Susanne Kohte is an architect and urban planner.

She has worked for Shigeru Ban, Tokyo, Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India, as well as in various offices in the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. In 2001 she founded SUKO Architecture.

As a university educator she has worked at the Institute of Design, University of Karlsruhe and from 2002 to 2006 at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. She has had a teaching position at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2008 to 2015 and since 2013 she is a Visiting Professor at the Technical University in Cologne (TH Koeln).

In various studies and publications as well as a curator she deals with modern architecture and urban developments with an emphasis on Japan and India. In 2017, the book „Encounters and Positions – Architecture in Japan“ was published, it combines reflections on architecture of Japanese architects with an analytical consideration of Japanese architecture from an international perspective.

Born in Kobe (1961), Hiroshi Nakao is an artist and architect practicing in Fujisawa, Japan. His works including buildings, installations, drawings, models and prints have been exhibited internationally. He established the artistic defection of the project, based on his interest in haptic space and the relationship between bodies and material.

Some of his main projects include: Leib-Raum-Plan, Junius Verlag, Hamburg (2003); Visiting Artist, Monash University Art Design & Architecture, Melbourne, Australia (2012); Professor, Shonan Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Kanagawa (2015); Monash Steps / Stawell Steps, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne (2016).