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/

Jakob Travnik

(b. 1991) is an architect, researcher, and educator based in Vienna, Austria. He holds a Magister degree in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Currently he works as a University Assistant at the Research Unit for Architectural Typology and Design at TU Vienna with a specific focus on research, theory and design within the framework of nanotourism. From 2014 to 2022, he was Programme Assistant at AA nanotourism Visiting School, London, UK and an active part of the nanotourism platform. Previously he was a participant at BIO 25 Ljubljana, Slovenia under the mentorship of mischer’traxler studio and a Designer in Residence at Atelier Luma, Luma Arles, France.

Boštjan Vuga

Has performed a variety of functions in the course of his professional career, including lecturer, organiser, critic, editor, businessman and chairman. He currently heads his own company, Sadar+Vuga, which he founded in 1996 with Jurij Sadar, and is also council chair at the Slovenian Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO). He is a regular lecturer at architectural schools, conferences and symposiums in Slovenia and abroad. He has edited a number of publications, including Plečnik 2007 (for the AB architecture journal) and a series of publications for the Technical University of Berlin. In 2014 he was co-curator of the Montenegrin Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Boštjan also publishes articles on current issues in architecture and urban planning.

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/

Axel Wlody

(b. 2000), is an architect graduated from the Master of Architecture program at ULB's La Cambre-Horta faculty (2023) with a thesis entitled Jože Plečnik and Ljubljana, identity and language of memory. Trained in his faculty's History, Theory and Criticism seminar, he went on to practice architecture and construction with architects such as Gilles Perraudin. In 2024, he began a post-master's degree in architectural researches at ENSA Paris La Villette, studying the interweaving of post-colonial identities in Sai Gon during the Viet Nam war, while at the same time working for the Centre Pompidou Paris, on the inventory and valorization of a newly-discovered collection of Piano + Rogers Architects archival drawings relating to the centre's construction (1971-1977).

Luka Skansi

is an architectural historian, associate professor at Politecnico di Milano (DASTU – Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani). His research ranges across different geographical and temporal contexts of the 20th century, and focuses on the themes of spatiality in architecture, construction or its relationship with geopolitics.

Awarded with the Plečnik medal in 2018 (for the exhibition+catalogue Streets and Neghbourhoods, MAO Ljubljana, 2016) and Neven Šegvić prize (for Dobrolet, a book series in architectural history and theory, 2025). He was a member of the curatorial committee of the exhibitions Toward a Concrete Utopia. Architecture in Socijalist Yugoslavia 1948-1980 (MoMA – NY, 2018), Fiume Fantastika. Phenomena of the City (Rijeka – ECC 2020), and Affinità confinanti/Bordering Affinities/Sosedske afinitete (with Paolo Nicoloso, Trieste, Magazzino delle Idee, 2025).

Georgia Butina Watson

Is Professor of Urban Design and Research and Practice Consultant in Planning and Urban Design. She was Head of Planning Department between 2001 and 2015;  Chair of Oxford Brookes University Research Degree Committee between 2000 and 2016; and Chair of the Joint Centre for Urban Design between 1991 and 2001. 

She authored and co-authored a number of books and curated several urban design and architectural exhibitions including: ‘Joze Plecnik- 1972-1957- Architecture and the City’ (1983) and ‘Plecnik’s Ljubljana: the social relevance of a personal vision’ (in Identity by Design, 2007;2016). 

She is an Academician and the Regional Co-ordinator for the Academy of Urbanism, a member of the Urban Design Group, a member of SUE (Sustainable Urban Environment) UK network and a member of International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC). She was a Trustee of Oxford Preservation Trust for 10 years and has served as a Trustee for various Art and Heritage foundations, and was also a member of the Design Review Panel for the West End Area of Oxford.

András Pálffy

(b. 1954 in Budapest) studied architecture at Vienna University of Technology. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting professor at the University of Art and Design Linz. From 2003 to 2020 he was a professor in the Department of Design and Theory of Design at Vienna University of Technology, and from 2012 to 2019 was the department chair. 2022/2023 he was professor at the Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio (CH). He was President of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession from 2007 to 2013.

Jabornegg & Pálffy was established in 1988. The studio focuses primarily on projects in historically significant urban contexts, including heritage buildings, exhibition spaces, office buildings, and residential architecture.

Jabornegg & Pálffy's works include the Generali Foundation and the Judenplatz Museum in Vienna, the exhibition spaces for Documenta X in Kassel, the Passionsspielhaus in Oberammergau, Altenburg Abbey, the SLSP headquarters in Bratislava, the QBC4 administrative building in Vienna, the redevelopment of the Austrian Parliament, and currently the Salzburger Festspielhäuser (Salzburg Festival Halls).