Adam Štěch is a curator, writer and co-founder of Prague-based creative group OKOLO, through which he has developed exhibition and publication projects on design and architecture since 2009, with a focus on residential projects and 20th-century modernism.
He is the author of Inside Utopia (Gestalten, 2017) and Modern Architecture and Interiors (Prestel, 2020), has contributed to Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon, and in 2025 published the Modernist Travel Guide with Sight Unseen. He has written for Wallpaper, The World of Interiors , The Architectural Review , Domus and others, and has collaborated with institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Vitra Design Museum, MAK Vienna and Triennale di Milano.
Štěch is currently a curator at the Winternitz Villa, an editor of Dolce Vita magazine and leads architecture and design courses at Scholastika, in Prague.
Ophélie Herranz Lespagnol is a French and Spanish architect and co-director of Geneva and Madrid-based practice Nomos.
Her work explores the relationship between materiality, domesticity and collective life through projects that combine constructive rigour, reuse and a strong sensitivity to context. Working across different scales and cultural environments, her practice has developed a recognised expertise in housing and transformation projects. The work spans projects in Spain , Switzerland , Portugal and Burkina Faso .
The practice has received significant international recognition. Among these awards, El Garaje in Madrid , Spain was the winner of the 2021 AR House awards, while in 2020 the team was shortlisted for the AR Emerging Awards. During the development of the Centre Médico‑Chirurgical in Burkina Faso, the project was highly commended for the overall prize in the 2023 AR Future Projects and was winner in the Civic and community category. Nomos were also the recipients of the 2022 Dezeen award for Emerging Architecture Studio of the Year, and were awarded the FAD Award for Interior design in the same year for El Garaje . The studio’s work has been widely published, including a monograph published by Quart Verlang in 2022.
Lespagnol has lectured internationally and participated as guest critic and jury member at architecture schools and professional institutions across Europe and beyond. Her work has been featured in publications including The Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Arquitectura Viva, Abitare and Werk, Bauen + Wohnen.
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