Silke Langenberg, architect and Full Professor of Construction and Preservation at ETH Zurich, where she leads the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation. Her research explores the maintenance, transformation, and resilience of architectural and infrastructural heritage, with a particular focus on traditional building techniques and methods for documenting and digitising the built environment.

Nicole McIntosh is the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University. Together with Jonathan Louie, she founded Architecture Office, a Swiss-American practice dedicated to design and research. The studio’s work investigates how imagination can expand the notion of architectural typology, material, and assembly. Their book Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus questions the cultural identity of the chalet.

Martina Voser is a Swiss landscape architect and, since 2024, a full professor of landscape architecture at ETH Zürich. In 2004, she founded her own practice and is today a partner of mavo Landschaften. Awarded projects include the Attisholz riverside park, the embedding of the reconstructive structures for Bondo, the Inner Garden and the Garden Sequence in Zurich. 2009-2018, she taught at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and was a visiting professor first at the EPFL, then at ETH Zurich, 2020-2023. The research of her chair focuses on how to adapt the Swiss cultural landscape to the challenges of climate change. She is a member of various commissions and juries.

Francesca Chiorino is an architect, author, and curator. She studied architecture at the Iuav University of Venice, graduating in History in 2003, and also studied at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona in Spain. Since 2005, she has been a member of the editorial board of Casabella, and in 2011 she founded her own architecture practice. She curates architecture conferences and events, and regularly publishes critical texts and essays in specialist journals and monographic volumes. Since 2023, she has been the curator of Swiss Talks.

Ilyas Azouzi has been Head of the Science, Research and Innovation at Istituto Svizzero since February 2025. A historian specialising in the political and urban history of Fascist Italy, his research focuses in particular on the architectural legacy of Italian colonialism. He holds a PhD in History from University College London (UCL), a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Lausanne, and a Master’s in Architectural History and Theory from the Bartlett School of Architecture.