Michael Speaks, SCI-Arc / MR+D, Los Angeles

The role of curator is: chairman of the international jury, head of the Concrete Design Master Class and co-editor of the Concrete Design book on 'Robustness'. Michael Speaks (Ph.D., Duke University) is an educator, researcher and editor. He is currently Director of the Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Speaks has taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, in the architecture departments at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and has been a researcher on the Architecture Faculty at the Technological University at Delft in the Netherlands. Speaks has published and lectured internationally on art, architecture, urban design and scenario planning, and is a contributing editor for Architectural Record as well as an editorial advisory board member of A+U (Tokyo) for which he edits the series 'Design Intelligence'.