Jury

Based in Madrid, Edgar Gonzalez leads the Bachelor in Design program at IE School of Architecture and Design. He founded EGD Edgar Gonzalez Design, a Strategic Design Agency, where he serves clients as a strategic consultant specialised in applying design processes to complex problems and narratives. As, Editor-in-chief of edgargonzalez.com since 2002, one of the main reference websites about architecture and design in the Spanish speaking world, he is tuned in to news and trends in architecture and design throughout the world.
 
Especially interested in themes at the threshold of the architectural practice, he researches the relationships between new technologies and media for creative processes and contemporary cities.  He has served as guest professor and speaker in several universities and has been the curator and designer of several exhibitions and cultural projects. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects in London and at Arquitectura Torres Nadal from 2002 to 2005. He also served as an editorial designer for the  Architectural Association London, The Economist and The Guardian.
 
Holds a Bachelor in Architecture ( ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1996) and a M.A. in Complex Architecture  (Alicante University, Alicante, Spain, 2007).
 

Planning & Design on Residential Single Unit to multi-storied building, Apartments & Housing.

Involved in some Urban Design Projects.

Few interiors projects including Bank,office have been successfully designed by me.

Lead studio-design lecturer and researcher specialized in (architectural Visualization and photography, architectural morphogenesis and form-finding ,  architectural tectonics and Aesthetics). Additionally,  there is a considerable interest in developing (architectural pedagogies, design-knowledge,  and critical thinking skill-sets) within the architectural education.

Human is mortal and architecture is immortal my focus on architecture is to put a life in it with kinetics, sustainability and passive approach of heating cooling and ventilation systems.

AFM est un atelier d'Architecture situé à Paris et Hossegor, fondé en 2016.
Constitué d'Architecte DPLG, Architecte d'intérieur, graphiste, décorateur, designer.

l'atelier intervient dans le secteur Privé (hôtellerie, restaurants, boutiques, villas, surélévations, rénovations ...) et également sur les marchés publics.
En collaboration permanente avec des ingénieurs, confrères architectes et décorateurs, Nous travaillons à toutes les échelles .

l'agence aborde l’architecture, une passion, comme une manière de penser l’avenir en ce nourrissant de tout ce qui pourrait élaborer une pensée architecturale.
 

Florian MICHEL.

Architecte DE-HMONP, diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris La Villette ENSAPLV   et de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture Intérieure de Montpellier ESAI.
 
Avant de fonder AFM, Florian s'est nourri  d'une expérience, durant plusieurs années, dans de prestigieuses agences d'Architecture comme celle de Jean-Paul Viguier, Elizabeth et Christian de Portzamparc, ou encore Valode et Pistre.

Dans ses précédentes collaborations Florian en tant que chef de projet participe à la conception, au développement et à la construction de projets nationaux et internationaux de diverses typologies telles que des Tours, de grands projets urbains, des musées, des centres commerciaux …
Ces autres diplômes lui permettent de participer également au design d'intérieur et design d'objets, ainsi qu'a des projets de scénographie et muséographie.