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Sylvie Taher
Unit/Programme:History & Theory Studies
Bio: Sylvie Taher is a writer and architect based in London. She trained at the AA where she wrote a thesis titled ‘Architects Versus the City or the Problem of Chaos’. She has since written for Publica, The Architectural Review, AA Files and Blueprint.
Albert Taylor
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Albert Taylor is a cofounder of AKT II, a design-led structural engineering practice working on international projects with renowned architects such as David Chipperfield Architects, Foreign Office Architects, Future Systems and Zaha Hadid Architects.
Piers Taylor
Unit/Programme:Design + Make
Bio: Piers Taylor is an architect, a founding partner of award-winning architects Mitchell Taylor Workshop, a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, the organiser of the annual Studio in the Woods, and Studio Master for the AA graduate programme Design and Make.

He established the summer school 'Studio in the Woods' in 2005, which is concerned with testing ideas through making at 1:1. Groups of architecture students work alongside practicing architects and using a constrained predetermined kit of parts spend several days building occupiable structures at 1:1 designed to expose, reveal, measure and describe an aspect of the landscape.

His own house, a self-build timber-framed project, is constructed on a site in a forest with no car access and won the AJ Small Projects Award in 2009. It addresses issues of a fragile woodland ecosystem and is the result of analysis of the watertable, wind patterns, rainfall and sunlight.
Jeffrey Turko
Unit/Programme:on sabbatical-Diploma Unit 12
Bio: Jeffrey P. Turko is founder of the design practice NEKTON, which showed work in the Architectural Biennial Beijing 2008 and was long-listed for the Young Architects of the Year Award 2008. He is also a member in OCEAN, with whom he has been an instrumental collaborator on projects such as Landsc[r]aper Urban Ring Bridge and the World Centre for Human Concerns. He received the AA Diploma in 1999.