KWY.studio is a multidisciplinary platform investigating the nature of collaboration within the context of specific projects. Founded in 2009 by architects Ben Allen and Ricardo Gomes in Berlin, and curator and editor James Bae in Los Angeles, KWY’s projects are collaborations between the principals and invited specialists. Recent collaborators include artists, writers, curators, educators, designers and other architects. With few initial preconceptions, each project begins with dialogue and analysis between the collaborators. This process-oriented methodology often leads to diverse thoughts that are otherwise unexpected and unimaginable.
Partners
Ricardo Gomes
Born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1978 and studied architecture in Lisbon between 1995 and 2001. Worked at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa between 2002 and 2004. From 2005 to 2011 he worked with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Between 2011 and 2014 he was an assistant professor at the UDK in Berlin and between 2015 and 2017 he taught art at DIS Copenhagen. He lives in Lisbon and Copenhagen.
James Bae
Born in Tokyo in 1975 and lived in the US since 1982. Studied at Yale and the University of California at Berkeley between 1992 and 1998 and lived in Marfa from 2004 to 2006. He is contributing editor of Paper Monument, a journal based in New York. He has opened and is director of the Grice Bench gallery in Los Angeles, where he lives working as a writer and curator.
Ben Allen (2009-2014), Franziska Leuthäußer (2011-2013)
Staff
Sara Cálem
Born in Porto in 1991. Studied at the University of Edinburgh from 2009 to 2013 and Westminster University, in London, from where she graduated with a Master of Architecture in 2016. Worked for Aires Mateus between 2012 and 2014. Since 2016 she works with KWY in Lisbon.
Luise Marter
Born in Germany in 1990 and lived in England in 2007. Studied architecture at the UDK in Berlin from 2009 to 2016 where she worked as a student assistant at the department of Digital and Experimental Design. She worked at KWY in Berlin and Lisbon from 2014 to 2016 and in Basel at Christ & Gantenbein, from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018 collaborates with KWY in Lisbon.
Ruggero Agnolutto
Born in Italy in 1986 and studied at the University of Ferrara between 2005 and 2015. From 2011 to 2013 he worked with Andrés Jaque Architects in Madrid and since then assisted Andrés in several other projects as an external collaborator. He has joined KWY in 2017.
Rebecca Billi
Born in Italy in 1994, she studied architecture at Westminster University in London between 2013 and 2016. She has since lived and worked in London and Amsterdam and been part of various research projects and collaborations in Italy. She has joined KWY in 2018.
Anna Panourgia
Born in Greece in 1994, she studied architecture at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki between 2012 and 2018. During her studies she participated in various student exhibitions in Greece. Since 2018 she works with KWY in Lisbon.
André Santos (2016-2017), Rui Alves (2018-2019), Mara Nuyens (2015), Gabriela Raposo (2016-2017), Daniel López (2017), Mayuri Paranthahan (2017), Cristina de Partearroyo (2018-2019), Rui Neto (2015), Sara Lopes (2016), Virna Koutla (2018)
Collaborators
Ben Allen
Born in Brighton, England in 1976 and studied architecture in Brighton and Glasgow between 1993 and 1999. Between 2005 and 2013 he worked with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Has been a visiting critic at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. Collaborated with KWY between 2009 and 2014. He lives in London.
Digital and Experimental Design, Universität der Künste, Berlin
The Digital and Experimental Design department of the UdK in Berlin examines the conceptual, spatial and constructive influences of digital tools and methods on contemporary design practice: the tension between architecture, technology and art forms a basis for creating innovative design work.
www.arch.udk-berlin.de
SUPERFLEX
SUPERFLEX challenges the role of the artist in contemporary society and explores the nature of globalisation and systems of power. SUPERFLEX is known for its artworks of wit and subversive humour that address serious social and cultural concerns.
www.superflex.net
Betar
Founded in 1973 as a engineering firm focused on the structural design of buildings and bridges. Since then it has fostered innovation and developed creative solutions that answer to the ever growing challenges of the market, while keeping its commitment to rise to the expectations of its clients.
www.betar.pt
Jens Gehrcken
Born in Berlin in 1976. Studied Urban Planning and Architecture at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. He has worked for various architecture offices and since 2001 works as a freelance in the field of architectural visualization.
www.gehrcken.de
André Santos
Born in Portugal in 1989 and studied architecture at the University of Coimbra and at the Aachen University in Germany between 2007 and 2015. Before finishing his master studies, he has lived and worked in Switzerland. Collaborated with KWY between 2016 and 2017 and currently lives in Basel.
