Verónica Arcos
Graduated Cum Laude at the Universidad Central, Santiago (Chile) in 2001.
Arcos’s work was exhibited at Air project—an urban installation over the ventilation of the Santiago underground railway—and at the First Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2003. During 2003 she worked in Stefano Boeri Arch, Milan (Italy), and in Sadar-Vuga Arhitekti, Ljubljana. She has also been included in collective exhibitions in Kunstwerke, Berlin; Biennale di Venezia, Venice (Italy), and Koper (Slovenia). Her main research focus is the potential of architecture as an urban articulator—when the architectural installation acts not only as an object, but as a key piece within the city’s integration, aiming at the activation of dead places, social interaction and appropriation.

José Arnaud Bello
Graduated at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., MA in Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.
He has collaborated with Desarrollo Sistematizado de Proyectos, Mexico D.F., Laboratorio Ciudad de México, and Ace Gallery Mexico, Mexico D.F., all between 2001 and 2002. During 2003-2004 he has been teaching at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam (Netherlands) and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. His work has been featured in several exhibitions and publications.

Sannah Belzer
Graduated Cum laude at Design Academy.
Belzer joined the Berlage Institute in 2002, also collaborating in the independent projects Urban Gallery (with Raoul van Bunschoten), Border Devices (with Stefano Boeri) and 34 km of Adriatic Coast (with Bostjan Vuga). Belzer’s work has been exhibited in Turin and Milan (Italy), and in Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Netherlands). Her work has received awards in several competitions and is featured in magazines such as Elle, Frame, Detail and Architectur.

Sebastián Khourian
Khourian received his architectural degree from Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 1994, scholar of National Department of Education and the Austrian Academic Exchange Service during 1995 to study at TU Vienna, guest student of architects Enric Miralles and Peter Cook at Hochschüle für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt (Germany) in 1995-1997, Second Candidate at the Organization of American States Scholarship Program, and Scholar of the Fulbright Commission and National Fund for The Arts to study at the Master in Advance Architectural Design, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University New York, where graduated in 1998 with the honor Price for Excellence in Design.
In 1998, back in Argentina, Khourian starts his academic activity at the Center of Studies of Contemporary Architecture (CEAC), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, co-directing LabDisDig (Digital Design Lab) responsible for activities related to the use of new digital techniques and tools applied to design. In 1999 under the sponsorship of the CEAC, he developed El Retiro, a proposal for Plaza San Martín in Buenos Aires with architect Clorindo Testa, and also with the CEAC undertakes a research project on infrastructural systems in the Valentín Alsina area of Buenos Aires, that later becomes the catalyzer for the theoretical/operative ideas of Meshworks, a field of design practice that he co-directed until 2000. Between 1999 and 2000 he was involved in the Project Development Team of the Metropolitan Design Center, initiated by the Department of Industry, Commerce and Work of Buenos Aires.
Since 2001 Khourian teaches at the Landscape Urbanism MA Program of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. In 2002 he was awarded Second Prize by Building Design/Corus for the Young Architect of the Year Award, London. He has currently established his practice in Barcelona and engages in an academic affiliation with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.

Juan Pablo Porta
Architect graduated at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1998, MA in Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association, London in 2002. He has collaborated as a teacher in various institutions such as the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Cátedra de Arquitectos Varas), Elisava school of design, Barcelona (Spain), and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). In 2003 he established the research office Difference Matters, which works on issues of operative capacities and methodology in the design field. Porta is currently dedicated to the construction project of a new general hospital in Cartagena (Spain).

Claudia Strahl
BA in architecture from University Wuppertal (Germany) in 2001. While studying, Strahl performed a practice semester at the office Brandlhuber + Kniess b&k+, worked as assistant to Prof. Claus Bury, and as a freelancer at the atelier of Tony Cragg and at various offices in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal (Germany).
In 2002 Claudia Strahl received the DAAD scholarship and joined the Berlage Institute Rotterdam (The Netherlands). She also participated in the First Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2003.

Mónica Villate
BA in Architecture from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 2001. Villate joined the Berlage Institute in 2002, where she has been developing her research on architecture as an element not to be made but to be discovered through the study of the different stimuli produced by the city and its individuals.
Villate’s work has been featured in publications such as FiveMinuteCity, 2002, and A+U, 2003, and exhibited at the First Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and Territories, Kunstwerke, Berlin, both in 2003.

Costanze Zehi
Graduated in architecture at the Fachhochschule München and finished practical training in Berlin. In 2002 Zehi joined the Berlage Institute with the support of a DAAD scholarship, where she has been developing a study on architectural interventions operating as information mediators, which reflect and interact with all the communication processes among the citizens. These interactions should induce mirroring processes that activate participation and communication in public spaces within a City. Her work has been exhibited at the First Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and Territories, Kunstwerke, Berlin, both in 2003.