Sara Broadstock, Studio Bark
Ophélie Herranz, Nomos Architects
Robert Hutchison, Robert Hutchison Architecture
Roxanne Kaye, SAOTA
Nikita Morell, Architects WordShop
Andrew Maynard, Austin Maynard Architects
Blake T. Smith, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
Daniel Toole, Daniel Toole Architecture
Patcharada Inplang and Thongchai Chansamak, Sher Maker


Sarah Broadstock
 is an architect at London-based Studio Bark. Her passion for hand-drawing is central to her design process, complimenting the team’s creativity methodology. Prior to working at Studio Bark, Sarah worked with local authorities and community groups across Yorkshire. This provided a valuable framework for understanding planning processes, policy and the complexities of delivering high quality spaces. Sarah completed a postgraduate degree in Professional Practice in Architecture in 2019, and is now a studio tutor at the University of East London. 


Ophélie Herranz is a Director of Nomos Architects in Madrid. NOMOS is a two-headed studio run by Katrien Vertenten and Lucas Camponovo in Geneva and by Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo in Madrid. Together the group works on projects of all scales. Using drawing primarily to shape their ideas, they explore new ways of creating community through buildings that seek opportunities within constraints. They approach each project with enthusiasm, care and curiosity; always striving for sustainable beauty.


Robert Hutchison
is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and BS degrees in Structural Engineering and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. After working for the Miller|Hull Partnership and serving as a principal of Hutchison & Maul Architecture, in 2013 Hutchison established the architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture. Hutchison is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the recipient of numerous honors and fellowships, including a 2017 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, a 2024 Loghaven Fellowship, a 2010 and 2021 Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowship, and the 2009 Emerging Voices awarded by The Architectural League of NY.


Roxanne Kaye is a Principal at Cape Town-based SAOTA. Roxanne completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Cape Town in 2007. She joined SAOTA directly after graduating as an architect-in training and gained early experience taking a project from concept to site. Roxanne soon established herself within the company with her ambition, work ethic and camaraderie. Her design skills, project management capabilities and devotion to delivering to the client while retaining integrity of design has seen her quickly become a senior member of staff. Roxanne was appointed as Principal at SAOTA in 2022.


Nikita Morell is a specialized copywriter for architects and Founder of Architects WordShop: an online shop dedicated to helping architects with their words. She helps architects around the world with their messaging and uncovering their ‘X factor’ (the one thing that makes them different from every other firm). Morell has a double Art/Commerce degree from University of Sydney and received a scholarship to study at Boston School of Management. She has worked in-house as a marketing/communications director at an award-winning Australian architecture firm and has been running her own consultancy for over nine years.


Andrew Maynard is Principal and Architect at Melbourne-based Austin Maynard Architects. Andrew initially established the firm in 2002. He is Tasmanian and earned his bachelor of Environmental Design and a bachelor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania. Andrew is especially interested in the way that the ubiquitous nature of media influences culture. He has been interviewed and written about in various new media, on TV and in newspapers, magazines and books. In 2014 Andrew became a founding board member, and a director, of Nightingale Housing, a social enterprise creating ethical, socially sustainable and cost effective housing. Austin Maynard Architects was named Architecture studio of the year 2022 by Dezeen.


Blake T. Smith is an architectural designer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He is an Associate and Senior Designer at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group where he has been for twelve years. From 2015-2022, he served as Project Leader for the award-winning Google Bay View Campus in Mountain View, California. Smith led the design phases before moving to California to see the project through construction. Since returning to Brooklyn, he has focused on the design of 3d printed housing typologies and developments such as the Wolf Ranch community under construction in Georgetown, TX. Smith sees the emergence of additive manufacturing in architecture as liberating for the designer and a means to confront issues such as the Americanhousing crisis and resilience for climate disaster prone regions. In addition to practicing, Smith teaches design studio and visualization at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York Institute of Technology.


Daniel Toole is Founder and Principal at Portland-based Daniel Toole Architecture. Born in Austria and raised in Portland, Daniel has traveled and worked extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Observing diverse intimate urban spaces along the way has inspired his work in architecture and urban design at all scales. Daniel started independently practicing in 2013 after receiving the Miami Design District commissions during his Master's of Architecture at Harvard’s GSD. After balancing private projects with working in other offices, he founded Daniel Toole Architecture in 2020. With over 15 years of experience, he has designed award-winning private residences, housing, and cultural buildings, as well as landscapes and master plans independently and with various internationally recognized offices including Rick Joy Architects in Tucson, Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin, Perkins + Will in Seattle, and Allied Works Architecture in Portland, before founding Daniel Toole Architecture in 2020. Daniel is an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and participates on studio reviews at universities throughout the United States and Europe.



Patcharada Inplang and Thongchai Chansamak
 are the founders of Chiangmai, Thailand-based Sher Maker.

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