Meet the Speaker

SPEAKERS SHARE X Venice 2024

Robert Winkel

Founder / CEO Mei architects and planners, The Netherlands

Oleg Drozdov is an architect, urbanist, artist, academic, European Commission and EU Mies van der Rohe Award expert. Since 1997, he is the founder and Chief Architect of Drozdov&Partners architectural office. Co-founder, President of the Kharkiv School of Architecture, Studio tutor. Since 2020, he is a co-founder and the Chief Architect of the Paragraph studio of architecture and urbanism in Montreux, Switzerland. Since 2022, European Commission expert Co-founder of Ro3Kvit: urban coalition for Ukraine.

In 2015, Drozdov curated the Terralogia art project in Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, and YermilovCentre for contemporary art, Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2012, he curated the Circumstances project representing Ukraine at the Moscow Architecture Biennale, winning the First Prize in the “Best Curated Project” nomination. In 2011, Drozdov was the co-author and critic of the Columbia University GSAPP semester project. In 2005, he represented Ukraine at the Flood International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with the “Monisto” project. In 2003, Drozdov initiated the Architectural Ambulance international project design workshop, Kharkiv, a ground-breaking event for Ukraine.

21st - 22nd October 2024
Venice, Italy, M9 Museum

Advanced Architecture Conference

Practical implementations of innovative
architectural techniques from ongoing
and completed research