Alexandru Belenyi
Alexandru Belenyi has studied architecture and urban planning at UAUIM Bucharest and The Bouwkunde at TUDelft where he also graduated iin 2010. During the years 2011-2015 he worked in Chora, Architecture and Urban Planning, in London, UK on urban planning projects and research on the potential of demilitarization of the Taiwan Strait and the impact on planning in the area. Following Chora he worked as an urban planner and project manager in Aecom Bucharest with focus on the new General Urban Plan of the city. In 2015 he left the aggitated environment of larger companies and established and individual architecture practice. In the same year he presented his Phd. research on the topic of architectural education in the last century in Europe and the United States. He is also one of the founding members of the work group BAZA. He is currently a researcher and teaching assistant in the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, in Bucharest.
András Cseh
András Cseh (1982) studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, Doctoral School. He is a senior lecturer at Széchenyi István University, was a visiting lecturer at various institutions, such as the University of Oulu, Finland, University of Girona, Spain, and Fachhochschule Salzburg, Austria, but also manages spatial education courses for children since 2010. He currently works at CZITA Architects and CAN Architects.
Bojan Tepavčević
Bojan Tepavčević currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Novi Sad, where he teaches courses in the field of computational design and architectural representation. He is also the head of the master’s program “Digital Techniques, Design and Production in Architecture and Urbanism” and researcher at the Digital Design Center research group.
Cristian Blidariu
Cristian is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning Timisoara, where he teaches Architecture Theory since 2010 and coordinates the design workshop of the first year. Also since 2010 he is a permanent correspondent of the Romanian Architects Union magazine, Architecture 1906, for which he coordinated a series of special numbers. From 2015 he is a Summa cum Laude Doctor in visual arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design in Timisoara, with a thesis that analyzed the heterotopic dimension of artistically augmented urban spaces. In his time between his two sons, Sasha and Max, a faculty and a magazine, he practices architecture in his own design office.
Kuba Snopek
Kuba Snopek is an urbanist, educator and architectural theorist. Currently he works as the education program curator at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. Kuba graduated in urban planning from the Wrocław University of Technology and the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, where he later worked as a tutor and faculty member. He has worked on architecture, city planning, curatorial and research projects in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Spain and Denmark. He is the author of “Belyayevo Forever”, about the preservation of intangible heritage (published in English, Polish and Russian) and co-author of “Architecture of the VII Day”, a comprehensive study of the Polish churches built during the Communist era. Kuba is an initiator and co-author of “Stage”, a crowdsourced public space built in Dnipro that received a special mention as part of the prestigious 2018 European Prize for Urban Public Space.
Regina Loukotová
Regina is an architect and Rector of ARCHIP (Architectural Institute in Prague), the first private architectural college with instruction English in Prague, Czech Republic. She combines her architectural practice (started in 1999 together with architect Martin Roubik; Gemarc studio) with educational activities. She graduated from CTU, Faculty of Architecture in Prague, where she completed her postgraduate studies with the topic on “Architecture and Public”. Her studio took part in tens of national and international competitions with particular success within Grand Egyptian Museum proposal from 2003. She strongly believes in changing the approach toward building environment in general through education. She is also active within the Czech Chamber of Architects and a member of its’ Unit for Education and member of the Board of The Council of Higher Education in the Czech Republic.
Tamás Szentirmai
Tamás Szentirmai (1977) is an architect and associate professor. He graduated in 2003 at the Technical University of Budapest, then he obtained his doctoral degree (DLA) in 2012 with his dissertation about simplicity and tradition in contemporary Portuguese architecture. Parallel to architectural design he is involved in artistic projects and architectural researches as well. Since 2013 he teaches at the Department of Architecture at the University of Debrecen. Since 2016 he is the head of the department.
Tiberiu Bucșa
Tiberiu Bucșa is an architect and runs an office (SKBD) since 2005. He’s been an invited teacher in the 2nd and 3rd year studio at the University in Cluj since 2007, and is currently doing a PhD searching connections between cinematography and architecture. He’s been active in the cultural projects’ scene and forward seeking to extend his professional boundaries outside and back towards architecture.
