IWAN BAAN photographer

Iwan Baan photographer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and worked in publishing and documentary photography. He known primarily for images that narrate the life and interactions that occur within architecture. His images of the Torre David in Caracas – a series that won Baan the Golden Lion for Best Installation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has been awarded by Julius Shulman Photography Award in 2010, and the AIA New York’s Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award (2016). In 2011, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in contemporary architecture world by the magazine Il Magazine dell’Architettura on occasion of their 100th issue.

TAMÁS BUJNOVSZKY architectural photographer, photo editor of the Hungarian Architecture magazine

Tamás Bujnovszky architectural photographer, the editor of the Hungarian Architecture magazine since 2006. He has been continuously active with his works in international and Hungarian architectural photography. In 2012 he has been shortlisted in the Sony Photography Award. As a photographer he has contributed to projects of contemporary Hungarian architecture winning several international prizes.

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE artist and photographer

Nicolas Grospierre artist and photographer. He has presented several collective and individual exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Australia, China and the USA. In 2008, his exhibition Hotel Polonia won Golden Lion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale for best National participation. In 2009, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland awarded his activity.

ANDRÁS KRIZSÁN DLA architect, President of the Association of Hungarian Architects

András Krizsán DLA architect, senior designer with MODUM Építésziroda Kft. is the President of the Association of Hungarian Architects. What the buildings constructed after his designs have in common is their creative adjustment to their artificial environment. His public buildings and residential buildings as well as his excellent works and activities to preserve and protect architectural values of certain settlements and to beautify local environments have earned him several highly prestigious architectural awards. His building named the New Generation Centre built in Zánka has been shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award of contemporary European architecture.

JOSEF SCHULZ photographer

Josef Schulz photographer. He had numerous exhibitions all over the world, and was part of important photo festivals, like CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto and FIF, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Josef Schulz won the European Architectural Photography Prize 2001 and got a Grant of the ZF-Kulturstiftung Friedrichshafen, the Kodak und Large Format Inkjet Award and was the Winner of the Festival „Voies Off“ de Recontres d Arles, France. His work is represented in the prestigious collections like UBS, Deutscher Bundestag, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Deutsche Börse and FRAC, France.

JAN STEMPEL professor of architecture, head of department, CTU, Prague

Jan Stempel architect, head of the Department of Architectural Design, University of Technology, Prague. Born in the Slovak Republic, he graduated from the Budapest University of Technology as an architect. From 1984 till 1991 he worked with Libereci SIAL studio, then became co-owner of A.D.N.S., a Prague-based office of architects between 1991 and 2004. He has co-operated in several architectural projects, including a variety of new buildings as well as modernizations. As of today, he works for his own studio (Stempel & Tesar).

GYÖRGY SZEGŐ DLA architect, editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Architecture magazine

György Szegő DLA architect, art author, editor, curator of several exhibitions of architecture, photography and fine arts. He had an exhibition in the 1970s where he presented a variety of uses of photographs, then he was the stage designer of productions in the Gergely Csiky Theatre in Kaposvár between 1978 and 1988. From 2001 on, he has been editor-in-chief at the Hungarian Architecture magazine. Since 2014 he has been the art director of Kunsthalle Budapest.