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Herzog & de Meuron is a Swiss architecture firm founded in Basel in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both born in 1950. The practice gained international recognition for material experimentation and façade treatments on projects such as the Tate Modern conversion in London and the Beijin...
Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist whose work examined how scientific facts, technologies, institutions, and societies are assembled. With Michel Callon and John Law, he was a major developer of actor-network theory, which treats human and nonhuman par...
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners is a New York-based architecture practice founded in 1986 by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, known for institutional and cultural projects characterized by tactile materiality and a restrained palette. Notable works include the American Folk Art Museum...
Smiljan Radić is a Chilean architect recognized for his materially inventive and experimental architectural designs. He operates his studio in Santiago, Chile, and frequently collaborates with the sculptor Marcela Correa. Radić achieved significant international visibility by designing the 2014 Serp...
Webb Keane is an American anthropologist who currently serves as a professor at the University of Michigan. He is widely recognized for his scholarly contributions to the study of semiotics, religion, ethics, and materiality. His ethnographic research often focuses on Protestantism and language in I...
