Efren Garcia Grinda
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 5
Bio: Efrén García Grinda and Cristina Díaz Moreno are both architects, regular contributors to El Croquis and founders of the Madrid-based office amid.cero9 (cero9.com). Since 1998 they have taught at ETSAM and ESAYA, and have been visiting teachers at Cornell, Paris-Malaquais, ESARQ and EPSA. They have won more than 30 prizes in national and international competitions, and their projects and writings have been collected in Breathable and From Cero9 to AMID.
Mehran Gharleghi
Unit/Programme:Technical Studies, Emergent Technologies (EmTech)
Bio: Mehran Gharleghi is an architect, researcher and designer. He received his MArch in Emergent Technologies and Design from the AA and has worked for distinguished architectural practices including Plasma Studio and Foster + Partners. In 2009 he co-founded Studio INTEGRATE with Amin Sadeghy.
Maria S Giudici
Unit/Programme:First Year
Bio: Maria S Giudici earned her MA from Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Switzerland, in 2006. Between 2005 and 2007 she worked in Bucharest-based office BAU, collaborated in Rotterdam with Donis in 2010 and Dogma in 2011. After teaching at the Berlage Institute and co-tutoring workshops at TU Delft (2008), TU Munich (2009), and Strelka (2010), she will be an assistant professor at BIArch Barcelona.
Ben Godber
Unit/Programme:Technical Studies
Bio: Ben Godber is a practicing structural engineer and Director of Godber & Co. Prior to training as an engineer, Ben practised and studied architecture. Ben is a graduate of both the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Imperial College’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Before founding Godber & Co, Ben was an Associate at Expedition Engineering where he gained wide experience of delivering structural engineering design on a number of projects in close collaboration with architects. Ben is committed to the teaching of structures and construction technology to architects. He is a frequent guest critic on design juries, he has returned to teach at The Bartlett, and is Associate Lecturer in Structures at the University of Kent’s School of Architecture in Canterbury.
Jonathan Goddard
Unit/Programme:AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS)
Bio: Jonathan Goddard is a professional dance artist and choreographer and has worked with many major British dance companies. He was the first contemporary dancer to win the Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer and is now teaching and dancing as a founder member of both Goddard Nixon and New Movement Collective.
Orit Goldstein-Mayer
Unit/Programme:Histories & Theories Studies (HTS)
Bio: Details to come
Francisco Gonzales de Canales
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 8, History & Critical Thinking (HCT), Curatorial Practices/Cultural Products (AACP)
Bio: Francisco González de Canales studied architecture at ETSA Seville, ETSA Barcelona and Harvard University, and worked for Foster + Partners and Rafael Moneo. He is co-director of awardwinning office Canales & Lombardero. An active architectural critic, he has previously lectured in England, Mexico, Spain and the US, worked as AACP coordinator and collaborated in different architectural publications. He is currently AA HTS tutor and has recently published the book Experiments with life itself (Actar 2012) based on his PhD research on the radical domestic selfexperimentations of the 1940s and 1950s.
Evan Greenberg
Unit/Programme:Emergent Technologies (EmTech), Technical Studies
Bio: Evan Greenberg is a researcher and design consultant based in London. He has worked with architects, engineers, artists and fashion designers around the world. He gained his MSc in Emergent Technologies and Design from the AA where he is also a First Year Technical Studies Tutor. He has lectured and taught internationally and was co-director of the AA San Francisco Visiting School from 2009 to 2011.
David Greene
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 5
Bio: David Greene, born Nottingham 1937, usual English provincial suburban upbringing, Art School, elected Associate member of the RIBA and onto London to begin a nervous twitchy career, from big buildings to T-shirts for Paul Smith to conceptual speculations for Archigram which he founded with Peter Cook. RIBA Gold Medal 2002 (Archigram). Joint Annie Spinks Award with Sir Peter Cook (2002). Currently visiting Prof of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and External Examiner on the Masters in Advanced Research at the Bartlett.
Kostas Grigoriadis
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 2
Bio: Kostas Grigoriadis studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL followed by an MArch at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory. His design work has been published in various architectural publications namely Digital Cities AD and Future Architecture among others and exhibited as part of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2009. Having previously worked at Foster + Partners in London, he is currently co-designing a 62,000m² mixed-use development in Delhi, India won in international architecture competition Spiretec 2010 and pursuing an MPhil in Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.