Rafael Sousa Santos (1991) is an architect and a PhD researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, within the Territory Dynamics and Morphologies group (CEAU-MDT) at the University of Porto. Between 2021 and 2022, he was a visiting researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, where he collaborated on two architectural design courses in the master's program in Architecture. In 2022, he was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright scholar. He has participated as a reviewer and guest speaker at several institutions, including the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Università degli Studi “Gabriele d’Annunzio” di Pescara, Politecnico di Milano, École Nationale d’Architecture de Marrakech, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He regularly publishes and participates in conferences on topics such as design teaching, the role of freehand drawing, quantitative research methods, architectural history, and urban planning. He edited the fifth issue of Dimensions—Journal of Architectural Knowledge from the Technical University of Munich, titled Collaborations: Rethinking Architectural Design (2023), published by Transcript. Currently, he lectures at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto and works as a research assistant in the European Research Council-funded project Fishing Architecture at CEAU-MDT.

Clara Pimenta do Vale (1967) is an Architect at the University of Porto (FAUP 1991), specialized in building physics and Portuguese 20th century construction history. She holds an MSc in Building Construction from the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP 1999) and a PhD in Architecture with the thesis “An urban alignment in the construction of Porto—Boavista Axis (1927-1999)—Contribution to Portuguese Construction History in the 20th-century” (FAUP 2012). Currently, she is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and researcher at CEAU—Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism in the groups: Architecture, City and Territory Heritage (PACT) and Digital Fabrication Laboratory (DFL). She was a practitioner architect (1991-2004) and lecturer (1999-2012). She is also a photographer with several photo exhibitions. Research focus: building physics; sustainability; 20th century construction history; building construction legislation; vernacular architecture; earthen architecture; the social role of architecture; emerging technologies applied to building construction; rehabilitation and reuse; architectural education; e-learning and ICT. She is the co-author of four books and the author or co-author of more than fifty other publications.

Barbara Bogoni (1970) has been Ph.D. in Interior Architecture since 2003 and Full Professor in Architectural and Urban Design in the Politecnico di Milano since 2004. Her research interests range among urban morphology, architectural design, and interior architecture. She has developed a continuous collaborative work with Souto de Moura, in the framework of didactic, research, and design activities carried out at the Mantova Campus, and with Carrilho da Graça and Paulo David, with whom she shares the activities carried out in design (about teaching: A scuola con Eduardo Souto de Moura, Franco Angeli, 2018).

Poul Henning Kirkegaard (1962) holds an M.Sc. in Civil and Structural Engineering from Aalborg University in 1988 and a Ph.D in Optimal Design of System Identification Experiments from Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1991. From 1988 to 2003, his research and teaching topics were mainly related to Structural Dynamics, Structural Reliability, Building Acoustics, Structural Identification, and Structural Health Monitoring. Since 2003, his research and teaching topics have been Adaptive Structures, Computational Morphogenesis, Tectonic Form and Design, and Evidence Based Design. In 2010, he was appointed as Full Professor in Innovative Design of Structures at the Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University. Poul Henning Kirkegaard is today a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University in Engineering and Architectural Design. His vision for research and teaching focuses on bridging the engineering topics to architecture and vice versa.