FERNANDA CANALES
Principal, Fernanda Canales Arcitecture

Cum Laude Doctor in Architecture from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), with a Master's degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona (UPC), and Architect from the Ibero-American University of Mexico (UIA). She has received international recognition such as the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York and her studio was named one of the “100+ Best Architecture Firms” by the specialized magazine DOMUS. In 2020 she was recognized by The New York Times as one of the 10 female figures who are changing the landscape of leadership in the world.

She is the author of the books: My house, your city. Privacy in a shared world (Puente Editores, Barcelona, ​​2021), Shared structures, private spaces (Actar, Barcelona, ​​2020), Collective housing in Mexico, The right to architecture (Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, ​​2017), and Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010, The construction of modernity (Arquine, Mexico, 2013). His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of the Arts in London and at ifa Gallery in Stuttgart (2019), the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (2018), Gallatin Gallery at NYU in New York (2018), the Biennial of Venice (2021, 2014, 2012 and 2006), and the Architecture Biennales of Sao Paulo (2011 and 2005) and Rotterdam (2005). She is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University GSD and has been a visiting professor at Princeton School of Architecture (Fall 2021), Yale School of Architecture (Fall 2019), and The Architectural Association in London.

His work and more than 100 essays have been published in various specialized media such as AA Files, Perspecta, El Croquis, The Architectural Review, Baumeister, Bawelt, Casabella, Architectural Record, Letras Libres, Praxis, Arquitectura Viva, Wallpaper, Domus, Abitare and Arquine.

She has been awarded the Graham Foundation Grant 2022, the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation scholarship and the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship in 2004. She received the professional career award from the Federation of Colleges of Architects of Mexico, the young architects award in Mexico in 2012, and is a member of the National System of Creators of CONACULTA. She has been a juror in international architectural competitions and was a Delegate of the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and jury of the same.

JACK MURPHY
Executive Editor, The Architect's Newspaper

Jack Murphy is Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Previously, he was Editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and Adjunct Professor at the Gerald D. Hines University of Houston College of Architecture and Design. He earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate degree in architecture from Rice University. He has worked for award-winning architects in New York City, Houston, Austin, and Boston. His writing has appeared in Places Journal, Dwell, Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Cite, PLAT, Paprika!, New York Review of Architecture, The Houston Chronicle, and SF Gate, among other publications. He was Co-Editor-in-Chief for PLAT 7.5 Oversharing and PLAT 8.0 Simplicity and Assistant Editor of Totalization, edited by Troy Schaum and published by Park Books. He lives in Brooklyn.

JESUS ROBLES, AIA
Principal, DUST Architects

Originally from the Southwestern United States, Jesús Edmundo Robles Jr spent much of his youth traveling the landscapes between Southern California and Texas. He studied architecture at Texas Tech University, earning his Masters of Architecture in 2003. Upon departure, he cut a unique path to expand and hone his craft, gaining over 15 years of architectural design, project management, construction and construction management experience. He studied under various craftsmen and architects, honing his sensibilities and skills as a finish carpenter, designer and builder. This time spent would greatly influence and form his virtues towards the craft of architecture.

Jesús is a Principal at DUST Architects, an award-winning studio grounded firmly in the tactile, in pursuit of the intangible. The studio, as well as teaching, explore ideas and ethics rooted in a reverent intimacy with craft and place through endeavors into the essential and the timeless.