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Native of Lituania, Massimiliano Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944, where he graduated in Architecture at “La Sapienza University” in 1969. In 1967, 1989 and 1993 he established practices in Rome, Paris and Vienna respectively and since 2002 he opened a new studio in Frankfurt. From 1998 to 2000 he was Director of the VII Biennale Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”. Since January 2000 writes the architecture column of the weekly magazine “L’Espresso”. He was Visiting Professor at several universities, such as the École Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna and the Columbia University in New York. For many years he has been devoting special attention to the study of the urban problems in large metropolitan areas. Presently lives and works in Rome, Paris and Frankfurt. He works with Doriana O. Mandrelli since 1985.

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Continuing with the Lecture Series 2008, IaaC offers conferences open to the public in its facilities at Poble Nou. Qualified specialists coming from different fields of knowledge share their experiences and projects with the students and public.

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Architect Rajendra Kumar completed Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh College of Architecture,India and M.S.Arch from Politecnico Di Milano,Italy.He is having wide exposure of work experience from Spain,China,Italy, India.He has research specialization in self sustainable Vertical cities.He is currently working on concept of recycling of energy in vertical city and design to overcome aviation threats .

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Michel Rojkind was born in Mexico City where he studied architecture and urban planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana. After working on his own for several years, he teamed up with Isaac Broid and Miquel Adria to establish Adria+Broid+Rojkind (1998-2002). With the idea of exploring new challenges that address contemporary society, to design compelling experiences that go beyond mere functionality, and to connect at a deeper level with the intricacies of each project, he established an independent firm rojkind arquitectos (2002) recognized by Architectural Record in 2005 as one of the best ten “Design Vanguard” firms.

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Architect and writer, bachelor in Architecture by the Barcelona Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB), master degree by the UPC Foundation in City’s Management. Actually she’s working in her PHD about skyscrapers at the History Department from the Barcelona Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB), and teaching at the School of Architecture (EsArq) from the International University of Catalonia (UIC). She has been membership from the Social and the Government Council’s of the Polytechnic University from Catalonia (UPC), and actually she’s a membership from the College of Architects from Catalonia (COAC) assembly, and spokesperson from the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. She has managed the Publications Department from the Alonso-Balaguer and Associated Architects from Barcelona, and heads the Architecture Department of the cultural Lletres a Plom magazine from 1999. She’s currently writing for newspapers and specialised design magazines as On Diseño or INDE. Her most outstanding books include Skyscrapers, Skyscrapers Architects, Hesperia Tower Chronicle of a Project and Sportectura.

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Andrés Perea graduated in Architecture at the School of Architecture of Madrid in 1.965. In 1.967, he started lecturing on a Project course in this school. Since then, Mr. Perea has kept on teaching in many universities and bodies, both home and abroad (Barcelona, Madrid, Pamplona, Pavía, Roma, London, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Bogotá). Mr. Perea has also been awarded the Quality Prize of Madrid\'s Local Government (154 houses in Parque Loranca, Ciudad Jardín), “Urbanismo, Arquitectura y Obra Pública” Prize of Madrid City Council 1998 (for the Rafael Alberti Library), Sol-Thermic Prize on research. Furthermore, he has been selected several times in the Spanish Architecture Bienal, and his works have been featured in both national and international specialised magazines. He is currently working and lecturing at the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid.

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Bostjan Vuga graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1992) and contiunued post graduate studies at the AA School of Architecture in London (1993-1995). In 2003 he was a studio tutor at Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He was a visiting critic at AA School of Architecture, at Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, at the IAAC in Barcelona, at the ETH in Zürich and at the Academy of Applied Arts and Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna. Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (SVA) was founded by Jurij Sadar and Boštjan Vuga in Ljubljana in 1996. Over the past ten years it has focused on open, innovative and integral architectural design and urban planning. The office has been driven by a quest for quality, with a strong belief that forward-leaping architectural production contributes to our well-being, and generates a sensitive and responsive development of the physical context we live in, broadening our imagination and stimulating our senses.

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