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Josep Lluís Mateo born 1949, architect, since 2002 professor of the Architecture Department at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH)

Hester Aardse (The Netherlands, 1971) received her BA in Art History and Architecture at the University of Amsterdam, with a special interest in graphic design and sciences. 

Together with Astrid van Baalen she is the founder of the Pars Foundation. 

STAN ALLEN is the Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University, and the owner and principal of SAA/Stan Allen Architect in new York.

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, born 1956 in Baden,Switzerland, is an artist and professor at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe. She 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, Hambur; 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.

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.

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.

Elisabeth Blum is an architect and author, she works and publishes in the fields of research in architecture and urbanism.

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.

In 1998 Burri won the Dr Erich Salomon Prize from the German Association of Photography. A big retrospective of his work was held in 2004-2005 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and toured many other European museums. René Burri lives and works in Zurich and Paris.

Burri participated in the creation of Magnum Films in 1965, and afterwards spent six months in China, where he made the film The Two Faces of China produced by the BBC. He opened the Magnum Gallery in Paris in 1962, while continuing his activities as a photographer; at the same time he made collages and drawings.
In 1956 he traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East, and then went to Latin America, where he made a series on the gauchos that was published by Du magazine in 1959. It was also for this Swiss periodical that he photographed artists such as Picasso, Giacometti and Le Corbusier. He became a full member of Magnum in 1959, and started work on his book Die Deutschen, published in Switzerland in 1962, and by Robert Delpire the following year with the title Les Allemands. In 1963, while working in Cuba, he photographed Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during an interview by an American journalist. His images of the famous revolutionary with his cigar appeared around the world.

Burri became an associate of Magnum in 1955 and received international attention for one of his first reportages, on deaf-mute children, 'Touch of Music for the Deaf', published in Life magazine.René Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a documentary film-maker and began to use a Leica while doing his military service.

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. 

Catherine de Smet (born 1959). PhD in art history. Teaches at Ecole des beaux-arts, Rennes and at Ecole supérieur d'art et de design, Amiens. Author of numerous essays on graphic designs. Lives and works in Paris, France. 

Architect and scenographer Philippe Délis, lives and works in Paris and Casablanca. He has led an interdisciplinary studio for exhibition design since 1984. Since 1993: Integral Concept. Since 2009, he has led the program Master Design Espace et Communication at the Haute école d’Art et de Design in Geneva.

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.

Born 1953 in Berne Switzerland, Christian Eggenberger started his professional career as a freelance photographer during his studies at the University of Berne. He won a special prize at the international “Fotosalon - The World of Jazz in Photography” in 1976 in Burghausen, Germany.
As a specialist in photography and music, he worked for several years as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines in Switzerland.
In 1983 he joined the cultural department of Swiss Television Zurich, working as a filmmaker for arts and news programs.
In 1994 he created “neXt” - a weekly arts programme on upcoming cultural events, where he became editor-in-chief and producer for ten years.
Since 2003 he has been working as a producer and filmmaker on arts documentaries, such as the “PHOTOsuisse” series. In 2006 Christian Eggenberger received the Zurich Television Price for the TV Series “DESIGNsuisse”.

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.

Prof. Gregor Eichinger runs an architecture practice in Vienna and was professor of architecture and design at the ETH Zürich from 2004 to 2010.

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

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.

Ulrike Felsing, born 1971. From 1995 – 2002 she studied communication design at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Since 2004 she works as a scientific research assistant at Design2context, Institute for Design Research (Zurich University of the Arts, Department of Design). 

Lukas Felzmann, born in Zurich 1959, is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco. 
His work has recently been shown in Switzerland, Germany, the United States and Egypt.
He teaches photography at Stanford University.  

Architect

Martin Feuz works as a digital media art curator and practitioner, on questions of so-called intellectual property, as well as within post-graduate studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, on subject of media technologies in urban environments. 

