Kashef Chowdhury führt in Dhaka das Architekturbüro URBANA, das seit 1995 ein international vielbeachtetes und preisgekröntes Werk geschaffen hat. Für das Friendship Centre in Gaibandha wurde er mit dem Aga Khan Architecture Award 2016 ausgezeichnet. Robert McCarter ist praktizierender Architekt und Professor für Architektur an der Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Alejandro Aravena
is an architect and executive director of the architecture firm Elemental S.A. in Providencia, Chile. He is the 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate and has been director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2016.
Kashef Chowdhury
founded his Dhaka-based firm URBANA in 1995. He has twice been finalist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has won various other prizes for his work, including the Architectural Review's 2012 Emerging Architecture Award.
Robert McCarter
is an architect and professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. He is also a prolific writer and author of monographs on eminent architects, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Aldo van Eyck, Steven Holl, Louis I. Kahn, and Frank Lloyd Wright.