FACULTY & PRITZKER FELLOWS
Our studio master instructors are practicing architects, Pritzker Prize laureates, and pioneering bio-synthetic researchers. Click "Blueprint Overlay" on any instructor card to inspect their structural research vector.
Dr. Evelyn Vance
Pritzker Fellow & Lead Computational Theorist
Pioneer in algorithmic structural optimization and generative facade systems. Has designed iconic towers in Tokyo, Zurich, and London.
RIBA International Gold Medal 2024, Venice Biennale Pavilion Winner
Parametric Optimization & Spatial Graph Theory
Prof. Henrik Lindqvist
Chair of Nordic Wood Innovation Studio
Renowned structural engineer and architect specializing in high-rise mass timber constructability and carbon-sequestering joinery systems.
Nordic Timber Design Award 2023, EU Green Building Fellow
CLT Structural Dynamics & Robotic Timber Milling
Dr. Soraya Al-Mansoor
Director of Bio-Synthetics Lab
Interdisciplinary bio-architect bridging synthetic biology and living building envelopes. Former visiting professor at MIT Media Lab.
AIA Innovation in Design Award 2025, BioDesign Challenge Gold Medal
Mycelium Composites & Photobioreactors
Klaus Vanhagen
Senior Critic & Pritzker Laureate Nominee
Master of raw concrete tectonics and civic monumentality. Known for sculptural museum spaces across Berlin, Basel, and Kyoto.
German Architecture Prize 2021, Mies van der Rohe Award Nominee
Monolithic Concrete & Spatial Phenomenological Theory
HOW DESK CRITIQUES OPERATE AT FORMA
01. BI-WEEKLY 1-ON-1 DESK CRITS
Students meet individually with assigned Pritzker laureates for 45 minutes twice per week via high-definition screen sharing and live 3D Rhino viewport review.
02. GUEST JURY DEFENSES
Mid-term and final studio projects are defended before a panel of invited guest critics from Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners, and OMA.
03. PUBLICATION MONOGRAPH
Selected high-distinction student work is compiled and published annually in the physical Forma Architecture Press monograph distributed globally.