled with natural materials including water, fog, earth, wood, fungus and duckweed. During their journey through the exhibition, visitors were confronted by a variety of sensory experiences – sights, smells, and textures – which had been precisely articulated by the artist. Eliasson also modified the dominant orthogonal character of the building, including the insertion of a subtly slanting floor, which made visitors become more conscious of the act of movement through space.

Katharina Epprecht (1961) is deputy director at the Museum Rietberg Zürich where she is curator of Japanese Art and head of communications. After studying European and East Asian art history at the Universities of Zürich and Kyôto, she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Japanese painting.

Susan Fainstein was appointed Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard GSD in 2006. She was previously Professor of Urban Planning and Acting Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University, and was a faculty member in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers.
Fainstein's teaching and research have focused on the politics and economics of urban redevelopment, tourism, comparative urban and social policy, planning theory, and issues of gender and planning. Among her books are Urban Political Movements (Prentice-Hall, 1974), Restructuring the City (Longman, 1986), and The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York (University Press of Kansas, 2001). Books she has co-edited include: Readings in Urban Theory (Blackwell, 2001); Readings in Planning Theory (Blackwell, 2003); Cities and Visitors (Blackwell, 2004); and Gender and Planning (Rutgers University Press, 2005). She is currently writing a book on the just city.
Fainstein serves on the editorial boards of nine book series and journals. In 2004 she received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, in recognition of excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service.
Fainstein received her AB from Harvard and her PhD in political science from MIT.

Drew Faust took office as Harvard University's 28th president on July 1, 2007. A historian of the U.S. Civil War and the American South, Faust is also the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2007).
Before coming to Radcliffe, Faust was the Annenberg Professor of History and director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of six books, including, most recently, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, published in January 2008.
Faust's honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and master's (1971) and doctoral (1975) degrees in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Forman is Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in Landscape Ecology at Harvard University and a faculty member at the Graduate School of Design. He is also an Associate of The Harvard Forest and of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He received his bachelors degree at Haverford College and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary scholarly interest is linking science with spatial pattern to interweave nature and people on the land. Often considered to be a 'father' of landscape ecology and also of road ecology, he plays a key scholarly role in the emergence of urban-region ecology and planning. Other research interests include conservation, changing land mosaics, land-use planning, and uses of the patch-corridor-matrix model in diverse fields.

Alice Foxley studied architecture in Newcastle and Bath, UK. Employed with Vogt Landscape Architects since 2003.

Max Franosch (1978) is a self-taught graphic designer and artist. In addition to design and typography, painting and photography play a major role in his work. He lives in London, where he has his own graphic design studio.

Born in 1972. Curator, cultural studies scholar, and author (Zurich). Sønke Gau and Katharina Schlieben worked together as a curatorial team for the Shedhalle (August 2004 to July 2009) (www.shedhalle.ch). Teaching positions at various Swiss art academies. Regular publications in art journals and publications. Current publications include “Spektakel, Lustprinzip oder das Karnevaleske?” (bbooks 2008), and “Work to do! Selbstorganisation in prekären Arbeitsbedingungen” (Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2009).

Born in 1959. Studied history of art and architecture as well as Italian literature. Lecturer in the history of art and architecture of the twentieth century at the Hochschule Luzern, and assistant professor at the Institut gta of the Eidgenoössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Prior to that, assistant to the chair of modern and contemporary art of the Universität Zürich and a research stay at Columbia University, New York. Publications on art, design, and architecture: “Meili, Mailand und das Hochhaus: Das Centro Svizzero di Milano, 1949–1952” (2002) and “Max Bill: Architect/Arquitecto” (2004).

Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he also serves as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He studies the economics of cities, and has written scores of urban issues, including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. He has been particularly interested in the role that geographic proximity can play in creating knowledge and innovation. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992, and has been at Harvard since then.

Cultural anthropologist, studied German literary studies and European Anthropology at LMU Munich and University of Vienna. 

1999-2004 Teaching experience and research assistant at the IFF Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies and Higher Education, University of Vienna.

Since 2004 research associate and lecturer at the ETH CASE Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment, Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich; Co-convenor (together with Prof. Dietmar Eberle) of the Master of Advanced Studies MAS ETH ARCH /Housing Course.

Focus of research: Cultural studies in architecture, social and cultural history of Housing, phenomenology of the city; 

Recent research: 

„On Durability and the Cultural Dimension of Sustainability- Biographies of high-valued multifamily houses in Zurich“, principal investigator of an interdisciplinary research, granted by the Swiss national Science Foundation, 2007-2009.

