People

Siënna Veelders

Siënna is a consultant and urban heritage professional at STIPO, focussing on creating awareness for the soul of the place in urban challenges. Due to a lack of the…

Inge Goudsmit

Inge Goudsmit is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is teaching and conducting research in architecture and urban…

Nuno Soares

Nuno Soares is an architect and urban planner based in Macau since 2003, spreading his practice through architectural design, teaching, and research. He is the coordinator of the…

Francesco Rossini

Francesco Rossini is an architect and urban designer and since 2013 he is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong…

Doreen Liu

Doreen is a Chinese architect born in Guangzhou. She received her MArch from UC Berkeley in 1994 and Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design in…

Margaret Crawford

Margaret Crawford is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Urban Design Program at UC Berkeley, teaching courses in history and theory of architecture, urbanism and urban history…

Alain Chiaradia

Alain is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning and Design (DUPAD). He is the Programme Director of the…

Jia Ping-Lee

Jia-Ping is the founder of Tempatico, a place consultancy that develops strategy for urban and corporate places. She is also the Chairperson of Placemaking Malaysia (launched in 2021…

Peter Ferretto

Peter W. Ferretto is an Associate Professor and Director of the Masters of Architecture Programme at the School of Architecture at CUHK. He was Associate Professor of Architecture…

Jose Luis Vallejo

Jose Luis Vallejo and Belinda tato are founders and directors of the firm ecosistema urbano established in 2000 and currently with offices in Madrid, Boston and Miami. They…

Hans Karssenberg

Founding partner of STIPO, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Athens Hans Karssenberg (1970) is founding partner at STIPO, board member of Placemaking Europe and of PlacemakingX. He has initiated the global…

Hendrik Tieben

Hendrik Tieben is an urban designer, researcher and educator devoted to the creation of healthy and inclusive cities. He is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the…

Ethan Kent

Ethan Kent works to support placemaking leadership and impact around the world, to grow the global placemaking movement and build systemic change towards place-led urbanization. In 2019 he…

Kate Meyrick

Kate is a passionate urbanist and place maker with more than 25 years of international experience working throughout Australia, as well as Asia, Europe and the United States.…

Filipe Afonso

Filipe Afonso studied Mathematics and Architecture in Porto and Barcelona. In 2006 he co-founded Arquitectos Anónimos®, an architecture studio that produces its work as a kind of individual…

Wendy Ran Wu

Wendy Wu is the director of UPRD, the research department of URBANUS Architecture & Design, she’s the assistant curator of 2017 Nantou UABB and the project manager of…

Sarah Mui

Sarah is a Co-Founder and Design Director of One Bite Design Studio and One Bite Social. She received a Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree from the Chinese University…

Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist|architect who studied at the University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, and is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT. He founded Land+Civilization Compositions, a Hong Kong and Shenzhen based…

Gianni Talamini

Dr Gianni Talamini is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong, where he leads the Master of Urban Design and Regional Planning. Gianni does research…

Ximena Ocampo

Ximena is an architect graduated from Tec de Monterrey, she studied an MSc in City Design and Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science,…

Pablo Sendra

Dr Pablo Sendra is an architect and urban designer. He is an Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He combines his academic career with professional…

Mahyar Arefi

Mahyar Arefi has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington for four and at the University of Cincinnati for sixteen years. He also co-edits Urban Design International. …

Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Miodrag Mitrašinović is Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Miodrag is the co-editor of “The emerging public realm of the Greater…

Matthew Carmona

Matthew Carmona is Professor of Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett, UCL. He is an architect / planner with research interests in the fields of urban design…