Rafael B. Duran is principal of Z4A Houston and Z4Z4 Madrid _ Office of Architecture, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. His works on practice and theory of architecture spans the fields of material thinking. His PhD. dissertation, titled Atmosphere as Form in Architecture, explores the idea of air in the context of design practices from 1818 to present.
Javier García-Germán is Professor of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) since 2007. He is module director both in the Master’s Degree in Collective Housing (MCH, ETH Zürich-UPM) and in the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings (MAEB, IAAC, Barcelona). He is also Guest Professor both in the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA, HEAD GENÈVE, Geneva) and in the Master in Integrated Architectural Design (MIAD, LA SALLE, Barcelona).