Jan Bünnig
Born in Berlin in 1972. From 1997 studied art at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle. In 2003 received his diploma in Fine Art at the UdK in Berlin. Attended the Meisterschüler of Tony Cragg in 2004. Lives in Berlin.
www.janbuennig.com
Norbert Palz
Born in Zweibrücken, Germany in 1970 and studied architecture in Berlin between 1991 and 1999. Lived and worked in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Copenhagen between 2000 and 2007. Norbert is professor of Digital and Experimental Design at the UDK in Berlin.
www.arch.udk-berlin.de/palz
Baldios
Baldios is a landscape architecture firm that acknowledges landscape as a process of destruction, construction and reinterpretation of new possibilities. The term ‘Baldios’ comes from the wastelands which were reforested in 1938, transforming the Portuguese rural territory in a significant way.
www.baldios.pt
Nupergo
Nupergo specialises in steel construction, from bespoke artworks to architecture. They work closely with architects, artists and designers to develop optimal solutions: from the initial design development through production and construction or installation.
www.nupergo.com
Rui Alves
Born in Lisbon in 1986 and studied at Lisbon’s Lusíada University between 2006 and 2014. Since 2011 he collaborated with various architects and studios in Lisbon such as Artéria and Barbas Lopes Arquitectos. He worked at KWY between 2018 and 2019.
Mara Nuyens
Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1990. Studied architecture at the University of Antwerp and Leibniz Universität Hannover between 2009 and 2014. She was an intern at FAKT, an architecture office based in Berlin, and worked for KWY in Berlin and Lisbon in 2015.
Gabriela Raposo
Born in Lisbon in 1974. Studied architecture in Lisbon between 1992 and 1998 and scenography at Central Saint Martins in London between 2000 and 2002. From 2002 to 2009 she worked with the architect Falcão de Campos. In 2017 she completed her PhD in Architecture at Coimbra’s University. Gabriela worked at KWY from 2016 to 2017.
Kirk Finkel
His work focuses on environmentally collaborative design as it applies within a wide scope of master-planning to experiments of art and representation. Studied Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University and at Cornell University. Lives in New York.
www.hitheryon.com
Anders Hellsten Nissen
Born in Esbjerg, Denmark in 1972. He studied art in Odense and Berlin. Currently lives in Berlin.
www.andershellstennissen.com
Lise Kassow
Born in Skagen, Denmark in 1980. Graduated in Architecture in 2007 from the Aarhus school of Architecture. Lived and worked in Berlin and Los Angeles before establishing her own practice in Copenhagen in 2009.
www.lisekassow.com
Daniel López
Born in Madrid in 1987. Studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Graduated in 2014, winning the ARQUIA prize and beginning to work for Aires Mateus where he remained until 2016. Worked at KWY in 2017.
Mayuri Paranthahan
Born in Toronto in 1996 and studying architecture at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, Ontario, with anticipated graduation in 2019. She has lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario and Antwerp, Belgium between 2015 and 2016. Mayuri was an intern at KWY in 2017.
MoreEric Bernstein
Born in Washington D.C. in 1988. Graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2011. Moved to Berlin where he co-founded the design collective Hither Yon and worked as an architect in the studio of Jeppe Hein. Bernstein works as a set designer in Los Angeles.
www.ericrossbernstein.com
Franziska Leuthäußer
Born in Berlin in 1984 and lived and worked in Australia and Iceland between 2003 and 2005. Studied art history in Kiel and Berlin between 2005 and 2010. Studied Arts and Media Administration in Berlin between 2010 and 2012. Currently works as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
Gianluca Malgeri
Born in Calabria in 1974 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence graduating in 1999. He has exhibited widely and had solo shows in Rome, Berlin and Istanbul. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo.
www.gianlucamalgeri.com
Cristina de Partearroyo
Born in Spain in 1991. Graduated with a Master of Architecture at EINA, Zaragoza in 2014. She has since worked in Italy, Amsterdam and Spain and has completed her postgraduate studies in 2017 while working at Henning Larsen in Copenhagen. She worked at KWY in Lisbon between 2018 and 2019.
