IAAC Advanced Architecture Group is glad to welcome in its team two new Master Coordinators: Alex Mademochoritis, for the Master in City & Technology, and Valentina Toscano, for the Master in Advanced Interaction.

Alex is a Greek-French Architectural Designer and Master in City and Technology researcher, whose focus is on projects that produce creative and radical applications of new technologies in the urban environment, as well as spatial and material experimentations that push the known technological and architectural limits. His interests lie in what will most affect the future of humanity: the internet, sustainable energy, the permanent extension of life beyond Earth, artificial intelligence and genetics.

In 2014 he was the architectural assistant of the Head Architect at the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens and in 2015 he collaborated with the Architectural Association’s Design + Make program for the construction of the robotically fabricated Wood Chip Barn project.

Valentina is an Italian architect and food designer. She studied Architecture at UNICH and ETSAS in Seville. Since 2009, Valentina has been academic assistant at the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara, where she graduated with honours in 2011. YAP MAXXI Finalist in 2012 and Master in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage in 2014 at Il Sole 24ORE Business School in Milan.

She has over 5 years of experience in Cultural Production and Didactic Coordination of several cultural institutions such as the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, IED, Il Sole 24ORE Business School, Paratissima Torino. Since 2015, she is co-founder and project manager of MANI IN PASTA, a food design project based in Lisbon in collaboration with FabLab Lisboa.