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John Palmesino
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 4, Histories & Critical Thinking (HCT), History & Theory Studies
Bio: John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog are founders of Territorial Agency, an independent organisation that combines architectural analysis, projects, advocacy and action for the integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. John is head of a research group on a series on international cities at ETH Zurich, Studio Basel/ Contemporary City Institute with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. John is the co-founder of multiplicity in Milan. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Research Architecture Centre at Goldsmiths, where he also teaches.
Stefano Pansera Rabolli
Unit/Programme:Visiting School, Research Cluster Curator
Bio: Studied architecture in Italy and at the AA. He has worked with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel on projects in Italy, Spain and the USA. He has been Unit Master in Inter 5 since 2007. He directs the Research Cluster Beyond Entropy, When Energy becomes Form. He is director of RABOLLI PANSERA Ltd.
Dominic Papa
Unit/Programme:Housing & Urbanism (H&U)
Bio: is an architect and urban designer involved in practice, teaching and research. He has taught at the Academies of architecture in Amsterdam and Tilburg, the Netherlands and was an Intermediate Unit Master at the AA from 1997 to 2001. After working with Terry Farrell and Wiel Arets Architects he cofounded s333 Studio for Architecture and Urbanism, based in Amsterdam. s333 believes that rapidly increasing urbanism is presenting new problems of land use, spatial and economic organisation. It is a multidisciplinary organisation working within this emerging market, combining solutions drawn from architecture, urbanism and socio-economics.
Elena Pascolo
Unit/Programme:Housing & Urbanism (H&U)
Bio: Elena Pascolo trained and practised in the fields of housing, urban planning and policy development, both in South Africa and London. She is a practising architect in London and is developing research on transactive urbanism and on irregular and informal urban conditions.
Claudia Pasquero
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 10
Bio: graduated from Turin Polytechnic on 2000, and consequently completed the AA EE Master Programme, she is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio (www.ecoLogicStudio.com) with which she has recently completed a public librarasdasdy in Cirie' (Turin) and in 2006 has been participating to the London and to the Venice Architectural Biennale with an installation called STEM. Claudia has been teaching and lecturing internationally including East London University, Turin Polytechnic, The Kingston University (London), UDLA (Puebla, Mexico City), IAAC (Barcelona), ITU (Istanbul), Bilgi University (Istanbul) and others. Her work is online on: http://blog.tropicalondon.co.uk/
Christos Passas
Unit/Programme:DRL Course Tutor
Bio: Christos Passas graduated from the AAs first Graduate Design programme in 1998. As associate director at Zaha Hadid Architects, he led the design for the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, among many other prestigious projects.
Edgar Payan Pacheco
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Barak Pelman
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Barak Pelman studied architecture in Tel-Aviv University and at Helsinki University of Technology, and trained in traditional and contemporary crafting techniques, working with various building materials including iron, wood, concrete and earth. He won several design awards and has exhibited works at the Helsinki Museum of Architecture and at the International Biennale of Architecture in Bat-Yam.
Fernando Perez Fraile
Unit/Programme:Technical Studies (TS)
Bio: Fernando Perez Fraile studied architecture in Spain and started his professional career at Frank O. Gehry and Associates (Los Angeles). He joined IDOM in 1993 to become responsible for the external cladding of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. He was executive architect of the Marqués de Riscal Hotel, also designed by Frank Gehry. In 2001 he moved to London to set up IDOM UK, a multidisciplinary practice with a wide range of projects, including masterplanning, transport and housing. Fernando has taught at the University of Navarre and collaborates with the Technical Studies Department of the AA since 2002.
Christopher Pierce
Unit/Programme:Intermediate 9, Visiting School, History & Theory Studies
Bio: Christopher Pierce studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Among his recent publications are essays on Jordi Bonet Armengol, ‘Gaudi’s Gatekeeper’ (2011) and Cero 9, ‘Bump and Grind’ (2011). He formed Mis- Architecture (mis-architecture. co.uk) with Christopher Matthews in 2000.