Michiel Riedijkgraduated from the Technical University in Delft in 1989. He started his own office with Juliette Bekkering. In 1992 he and Willem Jan Neutelings established Neutelings Riedijk Architects .

After a monographic publication in El Croquis in 1999 they published their second monographic book ‘At Work’ in 2004, which was distributed in a special paperback version around the world in 2006. Projects like the city history Museum MAS in Antwerp, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the Shipping and Transport College in Rotterdam,  the Walterboscomplex in Apeldoorn, the Minnaert Building in Utrecht and the Sphinxes in Huizen have been published in numerous architectural magazines around the world.

Michiel Riedijk was guest professor in Aachen in 2002. He gave lectures and workshops at universities and museums worldwide among which Beijing, Moscow, Princeton, Los Angeles, Quito and Seattle. In September 2007 he accepted professorship at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology.

Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.
 
His PhD focused on the work of the French contributors to the Team 10 group: Candilis-Josic-Woods. He was an external lecturer at Copenhagen University (1996-2005), researcher and lecturer at the Catholic University Leuven (1997-2003) and coordinator of the Centre for Flemish Architectural Archives (2003-2006).
 
He is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and editor of Wonen in Welvaart: Woningbouw en wooncultuur in Vlaanderen (2007), Architectural Positions: On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere (2009), Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future (2010) and Structuralism Reloaded: Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism (Axel Menges, 2011). He is an editor of OASE Architectural Journal, The Nordic Journal of Architecture and one of the initiators of the research and exhibition project In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009, Marseille 2013).  
 
He currently prepares the following publications: Making a New World? Re-Forming and Designing Modern Communities (with Rajesh Heyninckx, Leuven University Press, 2012) and Hotel Lobbies: Anonymous Domesticity and Public Discretion (with Anne Massey, Routledge, 2011).

Alper Semih Alkan studied architecture at METU in Ankara, where he also received his MArch degree in 2004 (magna cum laude, thesis award nomination). 2003-2007, he worked as a research and teaching assistant at METU, contributing to the master’s design studios, theory seminars and bachelor programme. As architect he worked with Exhibition Design Workshop, designed small musea, temporary and permanent exhibitions and small civic buildings.
He conceives representation as the key mediator of architecture at different levels of both conceptual and practical production. It is at the centre of his body of research with a reconsideration of design-thinking to the modes of representation that translates the nature of design in different intelligible forms of communication. The transformation of the cognitive paths in architectural design thinking in the last decades is his main research course with a special focus on architectural drawing and design media.
Since September 2007, he’s been a PhD researcher at TU Delft, joined the chair of Public Building in 2011 and teaches design and theory courses.
 
Participant in project: AP-2. Architecture and the City: Public Building

Silvio Carta Ph.D. (2010, University of Cagliari, Italy), Doctor Europaeus, architect and critic based in Rotterdam. His main field of research is the understanding of the contemporary architecture and the study of criticism of architecture with main focus on design practice. Since 2008 he has been teaching Theories of Contemporary Design at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and since 2010 he is guest researcher at Delft University of Technology. He recently edited the monograph Urban Presences, Maurice Nio - Complete Works 2000–2011, AADCU Publications, Beijing and he is currently preparing the following publications: Federico Soriano, Complete Work (AADCU Publications, 2013), CEBRA, from Drawing to Building to Drawing (AADCU Publications, 2012) and Notes on Criticism of XXI Century (2013). 

Sien van Dam graduated in 1989 from the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. From 1986 till 2006 she worked in the office of Emilios Chlimintzas. After working as a guest teacher in Delft since 1990, she permanently joined the staff in 2000; first as coordinator, later as a teacher of architectural design. The focus of her interest is upon the theme of architectural identity, and how this can be stated and read in contemporary architecture. This theme is the research topic of the Master 1 course of the studio Mediatheque in collaboration with Tom Avermaete. Sien was also involved in the publication of "Idee en Architectuur" on museums, and the publication of a documentation of small public buildings. Currently she is working on a research project for the multiple use of school buildings.

Jaap Dawson The architecture of the soul and the soul of architecture: these have been my passions for as long as I can remember. After a year of studying architecture at Cornell University I continued further in English and Spanish literature. Together with a group of other students I founded an experimental junior high school. But what, really, did I know about pedagogy? I then studied education and philosophy at Columbia University with a focus on depth psychology and theology. My doctoral dissertation was a comparative analysis of the work of the depth psychologist C.G. Jung and the radical educator Paulo Freire. And then came the awareness that education is supposed to encourage: I still wanted to be an architect. I started again, this time in Delft, in the country of half my ancestors. In my work in Delft I try to make space for students to enquire and discover what architecture is really all about. I work too at designing buildings and writing, mostly about the effect buildings and spaces have on our souls.

