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PROFESSORS :<\/h2>\n

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ODILE DECQ<\/span><\/h3>\n

Director. Odile Decq is an internationally renowned architect\u00a0and landscape designer.<\/h4>\n

Odile Decq is an internationally renowned French architect and landscape designer. Awarded with the Golden Lion of Architecture at the Venice Biennale in 1996, she has designed several buildings that have marked the contemporary architecture, as the MACRO, Contemporary Museum in Rome or the Administration Centre of the Banque Populaire de l\u2019Ouest in France. Also very committed in teaching architecture for the past 20 years, she launched the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NICOLAS HANNEQUIN<\/span><\/h3>\n

Referent professor, Architect.<\/h4>\n

Associate Professor of CONFLUENCE Institute for innovation in Lyon France and Adjunct Professor of the master of urban strategies at Sciences-Po in Paris. His works are in France, the United States, Belgium, and Mexico. He also holds an editorial position at the European Spectator and is a regular contributor to Raison Pr\u00e9sente and Espace Temps. Nicolas Hannequin is an alumnus of the Ecole Sp\u00e9ciale d\u2019Architecture in Paris.<\/p>\n

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JACQUES SAUTEREAU<\/span><\/h3>\n

Project manager for architectural and urban research at the Ministries of Culture.<\/h4>\n

Member of the Editorial Board of the Architectural and Urban Research Papers. Responsible for numbers on the Profession of architect, City, Conception, Real and Virtual, co-leader of the number on the Pragmatic with Arnoldo Rivkin. Teacher at the School of Architecture of Versailles and at the Ecole Sp\u00e9ciale d’architecture. Creation of the third cycle Mutations Urbaines at the Special School of Architecture, under the impulse of Odile Decq. Teacher at the School of Confluence.<\/p>\n

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LIONEL LEMIRE<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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GUESTS :<\/h2>\n

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SIR PETER COOK<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sir Peter Cook, is the founder and principal of CRAB,\u00a0founder of Archigram<\/h4>\n

He is also the former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art (London) and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College (London) and has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century. Peter Cook\u2019s most recent buildings include the Graz Kunsthaus, Austria, the Vienna Business and Economics University\u2019s Law Faculty and the Bond University Soheil Abedian School of Architecture.<\/p>\n

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AARON SPRECHER<\/span><\/h3>\n

Aaron Sprecher\u00a0 Professor at the School of Architecture in the McGill University<\/h4>\n

In parallel, he is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture, a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design, engineering, media research, history, and theory. He studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research and design work focuses on the synergy between information technologies, computational languages.<\/p>\n

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CELINE SARAIVA<\/span><\/h3>\n

Graduated from the Institut Sup\u00e9rieur des Carri\u00e8res Artistiques in Paris in 1991.<\/h4>\n

C\u00e9line Saraiva is an art critic and exhibition curator in the field of\u00a0 arts and architecture. Since 2008, she teaches the analysis of contemporary architecture in various schools of architecture and pursues her activity as a journalist and critic of art and architecture. In 2013, she founded Archip’tits, an architectural webmagazine. Since January 2016, she joined the Dominique Perrault agency as editor for the production of a monograph devoted to the BnF.<\/p>\n

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CHANDLER AHRENS<\/span><\/h3>\n

Chandler Ahrens is an assistant professor at Washington University in St.Louis<\/h4>\n

He is also the co-founder of Open Source Architecture OSA is an international transdisciplinary collaboration developing research and commissioned projects. His focus is on the intersection of material investigations, environmental phenomena, and computational design processes. His teaching focuses on digital fabrication studios and seminars that produce full-scale prototypes. His work with OSA is part of the collection at the Fonds Regional de Architecture (FRAC) in Orleans, France.<\/p>\n

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JUAN VELASQUEZ<\/span><\/h3>\n

Light Architect<\/h4>\n

During design workshops, designing lighting fixtures, Juan became aware of the role of light in architecture and in everyday life. Juan teaches light in architecture schools in France and abroad for 15 years. He works with many artists and participates in the scenographic design of installations where light is always the protagonist. In 2017, he created his light design studio and is currently working between Paris, Lyon, and Bogota.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yael Reisner<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/h4>\n

London, UK<\/h5>\n

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OSA<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
London, UK<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Ricardo de Ostos<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
London, UK<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Reza Azard<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Franco la Cecla<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Anthropologist-Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Palerme, Italia<\/span><\/h5>\n

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LINA GOTMEH<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Beirut, Lebanon<\/h5>\n

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LUKAS FEIREISS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Berlin, Germany<\/span><\/h5>\n

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LUCA GALOFARO<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Rome, Italia<\/span><\/h5>\n

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LAURENT GRABER<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lyon, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ANTOINE TROLLAT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lyon, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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GEORGES TESSOT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Historian<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Laval, Canada<\/span><\/h5>\n

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CARL FREDERICK SVENSTEDT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Stockolm, Sweden<\/span><\/h5>\n

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DAVY BRUN<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Choreographer<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lyon, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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FRANCOISE QUARDON<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Artist<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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CARIN SMUTS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Cap-Town , South Africa<\/span><\/h5>\n

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BOSTJAN VUGA<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lubjana, Slovenia<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ELISABETH BACON\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Researcher in cognitive psychopathology<\/h4>\n

Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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TANIA CONCKO<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ANUPAMA KUNDOO<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Auroville, India<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ANDREA BLUM <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Artist<\/strong><\/h4>\n
New York, USA<\/span><\/h5>\n

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TOM SHAKED<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Tel Aviv, Israel<\/span><\/h5>\n

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ROMAIN VIRICEL<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Designer<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lyon, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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BETH WEINSTEIN<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

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BRUNO DEHAN\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Engineer<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Lyon, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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PHILIPPE CLEMENT<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Engineer<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Grenoble, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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DAVOR ERES<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Belgrade, Serbia<\/span><\/h5>\n

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CHARLES OBER<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong>\/ Teacher<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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DOMITILLE ROY<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect \/ Teacher<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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MARTIN DETOEUF<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Architect<\/strong>\/ Teacher Assistant<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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RONAN LECREURER<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Plastic Artist<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Paris, France<\/span><\/h5>\n

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JHILA PRENTIS<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect \/ Teacher<\/h4>\n

Paris, France<\/h5>\n

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GEROLAMO GNECCHI<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect \/ Teacher<\/h4>\n

Paris, France<\/h5>\n

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MAXIME BEAUDONCQ<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect \/ Teacher<\/h4>\n

Paris, France<\/h5>\n

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ADRIEN ESPEJO FERNANDEZ<\/span><\/h3>\n

Architect \/ Teacher<\/h4>\n

Paris, France<\/h5>\n

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