Francois Roche is the principal of New-Territories, based in New York, Bangkok, and (sometimes) Paris. Through these different structures, his architectural works and protocols seek to articulate the realand/or fictional,along with the geographic situations and narrative structures that can transform them. New-Territories is organized on three sets of themes: research as speculation, fiction as practice, and practice as lifespan. He is also the founder of R&Sie(n) as well as [eIf/bʌt/c], institute for contingent scenarios. He is currently a professor at Columbia University GSAPP and he has taught at numerous universities including University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, RMIT and Angewandte.
Ezio Blasetti (ahylo studio, maeta studio / NTUA, MsAAD Columbia University): architect TEE/TCG and founder of algorithmicdesign.net. His recent collaborations include Acconci Studio, Biothing and a|Um Studio. He has taught generative design studios and seminars by means of computational geometry at Pratt Institute, the Architectural Association, Sciarc, RPI, UTS, PennDesign and Columbia University.
In 2004 he co-founded own studio, a young design-build practice and completed several projects in Greece. His work has been exhibited and published internationally and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou.
Stephan Henrich, currently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, studied architecture and urban design at Universitat Stuttgart. Since 2004, he has been working with R&Sie(n) Architects, Paris, where he is an associate for several projects including: “I’ve heard about”, the Architectural Biennale, Venice (2008 and 2010), and “Une Architecture Des Humeurs”. He has also worked for Knippers/ Helbig advanced engineering, Stuttgart and Schlaich Bergermann and Partners, Stuttgart. Henrich teaches at USc, Los Angeles, since 2009, where he is a co-founder of the lAB m4 with Francois Roche and Kris Mun. His research focuses on robotic design and the use of robotics in architecture.Previously, he has taught at the AA (Summer school 2006), at Die Angewandte, Vienna.
Camille Lacadee is a founder of [eIf/bʌt/c], institute for contingent scenarios and a professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok. She graduated in 2009 from Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, after passing her RIBA (Part 1) in 2008 from the Architectural Association in London. Since then she has lived and worked in Asia (Japan, India, and Thailand) and is currently teaching in Bangkok, while pursuing the design of a cultural center in Karnataka, India. She has worked with the studio R&Sie(n) on several built projects in Paris, London, and Singapore.
Danielle Willems is a partner of Maeta Design llc a New York design firm, and a professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. She holds a Masters of Science in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University and Bachelors in Architecture from The Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her work seeks to merge concepts, techniques and methods from a multitude of design fields such as fashion design, motiongraphic and film into the discipline of architecture. She has designed and completed series of high profile projects including the new Giorgio Arrnani store in Madison Avenue, New York.
Dr. Lydia Kallipoliti is a practicing architect, engineer and theorist, currently teaching design studios, environmental technology and history/theory courses at the Cooper Union and at Columbia University in New York. She holds a Diploma in architecture and engineering, a SMArchS in building technology from MIT and a PhD from Princeton University. Her research focuses on material experimentation, recycling and the intersection of cybernetic and ecological theories in the twentieth century. Kallipoliti is the editor of “EcoRedux: Design Remedies for a Dying Planet,” a special issue of Architectural Design (AD) magazine and the founder of EcoRedux, an innovative online non-profit educational resource for ecological experiments in the postwar period. EcoRedux online [www.ecoredux.com] received an honor at the 14th International Webby Awards and a silver medal in theW3 awards by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Her design and theoretical work has been published internationally including Log, Domus, Praxis, Architectural Design, the Journal of Architectural Historians, Thresholds, Abitare, Pidgin, 306090 and other publications. Kallipoliti is Cooper Union’s Feltman Chair in Light Studies and is currently presenting an off-grid lighting installation for the Ideas City Festival in New York. She is also currently building an outdoor programmed infrastructure at Renzo Piano’s Faliron coastline development for Athens in Greece in collaboration with Andreas Theodoridis and Ezio Blasetti.
Andreas Theodoridis is a practicing architect and engineer with more than ten years of experience in building and fabrication. He is the principal of 207×207 architects based in Athens in collaboration with Stella Nikolalaki [http://www.