Patricia Urquiola was born in 1961 in Oviedo, Spain. she studied architecture at the Faculdad de Arquitectura de Madrid. After transferring to italy she graduated from the Milan Polytechnic. in 1989 (with a thesis mentored by Achille Castiglioni). From 1990 to 1992 she assisted in the courses held b
Gareth Pugh is one of the more interesting and unique designers to emerge from London in the last five years. Style.com describes Pugh as the "latest addition to a long tradition of fashion-as-performance-art that stretches back through Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Vivienne Westwood to the
Raumtaktik is a Berlin firm founded in 2003 by Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger and set up to pursue an investigation of space and spatial intervention. They are involved in research, exhibits and installations exploring 'process based architecture'.
Both architects are concerned with
The Dutch designer Wieki Somers (b. 1976), whose work began to garner attention even before she’d completed her education at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, is being honored by the Stedelijk Museum ’s‑Hertogenbosch with a survey of her projects, a singular amalgam of function, poetic narrative