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Sam Jacob, born in 1970 in London is a founding director of FAT. He is an architect, writer and critic. Jacob has taught and lectured at universities in Europe and the US most recently as the Louis I Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale in 2007. Other positions include post-graduate unit master at the University of Westminster, the Architectural Association and University of Greenwich.

Jacob is a frequent contributor to public architectural debate through regular lectures and symposia. He writes Strangeharvest.com and is architecture editor of Contemporary, a columnist for the Architects Journal, and contributes to magazines and journals including Icon, Art Review, Frieze, Metropolis and Log. Jacob is currently completing a PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College London.

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Jane Dillon is one of very few women of her generation who have been internationally recognised for their contribution to design and education. Her enthusiasm for her subject has made her a magnet for those who share the same passion for innovation, subtlety and apt thinking in the details of design. Her studio hosts a stream of visitors eager to learn from her approach. Much of the work produced over the past twenty-five years is still in production internationally, which emphatically illustrates the quiet integrity that her contribution has made to the design life of those products.
Born Jane Young in 1943, she studied interior design at Manchester Regional College of Art from 1961 to 1965 and furniture design at the Royal College of Art from 1965 to 1968.

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Francisco Cortina, originally from Mexico, is an architect and has been a member of the 7th Swedish Association of Architects since 2005. Always striving for design and execution excellence, he founded his firm, FC Design, in 2005. The FC Studio is an architecture studio based in Sweden, providing integral design solutions. He began his career at the renowned Mexican architecture firm Legorreta + Legorreta in 1988, with whom he continues to collaborate on several projects in the Middle East. The firm provides innovative solutions that seamlessly integrate architecture, design and art.

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Tim Bowder manages the City Loft Developments projects. These include the recently completed waterfront development of two linked 9 and 19 storey residential towers in Salford, Manchester; as well as the tallest buildings in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire.

In addition to undertaking an ongoing series of feasibility projects on prospective sites for City Lofts, Tim also directs the interior design of the City Lofts brand across their portfolio.

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Vijitha Basnayake’s built works are notable for the processes engaged by the architect as well as their distinctive character shaped by a number of influences—his clients' aspirations and sensibilities, the site, local climatic conditions, Sri Lanka architectural traditions and, at times, an intention (that is both inventive and sensible) to reuse, reinterpret, and repurpose materials into suitable, if not quite exceptional, building systems, materials, and details.

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Shyamika started her professional education at the Colombo School of Architecture (CSA) and then acquired Sri Lankan Charter from SLIA. She also holds a masters degree in Urban Design and Development from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is an associate member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects.

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Hirante Welandawe qualified is an architect from the University of Moratuwa in 1980 and received her postgraduate training from the same University in 1983. She specialised in urban design at the Helsinki University of Technology. She began her career in architecture as a trainee at Stein Doshi & Bhalla headed by Prof. B. V. Doshi. After working at several offices in Finland and Sri Lanka she set up her own practice in partnership with Madhura Prematilleke. Welandawe is a lecturer at the Colombo School of Architecture.

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Ian Shaw, the German architect did his Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Architecture from University of Liverpool in1986. His firm Ian Shaw Architekten is an interdisciplinary, multilingual office, offering a comprehensive range of architectural services from concept design to completion encompassing interior design, working drawings, specifications, site supervision, cost control, acoustic and sound system design.

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Massimiliano Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944 and is of Lithuanian descent. In 1969, he graduated in architecture from La Sapienza University in Rome. In 1967 before he even graduated, he had opened his first architecture practice. Since 1985 he has been working in partnership with his wife in 1979.They started three offices in 1989, 1993 and 2002 in Paris, Vienna and Frankfurt respectively where they live and work. From 1998 to 2000 Massimiliano Fuksas was appointed director of the VII Venice architecture biennale, 'less aesthetics, more ethics'.

Massimiliano Fuksas has also been a visiting professor at several universities including école speciale d'architecture in Paris, the Akademie Der Bildende Künste in Vienna and Columbia University in New York.

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Åsa Bäckman is a Founding Director of Milk:studio architects. She studied architecture, landscape architecture and philosophy at the University of Lund, and worked in Stockholm, Sweden before coming to London to study at the Architectural Association. Åsa has an interest in how architecture and landscape design can assist in forming communities, accommodate for social interaction between people and how the built environment can make a difference to this aspect of people’s lives.

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