First of the two talks about entering the continuous foyer of architecture cosmos connecting urban fabric and landscapes, highwalks and underground, east and west, megastructures, cafes, socialist housing complexes and public thresholds.
Aida Miron is an architect whose work is grounded in the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape design and art. She has a B. Arch from the Cooper Union School of Architecture, a Masters in Architecture from La Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), a MFA from the Kunstakademiet i Trondheim-NTNU, a post-graduate diploma in Urban Studies from the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and studies in Landscape Architecture from the Arctic University of Tromsø/AHO and Philosophy from NYU. She taught Architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in NYC and has been a visiting guest and academic critic in the US and Europe. She is co-founder of the landscape design + build studio, La Casona Garden Design in Miami, collaborator at Buero Schwimmer in Berlin, and lighting designer/specialist at Buro Happold in NYC. She lives in NYC and works between Miami and Varmland, Sweden.
Sven Eggers is architect. He works and teaches in the fields of architecture and cinema in Finland, the US, the UK, Czech Republic and Germany. He is co-founder of the cultural centre and cinema Tikozigalpa, and of the artist-based Büro Schwimmer. He lives in Berlin.