2005 Prize-winners, eCAADe Lisbon:

Axel Kilian, Dipl.-Ing., SMArchS

After receiving his Architectural degree at the University of the Arts Berlin in 1998, Axel Kilian came to MIT for a Master of Science on a Fulbright scholarship in 2000. Since 2001 he has been a Ph.D. student in the Computation group in the Department of Architecture at MIT and focuses on the application of programming in Design. Axel Kilian has co-taught a number of workshops and as a TA, a design studio, with the focus on parametric and generative tools in the Architecture Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[http://destech.mit.edu/akilian]

Agnieszka Sowa

Agnieszka Sowa is an assistant at the Chair of CAD at Bialystok Technical University, Poland. She is also a PhD student at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. She is cooperating with TT&B architecture office as a freelance designer.

Her research interest concerns computer-aided generation of forms and structures, production with CNC machines in architecture as well as CAD teaching problems. She received a Master's degree in Architecture from the Bialystok Technical University in 2002. Since 2004 she has also been a holder of a Master of Advanced Studies degree in Computer-Aided Architectural Design obtained from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.