Wolf D. Prix is the co-founder, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London as well as the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles.

A. Eugene Kohn is one of the founders of architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). He currently serves as Chairman of KPF.

Kersten Geers (b. 1975, Ghent) studied at the University of Ghent and at the Esquela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid, Spain. He worked in Rotterdam for Maxwan/Max.1 Architects until 2001 and from 2001 to 2005 for Neutelings Riedijk Architects. He was a tutor at the TU Delft, the University of Ghent and the Accademia