Jürg Degen, head of department of urban development, Basel (CH)

Elisabeth Merk, head of department of urban development, Munich (DE)

Markus Pernthaler, Architect, Graz/Vienna (AT)

Christoph Luchsinger, Architect, Professor at the TU Vienna, Luzern/Vienna (CH)

Henri Bava, Landscape Architect, AGENCE TER, Professor at the TU Karlsruhe, Paris/Karlsruhe (FR)

Marcel Smets, Architect, Professor at the KU Leuven/Belgium (BE)

 

Michelle Provoost, Architectural Historian, Director of the International New Town

Institute (INTI) in Almere, the Netherlands (NL)

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Architect, Vienna (DE)

Alexander Schmoeger, Architect, Vienna (DE)

REPRESENTATIVE EUROPAN MAGYARORSZÁG

One representative of Europan Magyarország joins the Austrian jury to evaluate the projects submitted on the Hungarian site

Peter Istvan Balogh, Landscape Architect, Phd., Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest (HU)

Substitute: n.n.

 

One representative of Europan Kosovo joins the Austrian jury to evaluate the projects submitted on the Kosovar site

Lulzim Kabashi, Architect, Zagreb (HR)

Substitute: n.n.

Jürg Degen, head of department of urban development, Basel (CH)

 

Born in 1963 in Basel, Switzerland. In 1988 diploma in urban planning at the University ofApplied Sciences of Rapperswil. First practical experience in Paris, afterwards from 1990 – 2004 professional activity in Lausanne, including 12 years as planner and architect at AtelierRodolphe Luscher. General sectretary of Europan Switzerland from 1997 – 2004. Since 2004 head of the division „urban development and land use planning“ at the Building and Traffic department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Main focus of this activity is set in the initiation and support of public and private area developments of major pharmaceutical and service companies, cantonal education, culture or health facilities up to individual plots for housing construction. Since 2005 member of the townscape commission Basel.

 

Elisabeth Merk, head of department of urban development, Munich (DE)

 

Elisabeth Merk was born in Regensburg in 1963. From 1988 to 1994, she worked in architecture/monument protection and did her PhD in Florence. From 1995 to 2000, she contributed to urban planning, urban monument conservation and special projects in Munich and Regensburg. She headed the urban development and urban planning division in Halle/Saale from 2000 to 2006. From 2005 until 2007, Elisabeth Merk held a chair in urban construction/urban planning at the HFT Stuttgart. Since 2007, Elisabeth Merk has been the City of Munich's Planning Director. In 2009, she was appointed honorary professor at the HFT Stuttgart. In addition to her role as an observer in the Construction and Transport Committee of the German Association of Cities and Towns, Elisabeth Merk is a member of the Construction and Planning Committee of the Bavarian Association of Cities and Towns, the UNESCO Network for the Conservation of Modern Architecture and Integrated Territorial Urban Conservation, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the German National Committee for Monument Protection, the German Academy for Urban Construction and Regional Planning, the Board for National Urban Development Policy, the Federal Foundation for Building Culture and the German Werkbund.

 

Markus Pernthaler, Architect, Graz/Vienna (AT)

 

Markus Pernthaler was born in 1958. In 1984 he graduated at the Technical University of Graz. He absolved his post-graduate study at the Tokyo University from 1984-1986. From 1996-1999 he was president of the “Zentralvereinigung der ArchitektInnen Österreichs” / Styria and from 1987-1990 director of the „Haus der Architektur Graz”. Currently he is CEO at the “Smart City Project – Waagner Biro Straße”. Headquartered in Graz Markus Pernthaler realized many projects of different type and size. 2001: Bad Gleichenberg college, 2002: Helmut List Halle (Graz concert hall), 2008-2011: Rondo home & business (Graz office and apartment building), 1995-2007: Hospital Graz (gynaecological department), 1998-2001 and 2009-2012: Salzburg State Hospital (surgery west), 2007-2012: Messequartier (Graz office and apartment building) for which he received the Austrian State award – architecture and sustainability /  Styrian award, 2009-2012: Children´s hospital (Salzburg), 2010-2015: heating plant Arsenal (Vienna), 2011-2012: watertower Loviisa (Finland), 2011-2016: Smart City Project – project development, planning, coordination. His articles on architecture were published in several professional magazines:  2002 Architektur aktuell 6.2002, 2003 "homes for senior citizens" (Carlos Broto+Josep Minguet), 2004 The phaidon atlas, 2006 Krankenhausarchitektur für die Zukunft (Verlagshaus Braun), 2008 architektur aktuell 334/335, 2009 architektur aktuell 354, 2009 Markus Pernthaler 902010 (Nikolaus Hellmayr raum.kunst.graz (ed.))