Micha de Haas is involved in the master programme ‘Border Condition’ en teaches Msc1 projects and graduation projects.
Studied both at the Bezalel art and design academy in Jerusalem and the Technical University in Delft. The design approach he advocates is a combination of the poetic and intuitive with a fascination for the building process itself. Art and technology, poetry and building-law, economy and social evolvement should be naturally interwoven in an overall spatial architectural concept.
After starting his own Amsterdam based office in 1997, Micha de Haas won several architectural awards and competitions and his work has been extensively published in and outside the Netherlands. Since 2008 he runs, together with Angie Abbink, the office Abbink X De Haas architectures.

Marc Koehler (1977) is an architect of Dutch-Portuguese origin, who studied Architecture in Amsterdam and Lisbon and received his MSc. Architecture with Honors at TU Delft in 2003. Since 2004 MK has been teaching at the TU Delft and coordinated several  projects such as the international workshop ‘Exploring the Public City. Since founding Marc Koehler Architects in 2005, his practice has been involved in a wide range of issues crossing the field of architecture, urbanism and design as well as cultural analyses.

His work includes several exhibitions and essays. In 2009, he designed the set for ‘behavioural patterns’, a dance performance by the Dutch National Ballet. He won the 1st prize in the Oporto Riverfront competition in 2008 and the 1st prize in the competition for a community centre in Loker, Belgium in 2009. He won a Honorable mention in the international competition for the new residence of the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in 2009.  MK also designed several experimental houses in the Netherlands, such as the IJburg house, which has been nominated for the Amsterdam Architecture Award 2008, the Dutch Facade Design Award 2008, Fritz Hoger Preis 2008, the most beautiful house 2008, WAN best house of 2008 award and received a Honorable mention in the World Architecture Festival Award 2008. MK has been selected by architecture critic Hans Ibelings for the prestigious Top 10 list of Dutch Architects under 40 (www.newitalianblood.com).

Within a wide scope of approaches and activities, MK develops a continuous and recognizable line of thinking and design. The question of the role of architects as mediators between the realm of the domestic, the urban and the natural and the search for design-authenticity in the context of mass-culture and mass-production are repeating themes in every project the studio takes on.

Sang Lee received his M. Arch. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his appointment at TU Delft, he was engaged in independent design practice in New York. From 2000 until 2003 Sang was Lecturer of Architecture and the coordinator of the US-EU exchange program at the School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught advanced research studios as well as core design studios. He also served as a visiting lecturer at the Bauhaus Summer Academy in Rome in 1999, 2000 and 2003, and as a guest critic at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Temple University, UCLA and Sci-ARC. Sang’s design and research interests emphasize the relationship between architecture, media and performing arts toward a means to assemble, reframe and project spatial and narrative qualities as an organization of experience. At the same time, based on his experience working with William McDonough, Sang has been engaged in sustainable design and previously taught a sustainable deisgn studio at the TU Eindhoven.

In 2007 he co-edited and published a volume of essays and conversations, “The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture” by 010 Publishers. Currently he is editing a volume entitled “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” which explores aesthetics potentials inherent in the consideration of sustainability in architectural design. The book is expected in mid to late 2011.

Jorge Mejia had his education as an Architect at the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) where he graduated in 1996. He holds a Master in History and Theory of Art and Architecture (2002) as well as a Master degree in Architecture (2008), both from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

His Teaching includes Architectural Theory, History of Architecture and Design Studio at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since February 2005, where he became Profesor Catedratico Asociado in 2007.

Aside from receiving a Honorary Mention from the Colombian National Natural Park System - Ministry of the Environment in 1998, and a Colfuturo Scholarship in 2009, he is the author of Enrique Triana: Obras y Proyectos (Bogotá: Planeta, 2006) and Coauthor of Vivienda Moderna en Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2004)  and XX Bienal Colombiana de Arquitectura (Bogotá: Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, 2006).

His research interests include architectural form, modern architecture, contemporary conditions and architectural principles and procedures.

Stefano Milani, Architect. He graduated cum laude from the I.U.A.V. of Venice. From 2001 till 2005 he had worked as project architect at Nio Architecten in Rotterdam. Since 2004 onwards he has been partner at the architectural firm Ufo Architects. He has been also carrying out a research on architectural drawings at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. Assuming drawings as the privileged field of architectural knowledge, the research attempts to enhance the role of architectural drawing within design research and theory. At the same faculty, he has also been teaching within the Territory in Transit Research Program. In 2006, he was invited to take part in the 10th Architecture Biennale of Venice. He recently curated the publication, Franco Purini, Drawing Architectures, 2008 and, with Filip Geerts, the Symposium Ideal/Real City.