Fabio Gramazio (1970) and Matthias Kohler (1968) are partners in the architecture and urbanism practice Gramazio & Kohler, Zurich. They hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the ETH Zurich. The research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements, processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated robotic fabrication. Gramazio & Kohler are co-editors of the book Digital Materiality in Architecture, which outlines the theoretical context for the full synthesis between data and material in architectural design and fabrication.

Katharina Grosse
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1961; lives and works in Berlin. Since 2000 she has held a chair at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2009
shadowbox, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
stuntweed, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Kunstmuseum Arken

2008
Another Man Who Has Dropped His Paintbrush, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
SKROW NO REPAP, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (part 2)

2007
The Flowershow, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (part 1)
Atoms Outside Eggs, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto
Picture Park, Queensland Art Gallery South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland

2006
Holey Residue, De Appel, Amsterdam
Cincy, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2005
Constructions à cru, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2009
Boden und Wand / Wand und Fenster / Zeit: Polly Apfelbaum, Katharina Grosse, Bruno Jakob, Adrian Schiess, Christine Streuli, Niele Toroni, Duane Zaloudek, Helmhaus Zürich

2008
Shake Before Using, Artium de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Prospect 1., New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans

2007
Franchise Foundation, Leeuwarden
Sistemi Emotivi, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

2006
Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Dirty Yoga, Taipei Biennale, Taipei

2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
","Katharina Grosse
geboren 1961 in Freiburg/Breisgau, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Seit 2000 hat sie eine Professur an der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee inne.

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2009
shadowbox, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
stuntweed, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Kunstmuseum Arken
2008 SKROW NO REPAP, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (Teil 2) Another Man Who Has Dropped His Paintbrush, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena 2007 Atoms Outside Eggs, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto Picture Park, Queensland Art Gallery South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland
The Flowershow, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (Teil 1) 2006 Holey Residue, De Appel, Amsterdam
Cincy, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005
Constructions à cru, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2009
Boden und Wand/Wand und Fenster/Zeit: Polly Apfelbaum, Katharina Grosse, Bruno Jakob, Adrian Schiess, Christine Streuli, Niele Toroni, Duane Zaloudek, Helmhaus Zürich
2008
Shake Before Using, Artium de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Prospect 1., New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans

2007 Franchise Foundation, Leeuwarden
Sistemi Emotivi, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florenz
2006 Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Dirty Yoga, Taipeh Biennale, Taipeh
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Susannah Hagan is Director of the interdisciplinary group R/E/D (Research into Environment + Design) and Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton (U.K.). She studied architecture at Columbia University, New York, and the Architectural Association, London, and was, until recently, head of the MA Sustainability and Design degree program at the University of East London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Forum for Urban Design, New York, and has lectured extensively from Latvia and Spain to the U.S. and Brazil. Her written work includes the books Taking Shape: the new contract between architecture and nature (Architectural Press, 2001), and Digitalia: architecture and the environmental, the digital and the avant-garde (Taylor & Francis 2008), and in the U.S., leading articles for the Harvard Design Magazine and the SOM Journal. Her work with R/E/D (www.theredgroup.org) centers on environmentally led urban design and the social and economic benefits it can bring to cities with environmental pathologies, whether shrinking (EMPTYing CITIES project, Wuppertal, Germany) or exponentially growing (EnLUDe 2 project (environmentally led urban design in Sao Paulo, Brazil).

Kenya HARA, Graphic Designer
Born in 1958. Graphic designer Kenya Hara served as the director of the Tokyo Fiber exhibition. He specializes in designing not objects but facts or events, such as identifications and communications. He produced the exhibition “RE-DESIGN_Daily Products of the 21st Century” in 2000, and through it he showed that the most marvelous sources of design were to be found in the context of daily life. In 2002, he became a member of the advisory board of MUJI and also took over as art director. In 2004, he produced the exhibition “HAPTIC_Awakening the Senses”. With this exhibition he demonstrated that within the contemporary context of design, in which designers tend to find their motivations spurred on by high technology, in fact vast resources for creation lay dormant in the human senses. He has directed work related to national events, such as the programs for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Nagano Olympics, and the official posters of the Aichi Expo 2005. Based in Tokyo, he has been seeking future communication resources he finds within Japanese culture and technology. His book Designing Design has been translated into several Asian languages, and in 2007 he largely rewrote it for translation into English, for publication by Lars Müller Publishers, Switzerland. At present he is the representative of Nippon Design Center Inc. and Professor of Musashino Art University.

Barbara Heé was born in Saint Gallen in 1957. The artist has had close ties to the Engadin since childhood and spends time in this mountain landscape on regular sojourns to the region. Barbara Heé works in drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. Her works are shown internationally at galleries and museums. She lives with her family in Zürich.

Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron gründeten im Jahre 1978 zusammen das Architekturbüro «Herzog & de Meuron». 2001 gewannen sie den Pritzker Architecture Prize 2001.

Juan Hitters (1966) studied psychoanalysis and worked in this profession before he became a photographer. He lives in Buenos Aires and teaches advertising photography at the Argentinean Catholic University (UCA).

Chuck Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice with clients ranging across sectors including consumer products, deployable shelters and space structures. The firm is engaged in a series of architectural projects to create the next generation of adaptive buildings, collaborating with architects including Foster + Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox.
Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable or shapeshifting.
His designs have been applied as medical instruments, emergency shelters, and portable furniture.
Examples of his commissioned work include the Hoberman Arch in Salt Lake City, Utah, installed as the centerpiece for the Winter Olympic Games (2002). Other noteworthy commissions include a retractable dome for the Worlds Fair in Hanover, Germany (2000), the Expanding Hypar (1997) at the California Museum of Science and Industry, and the Expanding Sphere (1992) at the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, and the Expanding Geodesic Dome (1997) at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
His work has been exhibited several times at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and his piece 'Adaptive Fritting' is recipient of the Wyss Prize for Bioinspired Adaptive Architecture and is included in the Ecological Urbanism exhibition at the GSD.

Walter Hood is Professor and former Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design in Oakland, CA. He has worked in architecture, urban design, community planning, environmental art, and research. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture in 1997. Hood's work was recently featured in the exhibition and publication, 'Open: New Designs For Public Spaces' at the Van Alen Institute, NY; Metropolis magazine; The New York Times; and Dwell magazine. His firm designed the gardens and landscape for the new de Young Museum, San Francisco, with Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron.
Walter Hood's published monographs, Urban Diaries and Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations, illuminate his unique approach to the design of urban landscapes; they won an ASLA Research award in 1996. His essay 'Macon Memories' is featured in Sites of Memory (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). Hood participated in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's 'Revelatory Landscapes' Exhibition 2000-2001. He is currently researching and writing a book entitled 'Urban Landscapes; American Landscape Typologies.'

James Hunt serves on Mayor Thomas Menino's Cabinet as Chief of Environmental and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Hunt is the Mayor's lead advisor on Environmental and Energy policy and oversees several city agencies including the Inspectional Services Department, the Environment Department, Parks Planning, Transportation Planning, and Boston's Recycling Program. He also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee on the Boston Groundwater Trust.
Prior to joining the City, Hunt served as Assistant Secretary for the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and was responsible for administering the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA).
As administrator of the Commonwealth's MEPA program, he was in charge of major project reviews for the state, including downtown waterfront development, MBTA transit projects, and energy projects such as Cape Wind. Hunt served on Governor Romney's Ocean Management Task Force and on the Environmental Oversight Committee for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project.
An attorney, he received his Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Werner Huthmacher
Born in 1965, studied communication design and now lives in Berlin. His area of activity is located between fine art and commissioned work, usually from the circles of contemporary architects.
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geboren 1965, studierte Kommunikationsdesign und ist wohnhaft in Berlin. Sein Tätigkeitsbereich als Fotograf liegt zwischen freier Kunst und Auftragsarbeiten, meist aus dem Umfeld zeitgenössischer Architekten.

Florian Idenburg is a Dutch architect based in New York where he is partner with Jing Liu in Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO–IL). From 2000 to 2008, Idenburg was associate at SANAA in charge of the “Glass Pavilion” at the Toledo Museum or Art and the “New Museum of Contemporary Art”. He taught the SANAA studios at Princeton in 2006 and 2007. Idenburg currently holds the position of Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Dorothée Imbert is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the GSD, where she teaches the design core studios Planning and Design of Landscapes and Landscape Architecture Design. Her seminars include Designing Women, Landscape and/in the City: The Case of Switzerland, and Modernity and European Landscape Architecture. Imbert organized the exhibition and international symposium 'Constructing the Swiss Landscape,' which took place at the GSD from December 2006 to January 2007.
Imbert's research centers on modernism. Her publications include the books 'Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes - Between the Garden and the City' (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming), The Modernist Garden in France (Yale University Press, 1993), and Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (University of California Press, 1996, 2005), as well as numerous essays and articles. She is currently researching for books on Swiss landscape architecture and on the California mid-century modernist Geraldine Knight Scott.
Imbert received her architect's diploma in Paris, and an MArch and MLA from the University of California at Berkeley.
She practiced landscape architecture at Peter Walker and Partners from 1996 until 1999, and continues to pursue design projects.