Christoph Luchsinger, Architect, Professor at the TU Vienna, Luzern/Vienna (CH)

 

Christoph Luchsinger, born 1954 in Rapperswil/Switzerland. Diploma as an architect at the ETH Zurich (Aldo Rossi, Dolf Schneebli, Paul Hofer, Bernhard Hoesli), 1980-1989 Assistant and scientific collaborator at the Chair for Urban History, directed by professor André Corboz, and at the Institut for History and Theory of Architecture at the ETH Zurich, 1989-1992 Appointed professor at the Chair for Urban History, ETH Zurich, 1990-1999 Editor of the Swiss architectural review „Werk, Bauen+Wohnen“, 1997-1998 guest professor at the ETH Zurich, 2001-2009 Professor at the Centre of urban landscape at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 2003-2004 guest professor at the Graz University of Technology and at the Ljubljana University of Technology. Since 1990 Architectural office in Lucerne together with Max Bosshard and since 2009 Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Insitute of Urban Design, Vienna University of Technology.

 

Henri Bava, Landscape Architect, AGENCE TER, Professor at the TU Karlsruhe, Paris/Karlsruhe (FR)

 

Henri Bava (born 1957), landscape architect (DPLG), studied plant biology at the University of Paris-Orsay and landscape architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage at Versailles. In 1985, he began work at the Corajoud agency in Paris; in 1986, still in Paris, he founded Agence Ter with Michel Hoessler and Olivier Philippe. In parallel with his work in landscape architecture, he functioned between 1987 and 1997 as a teacher and studio principal at the Versailles landscape architecture school, and was retained as government landscape advisor by the Direction départemental de l’équipement (DDE) of the Eure department of France between 1993 and 1997. He was elected president of the Fédération Française de Paysage for the period 1996–1998. Since 1998, he has been titular professor at the University of Karlsruhe, where he heads the landscape institute of the architecture faculty, and where his work has been focused on exploring the role of landscape and urbanism in Mediterranean regions confronted by climate change. In 2001, he started the German bureau of Agence Ter in Karlsruhe, from which he directed international urban projects. He was elected a member of the Berlin Arts Academy in 2006. Since 2007, he has once again been working closely with the Paris bureau of Agence Ter. In 2010 and again in 2011 he was visiting professor at the Harvard University. Since 2011 he is representative of the KIT for the German-French master programme and chairman of the supervisory board of the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois. Last year he got member of the science committee at ENSP Versailles.

 

Marcel Smets, Architect, Professor at the KU Leuven/Belgium (BE)

 

Marcel SMETS has studied architecture (University of Ghent, 1970) and urban design (Technical University Delft, 1974).  He obtained a PhD from the University of Leuven (1976), where he was appointed to the chair of Urbanism in 1978.  He has been active in theory and history with books on H. Hoste, Ch. Buls, the Belgian garden cities and the reconstruction of Belgium after 1914. He served as a critic for Archis, Topos, Lotus, Casabella and as juror for many competitions. He was founding member of the ILAUD (Urbino,1978), visiting professor at the University of Thessaloniki (1987), and Design Critic at the Harvard University GSD (2002, 2003, 2004). From 1989 to 2001, he founded and directed Projectteam Stadsontwerp, a research and design group of the Leuven University, specialized in the urban re-appropriation of abandoned industrial areas and outworn infrastructures.  In this function, he acted as chief urban designer for widely published conversion projects in Leuven (B), Antwerpen (B), Hoeilaart (B), Rouen (F), Genoa (I), Conegliano (I). In June 2005, Smets was appointed Chief Architect for the Flemish Region, a five year mandate in which he managed the public design commissions for the Government. In line with his design practice, Smets’ main research interest shifted to infrastructure as a means of structuring cities and landscapes. In 2010, he co-authored with K. Shannon the influential book on The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure. Today, he chairs the Scientific and Strategies Committee for the City on the Move Institute (IVM- Paris), and leads the urban design team in charge of transforming the “Isle of Nantes”.

