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Almantas Samalavičius
Dr. Almantas Samalavičius is an architectural historian, aesthetician and critic whose interests cover a wide range of architectural, urban and landscape issues. Currently he is full professor at the School of Architecture of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania and Chief Research Associate at its Institute of Architecture. He is an author of some more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters as well as author and editor of no less than two dozen books and collections of essays. Some nine of them have been published internationally, including Ideas and Structures: Essays in Architectural History (2011), Rethinking Modernism and the Built Environment (2017), Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism (2019), Site, Symbol and Cultural Landscape (2022).
In addition he has taught at a number of American, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish universities as a visiting professor and also serves as an editor in chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism. His writings have been translated into 15 languages and won him 8 awards in his home country.
CHIU Chen-Yu
Director, The Taiwan - Reyhanli Center for World Citizens
Since 2016, Dr. CHIU Chen-Yu (Cho) has worked voluntarily as the architect for consolidating the program and design of the Taiwan – Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens. Since 2020, he has further acted voluntarily as the founding Director of the Centre for implementing its humanitarian programs and collaboration of local NGOs, business sectors and grassroots. Cho has also worked as an architectural historian, exhibition curator/coordinator, competition organizer and full-time academician in the Department of Architecture at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
Flavio Manzoni
Chief Design Officer of Ferrari S.p.A., architect and designer, Flavio Manzoni worked first for the Fiat Group (at the Lancia Style Centre, where he was appointed director in 2001), for the Centro Stile Fiat (under his direction from 2004 to 2006) for Seat and then for the Volkswagen Group in Wolfsburg, where he was appointed Design Director including Skoda, Bentley and Bugatti brands. In 2010 he has been engaged by Ferrari with the specific aim to create, for the first time in the history of the brand, an in-house Design Center in Maranello. Since its foundation, the Ferrari Design Center have realized over seventy production models, in limited series and one-offs cars, most of them awarded with important international design prizes: a lot of Compasso d’Oro, Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, Good Design Award and American Prize for Design - Chicago Athenaeum. Already included in the Car Design Hall of Fame of the National Automobile Museum of Turin, in 2019 he got an honorary master's degree in "Letters, Modern Philology and Cultural Industry" by the University of Sassari and in 2023 and an honorary master’s degree in design by the University of Florence.
Sang Dae Lee
Sang Dae Lee is the principal of UNITEDLAB Associates, a cross-disciplinary studio founded in 2006 that integrates architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. He received the 2024 American Prize for Architecture from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture for his innovative work. Lee’s design approach combines architecture with humanism, nature, and social research. His firm has received numerous honors, including awards from AIA, Architizer, ASLA, and the Chicago Athenaeum. Before founding UNITEDLAB, he worked for 17 years at major firms led by Charles Moore, Arthur Gensler, Moshe Safdie, and I.M. Pei. He currently teaches at Kennesaw State University and previously taught at Auburn University. Lee holds a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc and a Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture from Kookmin University in Seoul.