Catherine Ingraham is a Professor of Architecture in the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York City. She is the author of “Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition” (Routledge 2006) and “Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity” (Yale University Press 1998), and was co-editor of “Restructuring Architectural Theory” (Northwestern University Press 1986). From 1991 to 1998, Ingraham, along with Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, co-edited “Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture”. Dr. Ingraham has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton and Columbia universities.

Martin Jäggi (1969) ist Autor und Herausgeber und lebt in Zürich und Berlin. Jamie Patrick Shea war während des Kosovokrieges NATO-Sprecher
und wurde für seine Leistungen zum «European Communicator of 1999» gewählt. Jules Spintasch (1964) ist in Davos geboren und lebt in Zürich
und London.","Martin Jäggi (1969) is an author and publisher and lives in Zurich and Berlin. Jamie Patrick Shea (1953) is 'Director of Information and Press'
for NATO. During the Kosovo war he was a NATO spokesman and was chosen as 'European Communicator of 1999' for his achievements,
Jules Spinatsch (1964) was born in Davos and lives in Zurich and London."
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Born in 1961. Studied history of art and architecture as well as film studies. Curator at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and lecturer at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Prior to that, assistant to the chair of the history of art and architecture of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, editor of the journal archithese, and most recently research associate at the Institut gta of the Eidgenoössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Exhibitions and publications on architecture, film, and visual communication: “Hans Richter: New Living; Architecture, Film, Space” (2001, with Arthur Rüegg), “Typotektur: Typographie als architektonisches Bild/Typotecture: Typography as Architectural Imagery” (2002), “Frische Schriften/Fresh Type” (2004), “Trickraum/ Spacetricks” (2005, with Suzanne Buchan), and “Chris Marker: Abschied vom Kino/A Farewell to Movies” (2008).

Jan Jedlička (1944) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague before immigrating to Switzerland in 1969, where he has lived ever since. He works mainly in the media of photography, film, and painting, especially water colors. The artist's serial, mixed media works are an essential component of his oeuvre.

Hans Peter Jost, born 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland; Professional Education as a Mecanic, Social worker, Farmer; Autodidact as Photographer; Member in vfg (Verein fotografischer Gestalter) and Schweizerischer Werkbund; From 1980 freelance Photo Journalist, mostly concerned with: People in their social Environment, Documentary Photography, Portrait; Different Book publications and Photo Exhibitions (group and individual). Lives in Italy.

Born in 1967. Studied history of art and architecture as well as museum studies. Curator of the Grafiksammlung (Graphics Collection) of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Prior to that, assistant to the Historisches Museum Bern, media specialist at the Kunsthalle Bern, research associate at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, and most recently research associate for a private collector. Publication: “Zürich–Milano” (2007, with Bettina Richter).

Alban Kakulya and Yann Mingard began their careers in photography after returning from Nicaragua. It was in Central America where they first met and worked together during three years as volunteers in humanitarian projects. Later, they became part of Strates Agency in Lausanne, Switzerland, working as freelance photojournalists. Alban and Yann have had their photography published in various magazines and newspapers, and their work has been exhibited throughout Europe and in the U.S. In 2003, they received the very first Prix Fnac Européen de la Photographie (Fnac European Prize for Photography) for the “East of a New Eden” project. Alban studied journalism and worked on a personal project on minorities in Central American prisons. Yann specialized in Central Asia and participated in a walking expedition through the desert in Xinjiang, China. Alban later studied filmmaking on scholarship in New York for a year, afterwards working on documentary projects in Ivory Coast and India. He continues as a freelance writer and photographer working on projects in various countries. Yann has worked in a number of regions of Central Asia and has completed projects in the Tuva Republic and the Kazakhstan oil industry. Exploring a very personal photographic style, he often can be found with his camera at first light. In 2008, his work was exhibited in a show organized by Raymond Depardon. Having left the Strates Agency, Alban Kakulya and Yann Mingard continue to work on diverse projects, both together and separately.

Petra Kempf is a practicing architect and urban designer based in New York.  Her background includes working both with the public and private sector.  In addition to her current teaching appointment at Columbia University in New York, she has taught at various universities in the United States and Europe.  Engaged within an interdisciplinary research context, her scholarly work emphasizes on the transient nature of cities and the impact this dynamic condition has on its architecture and culture.  Kempf’s work has been exhibited in various galleries and institutions in New York and has been featured in multiple publications.

Christina Kleineidam, born 1961 in Bad Nauheim, Germany; Studied Architecture at Technische Hochschuie Darmstadt; Works as Architect in Germany and from 1993 in Italy; Since 2000 mostly concerned with Adult Education and Cultural work; In 2006 starts to work as freelance Journalist and Author; Lives in Italy.