Frank Bauer
Born in Germany in 1987 and studied social sciences and history at JGU Mainz graduating in 2012. From 2010 he is studied architecture at the UDK in Berlin, attending UIC and IIT in Chicago in 2013 and graduating in 2017. Worked for Schauspielhaus Vienna, as a teaching assistant at the UDK and at the Fondation Vasarely. Lives in Berlin.
Jeremy Burke
Jeremy Burke is currently a Master in Design Engineering candidate at Harvard University. Previously, he co-founded the design collective Hither Yon in Berlin, Germany. He has also worked for Kennedy Violich Architecture, BRU Architects, and Alon Development.
www.jeremycburke.com
Jesper Carlsen
Born in Denmark in 1977 and studied at the Funen Art Academy in Odense graduating in 2006. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and the Sierra Metro Gallery in Edinburgh. He lives and works in Copenhagen.
www.jesper-carlsen.com
Hither Yon
Hither Yon is a design collective that explores and promotes creative processes through a dialogue between physical and digital contexts. The firm principles include curiosity, exchange, awareness, realization and accessibility. Hither Yon was founded in Berlin in 2011, when all four members graduated from the Department of Architecture at Cornell University.
www.hitheryon.com
Michael Lee
Michael S. Lee is a Korean-American architect and cultural programmer. Lee graduated with a Masters in Design Studies at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Currently, Lee is a principal of the cultural development firm Base 15 Studio.
www.base15studio.com
Akane Moriyama
Born in Japan in 1983 and studied architecture at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, she later studied textile design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design graduating in 2010. Since then she has collaborated with international architects and companies to create space using textiles. She lives and works in Stockholm.
www.akanemoriyama.com
Rui Neto
Born in Lisbon in 1988. Studied Architecture at the Lusófona University in Lisbon between 2011 and 2016, from where he graduated with a Master of Architecture in 2017. Rui was an intern at KWY in 2015 and is currently living and working in Lisbon.
PIOVENEFABI
PIOVENEFABI is an office active in the fields of architecture, urban research, territorial visions, and design, including commissions, competitions, publications, workshops and teaching. The office was founded in Milan in 2013 and is led by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene.
www.piovenefabi.it
s-hamacher.
s-hamacher is an art production company founded by Sacha Hamacher in Berlin. The firm takes part in the planning, fabrication and installation of artworks in various scales having produced work for Olafur Eliasson, Jeppe Hein and Simon Starling amongst others.
www.s-hamacher.de
Paul Jackson
Born in Leeds, England in 1956 and studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He is an origami specialist and a professional paper artist. Paul teaches and writes publications on paper folding, cutting and engineering. He currently lives in Israel.
www.origami-artist.com
A2P
A2P Consult was founded in 1990. The team is formed by permanent consultants and technicians as well as in partnerships with other offices, creating multidisciplinary teams with the appropriate expertise to deal with the complexity of each type of project.
www.a2p.pt
Art Engineering
Art Engineering is specialised in lightweight, spatial structures as well as innovative and adaptable construction techniques. As structural engineers they are aware of material behaviour, fabrication, cost and availability, with extensive technical knowledge and craftsmanship at hand.
www.art-engineering.net
Arup
Arup is a firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Arup assists with the structural performance of designs, as well as MEP engineering that creates comfortable, economic and efficient environments.
www.arup.com
Eurostand
Eurostand is based in Portugal and has thirty years of experience of set design and building. The company is interested in developing solutions with clients and designers for a range of ephemeral constructions.
www.eurostand.pt
Shannon Harvey
Urban designer living in New York City and founder of the strategic design studio Public Address. Shannon has worked as a curatorial coordinator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and is currently working as design strategist at the Rockwell Group. Shannon holds a M.Arch from McGill University and a B.Des from Emily Carr Institute.
www.projectprojects.com
Frank Haugwitz
Born in Hannover, Germany in 1969. Studied interior architecture and design in Trier and Helsinki between 1992 and 1997. Collaborates on projects with Olafur Eliasson since 2001. Frank lives and works in Berlin.
