Steven HollProfessor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America's most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance.
Guy Nordenson
Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering, Princeton University.
Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor at Princeton University. He is a graduate of MIT (BSc Courses I and XXI), and the University of California at Berkeley (MS). He practiced structural engineering in San Francisco and New York, and in 1987 established and was a director of the New York office of Arup, until 1997 when he began his independent practice. Current projects include the expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with Steven Holl Architects and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC with Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup. Nordenson was the structural engineer for the MIT Simmons Residence Hall with Steven Holl Architects. He currently serves as Commissioner of the NYC Public Design Commission and member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change. He is the first practicing structural engineer ever elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Anton Garcia-Abril
Professor, MIT Architecture
Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and he is currently developing a second doctoral thesis about “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona.
