Museum of Emotions

Karin Fendt is a Director at Kuehn Malvezzi, a Berlin-based practice she joined in 2002, just one year after its founding. A graduate of TU Dresden, she has played a key role in shaping the firm’s distinctive approach—one that responds with conceptual clarity to complex cultural and political contexts. Fendt’s work is grounded in a deep interest in the pre-existing, not as something to be preserved in static form, but as a living condition to be reinterpreted and adapted to contemporary realities. This philosophy is evident in her contributions to projects such as the intervention at the Berlinische Galerie, the renovation of the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the extension of the Saarland Museum, and the administrative building in Oberhausen. She was also involved in Kuehn Malvezzi’s celebrated proposal for the Humboldt Forum competition in Berlin, which was awarded a special prize. Through her longstanding commitment to the practice, Fendt has helped develop Kuehn Malvezzi’s reputation for intellectually rigorous, culturally responsive architecture across exhibitions, museums, and public institutions.

Bartosz Haduch is an architect, academic teacher, publicist, winner of numerous architecture competitions, awards, and scholarships. Following his studies and internships in Holland, Spain and Austria, he launched his own studio in Krakow, Poland. Since 2009, he has run the interdisciplinary collective NArchitekTURA, which combines urban planning with architecture, landscaping and design. In 2010, the Wallpaper* magazine named NArchitekTURA one of the world’s thirty most intriguing young studios. In 2021 The Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oswiecim, designed by the practice, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award.

Johana Mendoza Rodriguez, AIA International Associate, is an Ecuadorian architect and architectural illustrator based in Seattle, United States. She serves as an Architectural Designer at Olson Kundig, contributing to complex residential and cultural projects through design development, research, and advanced visual representation. Her independent body of architectural illustration has gained international recognition, with work featured in leading design publications and awarded in global competitions. Operating at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and narrative, her work explores how spatial atmosphere and human presence shape meaningful environments. Johana has been invited to serve as a juror for multiple international architecture competitions, bringing a perspective that values conceptual clarity, contextual intelligence, and visual precision. Through both professional practice and representation, she advocates for architecture that is environmentally responsive, culturally grounded, and rigorously conceived.

Gary Polk is a practicing architect in the United States and a Senior Designer at Bjarke Ingels Group in Brooklyn, New York, where he has led the development of several large-scale projects across the U.S., the Middle East, Japan, and China. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. An active academic, he has taught seminars and design studios at Pratt Institute and Penn, served as an invited critic at schools around the East Coast such as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Pratt, and Penn, and mentors emerging designers through the CDP Mentor Program. He has a particular interest in emerging digital technologies and representation techniques that engage narrative and speculation, and his work has been recognized by Archiprix International, The Charette, AD Magazine, and KoozArch.

José Luis Pérez Hermo is a Senior Lead Architect at Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna, where he contributes to forward-thinking international projects that explore the boundaries of architecture, technology, and design innovation. With dual degrees in Architecture and Building Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia—where he graduated with distinction—he also completed advanced studies at ENS and ESITC in Paris. His work spans multidisciplinary projects, including Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, set to become the largest airport in the world with a projected capacity of over 260 million passengers annually. Specializing in BIM, computational design, and the integration of AI in the AEC sector, Pérez Hermo has been recognized for his pioneering contributions, including receiving First Prize as Emerging AI Designer from the platform Parametric Architecture, positioning him among a new generation of global design talent.

Noa Raviv is an artist and designer based in New York. Her background is in fashion and art and her practice spans sculpture, installation, textiles, and text. Her work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Mingei Museum in San Diego, the Israel Museum and Hansen House in Jerusalem, and the Holon Design Museum. She has lectured at institutions including the Anchorage Museum, Glasgow School of Art, RSID in Toronto, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Parsons School of Design, SVA, Shenkar College, and the MODA Design Museum in Atlanta. Her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, The Cut, BBC, Wired, Nylon, Dezeen, Fast Company, TimeOut, and The Met Museum’s Manus x Machina catalog.

Eleni Sousoni is the director and co-founder of Yellow Cloud Studio, an award winning, design-led architecture practice based in London, working on residential, commercial and cultural projects internationally. The studio aspires to create an architectural language that is grounded on the seamless symbiosis of form and function, using natural light and materiality as the main tools. She is an associate lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts, teaching Design Studio with a focus on conceptual development that prioritises spatial experience. She is currently part of the Architectural Association’s Summer School, Urbanity from the Ocean, focusing on the coastal development of the Cycladic archipelagos. Her studio's ongoing academic research on visual immersive technologies as an emerging design tool, titled Embodied Vision, has been presented on various university platforms. She is passionate about new sustainable materialities, narrative studies, the political role of architecture and the complex contextual theoretical frame that informs quality design.

Lei Zheng is an associate at Zaha Hadid Architects. She has extensive experience in engineering and architecture projects in China, participating as a consulting engineer on a number of international competitions. Lei’s research has focused on the capability of new digital technologies to investigate the relationship between architecture and engineering in buildings in urban scenarios. Lei is a course lecturer at the Architectural Association, where she teaching technical studies, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Bartlett, where she teaches computational design,. She has an engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Science in Emergent Technologies and design from the Architectural Association.

Wu Ziye is co-founder of Nanjing, China-based Mix Architecture and Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wu Ziye founded Mix Architecture with Zhou Suning and Tang Tao in 2016. The studio is committed to exploring the possibility of architecture in various contexts to respond to the most primitive emotional and spiritual needs of human beings. The design of Mix connects imagination and reality. Through the exploration of the spirit of the site and the sensitive creation of material construction, it enters into the deep consciousness of the space situation, allowing people, architecture and nature to have an internal integration. Wu Ziye and the works of Mix Architecture have won several important architectural awards including Finalist LEAF Awards 2018, The AMP Award landscape design of the year 2018, A’DESIGN AWARD Platinum Award 2019, the Hong Kong A&D Awards 2020,and Architizer A+Awards 2022.