Simos Yannas
Unit/Programme:Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) Director, PhD Programme
Bio: Simos Yannas has been involved in environmental design research for more than 35 years and has taught and lectured in some 30 countries. His book Roof Cooling Techniques was shortlisted for the RIBA International Book Award for Architecture. In 2001, he was awarded the PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) International Achievement Award.
Andrew Wai Tat Yau
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 16
Bio: Andrew Yau is part of Urban Future Organization, an international architecture practice research collaborative. UFO has won a number of international competitions, exhibited its work at the Venice and Beijing Biennales and was recently featured in 10X10 v. 2.
Liam Young
Unit/Programme:Diploma Unit 6, Visiting School
Bio: iam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think-tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, perverse and imaginary urbanisms. Their projects develop fictional speculations as critical instruments to survey the consequences of emerging environmental and technological futures.