beyond.aco | 26 April 2022 – The Keynote Speakers

Alberto Veiga (Barozzi Veiga, ES-Barcelona)

Italian-born Alberto Veiga, grew up in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra in Pamplona.

In 2004, he co-founded the Barozzi Veiga office in Barcelona with Fabrizio Barozzi. The architectural firm Barozzi Veiga is dedicated to architecture and urban planning. It has won numerous awards in national and international competitions. Currently, the firm is developing projects in Belgium, China, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in the United States, where it has been commissioned to create a new master plan for the redevelopment of the Art Institute of Chicago. Among the buildings realized by Barozzi Veiga are the Ribera del Duero Headquarters (2011), the Infanta Elena Auditorium in Águilas (2011), the Szczecin Philharmonic Hall (2014) or the Grisons Art Museum in Chur (2016), as well as some office and residential buildings in Bergamo and a single-family house in Barcelona.

Barozzi Veiga has received numerous awards over the years, in 2015, for example, the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for the Szczecin Philharmonic Hall. Alberto Veiga taught at the “Universitat Internacional de Catalunya” in Barcelona (2007-10) and was a visiting professor at the “Instituto Universitario di Architettura” in Venice (2014) and at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra (2021).

Fabrizio and Alberto regularly lecture on their theoretical background and design approach and participate in academic activities worldwide. His lecture for beyond.aco on the 26th April 2022 has the title “Tanzhaus Zürich”.

www.barozziveiga.com

Võ Tr?ng Ngh?a (VTN Architects, VN-Ho Chi Minh City)

Vo Trong Nghia was born in Vietnam and became famous at a very early age. After receiving his architecture degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, for which he was awarded the 2004 Furuichi Kimitake Prize for the best master’s thesis of the year, he first joined the University of Tokyo Design Laboratory’s Landscape and Urban Planning Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering. He also received the President’s Award of the University of Tokyo for his academic achievement during his doctoral work. However, in 2006, he discontinued his dissertation to return to Vietnam and establish his own firm, VTN Architects.

Since then, VTN Architects has become a world-leading architectural practice, winning 147 international awards and 23 Vietnamese awards for its pioneering work in green building. Among the many awards are prestigious prizes such as the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2016. He received gold medals seven times from ARCASIA, The Architects Regional Council Asia in 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2011, and 2007. He was named Architect of The Year by Deezen in 2019 and received the Building of the Year 2014 Award for the Dailai Bamboo Complex by ARCASIA for the best building of 2014. He won seven awards at the World Architecture Festival in different years.

Nghia has lectured internationally at prestigious institutions. He has been a visiting professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). His achievements have been featured by international media such as CNN, NHK, BBC, etc. The office has been published widely: A+U from Japan or Arquitectura Viva from Spain dedicated entire issues to VTN Architects’ projects. His works are published as in three monographs in the US on bamboo architecture architecture, green architecture and houses. This time he will hold a lecture to the topic of “Save our Earth”.

www.vtnarchitects.net