Born 1961 in Winterthur, Switzerland.
1983 - 1987 Ecole de Photographie, Vevey
1993 - 1996 Lived in London
Lives and works in Valliere, France and Zürich, Switzerland

Awards

1988 1990 1992 Swiss Grant for Arts
1989 European Kodak Award, Arles (First Prize Switzerland, Second Prize Europe)
1991 European Photography Award, Berlin (Selection)
1993 Landis & Gyr Studio, London
2004 Photography Award Canton Neuchâtel, Swizerland

Antonio Foscari, Architect and Professor of History of Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice since 1971, has researched and published extensively throughout his career in the field of Renaissance architectural history. Since 1973, the year in which he restored the villa built by Palladio in Malcontenta, Foscari focussed his research on Andrea Palladio.

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

Kenneth Frampton (* 1930 in Woking, Surrey) ist ein britsch-US-amerikanischer Architekt, Architekturhistoriker und Autor. Frampton ist Professor für Architektur an der Columbia University, New York.

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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.

Hamish Fulton, 1946 in London geboren, ist Walking Artist, lebt und arbeitet in Canterbury.

Carmen Gasser Derungs studied interior design at the Zurich Design and Art Academy (now ZHdK), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2000, she is an independent interior and exhibition designer, with offices in Zurich and Haldenstein. Whitin Design Culture, the Masters program at the Institute Design2context ZHdK, she researches the question of atmospheric reinterpretation of alpine places. 

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).

Dominique Ghiggi, landscape architect, academic assistant at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich.

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).

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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.

1955 born in Wettingen, Switzerland, is an artist. 

Thomas Hausheer generates and builds solutions in communication – from concept through implementation, classical or digital. Prior to running his own firm since 2002, he worked for several well-known agencies in Switzerland. 

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.

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).

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.'

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.

Louisa Hutton graduated from Bristol University in 1980 and from the Architectural Association, London, in 1985. She worked for Alison and Peter Smithson (1985-1988) prior to founding LHMS Architects with Matthias Sauerbruch in 1989. Their second office Sauerbruch Hutton Architects was opened in Berlin in 1993. Further to her work as architect she has been lecturing at numerous universities and institutions worldwide, and has acted as External Examiner for various UK universities (1995-2009). Louisa Hutton was a Commissioner for CABE, UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (2003-2007). Louisa taught at the Architectural Association (1987-1990), she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and since 2008 is visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate Design School. Since 2008 she is a member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation. Together with Matthias Sauerbruch she has been awarded the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 2003.

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.

Jean-Pascal Imsand (1960-1994)

Lars Müller is also a designer outside the sphere of books. Corporate Design, Corporate Publishing and Signage Systems
are the focal points for "Integral Lars Müller", the design studio, which currently employs four designers.
Since 1996 the studio has been a partner of Integral Concept, a group of five studios with the same intellectual approach but different key interests from architecture to product design, and located in Paris, Milan, Zürich, Berlin, and Montreal.

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.

Law studies at the University of Bern, Strasbourg, Zurich; doctorate. After managing, from 1998 to 2007, the Schweizer Buchhändler- und Verlegerverband SBVV (trade association of Swiss booksellers and publishers), with an emphasis on Swiss publishing production and promotion, and attending the post-graduate course on Urban Identity & Design, his present work relates to tasks and projects situated at the interfaces of space development and of construction and engergy technologies, amongst other with the chair of Urban Development and CAAD, ETH Zurich, and within urban identity and design. 

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).

Born the 6^th of March 1971 in Lausanne                                          

I began my photographers’ career after coming back from Nicaragua. Central America was the place where I worked during three years as volunteers in humanitarian projects. Later, I became part of Strates Agency in Lausanne, Switzerland, where I worked as freelance photo-reporters. With a colleague, we set up a  project called “East of a New Eden”, a documented journey on the external border of the European Union. This story became very successful and was exhibited all over the world. I work for various magazines and newspapers such as Business Week, Die Zeit, Libération or Le Temps.

I studied journalism and worked on a personal story on minorities in Central American prisons. After being awarded by a Fulbright grant, I went to study moviemaking in New York during one year. I then worked on documentary shootings in Ivory Coast and India and I continue to work as a freelance writer and photographer making reportages in different countries.

