92 Matching Architecture and Design Speakers

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Innovation in Wellness Creative Lead , IDEO

With cello, piano and violin, sisters Maria, Lucia and Angella Ahn are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music.

Alastair Parvin believes in making architecture accessible to 100 percent of the population.

Alex Steffen is cofounder and executive editor of WorldChanging.com.

Ali Carr-Chellman is an instructional designer and author who studies the most effective ways to teach kids and to make changes at school.

CEO, International Development Enterprises - India

Amy is quite the lady, she has her hands in every corner of the market from fabric design to authoring books.

AnnMarie Thomas works on the playful side of engineering -- using cool tools to teach and help others.

Executive Director, Riders for Health.

Theory meets pragmatism meets optimism in Bjarke Ingels' architecture. His big-think approach is informed by a hands-on, ground-up understanding of the needs of a building's occupants and surroundings.

Brenda Laurel is a designer, researcher and writer. Her work focuses on interactive narrative, human-computer interaction, and cultural aspects of technology.

Caleb Chung dreams up toys that interact with children. He's the inventor of Furby, a talking (and listening) robotic furball that sold some 50 million units in the late '90s. His newest plaything: Pleo the adorable robot dinosaur.

Carlo Ratti directs the MIT SENSEable City Lab, which explores the "real-time city" by studying the way sensors and electronics relate to the built environment.

Food is a shared necessity -- but also a shared way of thinking, argues Carolyn Steel. Looking at food networks offers an unusual and illuminating way to explore how cities evolved.

Graphic designer

A fascination with clean lines, modern materials and tiny houses made Christopher C. Deam the perfect designer to rethink the Airstream trailer right down to its aluminum skin.

Conrad Wolfram, physicist, mathematician and technologist, is strategic director and European co-founder/CEO of the Wolfram group of companies.

Dan Meyer is exploring the way we teach teachers to teach kids.

Dan Phillips builds homes out of recycled and reclaimed materials in Huntsville, Texas.

Being a designer of breathtaking and sometimes confounding buildings seems almost a footnote to the amazing life of architect Daniel Libeskind.

David Bismark has a PhD in Verifiable Electronic Voting and is the CEO of Swedish book publishing firm Recito Förlag AB.

David Carson is the "grunge typographer" whose magazine Ray Gun helped explode the possibilities of text on a page.

David Kelley's EE degree from CMU landed him in the engineering departments of NCR and Boeing, where he eventually discovered that the rigid world of corporate design was not for him.

President, Rockwell Group

Eames Demetrios is the creator of Kymaerica and the Kcymaerxthaere, an alternate history of the world. He is the grandson of the legendary husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames.

Eben Bayer is the cofounder and CEO of Ecovative Design, a bio-materials company located in Green Island, NY.

Landscape Artist, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Edwin Huang is a New York based comic artist, illustrator and storyboard artist.

Ellen Dunham-Jones takes an unblinking look at our underperforming suburbs -- and proposes plans for making them livable and sustainable.

The legendary Eva Zeisel is a ceramics designer whose curvy, sensual pieces bring delight and elegance to tabletops around the world.

Fabian Hemmert studies the theory and philosophy of embodiment, resistance and thinghood.

Senior Fellow, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability.

Greg Lynn is the head of Greg Lynn FORM, an architecture firm known for its boundary-breaking, biomorphic shapes and its embrace of digital tools for design and fabrication.

Could good design save the newspaper -- at least for now? Jacek Utko thinks so -- and his lively.

Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight.

Visualizer

Jessi Arrington is a color-loving designer based in Brooklyn.

Joel Cochran is an Expression Blend MVP, an INETA Community Champion, and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Windows Forms and WPF.

Jewelry designer John Hardy co-founded the extraordinary Green School in Bali, where kids get a holistic and green education.

Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data.

TED Speaker; Artist and Computer Scientist; Founder of Number27.org, We Feel Fine, and Cowbird

Joseph Abboud was born circa 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts and is an award-winning Lebanese American menswear fashion designer and author.

With one of the decade's most celebrated buildings under his belt, Joshua Prince-Ramus would seem well-positioned to become the world's next "starchitect."

CEO of Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park; Longtime Activist For Cleaning Up India's Air

Kate Orff asks us to rethink "landscape","to use urban greenspaces and blue spaces in fresh ways to mediate between humankind and nature.