Matthias Kohler (1968) and Fabio Gramazio (1970) are partners in the architecture and urbanism practice Gramazio & Kohler, Zurich. They hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the ETH Zurich. The research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements, processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated robotic fabrication. Gramazio & Kohler are co-editors of the book Digital Materiality in Architecture, which outlines the theoretical context for the full synthesis between data and material in architectural design and fabrication.

Professor Sanford Kwinter
Harvard University, USA

Jean-Guy Lathuilière (???) is a photographer. He studied Literature and Fine Arts, and in the late 1970s turned to photography, which served as the starting-point for his visual research and experiments with the camera obscura, pinhole cameras, etc.

University of Pennsylvania, USA Professor of Architecture. Chair, Graduate Group in Architecture B.Arch., University of Kentucky; Ph.D. in Art, University of Essex. Teaches courses in architectural theory and design studios in the graduate and undergraduate programs, supervises research, and directs the Ph.D. program. Taught theory and design at the Polytechnic of Central London and Cambridge University, England. In private practice with Lauren Leatherbarrow. Recipient of the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Canadian Center of Architecture (1997-98). Books include: Topographical Stories, Surface Architecture, (with Mohsen Mostafavi); Uncommon Ground, Roots of Architectural Invention, On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, and Masterpieces of Architectural Drawing. Research on history and theory of architecture and the city.

Ulrich Loock
geboren 1953 in Braunschweig, ab 1985 war er Direktor der Kunsthalle Bern und des Kunstmuseum Luzern. Gegenwärtig ist er Stellvertretender Direktor des Museu Serralves, Porto.
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Born in Brunswick in 1953, from 1985 on he was director at the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Currently he is assistant director of the Museu Serralves, Porto.

Born 1957 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bart Lootsma is a historian, critic, and curator of architecture, design, and fine arts. He holdsthe chair for architectural theory at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck and is also visiting professor at the institute for History, Theory and Criticism at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna.

Born 1959 is a Norwegian writer and carpenter. He publised his first novel in 1992, and has received several prizes for his novels and essays.

Victor Malsy, born 1957 in Froschhausen (Germany). After training as a technical draftsman and male nurse, he studied graphic design at the University of the Arts in Bremen. Since 1991, directs his studio, the Büro für Kommunikation und Gestaltung. Professor of communication design since 2000 in the design department at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf with a focus on typography and book design.

Exhibition designer Jack Masey served with the US Information Agency from 1951-1979, for many years as Director of Design. Among the numerous architects and designers he commissioned to help define America’s image abroad during the cultural Cold War were R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar. Masey’s projects include the landmark 1959 American Exhibition in Moscow, and the A.I.A. award-winning US pavilions at Expo ’67 in Montreal and Expo ’70 in Osaka. Since 1979 Masey has headed an exhibition design firm in New York City.

Roberto Masotti (1947) studied industrial design before shifting his focus to photography and the visual arts. He has worked closely with ECM since 1973. From 1979 to 1996 he was the official photographer of the Teatro della Scala in Milan. He has created live video projects and installations on the music of many composers and musicians, including Arvo Pärt and Giacinto Scelsi.

Metahaven, based in Amsterdam and Brussels, is a studio focusing on design and research in visual identity and architecture. Its partners are Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden and Gon Zifroni.

Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya began their careers in photography after returning from Nicaragua. It was in Central America where they first met and worked together during three years as volunteers in humanitarian projects. Later, they became part of Strates Agency in Lausanne, Switzerland, working as freelance photojournalists. Alban and Yann have had their photography published in various magazines and newspapers, and their work has been exhibited throughout Europe and in the U.S. In 2003, they received the very first Prix Fnac Européen de la Photographie (Fnac European Prize for Photography) for the “East of a New Eden” project. Alban studied journalism and worked on a personal project on minorities in Central American prisons. Yann specialized in Central Asia and participated in a walking expedition through the desert in Xinjiang, China. Alban later studied filmmaking on scholarship in New York for a year, afterwards working on documentary projects in Ivory Coast and India. He continues as a freelance writer and photographer working on projects in various countries. Yann has worked in a number of regions of Central Asia and has completed projects in the Tuva Republic and the Kazakhstan oil industry. Exploring a very personal photographic style, he often can be found with his camera at first light. In 2008, his work was exhibited in a show organized by Raymond Depardon. Having left the Strates Agency, Alban Kakulya and Yann Mingard continue to work on diverse projects, both together and separately.

Gérald Minkoff (1937-2009) studied geology, biology, and ethnology at the University of Geneva and taught science before turning to photography and video art in 1968. He has worked closely with Muriel Olesen since 1967.

Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, and graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School and the Royal College of Art in London, with a year at Berlin’s HdK. In 1986 he set up an Office for Design in London. 1994, began a consultancy with Üstra, the Hanover transport authority, designing a bus shelter, and in 1995 the new Hanover tram. In 2001 elected as a Royal Designer for Industry. In 2003 a branch office was opened in Paris. Jasper Morrison Ltd. design for a wide-ranging customers base including: Alessi (Italy), Cappellini (Italy) Flos (Italy), Magis (Italy), Rowenta (France), Vitra, (Switzerland). 2004, began consultancies with Samsung (Korea),  Muji (Japan), Ideal Standard (UK) and Olivetti (Italy). 2005, founding of Super Normal with Naoto Fukasawa. In June 2006, first Super Normal exhibition in Tokyo. 2009 opening of the Jasper Morrison Limited Shop in London.

Mohsen Mostafavi, an architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. Previously he was the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. Prior to that, he had been the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

Dean Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, the jury of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency (LDA), the RIBA Gold Medal, and is currently involved as a consultant on a number of international architectural and urban projects.

He studied architecture at the AA, and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge. Previously he was Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Dean Mostafavi has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Staedelschule). His research and design projects have been published in many journals, including The Architectural Review, AAFiles, Arquitectura, Bauwelt, Casabella, Centre, and Daidalos.  He is co-author of Architecture and Continuity (1982); Delayed Space (with Homa Fardjadi, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994) and of On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time (with David Leatherbarrow, MIT, 1993) which received the American Institute of Architects prize for writing on architectural theory. Dean Mostafavi’s recent publications include: Approximations (AA/MIT, 2002); Surface Architecture (MIT, 2002) which received the CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award; Logique Visuelle (Idea Books, 2003), Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (AA Publications, 2004), and Structure as Space, (AA Publications, 2006).

Born in Koblenz/Germany, 1982; Apprenticeship in advertising agency and printing office; Degree in graphic design from University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf; Participation in the international design research project "helmut schmid - design is attitude"; Initiator of "FilmKunstGrafik" research-project about arthouse filmposters; Since 2007 designer of stamps for German Ministry of Finance; Since 2009 partner of "müller,weiland" design studio with Karen Weiland and editor of "A5" book series about graphic design-history.

Lars Müller (1955) founded his studio for visual communication and design 1982 in Baden, Switzerland. Since 1983 he has been a publisher with an international focus in the fields of architecture, design, art, photography, and society. He has taught on a regular basis, most recently at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Lars Müller is a Member of Alliance Graphique Internationale AGI.

The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, which developed out of the Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zürich (Museum of Arts and Crafts), founded in 1875, is part of the Zurich University of the Arts. Its main focus lies on design, visual communication, and architecture. With around 80,000 visitors every year, it ranks among Zurich’s most visited museums.

Péter Nádas (1942) is a Hungarian writer and author of novels, plays, and essays. His career began as a photojournalist and reporter; since 1969 he has focused entirely on literature. He has received many awards and prizes for his literary works.",Péter Nádas (1942) ist ungarischer Schriftsteller. Zu seinen Werken zählen Romane

Lukas Niederberger, born in St Gallen, Switzerland, in 1964, is a theologian, adult educator and author. He gives media and seminar presentations on leadership, meditation, the dialog between religions, decision-making and rituals. He lives in Lucerne.

Cees Nooteboom (*1933 in the Netherlands) is one of the most important living writers in Europe today. His oeuvre includes novels, essays, political reportage, poems, dramas and writings on travel from all over the world.

Muriel Olesen (1948) is a trained graphic artist. Her collaboration with Gérald Minkoff began in 1967. Her artistic work is in the areas of photography, video, painting, installations, and performance.

Associate Professor Henrik Oxvig
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Master's degree and Master's research degree in social science and comparative literary history, University of Copenhagen, 1991.
Publications include: Architectonics - philosophy, architecture (w/ Carsten Madsen), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1990. Spatial analyses (w/ Lise Bek), Forlag B, Aarhus, 1996 (reprinted 2000). Also an extensive series of articles focusing on the relationship between science, philosophy, arts, and architecture. Participation in various architectural conferences - the paper Ceci n'est pas une pipe (w/ Claus Peder-Pedersen, architect, associate professor) has been awarded 'best paper' at the ARCC/EAAE's International Conference on Architectural Research in Philadelphia, USA

Born in 1936. Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York. At RIT, he founded the Graphic Design Archive, which preserves the papers of thirty pioneers of modernist design, including Lester Beall, Will Burtin, and Cipe Pineles. In 2008 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the New York Art Directors Club. Publications: “Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design” (1989), “Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design” (1996), “American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920–1960” (2003), and “Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin” (2007, with Robert Fripp).

