Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo was born in Navarra, Spain in 1937. He graduated in 1961 from the Escuela de Arquitectura in Madrid after which he worked in the Denmark office of Jørn Utzon for two years. He then worked as an assistant at the Academia de Espana until 1965 when he established a private practice in Madrid.

In his work Moneo divides his professional life into two categories: teaching and architectural practice. In both facets of his career, he decries the modern trend toward short-lived architecture and attempts to emphasize the importance of creating lasting monuments to society.

Against a growing trend for ephemeral designs, Moneo works to maintain the competence of architecture. He sees architecture as a vast history in which the architect conscientiously looks for models and resources to transform. Today, as both an architect and as a teacher, Moneo remains one of the most important figures in Spanish architecture.

Rafael Moneo was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996.

Gerard Reinmuth

Gerard Reinmuth is a founding director of terroir, an Australian architectural practice whose buildings are the result of research in philosophy, art and popular culture.

terroir was formed in 1998 and simultaneously opened two offices - in Sydney and in Hobart. The practice was formed in response to the interests of the three partners, who's combined interests and fields of activity encompass all aspects of architectural practice including teaching, writing, architectural, urban and interior design and project management and procurement.

terroir’s works include the award-winning Peppermint Bay restaurant in Woodbridge, south of Hobart; designs for COFA, Canberra Library and Prague Library; and a number of inner city projects currently under construction, as well as exhibitions and installations.

Gerard Reimuth is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Matti Sanaksenaho

Matti Sanaksenaho was born in 1966 in Helsinki, Finland. He studied at the Helsinki University of Technology and gained his architect's degree in 1993. He founded Sanaksenaho Arkkitehdit Oy in Helsinki in 1991. Since the year 1997 architect Pirjo Sanaksenaho has been a partner. Matti Sanaksenaho has taught at HUT Department of Architecture and been a guest-professor at Århus Arkitektskole. In 2000 he was awarded the Reima Pietilä prize for young architects and State prize of architecture in 1992 together with group Monark, with whom he designed the Finnish Pavilion at the Seville World Fair in 1992.
In 2007 Matti Sanaksenaho received the prestigious International Grand Prix Barbara Cappochin for St Henry's Ecumenical Chapel, near Turku.

Enrique Sobejano

Enrique Sobejano has a Degree in Architecture from the Madrid School of Architecture and Columbia University in New York, USA. He teachs at the School of Architecture of the European University in Madrid (UEM) and the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), respectively, and is founder member together with Fuensanta Sobejano  of the firm Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.
Both have given lectures and/or been visiting lecturers at a variety of Spanish and international universities and institutions, and editors of the magazine “Arquitectura” published by the Madrid Architects Association (1986-91).
Their works and projects have been featured in various Spanish and international publications, as well as several exhibitions, winning various awards at national and international architecture competitions. With particular regard to museums, they have been awarded the following first prizes:
Competition for the Museum of the Sea at the Castle of Light, Las Palmas (1998), International Competition for the Institutional Headquarters of the Madinat al Zahara Archaeological Site (1999), Competition for the Extension of the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid (2000), International
Competition for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moritzburg, Halle (2004), Competition for the Extension of the Museum of San Telmo, San Sebastián (2005).

Lene Tranberg

Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects is a leading Danish architect firm, practicing architecture, urbanism, landscape, product and furniture design.
The office was established by the architects Boje Lundgaard and Lene Tranberg in 1985. Since Boje Lundgaard's death in 2004 the office has been run by Lene Tranberg, and a partnership of 7 partners, employing 40 persons.
Through the years Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects have gained renown through participation in competitions and the realization of a wide range of projects. The office has also taken part in a series of pilot projects focused on the improvement of building products and processes.
The studio is known for the development of original and clear architectural concepts while cultivating a highly sophisticated tectonic and material sensibility. A sympathy and understanding for modern society's social and cultural dynamic permeate their work.
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects' work has won various national and international prizes and has been published in books and periodicals worldwide. In 2006 & 2007 the office received RIBA awards for CBS and the Tietgen Dormitory.
Most prestigious recent work is the new Royal Theatre, on the Copenhagen harbourfront, which won 1st prize in an open international competition and opened in February 2008.

Richard Weston

Richard Weston is an award-winning writer, architect, and landscape designer, and is currently Professional Research Fellow at the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University in Wales.
His research has focused on regional interpretations of modern architecture, particularly in the Nordic countries. Following three books on Alvar Aalto, this culminated with the first comprehensive account of the work of Jørn Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House. I am now editing and contributing to further, detailed studies of Utzon’s major works.
Recently he has turned his attention to changing attitudes to materials in architecture and to nature as a source of data for digital production. This has yielded the book Materials, Form and Architecture and the website www.naturallyexclusive.com, through which he presents a wide range of innovative products for the fashion and interior markets, and promotes ideas about nature, design and architecture.
In 2004 he was appointed editor of the refereed journal Architecural Research Quarterly (arq) by Cambridge University Press and regularly contributes reviews and articles to the wider architectural press.