Giuseppe Gurrieri; Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio, Italy In recent decades, in Italy, in order to meet the growing demand for housing, policies to protect the natural and historicized territory have disappeared in
Georgios Makridis; do:gma, Cyprus Problem Identification: Under-Appreciation of Design This is a rather general problem, that becomes specific for Cyprus in a slightly different way. The country is currently into the frenzy
Chrystala Psathiti; Splace-architecture, Cyprus Problem: New firms basically rely mainly on their intuition or the general culture provided by Instagram and Pinterest for the design of various architectural proposals. Solution: I think
Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti, Italy As for identifying a problem/solution in our country's architectural profession, I was thinking about how to reuse/regenerate urban spaces previously abandoned or disused. In my opinion a very
Lorenzateliers; Peter Lorenz Every crisis is a chance. Big crisis like covid 19 represent big chances. Optimistically it might be possible that our visions for the urban future will no longer
Raluca Visinescu; Bloc, Romania For the last 18 months, as a member of the board of Romanian Order of Architects, Bucharest Branch, I've been in charge of tackling the problem of the
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Jora Kasapi, Albania "The urban fabric of Tirana has been shaped by a continuous process of tabula rasa, continuing even more intensively today, through the devaluation of the past to replace
Christos Pavlou, Cyprus "Our biggest concern as architects in Cyprus is the level of architecture awareness which is at the moment largely absent. It seems as though that architecture exists only
Giuseppe Gurrieri; Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio, Italy After Covid 19 and after the ensuing global economic crisis I don’t think we will going back like “before” because a real crisis never leaves
Chrystala Psathiti; Splace-architecture, Cyprus Covid-19 makes us wonder weather we should push some of our services online in order to minimize our exposure to the side effect of this pandemic situation in the
Lorenzateliers; Peter Lorenz “Vienna already has been elected 10 times as the city with the highest „quality of living worldwide“ – and there is a lot still to do: the city
Salih Teskeredžić is a designer, a professor at the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and the founder of his Vienna design studio. His impressive design production places him alongside some of the greatest world-renown designers.
Brandodesign was founded in 2015 by the architect Pierangelo Brandolisio who was investigating the unexplored world of design for pets to satisfy the needs of his American Akita. Fascinated by the relationship between humans and
Ceramic Sparrow is a Romanian ceramic design and production studio founded in 2010 by Andreea Lazarescu and Tiberiu Dancila. The studio is focused on designing and producing household items, particularly teaware and decorative objects. Their
Tomaž Aupič, a former architecture student, has decided to change the world of sitting together with Sebastjan Štarkelj and Mateja Vrščaj. They have jointly designed an active chair that enables proper sitting posture. A special
