Franco Albini (born in Robbiate, near Milan, on 17 October 1905 – died on 1 November 1977) was an Italian architect, designer, and university professor. Albini earned his degree in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1929 and began his professional career working for Gio Ponti. He started exhibiting his work at the Milan Triennale, and in 1930 he opened his own studio.
Le Studio Sanna Baldé was founded by Anna Sanna and Delphine Baldé in 2019, after pursuing separate careers in Paris and abroad, when they decided to merge their worlds to reconcile architecture and the city.
Chris Collaris is a Dutch architect, raised in the southern Netherlands. He graduated as an architect in 2006 from the Technical University of Eindhoven. He is part of the Duivendrecht-based architectural team, i29 Architects.
David B. Stewart was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942, and passed away on April 3rd, 2025. He pursued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with honours in the History of Art (1960–1964), and later at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, where he completed his PhD in the History of European Art under the supervision of Professor Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1964–1972), with a thesis about Le Corbusier.
Donna van Milligen Bielke is an architect with a Diploma in Building Engineering and Architecture from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and a Master's degree in Architecture from the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.
Throughout her professional career, she has received a number of awards and recognitions: RIBA Silver Medal nomination (2012), Prix de Rome Award (2014), Public Building of the Year Award (2023), and the Abe Bonnema Award (2023), among others.
María José de Blas and Rubén Picado are architects from the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), the city where they founded their own architectural firm, Picado de Blas Arquitectos, in 1991.
Yukinori Yanagi (Fukuoka, 1959) lives and works on the Japanese island of Momoshima, far from the public eye, despite being one of the most influential contemporary Japanese artists. In 1993, he was invited to his first international exhibition, the 45th Venice Biennale, where he presented hundred seventy colored sand flags that crumbled day by day due to the unremitting work of thousands of live ants. Now, after thirty-two years, Yanagi returns to Italy with a major exhibition.
Vlad Nancă (b. 1979, Bucharest) studied at the National University of Arts, Bucharest, Department of Photography and Moving Image.
In his early works, Vlad Nancă uses political and cultural symbols to explore nostalgia and the changes in society, set against the backdrop of Romania and Eastern Europe’s recent history and the rise of aggressive capitalism in the early 2000s.
Muromuro Studio is an architecture and design practice spanning a wide range of typologies, including public spaces, private residences, retail stores and object design, founded by Ioana Chifu and Onar Stănescu in 2024 in Bucharest, Romania.
RSAU is is a design practice working in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and research. It was established by Roi Salgueiro Barrio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 2007.
Roi Salgueiro Barrio is an architect and urbanist. He holds a PhD in Architectural Design by the University of Barcelona, a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University, and a Master in Architecture from the University of Navarra.
