CURATORS
Daniela Ghertovici
Daniela Ghertovici, the founder of ArchAgenda LLC, is a designer, researcher, educator, and scholar, with over 25 years of international experience as an architectural designer and technologist on complex mixed-use urban developments. She has taught for over fifteen years, most recently as full-time graduate faculty and thesis chair at Harrington College of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the curator of ArchAgenda Debates at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the curator of Liberland Design Competitions, and co-curator of the Free Private Cities Architecture Symposium. Daniela holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is currently a PhD candidate, researching computational and architectural design theory at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Patrik Schumacher
Patrik Schumacher is an architect and architectural theorist. He is the Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, one of the most innovative architecture practices in the world. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988. In 1996 he founded the London-based Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab (AA DRL) with Brett Steele, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Patrik studied philosophy and architecture in Bonn, London and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in architecture. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. He has been teaching at various architectural schools in Britain, Continental Europe and the USA since 1992. In 2011, Patrik published the first volume of his magnum opus, The Autopoiesis of Architecture, subtitled A New Framework for Architecture, followed by the second volume in 2012, subtitled A New Agenda for Architecture. He has published over 100 articles about architecture and parametricism, and frequently delivers public lectures all over the world.
Lars van Vianen
Lars van Vianen is a meta-designer and founding director of Scape Agency. Proceeding from a background in interactive art, experience design and parametric architecture, Lars explores the convergence of synthetic biology, materials science, artificial intelligence and robotic construction, and exerts computation to concurrently operate across scales and mediate between natural and artificial actors. Lars launched Scape Agency in 2020. Scape Agency is a spatial innovation collective that dreams, discovers and designs the everyday of tomorrow. Its mission is to naturalise the artificial in liveable and sustainable –scapes that spark the imagination and inspire future generations. Scape Agency operates in unison through a meta-disciplinary network of artists, designers, engineers and scientists, and blends creative thinking and emerging technologies in spatial interventions that create a brighter perspective for people and planet.