Umberto Barbieri graduated at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. He is Professor of Architectural Design at the Delft University of Technology and Visiting Professor at different universities. Editor and collaborator for Opera, Cassabella, Archis, Oase and other magazines. Architect at Studio di Architettura in Amsterdam, designer in cooperation with Aldo Rossi on the BonefantenMuseum in Maastricht (1989) and with Giorgio Grassi on the Wienerblok in Amsterdam (2000). Author of A hundred years of Dutch architecture, 1901-2000, and editor of Dutch translation of the book L’architettura della città (2001) by A. Rossi and La contruzione logica dell’architettura (2000) by G. Grassi.

Henriette Bier’s expertise is in computer-based systems and methods applied to architectural design. 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 a PhD research at TU Delft [2008]. Her research focuses not only on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture, but also reflects evaluation and classification of digitally-driven architectures through procedural- and object-oriented studies. It defines methodologies of digital design, which incorporate Intelligent Computer Based Systems proposing development of prototypical tools to support the design process. Her research has been published in books, journals and conference proceedings. She regularly leads workshops at universities in Europe and lectures in Europe and the US.

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.

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.

Sien van Dam graduated at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. She is now a teacher of Architectural Design at the same faculty and co-organiser of the Master courses of the section Public Building. She has been working as an architect at the office of Emilios Chlimintzas since 1986 and participated in several housing projects, of which the most recent is a housing block of 103 houses in Leerdam. She is particularly involved with the detailing of the projects.
She is a co-writer of the book Musea: idee en architectuur and wrote about two museum projects by the architect Renzo Piano: Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Menil collection in Houston, U.S.A. The book is part of the education programme of the Faculty of Architecture and it is intended to be translated into English by SUN publishers.

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.

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 he 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.

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. 

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.