Sebastian Khourian was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1969. Received his Architect Degree from Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 1994, scholar of National Department of Education and the Austrian Academic Exchange Service during 1995 to study at Technical University Vienna, Guest Student of Architects Enric Miralles and Peter Cook at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Staedelschule in Frankfurt/M, Germany from September 1995 to March 1997, Second Candidate at the Organization of American States Scholarship Program and Scholar of the Fulbright Commission and National Fund for The Arts to study at the Master in Advance Architectural Design, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University New York, where graduated in 1998 with the honor Price for Excellence in Design.

In 1998, back in Argentina, starts his academic activity at the Center of Studies of Contemporary Architecture (CEAC) at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, co-directing LabDisDig (Digital Design Lab) responsible to organize, coordinate and direct activities related to de use of new digital techniques and tools applied to design.

In 1999 under the sponsorship of the CEAC, developed El Retiro project, a proposal for Plaza San Martin in Buenos Aires with Architect Clorindo Testa, also with the Ceac undertakes a research project about infrastructural systems in the area called Valentín Alsina in Buenos Aires, that becomes the catalyzer for the theoretical/operative ideas of Meshworks, a field of design practice that co-directed till the year 2000.

During the year 1999 and part of 2000 was involved in the Project Development Team of the Metropolitan Design Center, initiated by the Department of Industry, Commerce and Work of Buenos Aires City Government.

Since 2001 is teaching at the Landscape Urbanism MA Program at the Architectural Association in London UK. In 2002 was awarded Second Prize by Building Design/Corus for the Young Architect of the Year Award, London, UK.

Currently is establishing his practice in Barcelona and engaging in an academic affiliation with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.

BERNARD CACHÉ

Bernard Cache (1958) graduated at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Institut de Philosophie, under the direction of Gilles Deleuze, and at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales.

He is the founder of the Digital Production Workshop (Master Program) at the Escuela Superior d’Arquitectura in Barcelona and was its director from 2000-2001. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris, and the Institut Français de la Presse.

In 2002 Cache founded the Architecture Office Objectile, a digital architecture lab creating tools and technologies needed for non-standard design and manufacture. Prior to this he was Senior Consultant, and thereafter Director of research for digital technologies, with the Bureau d’Informations et de Prévisions Economiques in Paris. This is a strategic consultancy for private companies and state institutions among which Philips, Canal Plus, France Telecom and France Television.

The main projects Cache has been working on are the Pallas House in Kuala Lumpur, an extension to Schiphol Airport with Ove Arup, the doors for the Ecole Charles Beaudelaire in Paris, and the Philibert De L1Orme Pavilion.

His work is widely published in magazines including L1architecture d1Aujourd1hui, Perspecta, ANY and De Architect. Objectile has recently exhibited at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, at IFA in Paris and at Columbia University in New York.