Asako Iwama
Born in Tokyo, Iwama is an artist and cook whose practice has developed around the idea of the ontology of eating. She is a founding member of the collective ‘pop-up café’ (1998). Asako lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo.
www.asakoiwama.net
Virna Koutla
Born in Greece in 1988. She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic of Athens before receiving an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She has lived and worked in Greece and the UK, while her research and projects have been exhibited internationally. She worked at KWY in Lisbon in 2018.
Prem Krishnamurthy
Designer, curator, and founding principal of the design studio Project Projects, which has been honoured twice as a Finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's National Design Awards for its commissioned work and independent curatorial, editorial, and publishing projects.
www.projectprojects.com
Gianna Ledermann
Born in Switzerland in 1987 and studied architecture at the ETH Zurich graduating in 2014. In 2012 she worked in the studio of Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. She currently lives and works in Zurich.
Sara Lopes
Born in Portugal in 1991 and studied architecture at Lusófona University and ISCTE in Lisbon from 2009 to 2015. She worked for Embaixada and Digitalab from 2011 to 2014 and at KWY in 2016. Presently lives in Lisbon.
Miguel Mesquita
Born in Coimbra in 1990 and studied architecture and curatorial studies at the University of Coimbra and Paris. Worked as assistant curator with João Ribas at Serralves Museum in Porto. Has been the artistic director at Baginski Gallery in Lisbon since 2015.
Felix Meyer
Born in Dresden in 1975. Works as an artist in Berlin. He studied art, aesthetics and architecture in Weimar and Halle.
www.felixmeyer.info
Adam Michaels
Principal and founder of Project Projects, a design studio based in New York. He is also the founder of Inventory Books, published through the Princeton Architectural Press. Adam graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
www.projectprojects.com
Nathaniel Rackowe
Rackowe was born in Cambridge in 1975, and received an MFA in Sculpture from the Slade school of Fine Art in London in 2001. A London based artist, his often large-scale urban referenced light sculptures refer to the experience of navigating the city around us.
www.rackowe.com
Erwin Redl
Born in Gföhl, Austria in 1963. Studied Electronic Music and Composition at the Music Academy in Vienna and computer art at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Erwin participated in several major art residencies, and has had permanent installations built in various cities. Lives in Ohio, USA.
www.paramedia.net
Julian Stair
Born in 1955 in Bristol, England and studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and at the Royal College of Art and has a PhD in Critical Writing on English Studio Pottery: 1910-1940. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions most recently at the mima in Middlesbrough (UK), the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. He lives and works in London.
www.julianstair.com
Elian Stefa
Tirana based Albanian-Canadian curator, architect, and lecturer. His work focuses on territorial ambiguity, revitalization of abandoned spaces, and self-construction. Elian is currently teaching at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, and has been the associate curator of ‘Adhocracy’, exhibited at the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, the New Museum in New York, and LimeWharf London.
www.elianstefa.com
Super an der Spree
Super an der Spree is a creative, digital campaigning agency. Super an der Spree strives to create emotional relationships between people and products: aiming to give brands and products a meaning in the lives of consumers.
www.s-u-p-e-r.de
Daniel Valente
Born in Lisbon in 1976, and studied Architecture and Urban planning in Lisbon and Milan between 1994 and 2000. Since 2000 he works as an architect, urban planner and artist. He lives in Lisbon.
www.myspaceflickrtwitterfacebook.blogspot.com
Warehouse
Warehouse is an architecture and art collective that aims to find a contemporary architectural praxis through design, experimentation and hands-on approach on projects for public and private space. Warehouse develops participative architecture in cultural and social projects.
www.warehouse.pt
Karin Westermark
Born in Borås, Sweden in 1980. Studied art history and political science at Uppsala University and landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Karin has been working as a landscape architect since 2008 and currently lives in Stockholm.