Oscar Rommens, graduated at the Hoger Architectuur Instituut Sint-Lucas Gent in 1994.
After living in various metropoles (Barcelona, New York , Chicago, Rotterdam) he completed a postgraduate programme Urban Design (Archeworks, Chicago USA, ’95-’97) and worked at several architecture offices. (Douglas Garofalo, USA /  Kas Oosterhuis, NL / Dirk Coopman, Ghent) Currently he is a teacher in the research group ‘Border Conditions’ in the TU Delf and in the PHL Architecture Diepenbeek, master 3 programme.
In 1999 he founded Import Export Architecture (IEA)together with Joris van Reusel. IEA is a network office with its headquarter in Antwerp that operates from various urban biotopes and from the in-between situated public and private opportunities. IEA is not only active as the day-to-day architecture practice, but is also engaged in the development of theoretical concepts, models and prototypes and has participated in various selections for the creation or transformation of furniture, buildings, landscapes or areas.

Hans Teerds studied Architecture and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. He graduated in 2003 with a proposal for an intervention in the environment, urban position and buildings of the Suikerfabriek in Halfweg, the Netherlands. After graduation, he was invited to take part in the ‘'Meesterproef 03'’, which was a Masterclass organised by the Dutch and Flemish ‘'rijksbouwmeesters'. He works currently as an independent architect and urban designer in Amsterdam on a wide range of projects. 

Henriette Bier's expertise is in computer-based systems and methods employed in architecture. After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught computer-based architectural design (2002-2003) at Universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands and implemented her PhD research at TU Delft (2004-2008). Her research focuses on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture and advancement of digitally-driven architecture through procedural- and object-oriented studies.

Filip Geerts graduated cum laude from the Delft University of Technology in 2001, with an airport as final thesis design. Since then, he has been associated with UFO-architecten, collaborating with S.U.Barbieri on various projects and competitions, including Wiener & Co., an apartment project in Amsterdam in co-operation with Giorgio Grassi. Previous practical architectural work includes internships at STUDIO, architecture and interior architecture, Amsterdam (September - December 2000) and Cunningham Architects in Dallas (TX), USA (1999). During his student-years he was one of the organisers of the manifestations Indesem1998 in Delft and EASA 20(00) in Antwerp/Rotterdam. He has been working at the faculty of Architecture (TU Delft) since January 2002, at first as a research fellow, later as assistant professor, teaching studio and seminars and he is intensely involved with the development and co-ordination of undergraduate and graduate programmes. He also taught at the Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam. He initiated his Phd research ‘Architecture/Territory’ in 2003 under prof. S.Umberto Barbieri.

Klaske Havik is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. She studied architecture in Delft and Helsinki, and literary writing in Amsterdam. She writes regularly for various magazines in the Netherlands and Nordic countries and is editor of the Dutch-Belgian peer reviewed architecture journal OASE. Her architectural and written work combines an experiental reading of the city with an academic and theoretical approach.  As an architect and critic, she has been involved in a number of harbour redevelopment projects in Amsterdam, The Hague, Helsinki and Tallinn.  At Delft University of Technology, department of Public Building, she currently teaches the master diploma studio Public Realm alongside master courses in architectural theory and literature. Recently, she co-edited the anthology Architectural Positions: Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere, SUN Publishers 2009. Her current PhD research, entitled Writing Place. Scriptive explorations in architectural research and design, aims at developing a literary approach to  architecture and urban regeneration.

Nicola Marzot obtains his degree in Architecture in Florence, with a thesis on Ferrara’s building history. He has taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of Firenze, Ferrara and the Faculty of Engineering of Bologna, where in 2000 he obtains his PhD in “Building and territorial engineering”. Since 2004 he is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara, teaching Urban and Architecture design. His research activity mainly focus on theory and method of architecture and urban design strategies, in close relation to Urban Morphology and Building Typology.
He has been visiting professor at Hosei University, Faculty of Architecture and Lund University, Faculty of Architecture. Since 2006 he is currently visiting professor at TU Delft Politecnic, as an associate professor. He is going to obtain his second PhD at TU Delft Politechnic in Architectural Design.
Vice director of the international journal Paesaggio Urbano and member of the Editorial Board the international magazines Urban Morphology, Opera/Progetto and Rassegna

