Born (1974) in Punta Arenas, Chile. Graduated Cum Laude (2001) at Universidad Central, Santiago, Chile. Assistant teacher in two universities in Santiago 1999-2002; built an extension for GE offices in Santiago 2001 and worked as project manager in the “Santiago Library Project” in 2002. Her work was exhibited at “Air project” -an urban installation over the metro’s ventilation-, and in ‘Mobility’ Biennale Rotterdam 2003. During 2003, worked in Stefano Boeri Arch, Milano, and in Sadar-Vuga Arch, Ljubljana. She has also been included in collective exhibitions in KW Berlin; Biennale Venezia; Mobility Biennale Rotterdam and Koper, Slovenia. Her main research focus is the potential of architecture as an urban articulator: When the architectural installation acts not only as an object, but as a key piece within the city’s integration - aiming at the activation of dead places, social interaction and appropriation of the city.

Born (1979) Holland. Graduated Cum laude at Design Academy after having performed two internships in Berlin for Buro Kiefer and b+m+s (landscape architecture studios). Joined the Berlage Institute 2002 also collaborating with independent projects ‘Urban Gallery’ (with Raoul van Bunschoten), ‘Border Devices’ (with Stefano Boeri) and ’34 km of Adriatic Coast’ (with Bostjan Vuga). Belzer’s work was exhibited in Turin and Milan, Italy; and Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Holland. Awarded in several competitions and featured in magazines such as Elle, Frame, Detail in Architectuur…

Born (1973) Munich, Germany. Graduated in architecture at the Fachhochschule München and finished practical training in Berlin. After receiving the diploma, in 2000, worked among others Munich offices, for Prof. Otto Steidle and Laundau+Kindelbacher.

In 2002 started studying at the Berlage with the support of a DAAD scholarship, where she has been developing a study on architectural interventions operating as information mediators, which reflect and interact with all the communication processes among the citizens. That means a very flexible almost breathing structure can be established in urban focuses. These interactions are proposed generating mirroring processes that activate participation and communication in public space within a City.

Her work has been exhibited at the first architectural Biennale Rotterdam 2003 and at ’Territories’ at Berlin Kunstwerke 2003

Born (1972) Poland. Studied Architecture and Design at Academy of Arts Stuttgart, Germany and at the UEL (London,GB). Worked for several offices in Germany, main field of responsibility was competition and exhibition design. Since October 2002 Skaba has participated in the Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (Netherlands).

Born (1975) Kempten, Germany. Received BA in architecture at University Wuppertal (Germany) in “001. While studying, performed a practice semester at the office brandlhuber + Kniess b&k, worked as assistant to Prof.Claus Bury; and as a freelancer at the atelier of Tony Cragg and at various offices in Cologne,Düsseldorf and Wuppertal developing individual projects.

In 2002 Claudia Strahl received the DAAD Scholarship and joined the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She also participated at Architecture Biennale “Mobility” in Rotterdam.

Born (1976) Bogotá, Colombia. BA in Architecture at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in March 2001. She joined the Berlage Institute in 2002 where she has been developing her course researching on the subject of architecture as an element not to be made but to be discovered through the study of the different stimuli produced by the city and its individuals (such as the space-time and its ambiance). This study is an approach to fields of observation that until recently where considered not relevant to architecture but have a great deal of information and methodologies useful to the practice.