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Robert Bachmann first worked as a trainee and then as a materials engineer at the HTC of Lehigh Cement Company in Atlanta, a subsidiary of the HeidelbergCement Group. After 5 years as Head of Concrete Technology in concrete road construction, he moved to the Engineering and Innovation department of HeidelbergCement as Project Manager Infrastructure in 2016. Since 2019, he has been Head of Technical Sales for the special products of Heidelberger Beton in the pre-sales area and thus the contact person for building owners, architects and planners. He is also responsible for implementing the sustainability strategy of Heidelberg Materials with the EcoCrete product line.

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Marianne Goebl is the managing director of Finnish design company Artek. She is a design professional specialising in the development and dissemination of projects at the intersection of culture and commerce. In close collaboration with leading designers and architects, she has led initiatives in product design, interior design, temporary structures, exhibitions, fairs and events.

Marianne has been at the helm of Artek since 2014. From 2011 to 2014, she served as director of Design Miami, the global forum for collectible design, with yearly events in Basel, Switzerland and Miami, USA. She previously spent a decade with the Swiss design company Vitra, where she contributed to the development of the Vitra Home Collection, led the experimental platform Vitra Edition, and acted as head of international public relations.

Marianne is a native Austrian and studied economics in Vienna and Paris.

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Werner Huber, Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing., began his career as a consultant for acoustic ceiling systems at Wilhelmi Werke and then became a technical consultant for dry construction systems at Gyproc GmbH. There he held various management positions, including Head of Application Technology and Head of Technology/Sales Special Products. When he moved to Lafarge Gips GmbH, later ETEX Building Performance GmbH, he started as Head of Technical Service/Sales Design Products. Since May 2019, he has been working as Business Development Manager, driving innovative solutions for the construction sector.

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As Global Landscape Director of Henning Larsen’s international projects, Franziska combines more than 20 years of experience within landscape and urbansim with deep strategic insight and in depth knowledge of landscape design. Her approach is always collaborative and interdisciplinary, and she insists on learning from both clients, local citizens, and collaborators in the process. Franziskas’ competencies cover a broad spectrum from masterplanning to advanced detailed landscape design, as well as public space transformations. With a BREEAM AP-certification, Franziska is also a sustainability expert and works with the integration of landscape, innovative urban developments and naturebased solutions. Her extensive international experience, combined with technical expertise and ability to inspire and connect teams and clients across diverse markets, makes her an ambitious leader to drive Henning Larsens landscape team.

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Søren Pihlmann (b. 1987) founded the Copenhagen-based office pihlmann architects in 2021. By exploring novel materials and re-evaluating existing ones, he strives to rethink conventional architectural perspectives. Examining the potential of both overproduced and underestimated materials, he combines them based on their inherent properties, creating compositions that evoke both familiarity and discovery.

In recent years, he has made a significant mark on the Danish architectural scene through a series of transformative projects that have strongly influenced contemporary discourse. In 2023, his project House14a received Denmark’s most prestigious architectural award, the Årets Arne, named after the celebrated modernist Arne Jacobsen. That same year, he was shortlisted for three Architectural Review awards, having previously received the Henning Larsen Foundation Honorary Award in 2022.

His innovative practice has led to his appointment as the curator of the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia in 2025. The exhibition will incorporate the renovation of the pavilion itself as part of its concept. The architectural philosophy underpinning his work emphasizes the potential of existing materials and resources, challenging how we continue to build by focusing on what we already have. This approach is exemplified by his recent transformation project Thoravej 29, which was awarded Building of the Year 2024 in Denmark and reused 95% of the existing materials.

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Robert joined Mei architects and planners in 2000 and became a full partner in 2022. As a building technologist, he specializes in architectural detailing and sustainable construction. As the concept supervisor of the agency, he oversees the whole design and building process of SAWA, the first circular timber building in Rotterdam. As a BREEAM-NL expert with the Dutch Green Building Council and active in industry committees, Robert shares his expertise as a guest lecturer and critic. His work focuses on creating circular, biobased, people-centered architecture.

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Alexander Schechner is CEO of Envola GmbH. With the company founded in 2019, he aims to drive forward the energy transition with pioneering, climate-friendly and highly efficient building air conditioning. Alexander Schechner was already intensively involved with hydropower during his studies in communications engineering and physics. After more than 10 years in management positions at Voith Hydro, he founded his own company in 2014. With Envola GmbH, Schechner is placing a fully integrated and intelligent overall system for technical building equipment with impressive synergies and a high degree of pre-integration - and production.

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Jeanette Kunsmann, author and architecture journalist, is editor-in-chief of Detail. Her topics are architecture and building culture, design and art, city and society. From 2013 to 2016, she was editor-in-chief of the daily BauNetz news and the weekly magazine Baunetzwoche. She then developed the cross-media magazine DEAR with Stephan Burkoff on behalf of Heinze GmbH, which she managed as deputy editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2019. Publications include ARCH+, AW Architektur & Wohnen, Baumeister, Domus, FAZ, FAS Reise, Häuser, IDEAT, Jovis, Mitte/Rand, Ruby Press, Stylepark, uncube magazine; co-founder of the publishing house Mitte/Rand; architecture diploma under Dieter Eckert at the Technical University of Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin and Munich.