Henri Achten (1967, Venlo, the Netherlands) studied architecture in Eindhoven University of Technology 1986-1992. He worked as research assistant on his Ph.D. on knowledge encoding in graphic representations 1993-1997 in the Design Methods group. After his Ph.D. he got a post-doc position in the Design Systems performing research on design support in VR and further elaboration of his previous research work. Since January 2000, Henri Achten is assistant professor. He teaches in the design studio, and lectures on design methods and CAAD.

Since 2006 he is associate professor in CAAD at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Vice President (Joint): José Duarte
Institution: Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
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José P. Duarte (1964, Lisbon, Portugal) obtained a professional degree in architecture from TU Lisbon in 1987 and an S.M.Arch.S. in Design Enquiry and a Ph.D. in Design and Computation from MIT in 1993 and 2001, respectively. Currently, he is Associate Professor at TU Lisbon, where he heads the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory. His research is focused on the use of computer technologies for customizing mass housing and enabling flexible urban design. He became member of the eCAADe council in 2004 and chaired the eCAADe conference in Lisbon in 2005. He was elected vice-president in 2007.

Treasurer: Johan Verbeke
Institution: Brussels St Lucas, Belgium
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Johan Verbeke (1962, Temse, Belgium) graduated at KULeuven and completed his PhD in 1991. He joined eCAADe some ten years ago and soon became member of the Board. He works at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas Architecture (Brussels-Gent) where he was appointed Head of School in March 2003. He is one of the founder members of the AVOCAAD research group.

Research: Tom Maver, Honarary Member
Institution: University of Strathclyde and Glasgow School of Art, UK
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Tom Maver is a founding member of eCAADe and CAADFutures and was, for over 25 years, the Director of ABACUS – the Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit, Strathclyde. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Strathclyde and an Honorary Professor in the Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art.

Past President: Andy Brown
Institution: University of Liverpool, UK
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Andy was elected president of eCAADe at the Annual General Meeting in September 2001. Andy has a long standing involvement with eCAADe stemming from the presentation of a paper at the Rome eCAADe Conference in 1984. Some years later he was elected to the Administrative Council of eCAADe and took responsibility for managing communications, in paricular the Bulletin and Web site. At Liverpool University Andy is Co Director of the CAAD Research Unit (the hosts of the 1999 eCAADe Conference).

Liaison with conference host: Bob Martens
Institution: Vienna University of Technology
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Bob holds an M.Sc. in Architecture from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Dr.techn. from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). He is appointed as an Associate Professor in Vienna and teaches CAAD, spatial simulation and as environmental design. In 1997 he was elected president of eCAADe at the Annual General Meeting and served till 2001. His current research interest is focussing on virtual reconstruction, electronic publishing and knowledge management. Recently he has been appointed at TU Wien as Vice-dean of Studies related to continuing education activities (postgraduate courses).

Member: Joachim Kieferle
Institution: FH Wiesbaden, Germany
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Joachim was host of the 2007 eCAADe Conference, ‘Predicting the Future’, that he arranged as a joint venture between the School of Architecture in Frankfurt and his own School in Wiesbaden.

Member: Vassilis Bourdakis
Institution: University of Thessaly, Greece
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The 2006 eCAADe Conference ‘Communicating Space(s) was hosted at the University of Thessaly, byVassilis. He has had a long-standing association with eCAADe.

Future Conference Host: Marc Muylle
Institution: College of Design Sciences, Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium
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studied Product Development (MSc 1975) in Antwerp (Belgium) and later Ergonomics (MSc 1980) at LUT (UK). After running for 20 years the private company Muylle ergo Productdesign he moved in 1995 to the educational sector and became the founder of the CA(A)D curriculum at the College of Design Sciences, Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium. Currently he is the chairman of the Applied Design Communication Course Group and the ICT coordinator for the department.

The eCAADe Council nominates an External contact from outside the eCAADe region. Professor Tom Kvan, who has been President of our parallel organisation in Asia, CAADRIA, currently holds this post.

Secretariat

The Administrative Address of eCAADe is:

Nele De Meyere,
Department of Architecture Sint-Lucas Brussels/Ghent,
Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst,
Paleizenstraat 65,
1030 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: + 32 2 242 00 00
Fax: +32 2 245 14 04

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