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.

Charlie Koolhaas (born in London, 1977) is a Dutch sociologist and artist. She graduated from New York University in 1999. Her editorial career includes magazine work in New York and London.

Philipp Krass is an urban and regional planner at Karlsruhe. After studies in urban planning at Kaiserslautern, he was involved, from 2003 through 2008, at ASTOC Architects&Planners, Cologne, in setting up largearea master plans and in various urban development projects. He is a founder and associate of the planning an consulting firm berchtoldkrass space&options. His primay fields are the visualisation of spatial processes and the use of geoinformation in urban and regional planning, topics which he researches and teaches, since 2005, at the University of Karlsruhe. 

Takahiro Kurashima, born in 1970. Studied graphic design at Musashino Art University. Since 1992 he has worked as art director for the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu.

Professor Sanford Kwinter
Harvard University, USA

Julie Lasky is a design writer and editor based in New York.

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.

Originally from the Lake of Geneva, Jean-Benoit is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 after his studies at the Basel Kunstgewerbeschule / Basel School of Design with teachers such as Peter von Arx for Animation, André Gurtler for Typeface Design, Wolfgang Weingart for Typography, Max Schmidt for 3-D Graphics and Armin Hofmann for Graphic Design.

After his first position as Art Director for the Swiss Trade Show Company in Basel and a position as Editorial Designer for Ringier, the Swiss Press Group, Jean-Benoit founds in 1988 his own studio "AND" in Basel. There he directs a flexible team, the size of which adapt itself according the extreme variety of assignments and size of diverse clients.

In 1998 Jean-Benoit becomes member of the elective AGI–Alliance Graphique Internationale.

His goal is to stay creative while collaborating on challenging projects with inventive entrepreneurs and open minded clients. Jean-Benoit's work work has been awarded in various international competitions and published in many books and magazines which you can discover in the chapter "publications". Jean-Benoit lives now in San Francisco.

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

Born in Geneva in 1973, photographer, studied at the art school « Le75 » in Brussels (1993-1996), member of the agencies Strates and VU’.

Solo Exhibitions

2010                        Tropical Gift, Coalmine Gallery, Winterthur, Switzerland

2010                        Tropical Gift, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland

2009                        Protokoll & OutWest, Rencontres Photographiques de Lorient,
                                France

2009                        Protokoll, Festival Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy

2009                        OutWest, Journées Photographiques de Bienne, Switzerland

2009                        OutWest, Festival Boutographies, Montpellier, France

2009                        Protokoll, Quinzaine Photographique de Nantes, France

2009                        Protokoll, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

2009                        Protokoll, Espace Soardi, Nice, France

2009                        OutWest, Théâtre Royal de Namur, Belgium

2009                        Protokoll, Galerie Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France

2008                        OutWest, Lumix Festival for young photojournalism, Hannover,
                                Germany

2007                        pouvoirPOUVOIR–Love me Protokoll, Centre de la
                                Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland

2003                        Bahia, Galerie Focale, Nyon, Switzerland

2001                        Christian Lutz, Galerie Périscope, Liège, Belgium

2000                        Karpathos, Photography Festival Photostock, Sarajevo, Bosnia

1999                        Karpathos, Galerie Focale, Nyon, Switzerland

1998                        Athens, Istanbul and back, Photography Festival Fotosynkyria,
                                Thessaloniki, Greece

Collective Exhibitions

2008                        Head to Head –Political Portrait, Museum für Gestaltung,
                                Zurich, Switzerland

2008                        OutWest, Photoforum, CentrePasquart, Bienne, Switzerland

2007                        Protokoll, Biennale for Photography, Canton, China

2007                        West, Musée du Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland

2004                        Bahia, Galerie de la Médiatine, Bruxelles, Belgium

2002                        Bahia, Photoforum, CentrePasquart, Bienne, Switzerland

2002                        Albania, Photography Festival Fotosynkyria, Thessaloniki,
                                Greece

1999                        Karapathos, Centre wallon d'Art Contemporain, Flémalle,
                                Belgium

