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R.E. Somol is Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and member of the Research Board of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. An internationally recognized design theorist, Somol was most previously Professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, and taught design and theory at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1997-2005. Somol is the editor of Autonomy and Ideology (Monacelli Press, 1997) and has served on the editorial boards of Any and Log. His writings have appeared in publications ranging from Assemblage to Wired, and will appear in his collection of essays, Nothing to Declare, forthcoming from ANY Books and the MIT Press. “Whatever”

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It has been 15 years since the creation of FERRER Architects. Its founder, José Angel Ferrer, born in Almería, Spain in 1966, graduated from the University of Sevilla School of Architecture in 1993. Having graduated an architect, he opened a studio in Almería, where he proceeded to carry out numerous projects for housing and other facilities, mainly in Andalusia, but both in and out of Spain as well. His interest and dedication to architecture are manifested in the form of numerous articles he has had published in the press and magazines; as well as in his participation as a professor and speaker in courses, university master’s programmes and conferences. Mr. Ferrer also belongs to several important associations and foundations for the promotion of architecture, in which he has even held office; as was the case of his tenure as Secretary for the Architects Association of Almería. Presently, he is finishing his doctorate’s thesis on the museums of Rafael Moneo. Standing out among Mr. Ferrer’s most recent works are: the Sports Hall for the XXV Mediterranean Games in 2005, which held the rhythmic gymnastics and volleyball competitions during those games; the buildings for Andalusian Radio and Television (RTVA) in the cities of Almería, Granada and Cádiz; the restoration of “the largest Spanish Civil War Shelters”; secondary school buildings; social centres and, most recently of all, the restoration of an important part of Almería’s cultural heritage – the mineral pier, or so-called “Cable Inglés”. All of the aforementioned projects were first prize winners in competitions.

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Josep Lluís Mateo Architect from 1974, and Doctor of Architecture (1994) \"cum Laude\" by the Escola Tècnica Superior d\'Arquitectura de Barcelona (Spain). Was editor-in-chief of the magazine Quaderns d\'Arquitectura i Urbanisme during the period 1981-1990. During that time, the magazine received the following awards: ACCA, Laus, Ciutat de Barcelona and UIA. Mateo combines professional and academic activities. Since October 2002 he is Professor at the Federal Politechnic School in Zurich (ETH) and he has been Guest Professor in a number of European and American Institutions. MAP Architects Created in 1991 in Barcelona, MAP Architects has been under the leadership of his principal Josep Lluís Mateo and his partner Marta Cervelló, since 1995. Local Projects Contemporary architectural practice seems trying to connect quality with exoticism. Globalization, in some extend and for many practices seems an alibi not to show a clear marginality. Too many Asian dreams transformed into nightmare. My talk is going to be connected to our local projects, discussing strategies and forms. The (g)local culture.

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Ferda Kolatan is a co-founder of su11 architecture+design in New York City. He was the recipient of the Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price from Columbia University. His firm received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for ‘Best New Designer’ in 2001. In 2006 su11 was a finalist for the prestigious Chernikhov Price and in 2007 they were chosen finalists for the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition. His work has been published nationally and internationally including Archilab’s Futurehouse, Space, Monitor, L’Arca, Arch+, New New York, PreFAb Modern, Digital Real, The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, AD, Dwell, Le Monde, NY Times, LA Times and Washington Post and exhibited in venues such as the Walker Art Center, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Vitra Design Museum, Archilab Orleans, Documenta X, Art Basel and Carnegie Museum of Art. Ferda Kolatan is currently a Full-Time Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Adjuct Professor at Pratt Institute in New York. He also is a Senior Researcher for the NSO (Nonlinear Systems Organization) headed by Cecil Balmond at Penn Design.

