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Héctor Esrawe
Héctor Esrawe is a Mexico City–based designer and the founder of Esrawe Studio, a multidisciplinary practice established in 2003. Working across architecture, interior design, furniture, and product design, the studio has developed a diverse portfolio of residential, hospitality, cultural, and commercial projects both in Mexico and internationally.
Guided by a deep understanding of the physical and emotional dimensions of space, Esrawe’s work is characterized by a thoughtful approach to materiality, craftsmanship, and context. Through a collaborative and interdisciplinary process, his practice brings together architects, designers, artists, and craftspeople to create environments that balance innovation, functionality, and human experience.
A leading figure in contemporary Mexican design, Esrawe has played a significant role in shaping the country’s creative landscape through both his studio practice and various collaborative initiatives. His work has received numerous international distinctions and has been exhibited globally, while his projects and designs form part of both private and institutional collections.
Huw Wellard
Huw Wellard is the architect behind Wellard Architects, a Melbourne-based architecture and design studio. Known for creating lasting impressions through built form, the studio delivers thoughtful outcomes with a sensitive, measured approach that responds to both people and place.
Working across urban, coastal, and rural environments throughout Australia, the practice engages in a process of refinement and shared dialogue to design highly resolved spaces that evolve with life and context.
Tosin Oshinowo
Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based Nigerian architect, designer, and curator, and the founder of Oshinowo Studio, established in 2013. Her practice is recognized for its socially responsive approach to architecture, design, and urbanism, with projects spanning civic, commercial, and residential sectors across Nigeria. Notable works include collaborations with the United Nations Development Programme to create a new community for a village displaced by Boko Haram, Maryland Mall in Lagos, and Adidas’ flagship store in West Africa.
Oshinowo’s work explores the intersection of culture, identity, and contemporary African design. Alongside her architectural practice, she is an active curator and researcher, having co-curated the 2019 Lagos Biennial and curated the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. A registered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, she has worked internationally with firms including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture before establishing her independent studio.
Wallflower Architecture + Design
Wallflower Architecture + Design is a Singapore-based boutique practice led by Robin Tan and Yong Mien Huei, known for its refined approach to high-end residential architecture rooted in tropical living. Established in 1999, the studio has built a strong reputation for crafting bespoke homes that respond sensitively to climate, site, and the lived rhythms of their clients.
Robin Tan, a graduate of the National University of Singapore, brings over two decades of experience and has received multiple Singapore Institute of Architects awards, alongside international recognition including wins at the Trends International Design Awards and the World Architecture Festival. Yong Mien Huei, also a graduate of the National University of Singapore and a registered architect, is known for her thoughtful design sensibility and has contributed to award-winning projects such as Touching Eden House, which received both SIA and World Architecture Festival honors. She has also served as a juror at the World Architecture Festival 2025.
Together, they lead Wallflower with a shared commitment to context-driven, sustainable design, continuously exploring new expressions of contemporary tropical architecture.
RA! Arquitectura
RA! Arquitectura is an architecture studio founded in 2017 in Mexico City by Cristóbal Ramírez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar, and Santiago Sierra. The practice focuses on planning and building spaces rooted in human experience, where architecture emerges from memory, the body, and lived conditions rather than from predetermined form.
RA!’s work is developed through careful readings of context, habit, emotion, and environment. Each project is conceived as a narrative that unfolds through sequences of space, prioritizing atmosphere, use, and emotional resonance alongside technical precision. Rather than pursuing a fixed formal language, the studio approaches each commission through inquiry, experimentation, and iteration, allowing projects to respond specifically to their place and users.
The studio’s work has received national and international recognition, including the CAM-SAM Grand Prize, Architectural MasterPrize, Félix Candela Award, A+ Architizer Awards, LOOP Design Awards, and the Simon Architecture Prize awarded by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. RA!’s projects have been widely published in international media such as Domus, Divisare, Dezeen, Designboom, ArchDaily, and Arquine, reflecting an active presence across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Erased Studio
Erased Studio is a multidisciplinary architectural practice founded by architects Elliott Housiaux and Paul-Emile De Smedt. Trained in architecture in Brussels, the studio operates across architecture, interior design, scenography, and spatial design, approaching every project through a structured and analytical architectural lens.
Rooted in research, context, and material experimentation, their work is defined by minimal, visually precise compositions shaped by light, atmosphere, and narrative clarity. Positioned at the intersection of architecture and scenography, Erased Studio explores how form, space, and sensory experience construct immersive environments.
