2017 DRIA open competition

Amy Chester
AMY CHESTER is the Managing Director for Rebuild by Design, an organization formed to run the Hurricane Sandy Design Competition, which resulted in over $1 billion in awards from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to seven projects to address structural and social vulnerabilities. Now working with 100 Resilient Cities, Rebuild is bringing its approach to cities in the U.S. and around the world.

Juan Sádaba
As an Architect, Urban Planner and Industrial Designer Juan Sádaba understands design as a creative strategy to solve problems and create intelligent beauty. This approach can be applied equally on the different scales of design problems, trespassing the classical boundaries between disciplines.

Seetha Raghupathy
Seetha Raghupathy received her Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Architecture from Anna University, India. She is currently a consultant with the World Bank and is the Project Coordinator for its City Planning Labs initiative in Indonesia. Prior to the World Bank, she was a Senior Urban Designer in AECOM’s Singapore studio, where she worked on key projects in the region including Tengah New Town, a large public housing project for the Housing and Development Board; Changi Airport Land Use Study that addressed its expansion and the River of Life project in Kuala Lumpur that will transform the Klang River into an active and sustainable riverfront apart from other mixed use projects. She is also a visiting lecturer at the National University of Singapore.

José Fernando Rubio
José Fernando Rubio is an architect graduated in 1995 from the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He obtained his Master's degree in Urban Design and Planning from the Barcelona_Tech University in 2011 and he is currently PhD candidate at the National University of Colombia.

Ombeni Swai
Dr. Ombeni Swai is an architect and a researcher specialized in Urban Design, sustainable cities, informal urbanism, architectural analysis and urban transformation. He has more than ten years’ experience in both teaching and working in architectural practices both in Tanzania and abroad.

Ng San Son
Mr Ng San Son is a Senior Associate Director in DP Architects Pte Ltd.
He is also teaches at the National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture on a part-time basis and serves as an advisor in the SAFRA Tampines Executive Committee.

Balimu Pauline Mwiya
Dr Mwiya is a holder of a Doctor of Philosophy in Construction Management. She has a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Construction Management from the University of Zambia, and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Building from the Copperbelt University. She also has an Associate degree in Software Engineering from University of Advancing Computer Technology in Tempe, Arizona, USA. She is a Registered Quantity Surveyor and a member of the Surveyors Institute of Zambia. In addition, she is a Registered Engineer and a member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia. She is also a member of Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering.

Ko Nakamura
Ko Nakamura is an architect, designer and researcher represent his own firm Mosaic Design.
He was born in Tokyo in 1978, he received PhD and M.Arch from Waseda University (JP) and B.Arch from Nihon University (JP). After his graduation, He had been teaching at Nobuaki Furuya Lab at Waseda University 2007-2010 and Kengo Kuma lab and TADS (Advanced Design Studies) at the University of Tokyo 2010-2016, in both lab he lead many architectural projects with professors and students. And from 2017, he started teaching at IAUD, Meiji University(JP) which is advanced design course of architecture educated in English.

Dorothy Tang
Dorothy Tang is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong where she directs the undergraduate landscape program. Her practice and research focus on the intersections of regional infrastructure, urban development, and environmental change in developing countries. Her work engages issues of regional environmental degradation in relation to industrial activities; the shifting role of villages in China’s recent rural development; urban infrastructure and the design of open space systems; and the impact of climate change on hydro-politics and infrastructure in Asian deltaic regions.

José began
José began his professional career in urban design/architectural with several studies and projects in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca. In 2008 he created his own firm “DOSA Estudio”. That same year he moved to northwestern Mexico to live amongst an indigenous community in the Sierra Tarahumara. There, among other things, he carried out environmental management projects including water catchment. He also developed some smaller scale design projects in Mexico City. After his experience in Mexico, he returned to Ecuador and joined the Ministry of Urban Development (MIDUVI) where he was responsible for large-scale urban projects and city management, including the new Land use and urban law. He first assumed a role as ministerial adviser and to later become the Undersecretary of Habitat and Human Settlements and Director of Land Valuation and Cadaster at the same Ministry. He is currently he engage in teaching, urban research at different universities, and develops projects and studies at his own firm.

Jens Aerts
Jens Aerts is an urban planning and policy expert, currently assisting the Division Data, Research and Policy at UNICEF HQ to develop a Global Urban Strategic Framework. He works on the cross-section of practice, policy and research, with 18 years of experience in the Benelux, Spain and New York. He trained as civil engineer and architect at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and later as urban planner at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (Spain).

Kenya Endo
Kenya Endo is a landscape architect and urban designer at Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, based in Singapore, since 2013. Prior to joining RSD, he obtained Mater in Environmental Studies from University of Tokyo, Japan, and Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, USA.

Lorenzo Chelleri
Lorenzo Chelleri is a multidisciplinary senior researcher in urban studies, chairing the Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet) and appointed as lecturer at the International University of Catalonia (UIC).

Francesco Rossini
Francesco Rossini is an architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He graduated with honors from University of Naples. In 2014 he completed his PhD (cum laude) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC – Barcelona).

Alejandro Castro Mazarro
Alejandro Castro Mazarro received his degree in Architecture from the University of Seville (Spain), a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York, and a Phd in Architecture from the University of Alcala in Madrid. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, and a partner of the architecture office BuroA. At GSAPP, he coordinated the Latin Lab research group from 2010 to 2016, and teaches seminars and studios. In addition to GSAPP, he has taught at Harvard University, the Pratt Institute, the Technical University Darmstadt, the Institute of Urbanism of Grenoble, the International University of Catalunya in Barcelona, and Escola de Cidade (São Paulo).