A/Prof. Dr. Ir. Arch. Kristof Crolla is a Belgian architect who combines his architecture practice Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd. with an Associate Professorship at the University of Hong Kong.

He trained and taught at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture (AA) and worked for many years for Zaha Hadid Architects, London. In 2010 he moved to Hong Kong, where his academic research and office work focusses on the strategic implementation of computation in architectural design practice. For this, he received over thirty international design, research, and teaching awards, including the G-Mark (Japan), Architizer A+ (USA) Awards, the 2016 World Architectural Festival Award - Small Project of the Year 2016, and the RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Impact.

Most notable projects include ‘Golden Moon (Hong Kong, 2012)’ and ‘ZCB Bamboo Pavilion (Hong Kong, 2015)’.

Kivi Sotamaa is an architect & designer who specializes in designing human experiences. He explores and architects beauty, strategy and experience in the digital age. Considered one of the most influential and innovative voices of his generation, he is the co-founder of Ateljé Sotamaa, Helsinki founder of ADD Aalto University Digital Design Laboratory and one of the founders of OCEAN NORTH architecture group in the 90’s.

Sotamaa has extensive experience from in academia. He has served as an Associate Professor at the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design, as visiting professor at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien and as assistant professor at the Ohio State University.

Sotamaa has lectured extensively at major institutions around the world. His designs have received numerous awards and have been displayed in design, architecture and art museum exhibitions. His work has been widely published in magazines and periodicals worldwide and multiple books.

Sotamaa’s work has been the included in exhibitions for example at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Trussardi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, the Shanghai MoCa in 2012 and the Shenzhen Museum of Art. His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Center, MoMa New York, and the CCA Canadian Center for Architecture.

Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India in 1967. She graduated from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai in 1989, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice focussing on material research to achieve architecture of low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial, was exhibited twice at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the installation Feel the Ground. Wall House 1:1 in 2012 and Building Knowledge, An Inventory of Strategies in 2016 and now exhibited as a solo show 'Taking Time' at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark till 28 February 2021.

Anupama Kundoo’s practice started in 1990 in Auroville where she worked closely with Roger Anger on Auroville’s planning, particularly the urban design of Auroville’s City Center, Administration Zone and Habitat Area till his last days. She taught Urban Management at TU Berlin and strengthened her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues, about which she has written extensively. She is the author of the bilingual book Roger Anger: Research on Beauty/Recherche sur la Beauté, Architecture1958 –2008, published in Berlin by Jovis Verlag in 2009.

She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany.

Anupama Kundoo Architects, Pondicherry

Architect Anders Lendager is CEO and founder of Lendager Group, Copenhagen. Lendager Group has established itself as one of the strongest and most influen­tial companies in Denmark around sustainable architecture.

Anders Lendager graduated as an architect from the Aarhus School of Archi­tecture. He is recognized as a sustainability pioneer, who is known for pushing the boundaries to make the Danish construction industry more sustainable and circular. His pioneering spirit is represented on the board of the Danish Association of Architectural Firms, as member of the SDG Accelerator’s Advisory Board by the United Nations, as visiting professor at Aarhus School of Architecture - as well as different committees leading climate action and environmental development.

Anders has mastered the art of rethinking the foundation for how we go about construction projects and for how to generate new methods for upcycling of materials - thus creating a healthy, green and circular world for us all through the built environment.  

Lendager Group is a game changer in the built environment. We create innovative solutions, building materials and architecture within sustainability, circular economy and resource efficiency. Through our projects we ensure that materials are circulated and kept at their highest possible value - without compromising on quality nor aesthetics.  

raumlaborberlin, Berlin began working on the issues of contemporary architecture and urbanism in 1999 in various interdisciplinary working teams. They investigate strategies for urban renewal. raumlabor does urban design, architectural design, experimental building and research.

Partners of raumlaborberlin are Francesco Apuzzo, Markus Bader, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Frauke Gerstenberg, Andrea Hofmann, Jan Liesegang, Christof Mayer, Florian Stirnemann, Axel Timm.

Jan Liesegang, born in Cologne 1968, he studied Architecture in Berlin, Copenhagen and at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York. After graduating in Berlin he worked for 3 years as project architect for Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, Berlin. In 1999 he co-founded raumlaborberlin. Today raumlabor works worldwide on contemporary architecture, urbanism, art and research.

From 2001-07 he has been teaching architecture and urban planning at the Art Academy, Stuttgart. In 2010 he was awarded with a one-year research scholarship for the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. 2014/16 he taught master classes at the Bergen School of Architecture.

Since 2017 he is professor for urbanism and architecture at the Bergen School of Architecture. In 2015 he co published the book “building the city together” on experimental architecture and new self-organized public spaces. 

David Andrée replaces Ana Goidea. 

Architect, senior lecturer at Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University

With a background in architecture, science, and engineering, David is involved in design, research and teaching in Sweden and London.

Exam at Lund University 2007, UCL (University College London) 2011, title: Architecture and Computation (distinction) and UCL (University College London) in 2016, title: Discriminatory transient mass transfer through reticulated tunnel geometries - a mechanism for integrating functionalities in the building envelope.

Specialties: Architecture, cybernetics, scripting, parametric design, architectural 3D printing / additive manufacturing, design for additive manufacturing, algorithmic design, physiomimetics, urban design and strategy, ecology and environmental engineering, tutoring/pedagogy. 

Architect and Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University and Kanozi Arkitekter, Malmö.

Elin Daun is an architect and computational designer, with a specific interest for applied, large scale, digital fabrication. She mainly teaches within computational design, architecture, and digital fabrication at LTH where she spends 50% of her time. The other 50%, she spends at Kanozi Arkitekter where she works with early-stage proposals, 3D-printing, and sustainability simulations. Before her current employment, Elin gained experienced from architectural offices in London and Copenhagen such as CRAB, Zaha Hadid and Henning Larsen.  

Elin’s main passion within architecture is where design and making meet - where digital fabrication can be applied in full scale and the architectural benefits it provides is showcased.

Monika Jonson (b 1960) is an architect and currently course director and building manager at the School of Architecture at Lund University.

After graduating as an architect at Lund University - with studies also at the Sorbonne, Paris, the Architecture School in Bath, UK, and literature- and film studies (spacial qualities in films of Bergman & Tarkovski) at Lund University - she started her professional career at Nyréns Arkitekter in Stockholm.

For some years she held the post as editor at the Swedish Review of Architecture, and continued as exhibition architect and curator at the Swedish Museum of Architecture (now ArkDes) managing among many things the extensive project Swedish Wood, the starting point for her deeper engagement in leading sustainable architecture and design.

In the mid-90 she founded the interdisciplinary practice Architecture + Media in Stockholm and co-founded Area+Associates, a London-based practice with clients such as the Serpentine gallery, the Nordic Timber Council, the London Graphic Centre and Anton Corbijn. Back in Sweden a decade later she developed new design strategies for the City of Kalmar, parallel with master planning and urban renewal projects.

With her long interdisciplinary and international background in the wide field of architecture, design and communication she is now fully engaged in developing sustainable design- and dialogue processes and strategies for tuition as well as for the renewal of the LTH Campus towards a sustainable future.