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The following speakers performed at the Tectonics Making Meaning conference on 10, 11 and 12 December. The speakers [in alphabetic order] were:
 Wiel Arets - Wiel Arets, born 1955 in Heerlen established Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in 1984 after graduating from the TU Eindhoven in 1983. From 1986 to 1989 he taught at the Architectural Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, from 1988 to 1992 he was a visiting teacher of the Diploma Unit at the AA London, from 1991 to 1994 he was visiting professor at Columbia University and the Cooper Union in New York. Furthermore he taught at the Berlage Institute Amsterdam, the HAK Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 1995 to 2002 he was dean of the Berlage Institute Rotterdam where he also directed the PhD programme until 2004. Since 2001 he holds the Berlage chair at the Technical University Delft. In 2004 he accepted the professorship at the UDK Berlin.
 Andrew Ballantyne - Professor Andrew Ballantyne researches and teaches at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the Newcastle University. Andrew Ballantyne practised as an architect before taking up research, starting with a PhD on Richard Payne Knight and the theory of the pitcturesque. He has worked with archaeologists surveying a Byzantine settlement in Greece, and more recently on architectural theory, he is currently embarking on a major study of mock-Tudor architecture.
Professor Ballantyne is author and editor of several books, including te bestseller: Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002).
 Petra Blaisse - Petra Blaisse was born in London in 1955 and graduated at the art acadamies of London and Groningen. Blaisse founded the in Amsterdam based design office Inside Outside in 1991 and she has worked with architects around the world ever since. Blaisse and Inside Outside have become world famous for their interior works with offices such as OMA (Rem Koolhaas) in the Casa da Musica in Porto and the Seattle Public Library. Inside Outside also designed interior elements of the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart. A Recent project is the Hannam Dong District in Seoul, a landscape design. (photography by Inga Powilleit)
Bernard Colenbrander - Bernard Colenbrander (Kraggenburg, 1956) studied art history and archeology at the University of Groningen. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject of the scattered city.
Professor Colenbrander began his career as senior curator at the NAi, the Dutch Institute of Architecture, and later joined the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Enviroment. He currently holds the chair of Architectural History and Theory at the Eindhoven University of Technology.  Bert Dirrix - Architect. Bert Dirrix graduated in Eindhoven in architectural and urban design. Dirrix is the designer of Vertigo, the faculty building on the TU/e campus. Furthermore his work is to be found in Eindhoven, the region around it and cities like Maastricht and Rotterdam. Dirrix was professor of architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology between 1993 and 2002. His office, Diederen Dirrix architects, has won several important Dutch architecture awards, such as the Eindhoven Architecture Award (Vertigo building 2003), the Dutch Renovation Award (1999) and Dirrix has won the Prix de Rome in 1990. Mark Goulthorpe - In 1991, architect Mark Goulthorpe established the dECOi atelier to undertake a series of largely theoretical architectural competitions. Today, dECOi is an established architectural/design practice that takes a fresh, exploratory approach to design. Goulthorpe will discuss his interactive "Aegis Hyposurface"¯ which dynamically mediates events happening inside and outside of buildings. Goulthorpe currently divides his time between the School of Architecture and the Media Lab at MIT. John Habraken - John Habraken was born in Bandung, Indonesia in 1928. He received his architectural training at Delft Technical University, the Netherlands from 1948 till 1955. Appointed professor at Eindhoven Technical University, 1967, to set up its new Department of Architecture, and serve as its first dean. Appointed Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT, 1975-1981. He taught at MIT till his retirement in 1989. He is still occupied with the methods and theory of architectural and urban design. Habraken has lectured on these topics worldwide and is the author of a number of books, research reports, and many articles.
 Rogier van der Heide - lighting designer, director at Arup and global leader of Arup Lighting. Van der Heide is responsible for countless of innovative and artistic projects around the world. As the receiver of, among others, the prestigious IALD Radiance Award in New York, the Lighting Designer of the Year Award and an Edison Award, Van der Heide is also within his field recognized as an independent, creative lighting designer of international statue.
