AARON ROBERTS

Aaron Roberts is a director of Edition Office, an architecture studio based in Melbourne. Aaron established the practice with fellow director Kim Bridgland in 2016. The practice operates as a cultural agent amongst a diverse design and arts community within the intersection of architecture, culture and politics and has contributed to numerous lectures and publications across Australia. Through the execution of its work, the practice is creating an ongoing series of figures, stories and relationships; all continuing a greater investigation into material, spatial and cultural practice. The practice has been recognised nationally and internationally with awards for its built work and was recently awarded Emerging Architect of the Year at the 2019 Dezeen Awards.

MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES

Graduated as an architect by the Anahuac University and member of the National System of art creators from 2016, founded MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES/ CC ARQUITECTOS in 2004.

In 2006 one of the firm’s departments began to focus on urban projectsand mass transport, leading to research around Multimodal Transfer Centers (CETRAM) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD).

He has done works for dependencies such as  INFONAVIT and different Mexican Republic governments, as well as urban and architectural projects in several countries of the American Continent, in the same way he has given workshops and conferences in several Universities in countries such as Mexico, United States, Spain and Portugal.

He has also been honored with national and international awards, including: Luis Barragan Lifetime Achievement from Mexico’s Collage of Architects (CAM-SAM), the Architectural League of New York 2015 Emerging Voices, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2014 and the first prize in the architectural design category at the XIX Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito-BAQ 2014. As well as several silver medals in Mexico’s National Architecture Biennial.

CHRISTOPHER LEE

Christopher Lee is the co-founder and principal of Serie Architects London, Singapore and Mumbai; and leads the design of Serie across all three offices. His research, writing and teaching on the embedded intelligence and cultural values of building types underpins the work of the practice. He is the London Mayor's Design Advocate, and Associate Professor in Practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, from 2012-2018.

LIU YICHUN

Co-founder and principal architect of Atelier Deshaus
Guest professor in architecture schools of Tongji University and Southeast University
editorial board of magazine《The Architect》, 《Architectural Journal》

Liu Yichun established Atelier Deshaus with Chen Yifeng and Zhuang Shen in 2001. 

While invited to participated in a variety of major international architecture and art exhibitions in many cities, include Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong , Paris, Rotterdam, London, Belin, Brussels, Lyon, Barcelona, Venice, Prague, Milano, Tokyo, Vienna, he has lectured in many universities as well, such as Harvard graduate school of design, University of Hong Kong , Architectural Institute of France, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, etc. His works have won a number of architecture awards. His representative work Long Museum West Bund has been awarded AR Awards for Emerging Architecture by Architectural Review and the Golden Prize of Architecture Creation Awards of ASC for Public Architecture in 2016. The office is recognized as One of 10 Design Vanguards 2011 by Architectural Record. He was China Most Influential Designer by Forbes in 2015 and the China Year Architect Awards by UED in 2019.

ARY INDRA

Received his degree in architecture from Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia; he has gained 20 years of post qualification experience ever since. Prior to form Aboday in 2006, he worked for AXIS Architects Planners in Singapore from 1998-2006 where his last position is Principal Designer. Aside from practicing as architect, he is also part time lecturer and writer. He has published 2 books of his firm’s work, Fame Fortune and Flirt (2014) and Firmitas (2017). In 2018 he was appointed as Lead Curator for Indonesia Pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale; for which he and his team published a book titled “Sunyata: The Poetics of Emptiness”. Currently pursuing his other interest in art and public work advocating pluralism, he is now working on a number of social projects with his “Ary Indra + Sahabat Selojene”.

FARSHAD MEHDIZADEH

Farshad Mehdizadeh was born in Isfahan, Iran. He completed his bachelor’s and initial master’s degree at the Azad University of Isfahan, where he graduated in 2008. Farshad started his professional career as an architect in Fluid Motion Studio in Tehran. Later he worked with Lab Architecture Studio in Melbourne, Australia. Farshad has designed award winning personal projects as well, namely his Abadan residential building which won first prize in the national Me’mar awards of Iran and high recognition in the Middle East awards. 

Farshad acquired a second master’s degree at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, in Barcelona Spain, after which he returned to Iran and established his own firm, Tehran Architecture Studio. Farshad is also active in the academic field, starting in 2007 as an assistant professor and continuing his academic work as a guest lecturer as well as through international workshops and collaboration with architects, instructors and architecture institutes around the world. He is now teaching in Melbourne University faculty of architecture. Farshad focuses his research on geographically context-based architecture and the impact of geography on architecture in general.

BUDIMAN HENDROPURNOMO