After graduating, Dorte worked for Henning Larsen for four years, before co-founding Fuglsang & Mandrup-Poulsen Architects in 1996. In 1999 she set up her own studio, where she works “hands on” and in close interaction with all project teams, attaining design responsibility for the layout of every project in the studio.

Dorte Mandrup is a visiting Professor at Mendrisio Accademia di Architettura, Switzerland and  Honorary Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2019 she chaired The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. She is a vice chair of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (board member since 2006)  and a member of Danish Historic Buildings Council, appointed by the Danish Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dorte Mandrup has a Master of Architecture degree from  Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA), Denmark. She also attended School of Arts and Crafts, Visual Arts Department, in Kolding, Denmark and G.S.C. Art Department, Sculpture & Ceramics, in US.

With his combined passion for documentary and space, Baan’s photographs reveal our innate ability to re-appropriate our available objects and materials, in order to find a place we can call our own. Examples of this can be seen in his work on informal communities where vernacular architecture and placemaking serve as examples of human ingenuity, such as his images of the Torre David in Caracas – a series that won Baan the Golden Lion for Best Installation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.

With no formal training in architecture, his perspective mirrors the questions and perspectives of the everyday individuals who give meaning and context to the architecture and spaces that surround us, and this artistic approach has given matters of architecture an approachable and accessible voice.

Iwan Baan was named one of the 100 most influential people in contemporary architecture world by the magazine Il Magazine dell’Architettura on occasion of their 100th issue.

His research sites have included the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and most recently, the tropical Pacific Islands in Micronesia and Melanesia where he and collaborators are documenting the diversity, local use and management of plant resources in this poorly known but biologically important area of the world. One of the multidisciplinary projects that he co-leads in Melanesia considers Indigenous perspectives on daylight, through the lens of botany, ethnobotany and linguistics.

A prolific writer, teacher and public speaker, Dr. Balick has authored over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and authored or edited 30 scientific and general interest books, including Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (with Paul Alan Cox).

He received his B.Sc. from the University of Delaware and his A.M, and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he also attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business.