YellowOffice
YellowOffice is an architecture practice specialising in the research and design of landscape and urbanism. The firm practices on several scales of design, from territorial strategies, urban planning, public spaces, parks and pavilions to objects, videos, illustrations, maps and exhibitions. The office was founded in Milan in 2008 and is led by Francesca Benedetto.
www.yellowoffice.it
LOMA
LOMA works in a field that utilizes a cross section of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. Architects Petra Brunnhofer and Ilija Vukorep and landscape architect Wolfgang Schück have been working together since 1994 and established LOMA in 1999.
www.loma-online.de
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Partners
Ricardo Gomes
Born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1978 and studied architecture in Lisbon between 1995 and 2001. Worked at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa between 2002 and 2004. From 2005 to 2011 he worked with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Between 2011 and 2014 he was an assistant professor at the UDK in Berlin and between 2015 and 2017 he taught art at DIS Copenhagen. He lives in Lisbon and Copenhagen.
James Bae
Born in Tokyo in 1975 and lived in the US since 1982. Studied at Yale and the University of California at Berkeley between 1992 and 1998 and lived in Marfa from 2004 to 2006. He is contributing editor of Paper Monument, a journal based in New York. He has opened and is director of the Grice Bench gallery in Los Angeles, where he lives working as a writer and curator.
Ben Allen (2009-2014), Franziska Leuthäußer (2011-2013)
Staff
Sara Cálem
Born in Porto in 1991. Studied at the University of Edinburgh from 2009 to 2013 and Westminster University, in London, from where she graduated with a Master of Architecture in 2016. Worked for Aires Mateus between 2012 and 2014. Since 2016 she works with KWY in Lisbon.
Luise Marter
Born in Germany in 1990 and lived in England in 2007. Studied architecture at the UDK in Berlin from 2009 to 2016 where she worked as a student assistant at the department of Digital and Experimental Design. She worked at KWY in Berlin and Lisbon from 2014 to 2016 and in Basel at Christ & Gantenbein, from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018 collaborates with KWY in Lisbon.
Ruggero Agnolutto
Born in Italy in 1986 and studied at the University of Ferrara between 2005 and 2015. From 2011 to 2013 he worked with Andrés Jaque Architects in Madrid and since then assisted Andrés in several other projects as an external collaborator. He has joined KWY in 2017.
Rebecca Billi
Born in Italy in 1994, she studied architecture at Westminster University in London between 2013 and 2016. She has since lived and worked in London and Amsterdam and been part of various research projects and collaborations in Italy. She has joined KWY in 2018.
Anna Panourgia
Born in Greece in 1994, she studied architecture at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki between 2012 and 2018. During her studies she participated in various student exhibitions in Greece. Since 2018 she works with KWY in Lisbon.
André Santos (2016-2017), Rui Alves (2018-2019), Mara Nuyens (2015), Gabriela Raposo (2016-2017), Daniel López (2017), Mayuri Paranthahan (2017), Cristina de Partearroyo (2018-2019), Rui Neto (2015), Sara Lopes (2016), Virna Koutla (2018)
Collaborators
Ben Allen
Born in Brighton, England in 1976 and studied architecture in Brighton and Glasgow between 1993 and 1999. Between 2005 and 2013 he worked with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. Has been a visiting critic at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. Collaborated with KWY between 2009 and 2014. He lives in London.
Digital and Experimental Design, Universität der Künste, Berlin
The Digital and Experimental Design department of the UdK in Berlin examines the conceptual, spatial and constructive influences of digital tools and methods on contemporary design practice: the tension between architecture, technology and art forms a basis for creating innovative design work.
www.arch.udk-berlin.de
SUPERFLEX
SUPERFLEX challenges the role of the artist in contemporary society and explores the nature of globalisation and systems of power. SUPERFLEX is known for its artworks of wit and subversive humour that address serious social and cultural concerns.
www.superflex.net
Betar
Founded in 1973 as a engineering firm focused on the structural design of buildings and bridges. Since then it has fostered innovation and developed creative solutions that answer to the ever growing challenges of the market, while keeping its commitment to rise to the expectations of its clients.
www.betar.pt
Jens Gehrcken
Born in Berlin in 1976. Studied Urban Planning and Architecture at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. He has worked for various architecture offices and since 2001 works as a freelance in the field of architectural visualization.
www.gehrcken.de
André Santos
Born in Portugal in 1989 and studied architecture at the University of Coimbra and at the Aachen University in Germany between 2007 and 2015. Before finishing his master studies, he has lived and worked in Switzerland. Collaborated with KWY between 2016 and 2017 and currently lives in Basel.
