GALLERY・MA

Paulo David
Born in Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal, in 1959. Graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon's Faculty of Architecture in 1989. Worked with architects Gonçalo Byrne and Joáo Luis Carrilho da Graça in Lisbon. Returned to Funchal in 1996 to be a consultant at Funchal's City Hall in the Strategic Department for Historical Center Projects. Created Paulo David Arquitectos in 2003. Taught at the Art and Design and Civil Engineering Departments of Madeira University from 2001 to 2009. Received several architectural prizes for Casa das Mudas: Mies Van der Rohe Award 2005, Selected Work; Fad Iberian Architecture Award 2005, Finalist; and Enor Award for Architecture in Portugal 2005, 1st Edition.

Sean Godsell
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1960. Graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne in 1984. Spent much of 1985 traveling in Japan and Europe and worked in London from 1986 to 1988 for Sir Denys Lasdun. Returned to Melbourne in 1989 and worked for the Hassell Group. Formed Godsell Associates Pty Ltd Architects in 1994. Obtained a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University in 1999. Received numerous local and international awards, including AIA Record Houses Award for Excellence in USA for Glenburn House in 2008. He is currently working on projects in China and Australia and his first major building, the RMIT University Design Hub, a postgraduate research centre for design, is currently under construction in Melbourne.

Kerry Hill
Born in Australia in 1943. Graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1968 and relocated to Asia in 1971. Founded Kerry Hill Architects, a Singapore-based architecture and interior design practice, in 1979. The practice has three partners in two locations, with offices in Singapore and Western Australia. Has received many awards, including the Gold Medal by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects for his practical achievements of many years in 2006. The projects have been carried out in most areas of Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Cambodia, as well as regionally in Australia, India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Japan. More recent commissions include projects in Turkey, Croatia, Jordan, Egypt, Spain, and Morocco.

Junya Ishigami
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1974. Received M. F. A. in Architecture at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. Worked for Kazuyo Sejima & Associates from 2000 to 2004. Established junya.ishigami+associates in 2004. Lecturer at the Tokyo University of Science in 2009. He has received many awards, including the SD Prize, SD Review and Kirin Prize, Kirin Art Project in 2005, Iakov Chernikhov International Prize, Kanagawa Cultural Award and Architecural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture in 2008, Contract World Award, Bauwelt Prize and Architectural Institute of Japan Prize in 2009, and Golden Lion of the best project of the Exhibition, the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale in 2010.

Tom Kundig
Born in 1954. Principal/ Owner, Olson Kundig Architects. Seattle-based architect, Tom Kundig's work encompasses residential, institutional, and commercial buildings around the world. His signature detailing and raw, kinetic constructions explore new forms of engagement with site and landscape. He is the recipient of many notable awards, including the 2008 National Design Award in Architecture Design, awarded by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His firm received the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects).

Smiljan Radic
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1965. Graduated from the Catholic University of Chile in 1989 and studied at the Architectural Institute of Venice University. Chosen as the Best Chilean Architect under 35 by the College of Architects of Chile in 2001, selected to be part of Architectural Record's Design Vanguard 2008, and named Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects in 2009. Has given numerous conferences and held expositions, and his work has been published in various magazines; a monograph of his recent work was edited by 2G in Spain. Currently works together with the sculptor Marcela Correa.

RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta ARQUITECTES
Rafael Aranda (born in 1961 in Olot, Spain), Carme Pigem (born in 1962 in Olot), and Ramon Vilalta (born in 1960 in Vic, Spain) finished their studies in architecture at the School of Architecture of Valle (ETSAV) in 1987, and in 1988 began their own studio, RCR ARQUITECTES, in Olot. Received the Architecture National Award of 2005 in Catalonia and Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres 2008 de la Repúblique Française. Elevated as Honorary Fellows by the American Institute of Architecture in 2010. Have won various national and international competitions ranging from a Lighthouse in Punta Aldea in 1988, the Meditel new headquarters in Casablanca to the most recent Crematorium of Hofheide in Belgium, The Edge Business Bay in Dubai, and the Soulages Museum in France.

Guest Curator
Ken Tadashi Oshima
Born in Colorado, USA in 1965. Graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in East Asian Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies, M. Arch. degree from U. C. Berkeley and Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Columbia University. Currently Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. Publications include Arata Isozaki (Phaidon, 2009), International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku (UW Press, 2009), Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century (a+u two-volume special issue 2000). He is an author for the Museum of Modern Art Exhibition, Home Delivery, curator of the exhibition SANAA: Beyond Borders, and co-curator of Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noėmi Raymond.