Špela Videčnik (Slovenia / France)
The central design strategy in the work of Špela Videčnik and her studio OFIS arhitekti – founded in 1996 with Rok Oman – consists in transforming restrictions into opportunities, and thus implements a certain subversive tactic that finds in the rules an opportunity to overcome those same rules.
Elisa Valero Ramos (Spain)
The not-so-obvious idea that architecture can be a means for responding to deep needs is an idea that substantiates the complex work of Elisa Valero Ramos, providing a criteria for cross-reading her many projects.
Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum (Thailand)
If the world of architecture goes beyond the physical, visible world, if its essence lies in the invisible and unknown, as claimed by Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum, then the sense of her works are to be found in the minute details, in the relationship between form and materials, and in the empathy that develops between spaces and people who use them.
Sparch Architects (Greece) – Rena Sakellaridou, Morpho Papanikolaou
For Rena Sakellaridou and Morpho Papanikolaou, with their studio Sparch, buildings are, above all, hybrid entities.
Sketch – Maria Menezes Diana Nunes (Mozambique)
A certain aspect of modernist culture has held that the place in which designers carry out their architectural practice does not influence their work.
Jennifer Siegal (Usa)
Naming her studio the Office of Mobile Design (founded in 1998) was for Jennifer Siegal a direct consequence of her great interest in “transitional” spaces.
Plasma Studio (Great Britain/China/Italy) Eva Castro, Ulla Hell.
The ability to give shape not just to forms, but to ideas, cultural profiles, and of course to their respective imaginations are the qualities that fuel the architects Eva Castro, from Argentina, and Ulla Hell, from Italy.
Abha Narain Lambah (India)
Just as Dalila Elkerdany has done in Egypt, Abha Narain Lambah has found her vocation and professional success in the conservation of architectural heritage, but in the vastness and richness of the Indian subcontinent.
Mikou Studio – Salwa Mikou Selma Mikou (France/Morocco)
The Franco-Moroccan architects Salwa Mikou and Selma Mikou were born and grew up in Fez, where they absorbed the influence of the contrasting light and shadows found in the city’s medina (the largest in the world).
Amanda Levete (Great Britain)
Active for years within the Future Systems studio and independently since 2009, Amanda Levete inherits the culture of avant garde construction, with the belief that every architectural project should be represent a form of innovation.
