Axel Paredes teaches design studio and digital fabrication courses at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala, where he is also director of the Digital Fabrication Laboratory. He has taught workshops on digital design and manufacturing at the TEC of Monterrey in México and at the Izmir School of Economics in Turkey. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with his thesis entitled Generative Opponents: A New Architecture for Native Soil, receiving the Imre Halasz Thesis Prize; as well as an M.A. degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the Architectural Association of London. Among his professional projects, his practice Axel Paredes Arquitectura recently won a competition in association with two other firms to design and build a sixty five thousand square meter building complex in Guatemala City, due to begin construction in 2010. 
(Right image credit: Fabric formed concrete system done with students at UFM)

Scott Marble is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks and a faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). His early engagement with digital technologies at Columbia University, teaching one of the first “paperless” design studios, has allowed Marble Fairbanks to pioneer innovative uses of digital fabrication and unique assemblies in theirbuilt work. Scott is a frequent lecturer in the areas of digital technologies and building information modeling (BIM). Scott received his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M University. In 2008 Marble Fairbanks was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to design a speculative project addressing the potentials of digital design and fabrication for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.