KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Thomas Lutzkendorf studied at Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar and graduated as a civil engineer. Subsequently, he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Economics in the Construction Sector at Bauhaus-Universität and completed his PhD-study on the Description, Assessment and Optimisation of Buildings’ Energy Demand.

Thomas was post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Building Ecology and Building Climate at the Department of Architecture, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar. He received his postdoctoral lecture qualification with a Habilitation treatise on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Principles within the Construction Sector.

Also in 2000, Thomas became professor at Universität Karlsruhe – today’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since then, he is the director of the Institute of Sustainable Management of Housing and Real Estate. The Institute belongs to the KIT Department of Economics and Management but is also associated with the Department of Architecture.

Within his research and educational work, Thomas is concerned with questions relating to the implementation of sustainable development principles within the construction and property (real estate) industries. Thomas was and currently is involved in the development and testing of sustainability assessment systems for buildings (BNB, DGNB, NaWoh).

Thomas is a founding member of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) and a member of the Editorial Board of Building Research & Information.

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Thomas Lutzkendorf studied at Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar and graduated as a civil engineer. Subsequently, he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Economics in the Construction Sector at Bauhaus-Universität and completed his PhD-study on the Description, Assessment and Optimisation of Buildings’ Energy Demand.

Thomas was post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Building Ecology and Building Climate at the Department of Architecture, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar. He received his postdoctoral lecture qualification with a Habilitation treatise on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Principles within the Construction Sector.

Also in 2000, Thomas became professor at Universität Karlsruhe – today’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since then, he is the director of the Institute of Sustainable Management of Housing and Real Estate. The Institute belongs to the KIT Department of Economics and Management but is also associated with the Department of Architecture.

Within his research and educational work, Thomas is concerned with questions relating to the implementation of sustainable development principles within the construction and property (real estate) industries. Thomas was and currently is involved in the development and testing of sustainability assessment systems for buildings (BNB, DGNB, NaWoh).

Thomas is a founding member of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) and a member of the Editorial Board of Building Research & Information.

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Nils Larsson is an architect and Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization. He represents the international partners (CIB, iiSBE, UNEP and FIDIC) in coordinating the regional and global SB conferences and is the key organizer of the Sustainable Building Challenge, a related project to showcase high performance buildings at SB conference events.

He is also the principal developer of the SBTool, a system for assessing the sustainability performance of buildings and is active in several international and private-sector contracts related to sustainable technologies. During the 1990’s he developed and managed a demonstration program for high-performance buildings for the Government of Canada, which resulted in the first public adoption of the integrated design process (IDP).

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Nils Larsson is an architect and Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization. He represents the international partners (CIB, iiSBE, UNEP and FIDIC) in coordinating the regional and global SB conferences and is the key organizer of the Sustainable Building Challenge, a related project to showcase high performance buildings at SB conference events.

He is also the principal developer of the SBTool, a system for assessing the sustainability performance of buildings and is active in several international and private-sector contracts related to sustainable technologies. During the 1990’s he developed and managed a demonstration program for high-performance buildings for the Government of Canada, which resulted in the first public adoption of the integrated design process (IDP).

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Juhani Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect, exhibition designer, writer, teacher and practicing architect. He runs his own architect’s office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in Helsinki.

Pallasmaa became universally known through his lectures and books on architectural theory and his interest in phenomenology. In his widely read 1996 book The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses he stresses the importance of experience in architectural production.

During the course of his career, he has also served as State Artist Professor (1983-88); Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978- 83); Associate Professor at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74); Director of the Exhibition Department at the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1968-72, 74-83); and Rector of the College of Crafts and Design(1970-72). He is currently the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, U.S. as well as the current Plym Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

Moreover, Juhani Pallasmaa was a member of the Pritzker Prize Award jury during 2009 – 2014.

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Juhani Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect, exhibition designer, writer, teacher and practicing architect. He runs his own architect’s office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in Helsinki.

