CRIT MEMBERS
Refik Anadol (UCLA) https://refikanadol.com/
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.
Homa Farjadi (UPENN / Farjadi Architects) https://www.design.upenn.edu/.../people/homa-farjadi-0
Homa Farjadi, AA Grad Dip RIBA/ARB is principal of FARJADI ARCHITECTS in London and Practice Professor of Architecture at University of Pennsylvania where she conducts graduate level research studios and a studio on London urbanism.
Tom Wiscombe (Sci-Arc / TWA) https://tomwiscombe.com
Tom Wiscombe is Principal and Founder of Tom Wiscombe Architecture (TWA) in Los Angeles and the Undergraduate Program Chair in SCI-Arc. He is a leading voice in contemporary design culture, speaking, writing, and organizing discourse around the ideas of today.
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis – (AA / LASSA architects) https://lassa-architects.com/
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis is a French and Greek architect, and co-founder of LASSA an architecture practice based in London. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association in London. He has taught postgraduate studios at Harvard and Columbia and undergraduate studios at Chalmers and LTU in Sweden.
Danae Polyviou (AA / AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com
Danae Polyviou is a structural engineer. She has worked in Stuttgart for Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering and in Berlin for HENN Architects as a researcher before moving in London to work for Atelier One and currently as a Senior Engineer at AKT II. She is currently teaching at the AA and the Bartlett.
Nataly Gattegno – (CCA / Futureforms) https://www.futureforms.us/projects
Nataly Gattegno is an artist and founding managing partner of FUTUREFORMS. She brings an expertise in design research and urban speculation, through the lens of art and design theory and urban design. Gattegno is currently an Associate Professor at the CCA in San Francisco, CA.
Jason Johnson – (CCA / Futureforms) https://www.futureforms.us/projects
Jason Kelly Johnson) is lead artist and founding design partner of FUTUREFORMS. He brings an expertise in computational design and advanced digital fabrication, through the lens of critical art production and interactive technologies. Johnson is currently an Associate Professor at the CCA in San Francisco, CA.
Monia De Marchi – (AA) https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/people/Monia-De-marchi
Monia De Marchi is an architect and Head of the First Year Undergraduate Programme at the AA. She has been teaching there since 2005, and from 2011 is the Head of First Year Programme. She has been involved in architectural practice, in the past with her own office with worldwide projects across a range of scales.
Marianthi Tatari (UNStudio) https://www.unstudio.com/
Marianthi Tatari is a Director and Senior Architect in UNStudio. Marianthi has worked worldwide in over 15 countries with projects in architecture, urbanism, and interior design.
Edoardo Tibuzzi (AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com
Edoardo Tibuzzi (Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering) is a designer and researcher based in London. He is currently design director at AKTII. He collaborated with KTH University in Stockholm, Tor Vergata University in Rome, the AA and the RCA in London, and the NYIT in New York, running various lectures and workshops.
Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (AA / Canales Lombardero) https://canales-lombardero.com
Nuria Alvarez Lombardero is unit master in the Architectural Association and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Seville. In 2003, she co-founded the office Canales & Lombardero with Francisco Gonzalez de Canales.
Albert Taylor (AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com
Albert Williamson-Taylor leads AKT II’s design and engineering practice and has led the engineering tutoring for the AA DRL architectural master’s course since 2011. He has been a member of London’s Newham and Southwark design review panels for many years, gaining Fellowship with the Institution of Structural Engineers, and Honorary Fellowship with the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Alisa Andrasek (RMIT / Biothing) https://www.alisaandrasek.com
Designer and innovator, Alisa Andrasek is working on the convergence of design, computer science and exponential technologies. She is the founder of Biothing, an award winning design laboratory; a partner of Bloom Games; and co-founder of AI Build, Andrasek is currently a Professor of Design Innovation at RMIT.
Xuexin Duan (ZHA) https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/xuexin-duan
Xuexin is an architect in Zaha Hadid Architects and has worked on several of the ZHA's key projects. She received her Master's degree in architecture at the Architectural Association, London in 2013.
Ross Lovegrove http://www.rosslovegrove.com/
Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary whose work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional world. He has completed projects for many companies worldwide, while is also the winner of numerous international awards. His work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection.