坂茂在11岁因为手工纸模型建筑获得学校奖赏而开始下决心以后成为建筑师。坂茂大学在东京艺术大学度过，后又在美国西海岸的SCI-Arc和东海岸的The Cooper Union经历了两种截然不同的建筑教育，毕业的他在没有任何工作经验的情况下回东京开设了自己的事务所。现在，他的事务所已经在巴黎和纽约拥有分部，项目涵盖小住宅，博物馆，会议中心，办公楼等宽广的建筑范围。

Barozzi Veiga，是一家巴塞罗那的建筑事务所，由创始人Fabrizio Barozzi和Alberto Veiga，于2004年成立。在国际上从事公共和私人委托工程，主要设计文化、公民和教育建筑，而他们的作品已被广泛展出以及在专业媒体上发表。Fabrizio Barozzi和Alberto Veiga常就他们的理论背景和设计方法进行演讲，并参加世界各地的学术活动。

设计的构思是源于历史和创新

Bak Gordon Architects is based in Lisbon and was founded in 2002 by Ricardo Bak Gordon. Since then the studio is working on projects of different scales, programs and typologies. In all projects it explores, with rigor and precision, a vision that is simultaneously poetic and technical, as well as carefully related with the site and the public space, subjects that all projects necessarily deal with.

Bundschuh Architekten is an international architecture and design firm based in Berlin. “All Life is problem-solving”― Karl Popper’s famous dictum provides insight not only into our method of approaching architecture, but also into the underlying aim that drives our practice. We understand ourselves as problem solvers, unhindered by preconceived notions of form, aesthetics, or the necessities of historic contextualism.

"Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it"

Designers should have a keen and strong ability to observe and feel