On the heels of a long and bruising camel ride, Keith Bellows became fascinated with the "SUV of the sand," and with the many thorny aspects of their personalities (and mating habits) most of us would rather not dwell upon.

Leslie and Leigh Keno are experts in antiques. As trusted appraisers, they've often appeared on "Antiques Roadshow" and starred in the FOX series "Buried Treasure."

Kent Larson directs the Changing Places research group and co-directs the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Co-Founder and CEO, Angaza Design Inc.

Liz Diller and her maverick firm DS+R bring a groundbreaking approach to big and small projects in architecture, urban design and art -- playing with new materials, tampering with space and spectacle in ways that make you look twice.

Magnus Larsson hopes to build new structures in the desert -- by using bacteria to turn shifting sand into a solid mass.

A designer, promoter and recording artist, Malcom McLaren masterminded the punk-rock group the Sex Pistols, was an early mover in globalizing hip-hop, and made ambitious works of art.

At the intersection of word and form, Marian Bantjes makes her art.

Mark Brunetz is a celebrity interior designer and clutter expert. He currently co-hosts "Clean House" on the Style Network.

Markus Fischer led the team at Festo that developed the first ultralight artificial bird capable of flying like a real bird.

Maurizio Seracini at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, ItalyMaurizio Seracini is a diagnostician of Italian art.

Michael Pawlyn takes cues from nature to make new, sustainable architectural environments.

Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim.

Design legend Niels Diffrient is the creator of the Freedom Chair, a radical rethink of the way we sit today. Throughout his career, he's been a pioneer of ergonomic design -- studying the human body (in all its shapes and sizes) and how to make it comfortable.

The transparent simplicity and experiential nature of his work has built Olafur Eliasson's reputation as one of the world's most accessible creators of contemporary art.

Since she stepped back from practicing architecture in order to focus on writing about design, teaching and curating gallery exhibitions, Italian native Paola Antonelli has become a force to be reckoned with in the design world.

As creative director at the influential design and innovation company Ideo, Paul Bennett manages to keep his eye on the little things that matter, though his clients are among the biggest in the world (Procter & Gamble and Pepsi, to name but two).

Paula Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and began her graphic design career as a record cover art director at both Atlantic and CBS Records in the 1970s. In 1984 she co-founded Koppel & Scher, and in 1991 she joined Pentagram as a partner.

Philippe Starck is a legend of modern design.

Co-Founder, BioRegional.

TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong researches "metabolic materials" -- construction materials that possess some of the properties of living systems, and can be manipulated to "grow" architecture.

In addition to his role as a principal in jones|kroloff, Reed Kroloff is the Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, and a nationally known commentator in the world of architecture and urban design.

As a partner in seymourpowell, Richard Seymour designs idea-driven products -- from household goods to trains and motorcycles.

Rob Forbes founded Design Within Reach, the furniture company that brought high design to the general public.

Robert Lee Hotz is the science columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Rogier van der Heide creates architectural spaces with light.

Ross Lovegrove is truly a pioneer of industrial design.

Brown Design Group, founded by Ryan Brown.

Saki Mafundikwa wrote the book on Africa's graphic design heritage- then opened a school of graphic arts in his native Zimbabwe.

Sam Martin is the senior editor at frog design and the editor-in-chief of design mind magazine. He is also the author of Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory.

Spanish architect and sculptor

Design Fellow, Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford University.

Stefan Sagmeister is no mere commercial gun for hire. Sure, he's created eye-catching graphics for clients including the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed, but he pours his heart and soul into every piece of work.

Widely regarded as one of the world's most provocative architects, Thom Mayne is only interested in exploring the new, the present and the now.

Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, an architecture and design firm that, among other projects, designed the astonishing "Seed Cathedral" for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010.

Thomas Thwaites is a designer "of a more speculative sort," he says.

Design Director, IDEO

This Kentucky native left the family funeral business to become a standup comedian.

Vanessa Simmons is the daughter of Run-DMC co-founder Joseph Simmons.

Host of HGTV's "Deserving Design" and Judge on HGTV's "Design Star"

The Twinkle by Wenlan collection was born from designer Wenlan Chia's affinity for design, love of art and prolific imagination.

Publisher, Design Observer.

Jordy Fu's dream is to make this world a better place through art, design and architecture.

Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child.