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Marina Tabassum
Founder, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)
(Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Mauricio Pezo + Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Founders, Pezo von Ellrichshausen
(Yungay, Chile)
Ma Yansong, Hon. FAIA
Founding Partner, MAD Architects
(Beijing, China; Los Angeles, USA; Rome, Italy)
Xu Tiantian
Founding Principal, DnA Design and Architecture
(Beijing, China)
Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA, & Roy Decker, FAIA
Principals, Duvall Decker
(Jackson, Mississippi)
Billie Tsien, AIA
Founder of Studio Tsien and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
(New York, NY)
Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott, AIA
Founding Partners
IwamotoScott
(San Francisco, CA)
Globally acclaimed designers figures make MDC a must-see all-in-one-place group.
Internationally-Based Headliners
Marina Tabassum - Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Mauricio Pezo + Sofia von Ellrichshausen - Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Yungay, Chile)
Ma Yansong - MAD Architects (Beijing, China; Los Angeles, USA; Rome, Italy)
Xu Tiantian - DnA Design and Architecture (Beijing, China)
North American-Based Headliners
Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA, & Roy Decker, FAIA - Duvall Decker (Jackson, Mississippi)
Billie Tsien, AIA - Founder of Studio Tsien and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York, NY)
California-Based Headliners
Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott, AIA - Iwamoto Scott (California)
Out of the Box
Allan Wexler
Innovators
MDC 2026 Launches the "Innovators", showing the way to a just, resilient future.
Anna Dyson - Yale University, Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture
Carl Elefante, FAIA Emeritus - 2018 AIA President. Author of "Getting to Zero - Decarbonizing the Built Environment"
David Lewis, AIA - LTL Architects, Parsons School of Design, Author of "Manual of Biogenic House Sections"
Karen Robichaud - Founder, Karen Robichaud, LLC. Standing at the intersection of leadership, story, and design
Katie Swenson, Assoc. AIA - Senior Principal, MASS Design Group
Corey Squire, AIA - Associate Principal, BORA Architects, co-author of the AIA Framework for Design Excellence