E_XQUIS, New York City
Carla Leitao & Ed Keller

a|Um Studio was founded by Ed Keller and Carla Leitao in 2003. The a|Um Studio design process is informed by the core belief that every spatial or cultural artifact is a the intersection of material, temporal and event relations. Adequate techniques are needed to unfold such systems and evolve their role as meaning-producing materials.

Drawing from parading shifts in contemporary architecture, film theory, sciences, and philosophy, a|Um believes that it is possible to invent new relationships between material and event structures in architecture, urban system, cinema, media, and technology, and construct innovative avenues of self-regulation in the material and systemic organizatioins that make up those landscapes.

a|Um's work focuses on studying the modes of identification and mapping of relevant connections between material flows, landscapes, economic and political systems- the different time cycles at play in any organization – and proposing modes of operation in architecture and design which question and act upon the nature of programmatic and material organizations.

http://www.aumstudio.org

Carla Leitao
Carla Leitao is an architect, designer and professor who lives and works in NY and Lisbon, Portugal. She co-founded a|Um Studio (NYC) and Umasideia (Lisbon). She has taught at Columbia, Pratt, UPenn and City College and is starting at Cornell next year. She has edited and co-edited several publications for Columbia Books on Architecture [CBA] including City Fragments Beijing.

 

 

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		Kagino Masahiro
		I am a graduate student in the second year at Waseda university and major in architecture and urban design. I experienced some projects to revitalize the center of the town and design of shops and public space. I am in activity as a member of the organization 「Waseda Architects and Researchers Council」(warc)
		http://warc-net.com/

		Hiroyuki Watanabe
		Hiroyuki Watanabe is a second year architecture student at Temple University , JAPAN campus. He will also complete his undergraduate degree with a monor in art this year. His partciulr interests are the urban design aspects of public spaces.

		WU,MING-WEI
		I was born in Taipei City in1979; in 2002 graduated from the Department of Architecture in Tamkang University (TKU) in Taiwan, and obtained the degree of M.Arch. in 2004. I am very glad to have this chance to take part in this activity, and I can't wait to see many friends and partners who come from different countries with different cultures. I think this will be a meaningful way and a necessity to re-discovery and re-definite the city, which we had known before.

		Ma su-wei
		Taiwan

		Hande UNLU
		Tokyo

		Yayoi Emoto
		Yayoi is 4th grade of student of Nihon University and belonging Urban design lab.

		Dr. Geeta Mehta
		Dr. Geeta Mehta, is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus. She is also a practicing architect who has designed architectural and urban design projects in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. She is also the author of several books on Japanese architecture.

		Kesuke Kato
		NagoyaI was born in Nagoya in 1982. I am majoring in architecture at Meiji University now. It looks forward to this workshop very much because it is rarely at the chance to exchange with people in various countries in Japan .

		Midori Noguchi
		Tokyo