Mads Birgens trained to become architect at the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark, and gained early experience working for BIG and OMA, before he joined the start-up of Cobe in 2006.
Since the early years of Cobe Mads accumulated a unique experience in strategic planning and urban design through his work. From leading competitions like Nordhavnen, Nørreport Station and North Campus in Copenhagen, to taking responsibility as Project Director overseeing a large number of projects and clients in the Nordic Region. Ranging from Deutzer Hafen in Cologne, Nyhavna in Trondheim, Science Village in Lund Sweeden, Krulli Kvartal in Estonia and a number of urban plans in the capital region of Greater Copenhagen.
Today Mads works as Head of Urbanism, and is responsible for driving the professional development of urban and strategic planning at Cobe. Mads has a visionary and future-oriented focus, and in addition to following a number of projects on a dayli basis, he works in a cross disciplinary team of Urbanism, Lands-cape and Architecture to stregthen thought leadership within the organization, and foster innovation and sustainability in the creative process and early phase design at Cobe.
Mads is a experienced speaker from various events of both academic and profesional character. He has lectured at Harvard GSD, The Royal Academy in Copenhagn and Universities across Europe and beyond.
Gilles Delalex
Architecte co-fondateur de l’agence Studio Muoto – Studio Muoto
www.studiomuoto.com
Professeur TPCAU et Chercheur École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris‑Malaquais
Laboratoire Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire( LIAT)
Co-directeur Head of the department Théorie, Histoire, Projet (THP)
Gilles Delalex is a French architect. He studied architecture in Grenoble and Montreal. He holds a Master in urban planning and a Doctorate of Arts from Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki. He is full professor at the School of Paris-Malaquais, where he heads the department “Theory, History and Project”. He has taught at ENPC Paris, Harvard GSD and TU Wien.He is also co-director of the Liat research Lab (Infrastructure, Architecture, Territory) focusing on modernity and infrastructures.
Studio Muoto is an architectural office based in Paris since 2003. Its activities cover the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, teaching and scientific research. Muoto’s work features minimal structures that can combine different activities, evolve in time, and merge economical and aesthetic issues. Muoto means form in Finnish.
Adriaan Geuze
Founder of West8 Architectural firm
www.west8.com
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Department of Urbanism
Adriaan Geuze is the founder and design director of the three branches of West 8 in Rotterdam, North America and Brussels and brings more than 35 years of experience in the fields of landscape architecture, urban design, and infrastructure.
Geuze is internationally acclaimed for his pioneering work in the Netherlands and abroad. Under his leadership, West 8 has realized more than two hundred projects in three decades. Many of these delivered projects resulted from major international design competitions, including: Governors Island in New York, Madrid RIO, in Spain, the waterfront of Toronto in Canada, and Jubilee Gardens in London.
Geuze received numerous awards for his work, including the Dutch Prix-de-Rome, the Maaskant Prize, the Oeuvre Prize for Architecture of the Mondriaan Fund, the ARC Oeuvre Award, and the ULI Netherlands Leadership Award. International prizes are the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design (Harvard Design School) and several Honor Awards from the American Society for Landscape Architecture. In 2015, he was appointed a member of the Academy of Arts of the KNAW, an important recognition of his artistic merits. In 2022, Geuze was appointed a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Technical University Delft and the recipient of the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture, the preeminent award for landscape architects and the highest honour IFLA can bestow. He frequently gives lectures and teaches at institutions worldwide.