Pallasmaa became universally known through his lectures and books on architectural theory and his interest in phenomenology. In his widely read 1996 book The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses he stresses the importance of experience in architectural production.

During the course of his career, he has also served as State Artist Professor (1983-88); Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978- 83); Associate Professor at the Haile Selassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74); Director of the Exhibition Department at the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1968-72, 74-83); and Rector of the College of Crafts and Design(1970-72). He is currently the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, U.S. as well as the current Plym Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

Moreover, Juhani Pallasmaa was a member of the Pritzker Prize Award jury during 2009 – 2014.

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Alberto Foyo’s extensive academic involvement has become over the years a seamless extension of his practice. His working methodology, based on a multidisciplinary and critical approach, stresses and builds on the positive and restorative virtues of not compromising. Alberto Foyo is active internationally as professor, guest critic and lecturer. He is professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University and at the School of Architecture of the City University of New York. He has been a visiting professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, at UNITEC School of Architecture in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Fachochschule in Munich, Germany.

Since 2007 he conducts a permaculture design-build atelier in the Brazilian Amazon basin in conjunction with the Munduruku tribe. He is founding partner and director of Postopia, a think tank focused on clean up policies and cultural sustainability in the highly deteriorated urban environment of the ex Soviet republics. He is co-founding member of the Compostela Institute, an independent international architecture academic program in Spain. He is the architecture department director of Recycled China, a new research and design-build firm based in Beijing that focuses on the manufacturing of architectural materials made with discarded ceramic and discarded metals.

He was recently awarded an Honorary Masters Honoris Causa by the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kharkov, Ukraine.

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Alberto Foyo’s extensive academic involvement has become over the years a seamless extension of his practice. His working methodology, based on a multidisciplinary and critical approach, stresses and builds on the positive and restorative virtues of not compromising. Alberto Foyo is active internationally as professor, guest critic and lecturer. He is professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University and at the School of Architecture of the City University of New York. He has been a visiting professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, at UNITEC School of Architecture in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Fachochschule in Munich, Germany.

Since 2007 he conducts a permaculture design-build atelier in the Brazilian Amazon basin in conjunction with the Munduruku tribe. He is founding partner and director of Postopia, a think tank focused on clean up policies and cultural sustainability in the highly deteriorated urban environment of the ex Soviet republics. He is co-founding member of the Compostela Institute, an independent international architecture academic program in Spain. He is the architecture department director of Recycled China, a new research and design-build firm based in Beijing that focuses on the manufacturing of architectural materials made with discarded ceramic and discarded metals.

He was recently awarded an Honorary Masters Honoris Causa by the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kharkov, Ukraine.

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Ana María Durán is an Ecuatorian architect, researcher, educator and writer. She cofounded the architecture and design studio Estudio A0 in 2002 in Quito. She currently works as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Arts in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito.

During her career, Ana María served as a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In 2010, she developed a south American open research network (The South American Project), which led her to obtain a Loeb Fellowship by Harvard University.

As a writer, Ana María Durán edited the book Beyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja between 2006 and 2011; her essays have been published in numerous magazines (Harvard Design Magazine, RADAR, AULA, GAM, TRAMA, Clave) and books (Thinking Practice, Restructuring from Within by the Post Post Post catalogue); and she published her first poetry book in 2010, titled Cuerpojo Azul.

She conducts her research in the fields of remote territories urbanization, such as the Amazonia and the Galápagos Archipelago; the study and visualization of the infrastructural integration process in south America and also the discovery of the inspiration that gives birth to the contemporary design in specific regions.[/ultimate_modal][ultimate_modal icon_type=»selector» icon=»Defaults-chevron-right» modal_title=»Ana María Durán» btn_size=»md» btn_bg_hover_color=»#00e5e5″ btn_text=»Ana María Durán» modal_size=»medium» modal_style=»overlay-slidedown» overlay_bg_opacity=»80″ header_bg_color=»#00e5e5″ img_size=»20″ img_close_background_color=»#00e5e5″ btn_txt_color=»#ffffff» css_modal_box=».vc_custom_1550518972585{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}»]

Ana María Durán is an Ecuatorian architect, researcher, educator and writer. She cofounded the architecture and design studio Estudio A0 in 2002 in Quito. She currently works as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Arts in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito.

