Patricia Anastassiadis
Architect, Interior, and Product Designer
Patricia Anastassiadis, architect, interior, and product designer runs her eponymous office in São Paulo, Brazil. Throughout three decades of her career, Patricia worked on many projects worldwide, always standing out for her contemporary aesthetics combined with effortless elegance and timeless sophistication.
The constant research for showcasing the true essence of locations where her projects are developed is a mark of her work and reveals her authentic, delicate, and poetic style. The expertise and attention to detail, which includes an interest in art, history, and anthropology, are also some of the features that make Anastassiadis’ work stand out along with her coherent design narrative that shines through the accurate design, and sense of place. In addition, her product design portfolio stands as an extension of her philosophy of delivering the best experience on every scale.
Matthew Mazzotta
Architect
Matthew Mazzotta works at the intersection of art, activism, and urbanism, focusing on the power of the built environment to shape our relationships and experiences. His public projects have received international art and architecture awards such as the CODA Awards, Architizer A+ Award, Azure’s AZ Award, as well as “Architecture Project of the Year” by the Dezeen at the Tate Modern in London.
Matthew’s work has been featured on CNN, BBC, NPR, New York Times, Huffington Post, Discovery Channel, and Science Magazine to name a few, and presented at the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. He received his BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Art, Culture, and Technology. He is a TED Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Grantee, a Smithsonian Artist in Research, and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.
David Trubridge
Designer
David Trubridge is New Zealand’s best known furniture/lighting designer. His work, which is all manufactured by his own company in Hawke’s Bay, is sold and exhibited all around the world. He has been featured in many international publications as an instigator of the trend of ‘raw sophistication’ and as an exemplar of environmentally responsible design.
He has won many awards including Good Design and Red Spot. In 2008 the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world, and in 2012 the Pompidou Centre in Paris purchased his ‘Icarus’ installation for its permanent collection. In 2019 he was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to design.
Pantelis Kampouropoulos
Architect – PANK Architects
Pantelis Kampouropoulos was born in 1983 and raised in Rhodes. From 2001 to 2007 he studied renovation and restoration of buildings at the Higher Technological Institute of Patras. Subsequently, he continued his architectural studies at the Technical University of Patras until 2011, when he received his MArch diploma.
He has worked for several architectural and engineering offices in Greece, while in 2012 he established his own architectural office Studio A.
Since then he has participated in architectural and design competitions, housing , hotel and highrise projects . He has also curated architectural exhibitions. In 2014, he established Open Platform for Architecture in the Netherlands and in 2017 PANK ARCHITECTURE in Greece that both delivered ground breaking projects (Casa Brutale, Mutti – Ex Machina and much more) that have been widely presented by global networks (CNN, Archdaily, Dezeen etc.).
His work has been exhibited and he gave several lectures (tedX/University of the Aegean, museum of Architecture/Haarlem, Studium Generale/Rhodes) (2016). Also, his work has been awarded from the prestigious The Chicago Athenaeum (International Architecture Award, 2015 – Honorable Mention 2024), the European Comission (1st prize and commission, Green Stand Award) (2015-2016), the Municipality of Serres (award) (2015). His work is widely published around the globe.
Pantelis is a registered member of the Greek architectural registry.