Anna & Eugeni Bach: Compressing Time

Anna & Eugeni Bach is a Finnish-Spanish architecture studio based in Barcelona. Blurring the boundaries of architecture, their interests spread across four activities: Professional, through public and private projects ranging from art installations, interior design, housing, public buildings, and public space design that work with the unexpected to provide socially relevant responses; Academic, as associate professors at ETSAB UPC and ETSALS URL and currently Visiting Professors of Architecture at Washington University in St Louis, USA; Research, via projects and installations that deal with the perception of space; and Culture, as directors of the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and curators of the exhibition “Human Traces—World Heritage” at the Alvar Aalto Museum. Their work has been exhibited in three editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, the ICO Museum in Madrid, and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. They have participated in different workshops, lectures, juries and other academic venues in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, l’École Plythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ETH Zurich, Universidad Autónoma de Lisboa, École d’Architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est, and University of Antwerp.

Dan Wheeler is a founding principal of Wheeler Kearns Architects, and is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his education at the Rhode Island School of Design, including two years study in Rome. Prior to establishing his own practice in 1987, he was an Associate and Studio head at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago (1981-87). Dan is the recipient of a NEA Traveling Fellowship (1979), the CCAIA Young Architect Award (1984), AIA Fellowship (1998), the Chicago Tribune’s “Chicagoan of the Year” in Architecture along with Lawrence Kearns (2008), and the AIA Illinois Nathan Ricker Clifford Award for Architectural Education (2017). Among numerous design awards of the firm, he is most proud of the two CCAIA Firm Awards WKA has received (1996, 2016), for overall significance and legacy of the practice.