During her career, Ana María served as a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In 2010, she developed a south American open research network (The South American Project), which led her to obtain a Loeb Fellowship by Harvard University.

As a writer, Ana María Durán edited the book Beyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja between 2006 and 2011; her essays have been published in numerous magazines (Harvard Design Magazine, RADAR, AULA, GAM, TRAMA, Clave) and books (Thinking Practice, Restructuring from Within by the Post Post Post catalogue); and she published her first poetry book in 2010, titled Cuerpojo Azul.

She conducts her research in the fields of remote territories urbanization, such as the Amazonia and the Galápagos Archipelago; the study and visualization of the infrastructural integration process in south America and also the discovery of the inspiration that gives birth to the contemporary design in specific regions.[/ultimate_modal]

Dr. Luis Valenzuela has a PhD in Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University; he is an architect and MsC in Architecture by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is also a Fullbright Fellow, as well as nominee for the Manny Grant Fellowship by Graham Foundation and the Luksic Fellowship of David Rockefeller’s Center for Latin-American Studies at Harvard University.

Since 2011 Dr. Valenzuela has worked as Director of the Center of Territorial Intelligence (CIT) and professor of Adolfo Ibáñez University’s Faculty of Design. He has also worked as Subdirector of the Design School and as professor for the Master in Innovation Program of the School of Business of the same institution. Since 2013 he’s an associate researcher at the Center of Conflict Studies and Nacional Cohesion, leading research projects centered in inequality, crime and territory. During 2014 and 2015 he was visitant professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, where he gave several lectures on territorial intelligence.

From 1997 to 2011 he worked as professor for the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies, acted as Director for the City Observatory, and as Executive Director of External services for the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During this time his research focused on sustainable urban design and vulnerable spaces in the urban context. He’s an affiliated researcher at the Institute of International Urban Development (IIUDS), Cambridge, USA –previously known as Center for Urban Development Studies at Harvard University.[/ultimate_modal][ultimate_modal icon_type=»selector» icon=»Defaults-chevron-right» modal_title=»Luis Valenzuela» btn_size=»md» btn_bg_hover_color=»#00e5e5″ btn_text=»LUIS VALENZUELA» modal_size=»medium» modal_style=»overlay-slidedown» overlay_bg_opacity=»80″ header_bg_color=»#00e5e5″ img_size=»20″ img_close_background_color=»#00e5e5″ btn_txt_color=»#ffffff» css_modal_box=».vc_custom_1570411000738{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}»]

Dr. Luis Valenzuela has a PhD in Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University; he is an architect and MsC in Architecture by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is also a Fullbright Fellow, as well as nominee for the Manny Grant Fellowship by Graham Foundation and the Luksic Fellowship of David Rockefeller’s Center for Latin-American Studies at Harvard University.

Since 2011 Dr. Valenzuela has worked as Director of the Center of Territorial Intelligence (CIT) and professor of Adolfo Ibáñez University’s Faculty of Design. He has also worked as Subdirector of the Design School and as professor for the Master in Innovation Program of the School of Business of the same institution. Since 2013 he’s an associate researcher at the Center of Conflict Studies and Nacional Cohesion, leading research projects centered in inequality, crime and territory. During 2014 and 2015 he was visitant professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, where he gave several lectures on territorial intelligence.

From 1997 to 2011 he worked as professor for the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies, acted as Director for the City Observatory, and as Executive Director of External services for the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During this time his research focused on sustainable urban design and vulnerable spaces in the urban context. He’s an affiliated researcher at the Institute of International Urban Development (IIUDS), Cambridge, USA –previously known as Center for Urban Development Studies at Harvard University.[/ultimate_modal]

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