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Qualified as an engineer in Landscape and Land Use Planning. 1996-1999: Collaborator on the research project “A cooperative approach to limited resources” with Professor Dr Klaus Selle, University of Hannover. 1999-2000: Urban Development, Conservation of the Environment and Communications, Berlin. Since April 2000: Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land. Project leader focusing on new landscapes after mining: forms of work and organization, and project management.

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Qualified as an engineer in Territorial and Town Planning. 1970-1977: Collaborator with the Construction Academy in Berlin. 1977-1987: Assistant and lecturer at the Weimar School of Ar chitecture and Construction. 1978: Doctor of Engineering in Urban Development. 1985: Dr. sc. Phil. in Sociology of the City. 1987-1998: Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation1998-2000: Manager of the company that organizes the IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land. Since 2000 Manager of the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land GmbH.

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Ryue Nishizawa. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1966. Graduated from Yokohama National University with Masters Degree in Architecture in 1990. Joined Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. Established SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima (1995). Established Office of Ryue Nishizawa (1997). Associate Profesor at Yokohama National University (2001-).

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Kazuyo Sejima. Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1956. Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Masters Degree in Architecture in 1981. Joined Toyo Ito & Associates. Established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates (1987). Established SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa (1995). Professor at Keio University (2001-).

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Claude Figureau is a botanist and autodidact. He is an engineer, Director of the Jardin des plantes de Nantes, Honorary President of Jardins botaniques de France et des pays Francophones, Vice President of the Société des Sciences naturelles de l’Ouest de la France, and member of the Conseil scientifique du Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest and the Conseil scientifique du patrimoine naturel des pays de la Loire. He has carried out numerous projects on the cyanobacteria and bryophytes (Prize of the Fondation de France) and tropical epiphytes (Special prize of the Jury scientifique de Sciences et vie / Leitz). He took part in a mission to the peaks of the Cameroon and cooperation projects in Bolivia, in the Martin Cardenas botanical garden. He has produced works and publications on landscape diagnosis and determining the biological value of a site. Conferences and courses at various universities.