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Marco Vanucci is an architect and founder of OPENSYSTEMS Architecture. He studied architecture in Italy and UK and has worked for various international offices, including Zaha Hadid Architects and AKTII. Marco has taught architectural technology at KTH Stockholm and has led design studios at the Architectural Association in London. He currently teach at the Welsh School of Architecture. His work focuses on the relationship between architecture, computation and craft and has been widely exhibited. Marco has lectured and is regular guest critic in several architectural Universities in the UK and Europe.

Manuel Orazi is an historian and critic of architecture. He works for the Italian publishing house Quodlibet, based in Macerata, as editor and teaches at the University of Ferrara and at the Accademia di Architettura USI in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He published, together with Yona Friedman, The Dilution of Architecture (Zurich, Park Books 2015), edited the book by Rem Koolhaas, Études sur (ce qui s'appelait autrefois) la ville (Paris, Payot 2017) and contributed to LAN, Napoli Super Modern (Zurich, Park Books 2020). He also writes on "Log", "Domus" and the Italian newspaper "Il Foglio".


Anna Muzychak has been working in architectural practice and teaching in London since graduating from the Architectural Association in 2015. She founded her own design practice, Ania Chak Studio, in 2019 to work on residential and commercial projects in Eastern Europe and London. Prior to that, she worked for Ben Adams Architects on numerous commercial and mixed-use projects in London and the wider region. Anna is co- unit master of Diploma 21 and Studio Master in the first year programme at the Architectural Association school of Architecture.



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