Solatube International, Inc., widely recognized as the daylighting industry innovator, has earned worldwide acclaim for its unrivaled ability to transform interior spaces with natural light. Based in California, the company is the leading manufacturer and marketer of tubular daylighting devices (TDDs) for all types of residential and commercial applications. The first to patent a tubular daylighting device, or tubular skylight, Solatube International continues to innovate with groundbreaking products that increase energy efficiency and light output, such as the award-winning Smart LED System and the high output SkyVault Series. Solatube Daylighting Systems are distributed through a national network of Premier Dealers, who provide free in-home consultations and complete installation services.

Alterstudio Architecture of Austin, Texas, focuses its attention on the relationship between the material facts of architecture and the social occasions it shelters and invites. The work is rooted in deep-seated virtues of architecture—rich, generous spacemaking, shrewd manipulation of daylighting, and meticulous attention to detail. The heightening of direct human experience and the framing of the complex circumstances of their situations are at the core of each project.

Matt Fajkus Architecture (MF Architecture) is an award-winning and licensed architecture and interior design practice that welcomes residential and commercial projects, both small and large. The design work of Matt Fajkus Architecture is based on the belief that each project is unique and it should be driven by the client, the site, and the functional requirements, rather than a singular, preconceived aesthetic. The firm aims for clear and simple solutions to complex problems by blending expertise and creativity. The practice brings collaborative energy to every project and is simultaneously an academic think tank directly connected to theoretical and technological research at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, while also practicing with a deep focus on realizing exceptional buildings. MF Architecture possesses advanced knowledge in sustainable design principles, including energy-efficient strategies, passive daylighting, and intelligent material choices to promote healthy indoor air quality. The office believes that the current sustainability-driven era is the most all-encompassing movement since Modernism, as it reaches to all scales of design including lifestyle choices. Thus, the firm is driven by the optimism that we live in an ideal time to affect positive change locally and globally, all accomplished by intelligent design. MF Architecture promotes a transparent design process including a direct collaboration with client and builder. Likewise, the firm fosters honesty and functionality in design itself, with a belief in balancing restraint and expression in broad design moves as well as material choices and composition. The firm enthusiastically takes on the unique challenges presented by each project to inspire highly creative, cost-effective solutions meant to enhance building performance and daily life as a whole. Matt Fajkus Architecture has been recognized nationally, state wide, and locally in Austin with numerous design awards from the National American Institute of Architects (AIA), Texas Society of Architects, AIA Austin, and others. Most notably, Westlake Dermatology Marble Falls medical office building achieved a 2019 AIA National Design Award, and Filtered Frame Dock has received 10 design awards since its completion. MF Architecture projects have been featured widely in scholarly, popular, and trade publications, as well as on the AIA Austin Home Tour and Austin Modern Home Tour. Our work reaches a wide audience through its concept-driven generation and crafted execution - all disseminated through frequent publication in articles featuring our clients in regional print publications such as Austin Business Journal and Austin Chronicle. These publications include nationally and internationally recognized media outlets including Architectural Record, Dwell Magazine, Texas Architect, Wallpaper*, and The Wall Street Journal.

Our office is dedicated to the creation of new paradigms for sustainable development. We use a holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic relationship with the natural environment -- a philosophy we've termed "global environmental contextualism." This approach, which takes into consideration building orientation, daylighting, generation of wind power, solar absorption, and a site's geothermal properties, represents a fundamental change in the design process, in which form facilitates performance. It's predicated on the understanding that everything within the built and natural environment is connected, and that a building's design should stem from an understanding of its role within that context -- locally, regionally and globally.

CTA Design Builders has been a successful architect-led, design-build practice in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. Located in Seattle, we specialize in designing custom residential homes, additions, and remodels. Whether contemporary or traditional in design, urban or rural in setting, we work with our clients to create timeless homes that become the place they most want to be. While we recently closed the construction arm of our firm, our building experience continues to inform our architectural practice with deep practical know-how. As architects, creating inspired design with you, and for you, is our primary focus. We are skilled at distilling and interpreting our client’s tastes, interests, and objectives into creating a new home or remodel that supports one’s daily life and is a unique expression of personal style. We are strong believers in the fundamentals of what makes a good home: a thoughtful spatial flow with layouts that are both functional and embody beauty and craft; good daylighting; a strong connection to the landscape; and one which creates a sense of warmth and heart in the home. We approach each project with a holistic mindset by working with you in a collaborative process to explore creative design solutions while staying attentive to your budget and overall goals. We identify potential constructability issues, assemble the appropriate team, and stay involved during the entire construction process working with contractors who share our attention to detail. From start to finish, we are your designer, advocate, and project coach.

Aldo van den Nieuwelaar is a systematic modular designer; characterized by geometric abstraction, a systematic approach and a minimal use of image resources he gets to an almost timid, more anonymous and everlasting product. Not fashionable. He believes in evergreens.By analyzing his designs you will consistenly encounter the same attributes: simplicity and clarity of form. This derives from Aldo being able to reduce the design of all his products to their very essence without losing sight of the needs for which the products are designed in the first place. In designing his lamps, he for instance takes the source of light as his starting point and for this he strongly prefers using diffuse fluorescent light as it resembles daylight in its even and less distorting brightness. As can be seen with the 'Circlelight' and the 'Outline’, these lamps are more 'light objects’ with a strong spatial almost physical energy. It can be said that Aldo van den Nieuwelaar, in his work, focuses on the analytical form, in such a way that his designs can very well be used architecturally. In this way his use of images is similar to that of minimal-art artists.

Torben Eskerod is educated from Aalborg University (1980-86) and has studied at Aarhus School of Architecture and Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen (1988-91). Eskerod’s projects find common ground in his interest for contemplation and spirituality. He is especially known for his portraits in series like Equivalence (1995),Cassadaga (2000), Register - Life and Death Masks (2001), Friends and Strangers (2006) andCampo Verano (2008). His approach to the spiritual potentials for photography is further explored in the series Marselis (2012) and Can Lis (2013). Eskerod’s work has been published in the books Ansigter / Faces (Ministry of Culture’s photographic bookprice, Forlaget Rhodos, 1997), Register (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2001),Campo Verano (Kehrer Verlag, 2008) and Marselis (Kehrer Verlag, 2014). His architectural photographs and portraits have been published widely in several different projects like Statens Museum for Kunst (Arkitektens Forlag, 1998), Vita (University of California Press, 2005), The Club, (Rönnells, 2008), Will to Live (Princeton University Press, 2009), Frederik VIIIs palæ (Aristo, 2010), Kunst på Borgen, (Permild & Rosengreen, 2013) and Anton Rosen (Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2013). Eskerod is also photo editor at Daylight & Architecture Magazine published by Velux. Eskerod has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Museum of Modern Art in Moskow, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Overgaden Institut for samtidskunst in Copenhagen, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Peter Lav Gallery in Copenhagen and Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. He has received several prices and grants and is represented in a wide range of private and public collections like the National Portrait Gallery in London, The Museum of Photography Brandts in Odense, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Torben Eskerod is represented by Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen. For a detailed bio on selected exhibitions and publications click here