Nicholas Bullock studied architecture at Cambridge University and completed a PhD under Leslie Martin. His research includes issues of housing reform with a special interest in Germany; postwar housing design and policy; and the architecture and planning of postwar reconstruction. Elad Eisenstein directs the London urban design office Mecanoo. He has experience designing and delivering a wide range of projects with sustainable place-making at their core, including new eco-cities, large-scale metropolitan centres and complex city centre sites.
Dominic Papa is a founding partner of the practice s333 Studio for Architecture and Urbanism, which has won awards for projects across Europe. He is a design review panel member for CABE and has been a jury member for a number of international competitions. Elena Pascolo has trained and worked in London and South Africa on large-scale housing and urban regeneration projects. Her research focuses on the development of spatial tools that structure complex urban strategies, and the role of institutions in promoting urban transformation. She has participated as a design tutor in numerous
Elesban Anadon Vargas, MArch design thesis, Productive knowledge hubs, Park Royal redevelopment, London – design for a high-density cluster in west London combining university research, new tech industries, cultural institutions and new living space
international workshops on design and urbanism. Anna Shapiro studied architecture and urban planning at Tel Aviv University and the AA School. She has worked for a number of architectural practices and is currently an urban designer at Sheppard Robson Architects. She is part of Collective Formations, an international design research group, and is also an artist and illustrator. Naiara Vegara directs the FundatiĂłn MetropĂłli Design LAAB London and the AA Visiting School Semester Programme. Naiara has been a visiting critic at many architecture schools,
and has presented her research on virtual environments and the design process in architecture at workshops hosted by Columbia University, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. Alex Warnock-Smith is an architect and urban designer. He has lectured and written internationally and is co-founder of Urban Projects Bureau (UPB), a multi-disciplinary practice working on architectural, urban and public realm projects. In 2012, UPB was selected by the British Council to exhibit at the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.