Synergies: Building Collaborations in Architectural Research

Urs Hirschberg is Professor of Architectural Representation and New Media at the Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology. Previously, he was a research assistant and lecturer at ETH Zurich and Assistant Professor of Design Computing at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is a founding editor of GAM.Sophia Meeres is a landscape architect (MLA, University of Edinburgh) and civil engineer (University College London). She worked for London-based design firms SOM, Foster + Partners, and BDP, as well as for the engineering consultancy Harris & Sutherland before setting up her own practice in France. Since 2004, she has been researching and teaching at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy of University College Dublin.Milena Stavrić is Associate Professor and has been working at the Institute of Architecture and Media at Graz University of Technology since 2004. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University joining the MaP+S Group and has lectured at universities in Vienna, Mexico City, Istanbul, Belgrade, Hamburg, Novi Sad, and Banja Luka.