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Professor at the University of Cagliari, in charge of the UNESCO Unitwin Chair "Earthen architecture, building cultures and sustainable development". Coordinator of the LABTERRA - Study and Research Center on earthen architecture at the same University. President of ICOMOS-ISCEAH Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage.

He graduated in Civil Engineering in 2000 and got a Phd in Building Engineering in 2006. Currently he is a researcher in Architectural Engineering at the DICAAR Department of the University of Cagliari. He hold courses both for Architecture and Engineering. students. His scientific interests deal with the design and monitoring of energy efficient buildings and renewable energies integration.

He studied architecture in Lisbon and Milan, holds a Master’s Degree in Ecological Architecture from the San Francisco Institute of Architecture (SFIA), in cooperation with Biosphere2. Independent Architect and researcher at CRATerre - ENSAG.

Since 2005 he has been working as an architect within the NAMA studio and as a teacher and researcher at CRATerre - ENSAG École Nationale d'architecture de Grenoble. Together with CRAterre he participated in drafting the French regulations for rammed earth construction.

PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari. Architect from the University of Porto. From 2008 she is dedicated to heritage, contemporary architecture and earth construction with a special focus on earthen plasters. In 2010 she has created the architectural studio Tierractual. Member of Protierra-Chile and ICOMOS Portugal.

She is a graduate architect at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona. After taking part in the amàco pedagogical project from 2013 to 2018, she decided to deepen her research into the body (touch), and raw materials in architecture as a PhD student at Cresson laboratory. She is co-founder and co-director of the theater company Colectivo Terrón.

PhD in architecture and full professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She has been a guest lecturer and has lectured at several universities and has received international awards for her work. Among others, she has developed restoration projects for the Alhambra in Granada and for Gaudí's Finca Güell in Barcelona. She is co-editor of Loggia magazine and has published extensively on architectural heritage.

PhD in architecture and full professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has been a visiting professor in Argentina, Italy and the United States and has lectured at various institutions and universities in these and other countries. He is co-editor and founder of Loggia magazine and has extensively published books and articles on architectural heritage.

Director of DAMG & CIAUD-UPT at Portucalense University in Porto, Portugal. World Heritage consultant, invited for WH missions in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Mentor in the UNESCO-WHC Mentorship WH Program for Africa. PROTERRA Coordinator (2011-2014); Aga Khan CAT SC President in Mali (2015-2018); and ICOMOS-ISCEAH President (2018-2020). Author and co-editor of several books, as “Earthen Architecture in Portugal” (2005); “Terra Europae” (2011); “VERSUS-Heritage for Tomorrow” (2014); “Conservation in Earthen Heritage” (2016); and “Arquitectura de Tierra en America Latina” (2016).

Architect and BioGeometry® practitioner with experience in sustainable and environmentally conscious architecture. Worked for the last 20 years in the field of zero emission and passive earth buildings, sustainable architectural conservation, climate responsive design, climate neutral architectural design. Research focus is on passive and carbon neutral low-tech vernacular methods and their adaptation for contemporary energy efficient and zero carbon building practice. Currently an adjunct professor at Aalborg university in Denmark and associate professor and the architecture program manager at Malmo University.

At over 70, Japanese architect Kinya Maruyama never stops delighting and enchanting us. His work is an extraordinary blend of fantasy and tradition, where interior and exterior merge. He uses natural materials such as bamboo, reeds, branches, dead leaves and, of course, earth, but the most important material is undoubtedly the air, the wind.

For almost 30 years, she has worked as a decorative and building painter. From decor, she learned about color, light and shadow, and the use of pigments and binders. From built heritage, she learned about volume, thickness and texture, and how to manipulate materials: minerals, fibers and binders. And the most sensitive and aesthetic material for her: clay, earth.

Architect and PhD in architectural restoration. She collaborates with DICAAR at the University of Cagliari, focusing on the role of digital strategies for the conservation of earthen vernacular heritage.