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Alessandro Bava is an architect based in Naples, Italy.
Daniel Blum, born 1979, studied architecture at the TU Darmstadt and the ETH Zurich, with Peter Märkli and Josep Lluis Mateo et all..
Daniel worked as academic assistant at the ETH and has been teaching regularly at various universities since 2014: He was visiting lecturer at the DIA Dessau International Architecture School and is currently heading a design studio at the MSA Münster School of Architecture.
Daniel lectures regularly, works as guest critic and member of architecture juries. His designs have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (ECC Forum) and at the Moscow National Architecture Museum.
Daniel worked at David Chipperfield Architects in London and Diener & Diener Architects in Basel before taking over the design department at Itten + Brechbühl Basel in 2017. He was appointed member of the board of I+B Basel in 2019.
Jonathan Sergison graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1989 and gained professional experience working for David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton.
Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates founded Sergison Bates architects in London in 1996, and in 2010 a second studio was opened in Zurich Switzerland. Sergison Bates architects have built numerous projects worldwide and the practice has received many prizes and awards. The work of Sergison Bates architects has been extensively published.
Jonathan Sergison has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the University of North London, the Architectural Association in London, was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Design and Construction at the Accademia di Mendrisio, Switzerland.
He is particularly interested in urban questions and the conditions of the contemporary European city. More specifically he has addressed through writing, teaching and practice the role housing might play in this changing context.
He regularly writes and lectures, attends reviews in schools of architecture and is actively involved in commissions and competition juries.
Koenraad Van Balen graduated as an Engineer Architect at the KU Leuven (Belgium) in 1979; he obtained a postgraduate degree in architectural conservation in 1984 and he obtained a Ph.D in Engineering in 1991 at the KU Leuven. He is a full-professor at the KU Leuven in the Civil Engineering department. Van Balen carries out research and teaches on binders, masonry and sustainable construction methods. He is the director of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC) at the University of Leuven. He has been the holder of the UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites since 2008. He is a member of ICOMOS and was the first secretary-general of the International Scientific Committee on the Analysis, Repair of Structures of the Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH). He has long been a member of the general assembly of Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen. He is or has been an advisor to, amongst others, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the Getty Foundation. In 2002-2003 he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. He supervises research carried out at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation related to various aspects of investigation, valuing and managing (World) Heritage. Amongst others he coordinated the research carried out by the RLICC on Heritage Counts for Europe in collaboration with Europa Nostra. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European wide research coordination initiative "Joint Program Initiative: Cultural Heritage (JPI-CH)". He is a member of the Jury of the ILUCIDARE Special Prizes.
Tiziano Schürch, studied architecture at ETH Zurich. After his graduation in 2018, he became assistant professor at UPC-ETSAB (Barcelona), where he initiated the architecture research studio "extraordinary_ordinary". In summer 2019, he was invited to Santiago de Chile to participate as workshop leader in the WAUM workshop at Mayor University.
Currently, he lives and works between Zürich and Barcelona. As an architect, he designed several exhibitions including the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (selected by Premios FAD in 2020), the exhibition "Inhabiting the Mediterranean" at the IVAM Valencia, the exhibitions "Picasso and the Artist's Jewellery" and "Picasso, the Photographer's Gaze"at the Museo Picasso of Barcelona.
Since 2018 he is a member of the archeological mission of Qasr Shemamok in Mosul, Iraq. In 2019 he has been admitted to present the research project "IN SEARCH OF LOST SPACE. New paradigms on protective shelters in the Middle East. Pedro Azara & Tiziano Schürch" at the annual meeting of the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR) in San Diego.
Together with Rina Rolli he is currently working on small scale urban planning projects, with a particular interest to the social-historical background of the place.