 

Michelle Provoost, Architectural Historian, Director of the International New Town

Institute (INTI) in Almere, the Netherlands (NL)

 

Dr. Michelle Provoost is an architectural historian who specializes in historic preservation, urban planning history and theory, postwar architecture and contemporary urban development.  She co-founded the office of Crimson Architectural Historians in 1994, which has subsequently been engaged in a large number of research and design projects in the fields of urban planning, architecture and art. Since 2008 Dr. Provoost has served as Director of the International New Town Institute (INTI) in Almere, the Netherlands.  Under her direction, INTI has grown from a small institute into an internationally known center for education and research relating to New Towns, with an extensive lecture and conference series, global network of researchers, and considerable publications.  Dr. Provoost is also the head editor of the INTI publications, including the forthcoming New Towns and Politics (2013), Rising in the East. Contemporary New Towns in Asia (2011), New Towns for the 21st Century: Planned vs. Unplanned Cities (2010), and Modeltown: Using Urban Simulation in New Town Planning (2009). Prior to her work with INTI, Dr. Provoost worked as Program Director for WiMBY!, an urban regeneration project in Rotterdam-Hoogvliet. This intensive eight-year project resulted in a number of buildings, art projects, an exhibition and a publication: WiMBY! Future, past and present of a New Town or: The Big WiMBY! Book (2007).  WiMBY! continues to be lauded as an exemplary model of collaboration between planners, citizens, architects and public officials. In 2003 she published her best-selling Ph.D. thesis, a monograph of Dutch architect Hugh Maaskant (Hugh Maaskant, Architect of Progress).  Inaddition to Maaskant, she has authored many books, publications and articles in national and international magazines including Archis, the Architect, Arch+ and Harvard Design Magazine. She also teaches at various universities. Dr. Provoost continues to be in greatdemand as a public speaker.  She lectures regularly throughout Europe and the United States, and has been involved in many municipal, national and private committees and juries.

 

Peter Istvan Balogh, Landscape Architect, Phd., Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest (HU)

 

Peter Istvan Balogh was born in 1973 in Budapest, Hungary. From 1991-1996 he studied at the Corvinus University of Budapest at the faculty of landscape architecture, where he made his diploma on “Rehabilitation of Main Street, Budapest, Alsó-Víziváros”. 1996 he founded “Villa Rustica” and started his PhD. studies from 1996/1999. 1999 he became assistant lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest at the department of landscape and urban design. 2001 s73 was founded. 2003 Education in urban planning/management BMGE and landscape architect senior designer (K1). 2004 his PhD theses were formed: “The Change of Open Space Functions in the European urban Renewal”. 2005 PhD degree. 2010 associate professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, department of landscape and urban design. 2011 DLA degree. Peter Istvan Balogh is also a member of the Hungarian Green City Council, the Hungarian Chamber of Architects (K/101-5119), ICOMOS-IFLA Historical Gardens and Ormos Imre Foundation, member of the board of trustees.

Lulzim Kabashi, Architect, Zagreb (HR)

 

Lulzim Kabashi (Pejë, 1969), principal of  IVANIŠIN. KABASHI. ARHITEKTI, studied architecture first in Prishtina and then in Zagreb. He obtained his degree from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture in 1996. After graduation, 1997-1999, he worked for Croatian Institute of Urban Planning. 2000-2002, he worked for his private office in Zagreb. He founded shared practice with Krunoslav Ivanišin in 2003, IVANIŠIN. KABASHI. ARHITEKTI. It is an open and research oriented architectural practice, active in fields of architectural design and urban/ territorial planning. He has won a number of design competitions in Croatia and abroad. He has constructed projects of various scale, for privat and public clients. He has exhibited and lectured locally and internationally. His articles on architecture were published in several professional magazines ( ' Čovjek i prostor ' Zagreb, A10 Amsterdam, C3 Korea ). He has been professional menthor for architecture students of the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture since 2008. He lives and works in Zagreb.