Jan Bünnig
Born in Berlin in 1972. From 1997 studied art at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle. In 2003 received his diploma in Fine Art at the UdK in Berlin. Attended the Meisterschüler of Tony Cragg in 2004. Lives in Berlin.
www.janbuennig.com
Norbert Palz
Born in Zweibrücken, Germany in 1970 and studied architecture in Berlin between 1991 and 1999. Lived and worked in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Copenhagen between 2000 and 2007. Norbert is professor of Digital and Experimental Design at the UDK in Berlin.
www.arch.udk-berlin.de/palz
Baldios
Baldios is a landscape architecture firm that acknowledges landscape as a process of destruction, construction and reinterpretation of new possibilities. The term ‘Baldios’ comes from the wastelands which were reforested in 1938, transforming the Portuguese rural territory in a significant way.
www.baldios.pt
Nupergo
Nupergo specialises in steel construction, from bespoke artworks to architecture. They work closely with architects, artists and designers to develop optimal solutions: from the initial design development through production and construction or installation.
www.nupergo.com
Rui Alves
Born in Lisbon in 1986 and studied at Lisbon’s Lusíada University between 2006 and 2014. Since 2011 he collaborated with various architects and studios in Lisbon such as Artéria and Barbas Lopes Arquitectos. He worked at KWY between 2018 and 2019.
Mara Nuyens
Born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1990. Studied architecture at the University of Antwerp and Leibniz Universität Hannover between 2009 and 2014. She was an intern at FAKT, an architecture office based in Berlin, and worked for KWY in Berlin and Lisbon in 2015.
Gabriela Raposo
Born in Lisbon in 1974. Studied architecture in Lisbon between 1992 and 1998 and scenography at Central Saint Martins in London between 2000 and 2002. From 2002 to 2009 she worked with the architect Falcão de Campos. In 2017 she completed her PhD in Architecture at Coimbra’s University. Gabriela worked at KWY from 2016 to 2017.
Kirk Finkel
His work focuses on environmentally collaborative design as it applies within a wide scope of master-planning to experiments of art and representation. Studied Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University and at Cornell University. Lives in New York.
www.hitheryon.com
Anders Hellsten Nissen
Born in Esbjerg, Denmark in 1972. He studied art in Odense and Berlin. Currently lives in Berlin.
www.andershellstennissen.com
Lise Kassow
Born in Skagen, Denmark in 1980. Graduated in Architecture in 2007 from the Aarhus school of Architecture. Lived and worked in Berlin and Los Angeles before establishing her own practice in Copenhagen in 2009.
www.lisekassow.com
Daniel López
Born in Madrid in 1987. Studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Graduated in 2014, winning the ARQUIA prize and beginning to work for Aires Mateus where he remained until 2016. Worked at KWY in 2017.
Mayuri Paranthahan
Born in Toronto in 1996 and studying architecture at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, Ontario, with anticipated graduation in 2019. She has lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario and Antwerp, Belgium between 2015 and 2016. Mayuri was an intern at KWY in 2017.
MoreEric Bernstein
Born in Washington D.C. in 1988. Graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2011. Moved to Berlin where he co-founded the design collective Hither Yon and worked as an architect in the studio of Jeppe Hein. Bernstein works as a set designer in Los Angeles.
www.ericrossbernstein.com
Franziska Leuthäußer
Born in Berlin in 1984 and lived and worked in Australia and Iceland between 2003 and 2005. Studied art history in Kiel and Berlin between 2005 and 2010. Studied Arts and Media Administration in Berlin between 2010 and 2012. Currently works as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
Gianluca Malgeri
Born in Calabria in 1974 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence graduating in 1999. He has exhibited widely and had solo shows in Rome, Berlin and Istanbul. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo.
www.gianlucamalgeri.com
Cristina de Partearroyo
Born in Spain in 1991. Graduated with a Master of Architecture at EINA, Zaragoza in 2014. She has since worked in Italy, Amsterdam and Spain and has completed her postgraduate studies in 2017 while working at Henning Larsen in Copenhagen. She worked at KWY in Lisbon between 2018 and 2019.
