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Ιoannis Karalias: Chairman of The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, Vice President of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

Ioannis Karalias is an architect, poet and painter. He was born in Katerini, in Greece. He educated at the University of Graz, (Austria), at the University of Naples(Italy) and at the University of Illinois at Chicago (United States). He is Vice President of the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and is Chairman of the European Center Of Architecture Design art, and Urban Studies with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Athens, in Greece. He has designed several large-scale installations at the Museum of London's Design, as well as major exhibitions for the Chicago Athenaeum Museum in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mexico, Prague, Thessaloniki, Milan, and Warsaw, in Lisbon, New York, Los Angeles and Miami. Ioannis Karalias designed the Chicago Athenaeum’s 20-acre International Sculpture Park in Schaumburg of Illinois, U.S.A. He has also designed furniture for several major U.S companies and has been frequently exhibited at the Salon di Mobile in Milan. He has participated in many exhibitions as «Real Furniture / Fake Furniture», «Five Chicago Architects », « Seven Ancient Wonders of the World »and designed furniture Governor of Illinois for the new building of the State of Illinois. As an architect, Ioannis Karalias has designed and renovated numerous private residences and cultural spaces in the United States and in Greece. As a poet, his latest book of poetry, Gatherings, was published by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd in the United States. As a painter, his works have been featured at major museums and galleries throughout Europe, South America and the United States.

Anne Grillet-Aubert: Architect-urbanist, Professor at ENSAPB and researcher at UMR AUSser (CNRS).

Anne Grillet-Aubert is architect-urbanist, PhD from the University of Rome La Sapienza in urban planning and territorial planning. She is professor at ENSAPB and researcher at UMR AUSser (CNRS). She works on the relationship between housing and planning, on theories and practices of urbanism and the relationship between transport and territory. She has coordinated various public research programs and worked on the station model for the Institute for tarnsition energetic Efficacity. She is the author of several books: La desserte ferroviaire des territoires périurbains (dir. 2015), Transport et architecture du territoire (2003), Déplacements (2005) and French translations of the works of Bernardo Secchi, La ville de XX° siècle (Editions Recherches - 2009) and Paola Vigano Les territoires de l’urbanisme de (Métis Presses -2012.)

Bita Azimi: Architect, Co-founder in CAB agency, Winner of “Prix D’ architectures 2019”.

Born in IRAN in 1969, she graduated as an architect from the School of Montpellier in the south of France in 1996. It was in 2002 that with Jean-Patrice Calori and Marc Botineau founded the CAB agency. For about fifteen years, they have empirically elaborated a manufacturing process of the Alpes-Maritimes: the light, the horizon, the topography. In 2013 they migrated to a new territory in Paris, and worked on the university pole from ENSAE to Saclay, social housing to puppet, the boarding school of Lycée Balzac in Paris. The work of the agency has been noticed by several institutions and has been awarded several times; including the prize of Europe 40under40 in 2008 and “Equerre d’argent” for the Trinity Early Childhood Center Award in 2012.

This year, the agency won the Architectural awards “prix d’architectures 2019” of the top 10 achievements of year, for the design of the Institute of Sea in Villefranche.

Gaëlle Breton: Architect DPLG, Certified Carpenter, Associate Professor in TPCAU at the ENSA in Paris-Belleville.

Architect DPLG and Certified Carpenter, author of a book on theatre architecture, she is a recipient of the Villa Médicis Hors-les-murs scholarship.

She practiced as an architect and educator in France and North America, first at the AUA and then with Patrick Bouchain, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry and Edith Girard. She run her own independent architectural studio in Paris for a decade before returning to the United States and Canada as a visiting professor at the Universities of Cornell and Montreal.

After teaching in Lille, Marne, Malaquais and Nantes, as well as for the Study abroad program at the University of Toronto and the New York/Paris Program at Columbia, she is an Associate Professor in TPCAU (theory and practice of architectural and Urban Design) at the Ensa in Paris-Belleville, where she is also president of the International commission.

James Saywell: Architect and critic, Editor-in-Chief of Hinge Magazine.

James Saywell is an architect and critic based in Hong Kong and Thailand. He has Architecture degrees from Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has building projects in Japan and Thailand and is Editor-in-Chief of Hinge Magazine.

Paul Gresham: Architect DLPG, Founder of G+architectes, Tenured professor at ENSAPB.

Paul Gresham, founder of G+ architectes, is a licensed practicing architect in the USA and in France. Native of Virginia, graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture (BSArch) and Princeton University School of Architecture (MArch), his French practice began in 1992 with various collaborative associations including partners in Asia, Europe, and the USA, involving problems, contexts, and scales ranging from the domestic to the urban. The teaching of architecture is a central component of his activity. Adjunct studio professor at Princeton University School of Architecture and Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture, associate professor of architecture and history at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne, he is currently a tenured professor of architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville.

Αghis Pangalos: Architect DLPG, Co-founder in “pangalos feldmann architects”, Professor at ENSAPB.

Aghis Pangalos was born in Athens in 1971. He obtained a master’s degree in architecture at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in 1996 and a master’s degree in architectural research at Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 1997. He is based as a licensed architect in Paris since 1999.

He held teaching positions at Ecole Nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles from 2003 to 2011. Since 2011, he teaches architecture at Ecole Nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris -Belleville. He currently owns the architectural firm “pangalos feldmann architects” with Anne Feldmann. Based on extensive research, original thinking and analysis on a theoretical, social and environmental level, the work of the firm focuses on creating pertinent and efficient building forms configured for their unique and specific context. The projects range in scale from residential, institutional, and civic buildings and mainly deal with extreme density and distinct programmatic relationships.

Herve Roux – Architect, Professor at ENSAPB, Workshop Model Manager Network Coordinator ENSAteliers, Co-pilot Project Workshops Inter-Schools of Ile de France

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