1996                        Christian Lutz, Center for Photography, Athens, Greece

Awards

2009                        Grand Prix International de Vevey, Festival Images, Switzerland

2009                        Prix Gianni Tabo, Festival Fotoleggendo, Rome (Protokoll), Italy

2009                        Prix du Public des Boutographies, Montpellier, France
                                (OutWest)

2008                        Prix du magazine l’Illustré, Switzerland

2008                        ewz.Selection, Swiss Photography Award (Protokoll),

2007                        Prix Nicolas Bouvier, Switzerland (Protokoll)

2007                        German Photography Book Prize, Germany (Protokoll)

2007                        Nominé au Prix de la Photographie HSBC, Paris (Protokoll),
                                France

Publications

2010                        Tropical Gift, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden

2007                        Protokoll, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden

2005                        AOC une identité retrouvée, Infolio, Gollion

2000                        Karpathos, Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel

Collections

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

Trond Maag explores, in Zurich and Oslo, questions of perception and development of citites, working within the continuum of urbanism, architecture, and scenography. He studied civil engineering and got his doctorate at ETHZ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. He is part of the post-graduate and research programs of the Institute Desgin2context of the ZHdK, where he deals with disorientation/orientation (signage) and identity in urban spaces. Since 2008, he researches urbanity and its tension fields at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. 

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.

Roberto Masotti (1947) studied industrial design before shifting his focus to photography and the visual arts. He has worked closely with ECM since 1973.

MARC MCQUADE is an architect at Adjaye Associates in new York.

Pierre Mendell was born in Essen, studied Graphic Design with Armin Hoffmann at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland and founded the Studio Mendell & Oberer in Munich, Germany, with Klaus Oberer in 1961. 

Since January 2000 Pierre Mendell Design Studio. The work of the studio encompasses all aspects of graphic design and visual communication. 

Pierre Mendell's awards include the Gold Medal from the Art Directors Club, Germany, the Gold Medal form the Art Directiors Club New York, Best German Poster of the Grand Prix International de l'Affiche Paris and the German Poster Grand Prix. 

Pierre Mendell's work has been exhibited in the Munich City Museum, the International Design Centre Berlin, the Galleria Aiap Milano, the Muzeum Plakatu Warsaw, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires, the Centro de la Imagen Mexico City and the Visual Arts Musuem New York. 

His work is represented in the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York. 

Pierre Mendell taught from 1987 to 1996 at the Yale University Summer Design Program in Brissago, Switzerland.

Pierre Mendell is member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and Honorary Royal Designer for Industry of the Royal Society of Arts London. 

Born in 1940.

Studied Archaeology and Art History at Munich University. Studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin.

1965- 78: indipendent artist in Mexico and Spain. In Berlin since 1978. Lives in Berlin and in Diessen am Ammersee.

1977: first photographic works. 

Michael Merrill, Dr.-Ing., is a practicing architect in the USA and Germany and assistant professor for Architectural Design at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 

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.

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.

At present Akiko Miki is a chief curator of the center for contemporary art Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and curator of Mori Museum (Tokyo). She organized a number of important exhibitions presenting the culture and arts of Japan. In 2006 Akiko Miki was the co-curator of the exhibition of Japanese photographer Araki, one of the best-known photographers of the present that took place in Barbican Art Gallery (London).

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.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is one of the central figures of the European avant-garde. His move from Budapest through Vienna to Berlin, his call to the Bauhaus in Weimar/Dessau by Gropius in 1923, his flight from the Nazis first to t Netherlands, then to London, and finally to Chicago, where he became director of the “New Bauhaus” and founded the “School of Design”, all these stations set the horizon for his poly-artistic research.

Born 1942


Doctor of Technology, Lund University, Sweden, 1997

Master of Business Administration, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, 1968

Professor of Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 2009

Professor in design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 2006–

Managing Director of Designlab A/S, 1984–

Editor and publisher of Tools Design Journal, 1984–1988

Editor and publisher of Mobilia Design Magazine, 1974–1984

Recipient of several prizes and grants

Honorary member of Estonian Association of Designers

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."

Federico Neder graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Rosario, Argentina. He received a Master in Architecture and Applied Arts and a Doctorate from the University of Geneva. His research and articles focus on the history of domesticity and on twentieth century “dwelling machines”. He has lectured at seminars and conferences in France, Spain, Italy, Canada, England and Argentina. Before settling in Switzerland, Neder worked as a film set designer in Los Angeles and at the firm of architect Dominique Perrault in Paris. His installations have been exhibited at the Centre d'art en l’Ile in Geneva (2001 and 2003) and at Cairo Biennial (2004). From 2002 to 2008, Neder was editor of the architecture journal, FACES and was a visiting professor at the Hanoi Architectural University (Vietnam). Presently, he teaches at the University of Geneva.

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

Andri Pol (1961) spürt in seinen Bildern das Aussergewöhnliche im Alltäglichen auf. Mit dem Bildband Grüezi – Seltsames aus dem Heidiland dokumentierte er den Alltag der Schweiz. Für seine Reportagen wurde er vielfach ausgezeichnet.

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.

Luciano Rigolini wurde 1950 in Tesserete im Tessin geboren. Von 1971 bis 1995 war er Kameramann, Regisseur und Dokumentarfilmer für das Schweizer Fernsehen. Seit 1995 ist er Produzent beim Kultursender Arte in Paris, verantwortlich für den kreativen Dokumentarfilm. 

Pipilotti Rist likes red beets a lot. Her focus are video/audio installations. She tries to be very friendly but is a somewhat autistic person. She likes machines and children.

Her opinon is: Arts task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create sensuousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities and to destroy clichés and prejudices.

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.

Elias Hanna Saliba wurde 1950 in Lattakia, Syrien geboren.
Nach dem Abitur brach er 1971 auf die Weltmeere zu erobern und landete in Hamburg wo er 1978 sein Studium als Kapitän großer Fahrt abschloss. Bis 1984  stillte er sein Fernweh und sammelte auf der ganzen Welt Erfahrungen in der Gastronomie.

1984 eröffnete er sein erstes Restaurant in Hamburg am Fuße des Fernsehturms und führte die Hamburger in die Genüsse und Gerüche des Orients ein. Die legendären «Mazza», eine Vorspeise bestehend aus einer Vielzahl von
von kleinen, fast nur vegetarischen Speisen, sind durch ihn weit über die Grenzen Hamburgs hinaus bekannt geworden. 

Seit 1995 führt er das Szepter im Restaurant «Saliba» in der Leverkusenstrasse, einem restaurierten alten Kraftwerk, sowie das Restaurant «Saliba Alsterarkaden», nahe dem Hamburger Rathaus.

Matthias Sauerbruch graduated from both the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and the Architectural Association, London, in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he was a partner and project leader for OMA London. In 1989, together with Louisa Hutton, he founded LHMS Architects in London: their second office Sauerbruch Hutton Architects was opened in Berlin in1993. In 2006 Matthias became a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 2007 was a founding member of DGNB, the German Sustainable Building Council. Following five years of teaching at the Architectural Association (1985-1990), Matthias was professor at both the Technical University in Berlin (1995-2001) and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (2001-2007). In 2006 Matthias was Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and since 2008 he is visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate Design School. Since 2009 he has been a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design in New York as well Head of the Advisory Board at ANCB, Aedes Network Campus Berlin. Together with Louisa Hutton he has been awarded the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 2003.

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.

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.

Swiss artist, born in 1943.

Ursula Tgelgel savors, inhabits, uses, utilizes and needs the city – at times amazed, at times bored, at all times enthusiastic. As a trained industrial designer, having the CAS course on Urban Identity & Design, she is gripped by the phenomenon „city“. At gasser derungs, Zurich, she manages architectural, interior design and design projects. 

Thumb is a Brooklyn and Baltimore-based graphic design office that was established as a partnership in 2007. Thumb works on public, private, and self-initiated projects, usually in the areas of architecture, art, design, and culture. Office founders Jessica Young and Luke Bulman both received Master of Architecture degrees from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, in 2002 and 1998 respectively.