Frank Bauer
Born in Germany in 1987 and studied social sciences and history at JGU Mainz graduating in 2012. From 2010 he is studied architecture at the UDK in Berlin, attending UIC and IIT in Chicago in 2013 and graduating in 2017. Worked for Schauspielhaus Vienna, as a teaching assistant at the UDK and at the Fondation Vasarely. Lives in Berlin.
Jeremy Burke
Jeremy Burke is currently a Master in Design Engineering candidate at Harvard University. Previously, he co-founded the design collective Hither Yon in Berlin, Germany. He has also worked for Kennedy Violich Architecture, BRU Architects, and Alon Development.
www.jeremycburke.com
Jesper Carlsen
Born in Denmark in 1977 and studied at the Funen Art Academy in Odense graduating in 2006. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and the Sierra Metro Gallery in Edinburgh. He lives and works in Copenhagen.
www.jesper-carlsen.com
Hither Yon
Hither Yon is a design collective that explores and promotes creative processes through a dialogue between physical and digital contexts. The firm principles include curiosity, exchange, awareness, realization and accessibility. Hither Yon was founded in Berlin in 2011, when all four members graduated from the Department of Architecture at Cornell University.
www.hitheryon.com
Michael Lee
Michael S. Lee is a Korean-American architect and cultural programmer. Lee graduated with a Masters in Design Studies at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Currently, Lee is a principal of the cultural development firm Base 15 Studio.
www.base15studio.com
Akane Moriyama
Born in Japan in 1983 and studied architecture at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, she later studied textile design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design graduating in 2010. Since then she has collaborated with international architects and companies to create space using textiles. She lives and works in Stockholm.
www.akanemoriyama.com
Rui Neto
Born in Lisbon in 1988. Studied Architecture at the Lusófona University in Lisbon between 2011 and 2016, from where he graduated with a Master of Architecture in 2017. Rui was an intern at KWY in 2015 and is currently living and working in Lisbon.
PIOVENEFABI
PIOVENEFABI is an office active in the fields of architecture, urban research, territorial visions, and design, including commissions, competitions, publications, workshops and teaching. The office was founded in Milan in 2013 and is led by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene.
www.piovenefabi.it
s-hamacher.
s-hamacher is an art production company founded by Sacha Hamacher in Berlin. The firm takes part in the planning, fabrication and installation of artworks in various scales having produced work for Olafur Eliasson, Jeppe Hein and Simon Starling amongst others.
www.s-hamacher.de
Paul Jackson
Born in Leeds, England in 1956 and studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He is an origami specialist and a professional paper artist. Paul teaches and writes publications on paper folding, cutting and engineering. He currently lives in Israel.
www.origami-artist.com
A2P
A2P Consult was founded in 1990. The team is formed by permanent consultants and technicians as well as in partnerships with other offices, creating multidisciplinary teams with the appropriate expertise to deal with the complexity of each type of project.
www.a2p.pt
Art Engineering
Art Engineering is specialised in lightweight, spatial structures as well as innovative and adaptable construction techniques. As structural engineers they are aware of material behaviour, fabrication, cost and availability, with extensive technical knowledge and craftsmanship at hand.
www.art-engineering.net
Arup
Arup is a firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Arup assists with the structural performance of designs, as well as MEP engineering that creates comfortable, economic and efficient environments.
www.arup.com
Eurostand
Eurostand is based in Portugal and has thirty years of experience of set design and building. The company is interested in developing solutions with clients and designers for a range of ephemeral constructions.
www.eurostand.pt
Shannon Harvey
Urban designer living in New York City and founder of the strategic design studio Public Address. Shannon has worked as a curatorial coordinator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and is currently working as design strategist at the Rockwell Group. Shannon holds a M.Arch from McGill University and a B.Des from Emily Carr Institute.
www.projectprojects.com
Frank Haugwitz
Born in Hannover, Germany in 1969. Studied interior architecture and design in Trier and Helsinki between 1992 and 1997. Collaborates on projects with Olafur Eliasson since 2001. Frank lives and works in Berlin.
