Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas. Dutch-born Pritzker prize winning architect.

Donald Chong is a graduate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, currently practicing in Toronto. In 2004, he founded Donald Chong Studio having worked previously in the offices of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, and Hariri Pontarini Architects. He maintains a multidisciplinary approach to his studio, set forth by previous design collaborations including work on Delirious New York with Nigel Smith and Rem Koolhaas, and the development of Maya at Alias/Wavefront. Donald was a visiting architectural professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Frale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and has also taught at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Syllabus Program. With Brigitte Shim, he co-edited the book "Site Unseen: Laneway Architecture and Urbanism in Toronto which was the recipient of the City of Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Award of Excellence in 2003.

Kate Orff is a landscape architect based in lower Manhattan, and an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, leading studios that integrate the earth sciences into the design curriculum. She aims to create urban landscapes that are culturally rich, ecologically and programmatically textured, and interwoven into the surrounding urban network. After graduating from the University of Virginia with Distinction, Kate Orff earned a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. She has worked on projects for many prominent academic institutions and private clients that have been published nationally and internationally. She trained for several years with the landscape architecture and planning firm Hargreaves Associates and with the Dutch architect/urbanist Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and founded the design office SCAPE in New York City shortly thereafter.

Luis Barragán (1902-1988) was one of the most influential designers to come out of Mexico in the twentieth century. Though the power and beauty of his work in light and space has a clear regional provenance, the lessons Barragán's work teaches have made converts of an international crew of disciples including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry. Vivid colors and textures typify his brand of the International Style, and his masterworks include the Torri Satélite towers in Mexico City, a convent in Tlálpan, his own home in Mexico City, and Folke Egerstrom House and Stables. He also worked as an urban planner and landscape architect, collaborating with Louis Kahn on the grounds of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1980 after a 1977 MoMA retrospective revived interest in his career.