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Oriol Bohigas - MBM Arquitectes
MBM design studio (an acronym of the partners’ surnames Martorell, Bohigas and Mackay) in Barcelona is a historic Spanish architectural and urban planning practice renowned for numerous projects in Barcelona, particularly the port area and masterplan for the 1992 Olympic village. Having completed their academic studies, the two founding partners, Josep Maria Martorell (1925-2017) and Oriol Bohigas (1925), began their professional partnership in 1951. The practice, ....
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Norman Foster
One of the most eminent and influential British architects and designers of recent decades, Norman Foster (1935) graduated from the University of Manchester (1956-1961), following military service as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (1953-1955). In the subsequent two years he gained his Master’s Degree at Yale, where he met Richard Rogers, with whom he worked from 1963 to 1967 at Team 4. After parting company with Rogers, Foster founded Foster Associates in 1967 (now ....
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SADAR + VUGA
Jurij Sadar graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana (1987) and worked as an independent architect until 1993. He has enjoyed a long teaching career at university faculties and schools of architecture, alongside international conferences and symposiums (Tokyo, Melbourne, Peking, Los Angeles and Monaco). After graduating in architecture in Ljubljana, Boštjan Vuga studied at the AA School of Architecture, London. Associate professor of architecture at the Faculty of ....