Alejandro Echeverri (Medellín, 1962), architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) of Medellín, 1987, he realized studies for his doctorate in urbanism in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) 1998-2000. Alejandro has been a professor and director of the Study Group in Architecture in the UPB 2001-2003 and invited Professor of Urbanism in ETSAB in 1999. His work has earned the National Architectural Award, Fernando Martínez Sanabria, given by the Colombian Architectural Association in 1996 and he has had a Mention of Honor in the X Panamerican Biennial of Architecture in Quito in 1996. He has won numerous national architectural and urbanism contests, the last one the First Prize in \"El Concurso Nacional para el Ordenamiento de la Cuenca del Rio Aburrá y El Parque Tres Aguas”, in Caldas, Antioquia, Colombia in 2006. He has been jury of various national and International contests, among them the XVIII National Biennial of Architecture of the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos in the categories of Architectural Project and Urban Project in 2002. He has given conferences both nationally and internationally and is currently a private consultant in Architecture, Urbanism and Territorial Planning for various cities in Colombia. He was the Director of Urban Projects for the Municipality of Medellín from 2005 to 2007, and was the General Manager of the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (EDU), of the Municipality of Medellín, from 2004 to 2005, both under the administration of former Major Sergio Fajardo

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Studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM (DiplArch, 2002 with honours). Tutor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, UEM (Architectural Projects Design since 2005), at the Universidad de Alicante (MS Arquitecturas Complejas / Tecnologías Complejas since 2006), at the Universidad Camilo José Cela, UCJC (Architectural Projects Design, 2005), at the Fundación Mies van der Rohe (2004) and assistant tutor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM (Architectural Projects Design 01/03). Currently developing PHD research. Founder of the collective UHF – Association for contemporary investigation. Co-director of the publication UHF since 1998. Member of Palimpsestos - Aesthetics and politics Investigations Group. Co-founder of the group [Inter]section of Philosophy and Architecture. Has taken part in numerous international workshops, courses and congresses. Has lectured in several universities and institutions (CIVA Centre International pour la Ville -Brussels, IAAC -Barcelona, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana de Bogotá -Colombia, Universidad de Buenos Aires -Argentina, Museum of Modern Art of Medellín -Colombia, etc.). Editor of the magazine Transfer from 2002-2004. Has written in various magazines and books.

Kevin R. Klinger is Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication with the Center for Media Design at Ball State University and Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning. He has served as a two-term President (03-05) and a two-term Vice-President (05-07) of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) an international organization devoted to studying the advances in architecture resulting from influences of digital technology. Klinger leads research, teaching, and service in digital design and digital fabrication. Kevin R. Klinger encourages explorations in digitally-driven design evolved by techniques of digital fabrication. Design processes incorporating digital fabrication are informed by the direct association between design and production and the critical deployment of a range of software and advanced machining procedures. The digital exchange of information in this inventive process has led to new forms of architectural production that bring designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation. Digital fabrication techniques encourage new forms of collaboration with industry, challenge conventional methodologies, and suggest a future in which designers are much more engaged in the total process of architecture. As such, the Institute for Digital Fabrication is devoted to advancing ideas and opportunities that result from the intersection of emerging technology with students, industry, and research collaborators. Lecture: \"Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.\" The lecture will focus on work prepared for the forthcoming book from Routledge (late summer 2008) with Co-editor Branko Kolarevic, which features the recent international symposium entitled: ³Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.² The symposium, held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, assembled leading thinkers, designers, and makers from around the world to discuss experimental processes of material exploration through examining various levels of engagement and new forms of architectural production that bring designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation. for more information please visit: www.bsu.edu/imade/mmfx.

Carlos Lamela, arquitecto superior por la E.T.S.A. de Madrid, y con Especialización en la Universitá Internazionale Dell’Arte, en Florencia, Italia, ha ejercido la profesión junto a su padre Antonio Lamela -Dr.Arquitecto con quien se asoció en 1992 formando Estudio Lamela. Actualmente es Socio y Presidente Ejecutivo. Coautor y responsable de todos los proyectos. Carlos Lamela pertenece a instituciones relacionadas con su profesión, entre las que destaca la de Presidente del Comité Ejecutivo de ULI –Urban Land Institute- Madrid. Es invitado como ponente en Universidades, Colegios de Arquitectos, Fundaciones, Ferias y Exposiciones, Instituciones, etc., tanto en España como en el extranjero. También como Jurado de Premios de Arquitectura. Fue galardonado como “Mejor Arquitecto Año 2003”. Estudio Lamela ha desarrollado en Madrid proyectos tan relevantes como la NAT del Aeropuerto de Barajas, la Nueva ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid y la ampliación del Estadio Bernabéu. En el exterior, destaca la ampliación del Aeropuerto de Varsovia, en Polonia y haber sido finalista de la Nueva Sede Corporativa del Banco Central Europeo en Francfort.

Ramon Garcia Bragado es Teniente del Alcalde de Vivienda, Urbanismo y Regimen Interior del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona