Nils Larsson
NL is an architect with long experience in research and development related to both residential and commercial building sectors. Nils Larsson (NL) is Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization whose aim is to advance the cause of sustainable building and construction around the world. He was born in Sweden, but now holds both Swedish and Canadian citizenship.. During the 1990’s, he developed and managed a demonstration program for high-performance buildings in Canada. He is also the main organizer of Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC), an international project to develop and test new methods of assessing the environmental performance of buildings.
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Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Architect Christoph Schulten
“Designing and building together – architects and engineers: The masonry shell ‘Space of tranquility’ 2003-7″
Grew up in Germany’s coal mining region “Ruhr” and got his diploma in Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University in 1974. For the following 18 years he has been Assistant Professor there at the Institute of Building Construction and Structures. Parallel to this he has a architectural office in Aachen since 1978 (see projects under www.baukunst-nrw.de). For his work he got the National DEUBAU 1.Prize for Young Architects :Award for excellence in self built housing. During the past 30 years he has been working several times as a guest professor e.g. at Dalhousie University or University of British Columbia in Canada. For his work in University he also won some prices during the last few years – for example International Wood-Architect-Engineer-Team Prize (2004), Unipor National Masonry Architectural Prize (2007); etc – and since 1992 he is Professor of Building Construction and Conservation at the Technical University Dresden, Award winning department for Student designs and buildings of the Pedestrian Bridge, Forest Park , Tharandt (www.designandbuild.de)
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Prof. Dr. Guido Magenes
“Earthquake resistant design of masonry stuctures – rules, backgrounds, latest findings”
born in 1963, obtained his Laurea degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy, his M.Sc. at the University of California San Diego, USA, and his Ph.D. at the consortium Polytechnic of Milan/University of Pavia. Since 2000 he is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also member of the teaching body of the international graduate school in Earthquake Engineering “ROSE”, and head of the masonry division of the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE), Pavia. Dr. Magenes has twenty years of research experience in the area of seismic analysis, design, assessment and testing of structures with special emphasis on masonry structures. Since 2004 he has been involved, as a masonry expert, in several Italian code drafting activities, including the recent Italian structural norms and the National Application Documents for Eurocodes.
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Randolph Langenbach
Langenbach’s educational background is both in Architecture and in Building Conservation, with degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School of Design in the United States and the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies in York, England. It was this early work on the great multi-story brick and stone factories that launched his later life’s work on earthquake-resistant forms of masonry and timber construction world-wide. In 2002 he received a Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome for his work on the subject of earthquake resistant traditional masonry construction and he is an Author and photographer of several books and many articles on historic building conservation.
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Prof. Dr. -Ing. Falk Jaeger
“Outstanding Architecture in Masonry”
Photo: Gallandi
He was born in Ottweiler/Saar in 1950 and studied architecture and history of art in the three cities Braunschweig, Stuttgart and Tübingen. At the end he received his doctor’s degree at the Technical University in Hannover. He has been Assistant at the Institute for building history and planning survey at the University in Berlin. He was professor at several Universities and in 1933 he had hold the chair in architecture theory at the TU Dresden for 7 years. Since 1976 he is an outside reviewer of architecture and lives as tutor, curator and specialised publicist for broadcast and daily and specialised press.
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