KEN YEANG
Ken Yeang is director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, a multidisciplinary firm of Urban designers, Architects and Landscape Architects. Yeang is known for pioneering the passive low-energy design of skyscrapers, what he has called "bioclimatic" design. Yeang's 1992 Menara Mesiniaga building in Subang Jaya Selangor, Malaysia outlines his bioclimatic techniques, including daring vertical landscaping, external louvers to reduce solar heat gain, extensive natural ventilation and lighting, and an active Intelligent Building system for automated energy savings. His concentration on energy conservation and environmental impact is a radical departure from mainstream architecture's view of the profession as more strictly an art form.

KOICHI NAGASHIMA
Koichi Nagashima is an architect, urban designer and planner – a graduate of Waseda University, School of Architecture, Tokyo (B.A. Architecture), Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (M.A. Architecture) and the Athens Center of Ekistics, Graduate School of Ekistics, Athens, Greece. He has been Principal Partner, AUR (Architecture-Urban Design & Research) Consultants, Tokyo, and Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, Yokohama University and School of Architecture, Waseda University. He is nationally and internationally known for the large number of architectural, landscaping and planning projects he has undertaken – for which he has received high order prizes and other distinctions; his numerous publications; and teaching activities at universities in Japan, Australia and the UK. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics and Japan Correspondent of Ekistics. He has been the Director of the UIA Work Programme, Architecture of the Future.
Please see "From Decocity Towards Ecocity," in Ekistics, 376, pp. 70-79, 1996, and Glocal Approach Toward Architecture of the Future, 1999.

ADENRELE AWOTONA
Adenrele Awotona is currently the Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was formerly at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom where he was director of graduate studies in architecture and urban design as well as director of the Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas. His fields of technical expertise include sustainable community-based planning, post-disaster reconstruction and architectural design methods. He has been a principal investigator (or co-PI/researcher) on major projects funded by various agencies. These include the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Government Department for International Development, the United Nations Center for Human Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and, the European Union. A stream of publications has, therefore, emanated from his work. Similarly, through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in many countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. Adenrele Awotona’s publications include: Tradition, Location and Community: place-making and development (edited with Necdet Teymur, Ashgate, 1997); Reconstruction after disaster: issues and practices (edited, Ashgate, 1997); Housing provision and bottom-up approaches: Case studies from Africa, Asia and South America (edited, Ashgate, 1999); Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Rebuilding sustainable communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and Projects’ (edited, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2007). Furthermore, Adenrele Awotona has been an external reviewer/examiner of over 200 masters’ and doctoral dissertations internationally.