Born 1964. Studied art history, German, and Romance languages in Heidelberg, Paris, and Zurich. 1996 dissertation on the antiwar graphics of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. From 1997 to 2006 served as a research associate in the Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and as curator of the same since 2006. Also lectures at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and works as a freelance writer.

Pietra Rivoli
teaches finance and international business in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs. Professor Rivoli has special interests in social justice issues in international business and in China, and she regularly leads MBA residencies to China. Her academic research has been published in numerous leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Journal of Money Credit and Banking. In 2006, Professor Rivoli was awarded a Faculty Pioneer Award by the Aspen Institute. This award recognizes Business School faculty who have been leaders in the integration of social and environmental issues into MBA curricula.

Professor Rivoli has served on the Georgetown faculty since 1983. Her recent research has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of International Business Studies.

Professor Rivoli is also involved in social issues at Georgetown, including the University's Licensing Oversight Committee, which overseas workplace issues for GU apparel producers, the University's Committee for Social Responsibility in Investing, and the Vital Voices partnership, a University initiative in executive education for women from developing countries. Professor Rivoli teaches at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive level, and has been the recipient of teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Eberhard Ross (1959) studied Fine Art at the University of Essen (formerly the Folkwangschule). Photographic works serve as the starting-point for his paintings and drawings. At first conceived as the originals for his pictures, today his photographic works represent an independent part of his oeuvre.

Born in 1973. Curator, cultural studies scholar, and author (Zurich). Katharina Schlieben and Sønke Gau worked together as a curatorial team for the Shedhalle (August 2004 to July 2009) (www.shedhalle.ch). Teaching positions at various Swiss art academies. Regular publications in art journals and publications. Current publications include “Spektakel, Lustprinzip oder das Karnevaleske?” (bbooks 2008), and “Work to do! Selbstorganisation in prekären Arbeitsbedingungen” (Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2009).

Gerlinde Schuller is head of the Information Design Studio in Amsterdam (NL) and specialized in information design and visual journalism. Besides working on commissions for international clients, she teaches information design and writes about the discipline. Furthermore, she is interested in establishing experimental platforms for information design in interdisciplinary cooperations. From 2001 to 2005, she taught information design at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL). She is co-author of the book “Making the Impossible Possible” (2006) on economic superlatives and author of “Designing Universal Knowledge” (2009) on complex knowledge collections.

Andreas Seibert, born 1970 in Wettingen, Aargau, Switzerland. He studied Photography at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as German Literature and Philosophy at the Zurich University. He has been living in Tokyo since 1997. His photographic works have been published in numerous international magazines and have been on show in exhibitions around the world. He has been member of the photographers agency “Lookat Photos”. Since 2002 he has been working on a long-term photographic study about the live and work of Chinese migrant workers.

Heji Shin
Born in 1976 in Seoul, South Korea, lives in Berlin. She works mainly in editorial and portrait photography and is a regular contributor to magazines like brandeins, 032c, and ZEITmagazin.
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geboren 1976 in Seoul, Südkorea, ist Fotografin und lebt in Berlin. Sie ist vorwiegend im redaktionellen Bereich tätig und arbeitet regelmäßig für Magazine wie brandeins, 032c und das ZEITmagazin.

Jaime Snyder is a singer-songwriter, a writer, and producer/director of alternative media. His film projects include “Pablo Casals’: A Cry for Peace, Henry Miller : To Paint is to Love Again”, and the awardwinning films “Modeling the Universe and Reflections : Buckminster Fuller”. He is co-founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. As Buckminster Fuller’s grandson, he studied and worked with Fuller until his passing in 1983.

For the past two decades Snøhetta has worked on a range of projects in Norway and throughout the worls. Snøhetta has two principals, co-founders Craig Dykers and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. Additionally there are four partners, architects Robert Greenwood, Ole Gustavsen and Tara Lundevall, and landscape architect Jenny Osuldsen. Former associates include Inge Dahlman, Berit Hartveit, Alf Haukeland, Per Morten Josefson, Christoph Kapeller, Øyvind Mø, Martin Roubik, and Johan Østengen.

The constellation of the company we know today was formed in 1989 after a team in Oslo, having organized a studio known as Snøhetta arkitektur og landskap in 1987, worked collaboratively with colleagues in Los Angeles to complete the Bibliotheca Alexandrina international design competition. This group of architects, designers, and artists shared a common goal: to create an independent design direction with a focus on culture, the human condition, and context. Motivated by the desire to break down the traditional barriers segregating creative disciplines in the conemporary framework of architectural design, the group focused on a methodology that allowed for a wide range of meaning in the development of their work in a somewhat informal manner unusual for the time.
After the Alexandria Library competition was completed, an effort undertaken by the newly formed group in Los Angeles, California, the new team separated and awaited the results. The project was later won from a surprisingly large pool of entries from 77 countries, and the young, culturally diverse team, from both Norway and abroad, reformed in Snøhetta’s loft space in Olso. The company then set about managing the commission to construct the library, one of the world’s most prominent new cultural buildings at the time.
During the 11-year-long evolution of the project, Snøhetta received other, smaller commissions, and its ownership and organization changed many times over ist first 10 years.