He has been member of the organizing committee of the Italian Pavilion, X International Venice Biennale of Architecture, curator Prof. Franco Purini. Since 2005 he is member of the Council of ISUF, International Seminar on Urban Form. Since 2006 he also is Secretary-General of the same Insititution.
Since 2006 he is Head of Urban Planning of Nomisma Spa REAL ESTATE. He runs his own firm PERFORMA A+U. Now he is developing the "Parco delle Stelle" design, the new Bologna Sport city candidated by Italy to host the 2014 International Basketball Championship. He partecipated to several international design competition, resulting also winner and being signaled. In 2007 his team (MVRDV, PERFORMA A+U, Arcadis e Atelier 10) has been selected between the 12 finalist to the International Competition for the New Bologna High Speed System Station

Marc Schoonderbeek is the coordinator of the research group ‘Border Conditions’ and is currently working on a doctoral thesis within this group, on the relationship between architectural theory, representation and design. After graduating from the TU Eindhoven, he has practiced architecture in the Netherlands, Germany (Studio Libeskind (pre-911)) and Israel. In 1998, he founded with Pnina Avidar '12PM-Architecture', an Amsterdam-based firm for architecture and urban design. In the work of 12PM, the rationality of a theoretical position is mixed with the intuition of a vivid architectural practice through the mapping and tracing of the hidden layers of each project. At present, he is editor of Footprint, lectures at a regular basis at several architecture institutes, and is a regular contributor to architectural magazines. In January 2004, he co-founded 66EAST-Centre for Urban Culture in Amsterdam and published, in 2008, the book ´Houses in Transformation: interventions in European gentrification´ together with JJ Berg, T Kaminer, and J Zonneveld.

Sanja Jerkovic, (1977, Labin, Croatia) graduated at the Faculty of Architecture, Venice University IUAV in 2004. Starting 2001 - 2003 she is a Senator of the Student Senate. With the research project ‘Housing in Sarajevo’ in 2000 starts her activity in the Department of architecture at IUAV, where from 2001 till 2004 works as assistant professor at ‘Laboratorio di progettazione urbana e architettonica’. From 2003 works as a freelance in different studios. In the period between 2004 - 2006 she was Responsible for the public competitions at Zagreb Architects’ Society, Croatia. From 2005 / 2006 an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Zagreb University. In the same year develops the research activity within the program MATRA, Berlage Institute.

Julien Merle (1979) was born in France, graduated Architecte D.P.L.G at the ENSACF and received a master degree in Philosophy from the BPUCF. He worked for several offices in the Netherlands, including Karres en Brands Landscape architects, Maxwan, Bureau B+B, UN Studio, Dick Van Gameren and Mecanoo. He is currently working on a doctoral research on Georges Bataille’s Formless as a critical tool for assessing contemporary architecture.

Ana-Maria Pătroi (1983, Romania) graduated from “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Bucharest (2008). Her graduation project, entitled Kids Academy of Art, selected on the faculty website from 2008 projects, has been the beginning of her individual research concerning architecture for children. Since 2005 she has been participating in several housing projects in Bucharest, rehabilitation projects for churches and school extensions in other cities in Romania. In 2006 she won the first prize with a proposal for the concept of rehabilitation of the City of Deva. Since March 2009 until July 2010 she has been tutor at the Department of Basics of Architectural Design, Basis of Design Chair, Faculty of Architecture, U.A.U.I.M.. She started her PhD in 2009 at U.A.U.I.M., Bucharest, receiving a European scholarship. Her research focuses on developing a design system for helping the cities to become child-friendly. She has participated at some session of communications organized by the Department of Basics of Architectural Design, with presentations on different themes (The interpretation of trinomial Place-Dwelling-Home from an ecological perspective in June 2009, The Impact of Architecture on child’s psychology in March 2010). Since October 2010 she has been a visiting doctoral student at TU Delft.
 

Ioana Moraru(1981, Bucharest, Romania) graduated at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, the Faculty of Architecture, in 2006. As a student she spent the academic year 2004 – 2005 at the University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Architecture with a Socrates Scholarship.
After graduation she completed her internship in several architecture offices in Bucharest. Currently, she works as an independent architect.
Since 2009, she has been a PhD candidate with a doctoral grant and a tutor at “Ion Mincu” University in the Department of Basics of Architectural Design. During the academic year 2010 – 2011 she will activate as a visiting doctoral student at the Technical University of Delft, Faculty of Architecture under the guidance of dr. ir. Tom Avermaete. Her research focuses on topographical architecture, especially on the different concepts that generate this kind of architecture.