Manolo F. Ufer (Madrid, 1976), studies architecture at the University of Edinburgh and the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Honours Diploma in 2002. He also obtained a Master in Architecture & Urban Design from Columbia University in 2004. Manolo taught architecture and urban design studios at ITESM, UDEM, and CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. Today he is Adjunct Assistant professor at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. After having worked for various international firm in Europe and America, including Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, -Scape Landscape Architecture, and Legorreta+Legorreta, in 2008 he has founded with Angela Soong the awarded architecture and landscape architecture firm Ecoscope. (ecoscope.net)