Barbara Kaucky is an Austrian architect based in London. She studied architecture in Vienna and Berlin before co-founding the practice Erect Architecture (formerly Root and Erect) in 2003 with Susanne Tutsch. The studio works across scales with a focus on community projects, public space, and education.

Alexander Schmoeger is an architect and part of the firm schmidt-colinet • schmoeger, which works chiefly on residential and school buildings as well as exhibitions and research projects. He regularly taught at the Vienna University of Technology. Together with Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Florian Zeyfang he develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Florian Zeyfang is an artist, filmmaker and author. His recent projects have addressed architecture, film/archive and permanence of images. He has taught as a professor at the art academies in Umeå and Aarhus and publishes studies on experimental film, technology and art. Together with Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Alexander Schmoeger, Zeyfang develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet is an architect and part of the firm schmidt-colinet • schmoeger, which works chiefly on residential and school buildings as well as exhibitions and research projects. She is deputy director of the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Together with Alexander Schmoeger and Florian Zeyfang she develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Birgitta Rottmann was born in Kufstein, Austria. She received a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Sophie Thalbauer (Esslinger) was born in 1970 in Graz, Austria. She attended the Technical College for Sculpture in Graz, and studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Gustav Peichl, Rüdiger Lainer, Michael Sorkin, and Nasrine Seraji.

Karoline Streeruwitz was born in 1977 in Vienna, Austria. She studied architecture with Hans Hollein at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna and with Nasrine Seraji, Michael Sorkin, and Robert Mull at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1999 to 2000, she participated in the MAK-Schindler Artists-in-Residence Program with Franka Diehnelt. In 2001 and 2002, she studied Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2002, she completed her diploma, In the Pampas of Buenos Aires, with Robert Mull in Vienna.

Franka is an award-winning designer with a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. In her co-owned studio practice, she is responsible for the execution of large scale multi-million-dollar public art works for commercial entities and municipalities. Franka specializes in conceptual integration of color and their emotional effects in any form of design.

Wolfgang Koelbl was born in 1965 in Austria. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna, the University of Michigan, and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

After completing his studies, he turned to new media (digital videos) and theoretical work. His interests include mass phenomena such as the Internet and metropolitan environments.

Selected exhibitions include Tokyo Superdichte (audiovisual installation, Podroom, Vienna, 2000), Superheroes (video projection, Podroom, Vienna, 2000), and Total Control, 24 Hours Video Supervision (Cochran Ave, Los Angeles).

Awards include a purchase prize from the Membrane Design Competition (Japan, 1997) and a purchase prize from WBW Traumhäuser heute (Germany, 1996).

Michael Wallraff studied scenery design at the Academy of Fine Arts and architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Since 1997, he has worked independently in Vienna, Munich, and Los Angeles. His Vienna-based architecture office, established in 2004, has been active in a wide range of fields—including urban planning, adaptations, conversions, extensions, new buildings, stage design, exhibitions, furniture, and everyday cultural objects.

In addition to receiving the Schütte-Lihotzky Fellowship (1998) and the Schindler Fellowship (1999), Wallraff was awarded funding from the City of Vienna’s “departure” program in 2009. He has also received numerous competition prizes, including first prize in the EU-wide, two-stage open competition for the State Vocational School Center Graz-St. Peter (2007). A solo exhibition of his work opened in October 2011 at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna.

Carl Schaeffer was born in 1973 in Mittersill, Austria. From 1988 to 1993, he attended high school for fashion design. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna from 1993 to 1995 and continued his architecture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1995 to 1998.

Walter Kraeutler was born in 1974 in Hohenems, Austria. From 1992 to 1995, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1995 to 1998, he continued his studies in architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Prof. Fuksas and Prof. Penttilä.

Christof Schlegel (born 1968 in Innsbruck, Austria) works in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and art. Since 1992, he has developed works and projects addressing questions of urban representation, the politics of urban imagery, and the construction of the city image through various media.

He has carried out several projects in collaboration with Almut Rink and with the Office for Cognitive Urbanism (Christof Schlegel, Andreas Spiegl, Christian Teckert). These projects primarily explore the influence of media on urban perception and identity. Schlegel has developed numerous projects during long-term stays and residencies in Los Angeles (USA), Tokyo (Japan), and Nanjing (China).

Christian Teckert (1967) lives in Vienna and works on architectural, curatorial, and artistic projects. He lectures and writes in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and spatial theory.

Since 2006, he has been Professor for Spatial Strategies at the Muthesius University of Arts in Kiel, Germany. Since 2005, he has also been a regular lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has served as a board member of the ÖGFA (Austrian Society for Architecture) and the Secession Vienna. He has received several awards, including the Dietrich Ecker Award from the House of Architecture (HdA) in Graz for architectural theory, the Bauwelt Award (with as-if), and an award from the German Architecture Prize. He was also an artist-in-residence in Fujino, Japan, and at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, USA.

Paul Petritsch and Nicole Six explore and traverse their environment with very concrete experiments. With expeditions into everyday life, across oceans, polar regions, through concrete deserts as well as lunar landscapes they explore the limits of our existence and perception. They locate themselves and spectators within art spaces, architecture and landscapes by means of interventions and experimental setups that sometimes turn towards the absurd and which, over the years, have resulted in an archive of poetic metaphors for human exposure in space. Time and again they put security and familiarity of our everyday lives to the test and challenge limits, also those of their own bodies.

Johannes Porsch was born in 1979 in Innsbruck, Austria and lives in Vienna. He studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is an artist, curator and architect. Focusing on the narrative and its mediation, he provokes a close examination of how to deal with images, text, language, and space as media. Recent exhibitions include: Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria (2012); Counter-Production at Generali Foundation, Vienna (2012).

Kasper Kovitz is an Austrian artist living and working in the United States for the last three decades. Since 1999, he has been creating individual fragments as part of a larger, overarching plan for a holistically envisioned ‘super installation’.

His work has been shown in a number of solo and group shows internationally, including foundations and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Vienna. Two of his sculptures were acquired by the Saatchi Collection in London. Kasper Kovitz was awarded the MAK/Schindler scholarship, the International Studio and Curatorial Program twice, the Marie Walsh Sharpe scholarship and the Pollock-Krasner Fellowship. Kovitz taught at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and currently is Professor of Art at Scripps College and Extended Faculty at the Claremont Graduate University (CGU), both in Claremont, California.

A monograph about The Lessons, a 2023 series of 35 paintings, 92 pgs, 60 color illustrations, with an interview with KK by Chris Kraus, an essay by Pil and Galia Kollectiv and a conversation with KK by Matt Poole, was publlished by Verlag für Bildende Kunst - VFBK in 2024.