PINKCLOUD.DK is an award winning architecture collective founded in Copenhagen by four international designers with a shared vision in developing designs that address issues of urban growth, globalization, and internet phenomena. From converting oil silos into homes to designing retail stores clad in bubble wrap, PinkCloud.dk’s visions harness the everyday to develop designs that serve as a catalyst for social engagement while tackling design challenges in ingenious and innovative ways. Their formula for design has reflected in numerous international and domestic publications including FastCompany, CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes. Most recently, PinkCloud.dk’s Pop-Up Hotel received first place in the 2013 Radical Innovation in Hospitality Award in addition to exhibiting in this year’s Cut & Paste Architecture Exhibition at New York’s MoMA.

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www.barkowleibinger.comBarkow Leibinger is an American/ German architectural practice based in Berlin and New York and was founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger.Barkow Leibinger’s work is realized over a wide range of scales and building types including building for workplace (industry, office, and master-planning), cultural, housing, event spaces, exhibitions and installations in the public realm internationally. Important milestones are amongst others the Biosphere in Potsdam, Germany, the Customer andAdministration Building , the Gate House and the Campus Restaurant in Ditzingen, Germany and the Trutec Building in Seoul. Recently completed buildings include the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin, an apartment and hotel complex with a passive house standard in Freiburg, a multi-use extension for the Aufbau Haus in Berlin and the Fellows Pavilion for the American Academy in Berlin.Their discursive research-based approach to architecture and design allows the work to respond to advancing knowledge and technology locating the practice as an international leader in digital and analogue fabrication techniques. This know-how expands to include new materials and their applications in driving the practice forward as a continuously evolving activity. This focus revolves around a commitment to academic teaching, research and the practice itself - each are autonomous work-areas, which simultaneously inform each other beneficially. This is an approach that distinguishes each project as distinct in relationship to client/architect dialogue, location, aesthetics, and purpose.

"The institute of media and design deals with crossmedia interdependence of designing and diagramming processes, both analog and digital. Engagement in architecture on computer-based information is at the center of the institute's profile. Due to proceeding mediatization and digitalization of nearly all aspects of living, architecture, too, will growingly have to cope with the process-related and inscenatorical dimensions of design spanning from simulation of any form of behavior, whether social or physical, up to conceiving of virtual and hybrid worlds." IMD

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"We understand architecture in its development, its immediate experience and in its theoretical reception as diversely ascertained and ascertaining. Accordingly we consider design logic not as a fixed set of rules but as a complex system of technical knowledge, historical context, sociological factors, personal experiences and aesthetic notion. We distance ourselves from mere "shapestudies" in the formulation of our problems. The center of our education focuses on the development of individually defined approaches to architectural work. Starting with simple studies growing to detailed analysis' of everyday life or special phenomenons students develop a personal position in space and time to be unified with functional demands and an aesthetic aim to be communicated with adequate means of expression." IEX

The work of feld72 pivots on the interface of architecture, applied urbanism and art.