Alejandro Zaera-Polo

co-founded AZPML previously co-founded FOA and got recognised worldwide with his partner Farshid Moussavi by the Yokohama Port Terminal project. After the FOA was dissolved, Alejandro founded AZPA on his own – later AZPML when ex-FOA architect Maider Llaguno joined him. Alejandro Zaera-Polo was an architect at OMA, and unit master at Architectural Association. He also held director position … Read more

Stephan Petermann

co-founder of Mann Office previously Associate at OMA Stephan Petermann holds a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture and the Theory of Building Preservation from the University of Utrecht (2001-2007) and studied Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2001-2005).He worked for architecture magazine VOLUME in 2005 and joined OMA in 2006 assisting OMA’s … Read more

Jennifer Sigler

Jennifer Sigler is an American editor, formerly based in Rotterdam. From 2013–2019 she was Editor in Chief at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she revamped and oversaw Harvard Design Magazine[1], and created the series The Incidents, among other publications.[2] While in Rotterdam, Sigler was editor of Rem Koolhaas’s seminal monograph S,M,L,XL (1995), and … Read more

TU Delft / Berlage Institute

1990 – 2012 founded in Rotterdam Berlage Institute used to be an independent architecture school, in merged with TU Delft in 2012 and is now called The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design  Past Directors: Wiel Arets  (Berlage) Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Berlage) Vedran Mimica (Berlage) Key Teachers: Pier Vittorio Aureli (Berlage) Alumni: Shohei Shigematsu (Berlage) Fernando Donis (Berlage) Barend Koolhaas … Read more