Asako Iwama
Born in Tokyo, Iwama is an artist and cook whose practice has developed around the idea of the ontology of eating. She is a founding member of the collective ‘pop-up café’ (1998). Asako lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo.
www.asakoiwama.net
Virna Koutla
Born in Greece in 1988. She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic of Athens before receiving an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She has lived and worked in Greece and the UK, while her research and projects have been exhibited internationally. She worked at KWY in Lisbon in 2018.
Prem Krishnamurthy
Designer, curator, and founding principal of the design studio Project Projects, which has been honoured twice as a Finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's National Design Awards for its commissioned work and independent curatorial, editorial, and publishing projects.
www.projectprojects.com
Gianna Ledermann
Born in Switzerland in 1987 and studied architecture at the ETH Zurich graduating in 2014. In 2012 she worked in the studio of Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. She currently lives and works in Zurich.
Sara Lopes
Born in Portugal in 1991 and studied architecture at Lusófona University and ISCTE in Lisbon from 2009 to 2015. She worked for Embaixada and Digitalab from 2011 to 2014 and at KWY in 2016. Presently lives in Lisbon.
Miguel Mesquita
Born in Coimbra in 1990 and studied architecture and curatorial studies at the University of Coimbra and Paris. Worked as assistant curator with João Ribas at Serralves Museum in Porto. Has been the artistic director at Baginski Gallery in Lisbon since 2015.
Felix Meyer
Born in Dresden in 1975. Works as an artist in Berlin. He studied art, aesthetics and architecture in Weimar and Halle.
www.felixmeyer.info
Adam Michaels
Principal and founder of Project Projects, a design studio based in New York. He is also the founder of Inventory Books, published through the Princeton Architectural Press. Adam graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
www.projectprojects.com
Nathaniel Rackowe
Rackowe was born in Cambridge in 1975, and received an MFA in Sculpture from the Slade school of Fine Art in London in 2001. A London based artist, his often large-scale urban referenced light sculptures refer to the experience of navigating the city around us.
www.rackowe.com
Erwin Redl
Born in Gföhl, Austria in 1963. Studied Electronic Music and Composition at the Music Academy in Vienna and computer art at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Erwin participated in several major art residencies, and has had permanent installations built in various cities. Lives in Ohio, USA.
www.paramedia.net
Julian Stair
Born in 1955 in Bristol, England and studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and at the Royal College of Art and has a PhD in Critical Writing on English Studio Pottery: 1910-1940. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions most recently at the mima in Middlesbrough (UK), the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. He lives and works in London.
www.julianstair.com
Elian Stefa
Tirana based Albanian-Canadian curator, architect, and lecturer. His work focuses on territorial ambiguity, revitalization of abandoned spaces, and self-construction. Elian is currently teaching at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, and has been the associate curator of ‘Adhocracy’, exhibited at the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, the New Museum in New York, and LimeWharf London.
www.elianstefa.com
Super an der Spree
Super an der Spree is a creative, digital campaigning agency. Super an der Spree strives to create emotional relationships between people and products: aiming to give brands and products a meaning in the lives of consumers.
www.s-u-p-e-r.de
Daniel Valente
Born in Lisbon in 1976, and studied Architecture and Urban planning in Lisbon and Milan between 1994 and 2000. Since 2000 he works as an architect, urban planner and artist. He lives in Lisbon.
www.myspaceflickrtwitterfacebook.blogspot.com
Warehouse
Warehouse is an architecture and art collective that aims to find a contemporary architectural praxis through design, experimentation and hands-on approach on projects for public and private space. Warehouse develops participative architecture in cultural and social projects.
www.warehouse.pt
Karin Westermark
Born in Borås, Sweden in 1980. Studied art history and political science at Uppsala University and landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Karin has been working as a landscape architect since 2008 and currently lives in Stockholm.
YellowOffice
YellowOffice is an architecture practice specialising in the research and design of landscape and urbanism. The firm practices on several scales of design, from territorial strategies, urban planning, public spaces, parks and pavilions to objects, videos, illustrations, maps and exhibitions. The office was founded in Milan in 2008 and is led by Francesca Benedetto.
www.yellowoffice.it
LOMA
LOMA works in a field that utilizes a cross section of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. Architects Petra Brunnhofer and Ilija Vukorep and landscape architect Wolfgang Schück have been working together since 1994 and established LOMA in 1999.
www.loma-online.de
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