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Architect, urban planner, teacher, musician. Jiří Janďourek graduated in civil engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Brno University of Technology and in architecture and urbanism from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec. He is currently a lecturer in the Urban Planning Department and works on his PhD thesis on Architecture and Music (“Spatial Interpretation of Contemporary Classical Music”). In 2011 he was the head of an international project “Liberec – a town with a vision for the 21st century” - a structural plan for the town of Liberec. He is a frequent juror of architectural and urban planning competitions. Together with Jana Janďourková Medlíková, he founded the architectural studio Atakarchitekti, where they worked together on the preparation of award-winning public and private structures. Their joint projects include the New City Hall in Liberec, the Reconstruction of T.G.M. Square in Frýdlant v Čechách, the IGI Community Centre in Vratislavice nad Nisou, Building G of the Technical University in Liberec, and the reconstruction of the historic house U Páva in Liberec. Since 2019, he has been the head of the Department of the City Architecture Office - KAM L at the Liberec City Hall. In his spare time, he enjoys music and travelling for architecture. He is the author of the music for the play Sialská trojčata.

Markéta Zdebská graduated from the University of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and completed a work placement in Josef Pleskot’s studio. She founded the BY architects studio, whose projects have been published in Czech and international publications. In addition to nominations for the Czech Architecture Awards and other awards in public competitions, the studio is part of the team of authors of the winning design of the Revitalisation of Charles Square in Prague. Markéta a is regular member of juries in public and student competitions and in May 2022 was elected to the Board of Directors of the Czech Chamber of Architects.

Klára Brůhová graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University and Art History at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the University of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). She specialises in the history of architecture and urbanism of the 20th century, with a focus on post-war buildings and issues of their conservation. She currently works at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the University of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and at the Institute of Theory and History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Kamila Krejčiříková graduated from Mendel University in Brno with a degree in Garden and Landscape Architecture and co-founded the Ateliér Krejčiříkovi studio, which focuses on landscape architecture. In her practice, she specialises in the restoration of historical buildings, where she brings life back to well-known and forgotten gardens. She has won several prestigious awards for her work, including the Europa Nostra Grand Prix and the German Design Award.