Benedetta Tagliabue studied architecture at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and currently acts as director of the international architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, founded in 1994 in collaboration with Enric Miralles, based in Barcelona and, since 2010, in Shanghai.

Among her most notable projects built are the Edinburgh Parliament, Diagonal Mar Park, the Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona, Campus Universitario de Vigo, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo which was awarded the prestigious RIBA International “Best International Building of 2011” award.

Current studio projects include The Business School of Fudan University in Shanghai, office towers in Taiwan and Taichung, public spaces of HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany, and the metro station Clichy-Montfermeil in Paris, France (1st prize in competition).

Her studio works in the fields of architecture, design of public spaces, rehabilitation, interior and industrial design. Her poetic architecture, always attentive to its context, has won international awards in the fields of public space and design.

In the teaching field, she has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Columbia University and Barcelona ETSAB, lecturing regularly at architecture forums and universities, and is part of jurors around the world, e.g. the Princesa de Asturias awards and the jury of the Pritzker Prize.

In 2004 she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. She received the 2013 RIBA Jencks Award, which is given annually to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.

She is also the director of the Enric Miralles Foundation, whose goal is to promote experimental architecture in the spirit of her late husband and partner Enric Miralles.

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Architect, Founder @ Amelia Tavella Architects – FR

Artist – IT

Principal, Co-Director of Interiors @ Olson Kundig – USA

Mr. YU Ting

Architect, Gourmet, Columnist

Born in Shanghai, China in 1972

Currently lives and works in Shanghai, China

YU is chief architect and co-founder of Wutopia Lab, co-founder of Let’s Talk, Urban Humble Space Revival Plan and FA emerging architect award. He is a professor level senior engineer, who received Bachelor of architecture from Tsinghua University and Ph.D of architectural design and theory from Tongji University.

Wutopia lab and their design have been recognized by a number of prestigious international design awards, they were selected as Architectural Record Vanguard Firm 2018, HD-Wave of the Future Honorees 2019, Archdaily China Building of the year’18 Top Three. Wutopia Lab has been awarded by ICONIC AWARDS, German Design award, Best of Year Award, IF, IDA, FX international design award, and also been nominated in INSIDE, WAF, WAN, DFA, Frame, Dezeen, etc.

Through magical realism, Wutopia Lab located in Shanghai, as a cutting edge architecture studio, is aiming to create miracles in daily life based on GLOCALIZATION.

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Edoardo Tresoldi explores the poetics of the dialogue between human beings and the landscape, using the language of architecture as an expressive tool and as a key to reading space. The artist plays with the transparency of wire mesh to transcend the spatiotemporal dimension and narrate a dialogue between art and the world, a visual synthesis revealed in the fading of the physical boundaries of his works.

Born in Milan, Tresoldi moved to Rome after art school, working in the fields of sculpture, stage design and the cinema, where he developed a heterogeneous approach to the arts. The sculptor recognized the contrasts of the contemporary landscape as his Genius Loci and identified the cross-fertilization of ideas and influences as the founding principle of his work.

Since 2013 he has produced installations in public spaces, archaeological sites, festivals and exhibitions around the world. In 2016, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, he realized a work for the archaeological site of the Early Christian basilica of Siponto, a unique convergence between contemporary art and archaeology that was awarded the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture.

In 2018 the artist produced “Etherea” for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the USA. In 2019 he presented “Simbiosi” in the prestigious context of Arte Sella and founded STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO, an interdisciplinary lab that supports artists, public art projects and contemporary art production. In 2020 he inaugurated a permanent installation called “Opera” in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Photo credits: Paolo Ferraina

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Andrew Trotter studied interior design in Australia between 1990 – 1994. On his return to the UK, after a short period working for Alessi and London Lighting, he joined Anouska Hemple Designs, working under Architect Russell Jones. Moving into fashion, he worked for many years with Yohji Yamamoto, the Michiko Koshino, and Bless. Andrew started Openhouse first as a design store in Barcelona in 2010, then together with Mari Luz Vidal, he started opening their house as a gallery of contemporary photography. Openhouse Magazine started in 2014, looking at creative people from around the world who open their homes and private places to the public. The magazine is published twice a year and sold in over 600 stores around the world. Andrew has worked as creative director of the skincare brand Alex Carro, and also leads creative direction to many brand shootings.
In 2012 he was asked to design a new building to become the boutique hotel, Masseria Moroseta, which opened in 2016. This was his first piece of architecture, and since then he started Studio Andrew Trotter together with Marcelo Martinez and are working on over twenty architectural projects around the world, lighting designs and furniture.

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Photo credit: Marcelo Martínez

Truly Truly is a Rotterdam (NL) based design studio. It was founded by Australian husband-and-wife design team Joel Booy (1981) & Kate Booy (1981), and operates in a variety of creative fields including design of products, lighting, furniture, textiles and spatial installations as well as art-direction.

There is a focus on designing thoughtful products for the living environment that combine function with sensuality, and which result from an urge to question and invigorate the way people use and perceive objects. The studio employs art as an avenue to push the boundaries for themselves and for others. They have a growing interest to investigate future furniture typologies, and in this, question form in relation to function.

The flexible and creative thinking, learned via study in the Netherlands combined with a background in graphic design, shapes their unique design attitude. How a design will be experienced is crucial to the core of their work. Truly Truly is a manifesto: make things properly, honestly and artfully.

Studio Truly Truly has produced designs for: Rakumba Lighting, Tacchini, the Netherlands TextielMuseum (invited by Hella Jongerius), IKEA’s PS 2017 collection, Dexter Lighting, LEFF Amsterdam, the National Glass Museum Netherlands, Cor Unum Ceramics, amongst others.

Recently, the studio received the honour of being invited to create the 2019 Das Haus pavillion at IMM Cologne. They are currently working on commissions for new textile and furniture collections and an upcoming solo-exhibiton at the Aram Gallery during London Design Festival.

“We are constantly trying to appeal to our own desire to be captivated or moved. Sculpture, poetry, tactility, sensuality, functionality — these all have an important role in the objects that surround us.”

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Werner Tscholl (born in Laces, Bolzano, 1955) graduated in Architecture in Florence in 1981. His studio is located in Morter, in the Venosta Valley, where he also lives. Numerous buildings, mainly concentrated in the South Tyrol, are concrete proof of Tscholl’s capacity to achieve a natural-although not camouflaged-synthesis between his creations and their setting.

Among his most important works, the Rizzi houses at San Martino, the Knoll-thuile houses at Colsano and the Mumelter houses at Gries- to office buildings and factories -such as the headquarters for Selimex in Laces, the new Mondadori offices at Segrate, the Tramin winery at Termeno, the Puni distillery at Glorenza- and the designs for various facilities associated with landscape, like the ones designed for the road across the Rombo Pass, including tourist information offices and the small museum at the top of the pass. He worked on the restoration and new use of castles and towers in the South Tyrol: the Fürstenburg at Burgusio, now the Provincial Agricultural School; Torre Reichenberg at Tubre, now a holiday home; Firmiano Castle near Bolzano, the most important part of Reinhold Messner’s network of museums about mountains (the Messner Mountain Museum); and the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Maria at Burgusio, where a small museum has been created about the history of the abbey.

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