By 2000, the group had matured into ist current organization and several new prominent commissions had been received, including the new National Opera and Ballet in Oslo and, in 2004, the new cultural museum for the former World Trade Center site in New York City. After winning the New York project, Snøhetta chose to open a new office in New York City.

More recently, new commissions in the Middle East, such as the King Abdulaziz Cultural Center in Saudi Arabia and the Ras Al Khaimah Gateway, have prompted Snøhetta to develop closer ties to the region. While Snøhetta continues to grow and expand on an international level, it continually stives to retain its intimate studio environment, embrace diversity, and stay close to its creative transdisciplinary roots.

By March 2009, Snøhetta consisted of 108 people in Oslo and 17 people in New York 0f 17 different nationalities including interior architects, landscape architects, and architects. The collaborative motivation remains a strong departure point for all projects, as is the professional development of each individual in the company. 

Thomas Steinfeld (1954) is the managing editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung's arts and features section in Munich, Germany, and Professor of Cultural Studies in Lucerne, Switzerland. He has published a number of books, including Riff (2000), a philosophy of popular music. He lives in Munich and on the Swedish Baltic coast.

Professor David Summers
University of Virginia, USA B.A., Brown University, 1963, Ph.D., Yale University, 1969
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art
David Summers taught at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pittsburgh before
accepting an appointment to the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia in 1981. In 1984 he was appointed William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Art. He is the author of Michelangelo and the Language of Art (1981), The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics (1987); Real Spaces. World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism (2003); and Vision, Reflection and Imagination in Western Painting (forthcoming). He is also completing a manuscript on the High Renaissance program of the Sistine Chapel, with a manuscript on empathy on a back burner. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, and paints whenever he can.

Philip Ursprung
Born in Baltimore, MD, in 1963. Since 2005 he is professor of modern and contemporary art at the Universität Zürich. In 2007 he was visiting professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has been guest curator at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
","Philip Ursprung
geboren 1963 in Baltimore, MD. Seit 2005 ist er Professor für moderne und zeitgenössische
Kunst an der Universität Zürich. 2007 war er Gastprofessor an der Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation der Columbia University New York. Er war Gastkurator am Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel und am Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

Günther Vogt, born 1957, landscape architect. Studied at the Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil, Switzerland. From 1995 joint owner of Kienast Vogt Partner. Since 2000 owner of Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich and Munich, since 2008 London. Since 2005 Associate Professor for Landscape Architecture at the ETH, Zurich.

Independent Journalist; Numerous interviews published; Researcher on Dialogue; Researcher on Communication and 'Vermittlung'; Editor of and author in the online magazine context2design about design contexts; Co-founder and partner of Virtual Lab, Communication and Authors Group

Thomas Wunsch (1957) is a photographer. In 1980 he opened a photographic studio in Hamburg, and since then has focused on commercial photography, specializing in fashion, still lifes, and portraits. In 1984 he moved to the U.S.A., where for many years he was a stills photographer on the permanent staff of a movie studio.

Judith Wyder (*1966), based in Zürich and Waltensburg-Vuorz, works as a freelance journalist in Zürich and Africa. She is specialized in reportage.

Mirko Zardini is the director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal, a post which he has occupied since 2005. An architect, his writings and design projects engage the transformation of contemporary architecture and its relationship with the city and landscape.

Born in 1969. Studied German, film studies, and English. Senior assistant in the film studies department of the Universität Zürich. Publications: “Bergführer Lorenz: Karriere eines missglückten Films” (2005), “Zeitreisen in die Vergangenheit der Schweiz: Auftragsfilme, 1939–1959” (DVD series, 2007), “Schaufenster der Nation: Zur Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in der Schweiz, 1896–1964” (2009), as well as texts on commissioned and industrial films.

Peter Zimmermann (*1952), based in Zürich, designs and publishes books. He is an internationally renowned creative director. Recent publications include: Roman Signer – Werkübersicht 1971–2002, Walther König, Köln; “Michel Comte – Schumacher” in Süddeutsche Zeitung; WernerBischofBilder, Steidl; and “BMW 7 Series – Statement on Style” in Vogue.