Team Group: DEBATE ON DESIGN

Director of Fundació Mies van der Rohe. She studied architecture at ETSAB-UPC and TUDelft and holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies – doctoral programme in Architectural Building, Restoration and Renovation UPC. Associate professor at ETSAB-UPC and international lecturer. She ran her studio in Barcelona (2000-16). Assistant Dean at ETSAB-UPC (2014-16) and President of Young Architects’ […]

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as way of questioning how computation, code and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Her work is practice lead and through projects such as Thicket, Strange Metabolisms, Vivisection and Shadow […]

Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is founder and codirector of ecoLogicStudio in London, Lecturer and director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the Bartlett UCL, Professor of Landscape Architecture and founder of the Synthetic Landscape Lab and […]

Jose? Pedro Sousa is an Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), Master in Genetic Architectures from the International University of Catalonia (UIC), and a PhD in Architecture from Te?cnico of the University of Lisbon (IST-UTL). As part of his research on the application of digital fabrication with cork […]

Martha Thorne is Dean of IE School of Architecture & Design in Spain and was the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize from 2005- 2021.  Her interests focus on the city of the future and innovation in architecture and design education. From 1995 to 2005, she worked as curator in the Department of Architecture […]