Adam Štěch is a curator, writer and co-founder of Prague-based creative group OKOLO, through which he has developed exhibition and publication projects on design and architecture since 2009, with a focus on residential projects and 20th-century modernism.
He is the author of Inside Utopia (Gestalten, 2017) and Modern Architecture and Interiors (Prestel, 2020), has contributed to Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon, and in 2025 published the Modernist Travel Guide with Sight Unseen. He has written for Wallpaper, The World of Interiors , The Architectural Review , Domus and others, and has collaborated with institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Vitra Design Museum, MAK Vienna and Triennale di Milano.
Štěch is currently a curator at the Winternitz Villa, an editor of Dolce Vita magazine and leads architecture and design courses at Scholastika, in Prague.
Ophélie Herranz Lespagnol is a French and Spanish architect and co-director of Geneva and Madrid-based practice Nomos.
Her work explores the relationship between materiality, domesticity and collective life through projects that combine constructive rigour, reuse and a strong sensitivity to context. Working across different scales and cultural environments, her practice has developed a recognised expertise in housing and transformation projects. The work spans projects in Spain , Switzerland , Portugal and Burkina Faso .
The practice has received significant international recognition. Among these awards, El Garaje in Madrid , Spain was the winner of the 2021 AR House awards, while in 2020 the team was shortlisted for the AR Emerging Awards. During the development of the Centre Médico‑Chirurgical in Burkina Faso, the project was highly commended for the overall prize in the 2023 AR Future Projects and was winner in the Civic and community category. Nomos were also the recipients of the 2022 Dezeen award for Emerging Architecture Studio of the Year, and were awarded the FAD Award for Interior design in the same year for El Garaje . The studio’s work has been widely published, including a monograph published by Quart Verlang in 2022.
Lespagnol has lectured internationally and participated as guest critic and jury member at architecture schools and professional institutions across Europe and beyond. Her work has been featured in publications including The Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Arquitectura Viva, Abitare and Werk, Bauen + Wohnen.
Takaharu Tezuka is co-founder and president of Tezuka Architects, based in Tokyo, and a professor of architectural design at Tokyo City University. Established in 1994 with Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects work on projects of a range of scales, from educational facilities to cultural projects to multifamily housing. The practice consider houses as the starting point for all of their design work, and the foundation of all architecture.
Their Roof House in Hadano, featured in AR October 2001, inspired the directors of a kindergarten to commission the architects to design ‘a version of the roof house for 500 children’. Completed in 2007, the widely praised Fuji Kindergarten was selected as one of the world’s best schools by the OECD (Organisation for World Economic Co-operation) and UNESCO. ‘The school provides a magical and stimulating environment for children,’ wrote Rob Gregory of the project.
Tezuka Architects have been recognised in various awards across Japan and internationally, including a commendation in the AR Emerging awards in 2004, the World Architecture Festival 2021 and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, awarded by UNESCO, in 2017. The architect has also exhibited work at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and presented the practice’s work as part of the TEDxKyoto programme in 2014.
