Tina Gregorič

graduated at Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and Architectural Association DRL (M.Arch with distinction) in London (2002). At the AA she co-founded +RAMTV. In 2003 she co-founded the architectural practice ‘dekleva gregoric architects’. Since 2014 she is full-professor and Head of the Research Unit for Architectural Typology and Design, Institute of Architecture and Design, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

www.dekleva-gregoric.com
www.gbl.tuwien.ac.at

Christopher Pierce

is an academic leader and administrator, educator, writer, curator, designer and creative advisor specialising in global networks. He lectures internationally on education, research and practice. Christopher completed his architecture studies at Virginia Tech and gained a PhD in architectural history at the University of Edinburgh. He has more than twenty-five years of higher education teaching, management and leadership experience in both the public and private sector. A member of the Architectural Association’s (AA) Senior Management Team he led the AA’s successful application to the UK Privy Council for Taught Degree Awarding Powers. He is also Head of the AA Visiting School and an Experimental Programme Unit Master.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/academicprogrammes/visitingschool

Maja Vardjan

(b. 1971), is an architect and curator for architecture and design at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana. She joined MAO in 2013, where she has been researching Slovenian architectural and design heritage and contemporary creative practices. Since September 2023, she has led the MAO as Acting Director.

She is the author of numerous articles and exhibitions and has participated in numerous lectures and has been the recipient of important professional awards. She also participated in the European platform Made In: Narratives of Craft and Design, which brings together designers, researchers and curators committed to exploring craft heritage through contemporary production.

https://mao.si/

Vasa J. Perović

was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1965 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade in 1992. In 1994 he earned a master’s degree from the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, and in 1997 he established Bevk Perović Arhitekti, in partnership with Matija Bevk. Their portfolio includes a variety of projects in different scales – large housing projects, both social and commercial, public and cultural buildings, university buildings, museums, office buildings, congress facilities as well as individual houses.

The office has been awarded numerous international prizes (Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, Kunstpreis Berlin 2006, Piranesi Award 2005, 4 Plečnik Prizes, Golden Pencil award by the Chamber of Architects, Prešeren Prize among others), and the work of the office has been published extensively in some of the most important international publications (El Croquis, 2012)

https://bevkperovic.com/

Rok Žnidaršič

(b. 1977) in Ljubljana, Slovenia graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana in 2004. He started architectural studio MEDPROSTOR (with J. Fischer Knap) in 2010 and won the Rector’s Award for the recognition of important works of art in 2012. Since 2014 he is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.

He's currently serving as a Deputy Mayor of the City of Ljubljana where, amongst other things, he is striving for an exemplary and comprehensive renovation of the cultural heritage with an emphasis on modernism and the priority projects of Plečnik's heritage: the central market, the Baraga seminary, the Bežigrad stadium and Križanke.

https://www.medprostor.si/

Tomaž Štoka

(b. 1988) is an art historian. Since 2017 he has been working at the Museum of Architecture and Design, where he has been active in the project of preparing Plečnik’s UNESCO World Heritage List nomination in the role of project coordinator and editor of the nomination dossier. After his entry within the Museum, he is responsible for various exhibition projects in the field of architecture and urban design.

He is co-author of ‘Plečnik and Contemporaneity: Glossary’ exhibition and co-curator of ‘Universum Plečnik: Between Workshop and Myth’. Recently he was editor-in-chief of a book ‘Universum Plečnik - Between Workshop and Myth’, expanding on the articulation of Plečnik’s heritage and highlighting the lasting relevance of his designs, thereby opening the doors for further exploration of new sources.

https://mao.si/

Amin Taha

Was born in Berlin and has been settled in the UK since 1974. After working in the offices of Zaha Hadid, Wilkinson Eyre and others he began an independent studio in 2005, later incorporating Groupwork as an Employee Ownership Trust. As well as running the design and detailing of projects Amin has taught, written and lectured on architecture, sat on the RIBA National and International Awards Jury and aids related research groups. His company GROUPWORK are an employee ownership trust studio in which all collaborators are equal partners with engineers, landscape architects and other designers joining on specific projects. These have varied from private houses, residential and office buildings, arts centres, infrastructure bridges and metro stations. The featured projects have been recognized by the RIBA Stirling and EU Mies van Der Rohe jury, and illustrate the practices core philosophy, Explore – Restore – Ignore, allowing a broader sense of context to drive material, structure and compositional narratives.

https://groupwork.uk.com/