Gilles Delalex
Architecte co-fondateur de l’agence Studio Muoto – Studio Muoto
www.studiomuoto.com
Professeur TPCAU et Chercheur École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris‑Malaquais
Laboratoire Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire( LIAT)
Co-directeur Head of the department Théorie, Histoire, Projet (THP)
Gilles Delalex is a French architect. He studied architecture in Grenoble and Montreal. He holds a Master in urban planning and a Doctorate of Arts from Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki. He is full professor at the School of Paris-Malaquais, where he heads the department “Theory, History and Project”. He has taught at ENPC Paris, Harvard GSD and TU Wien.He is also co-director of the Liat research Lab (Infrastructure, Architecture, Territory) focusing on modernity and infrastructures.
Studio Muoto is an architectural office based in Paris since 2003. Its activities cover the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, teaching and scientific research. Muoto’s work features minimal structures that can combine different activities, evolve in time, and merge economical and aesthetic issues. Muoto means form in Finnish.
Adriaan Geuze
Founder of West8 Architectural firm
www.west8.com
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Department of Urbanism
Adriaan Geuze is the founder and design director of the three branches of West 8 in Rotterdam, North America and Brussels and brings more than 35 years of experience in the fields of landscape architecture, urban design, and infrastructure.
Geuze is internationally acclaimed for his pioneering work in the Netherlands and abroad. Under his leadership, West 8 has realized more than two hundred projects in three decades. Many of these delivered projects resulted from major international design competitions, including: Governors Island in New York, Madrid RIO, in Spain, the waterfront of Toronto in Canada, and Jubilee Gardens in London.
Geuze received numerous awards for his work, including the Dutch Prix-de-Rome, the Maaskant Prize, the Oeuvre Prize for Architecture of the Mondriaan Fund, the ARC Oeuvre Award, and the ULI Netherlands Leadership Award. International prizes are the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design (Harvard Design School) and several Honor Awards from the American Society for Landscape Architecture. In 2015, he was appointed a member of the Academy of Arts of the KNAW, an important recognition of his artistic merits. In 2022, Geuze was appointed a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Technical University Delft and the recipient of the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture, the preeminent award for landscape architects and the highest honour IFLA can bestow. He frequently gives lectures and teaches at institutions worldwide.