Renz van Luxemburg - L.(Renz) C.J. van Luxemburg studied architecture and building physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. After his graduation in 1976 he started his career in architectural acoustics at the Institute for Applied Physics TNO in Delft. From 1980 to 2000 he was responsible for an affiliation between TNO and Eindhoven University of Technology. In this period he was involved in projects like the Music Centre Eindhoven, Grand Palais Lille, etc. He wrote 4 books on building acoustics (Dutch). From 2000 to 2006 he joined DHV. He still is connected to DHV as principal consultant. He now is principal director of LeVel Acoustics BV a company he shares with the Eindhoven University of Eindhoven. Current projects for O.M.A are new Headquarters for CCTV in Beijing (China), Milstein Hall, Cornell University Ithaca New York, the new Danish Architecture Museum in Copenhagen, Education City in Qatar and the Stock Exchange Tower in Shenzhen (China). He participates in projects of REX: Caltech University in Pasadena California and the Museum Plaza project in Louisville Kentucky both in the US. In Holland he is involved in the design for an extension of the city theatre in Amsterdam with a new hall (Jonkman and Klinkhamer) and he is involved in the design for the Muziekpaleis in Utrecht (Hertzberger), a new Opera House in Enschede (Hoogstad). He was responsible for the acoustics of Casa da Musica in Porto, the New City Theatre in Almere (SANAA), the new hall for the city theatre in Eindhoven (En En Architects) and a new Theatre in Portimao (Portugal). He gave guest lectures on acoustics at the University in Eindhoven (NL), Gent (B), Mendrisio (S) and Harvard (US).
 Sylvia Karres - Sylvia Karres is a Dutch landscape architect at the office Karres & Brands Landscapearchitects in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Karres is generally known by her worldfamous desig of the Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. Furthermore here office received awards for multiple landscaping projects in the Netherlands.
Jacob Voorthuis - Assistant professor in Architectural History, TU/e.
Jacob Voorthuis, born in Leiden on the 22 January 1960, studied art history there and received his doctorate in 1996 on an interdisciplinary subject covering architectural theory and philosophy with a thesis that focussed on a critique of the social role of architectural design. He lectures in architecture and philosophy at the Technical University of Eindhoven and at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and Tilburg. With a special interest in the relationship between society and design, he has lectured widely in The Netherlands, England, Europe and the Caribbean. He works as a critic and architectural consultant at he concept stage of the design process.  Jan Westra - Jan Westra (1947) received his degree at Delft University of Technology.
Trained as an architect he experimented in several projects with unorthodox materials and constructions regarding life styles and building modes in housing projects.
He is involved in research and teaching at the Eindhoven University of Technology and is currently dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.
He taught on several Schools of Architecture: visiting critic (1987) and visiting professor (1985/1986) at the University of Oregon, Karlsruhe University, Henri vande Velde Antwerpen, academies van Bouwkunst en Stedebouw Tilburg and Rotterdam.
He is founder and former chairman of Booosting (three O's for Research, Development and Design in dutch) an institution aiming for the coherent cooperation between architecture, industrial design and industry.
 Chris Williams - Senior Lecturer in Structural Design and Engineering at the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bath. Chris Williams joined Ted Happold's group at Ove Arup in the early 1970's where was responsible for the structural analysis of the Frei Otto grid shells for the Mannheim Budesgartenschau. Since then he has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Bath with a particular interest in the formfinding and structural analysis of shell, fabric and bridge structures. Recent projects for which he has written software include the Japanese Pavilion Expo 2000 (Shigeru Ban Architects, Buro Happold), Weald and Downland Grid Shell (Edward Cullinan Architects, Buro Happold) and the British Museum Great Court Roof (Foster and Partners, Buro Happold). Ken Yeang - is an inventive and prolific architect working in the rapidly developing economy of south-east Asia. Underlying the buildings and projects of the last years, is a program of cutting-edge research, development and design, focussing on a new building type: the bioclimatic skyscraper. A tall building whose architecture derives from a systematic understanding of the role climate can play in finding forms and technologies that are energy efficient, integrates in the city grid and that enhance the quality of life of inhabitants in the tropical city. He became an honorary fellow AIA in 1999 and won a 1999 Prince Claus Award and the Sir Robert Mathew Award, for the Commonwealth Association of Architects, London, UK
Ken Yeang's lecture has been made possible in coöperation with
 Eindhoven.
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Paul de Ruiter - Architect Paul de Ruiter (1962) graduated in 1990 cum laude from the TU Delft. Before starting his own office he worked for leading architect firms in Canada, Australia and in the Netherlands. In 1994 he established Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter bv, where a substantial amount of research is done on how to design buildings and cities in which people feel comfortable without loss of economical feasability or determinal effects to ecology. Architecture must be in service if people and humanity. That is the basis for genuine progress and renewal. Besides his design work he is working on a promotional research project on the use of climate facades, he regularly gives lectures, both in the Netherlands, and abroad, writes articles for journals and teaches at Universitys and Academies. 
John Thackara - John Thackara is a symposiarch who designs events, projects, and organizations. He is also the Director of Doors of Perception (Doors), a design futures network with offices in Amsterdam and Bangalore. A former journalist and publisher, John was the first Director (1993-1999) of the Netherlands Design Institute. He is a member of the Virtual Platform, a club of research institutes which advises the Dutch government; he also sits on expert groups advising the European Commission on its innovation policy. John Thackara studied philosophy and journalism in England before working in book publishing in New York. He edited Design magazine for five years, was later Modern Culture Editor of Harpers & Queen, and was design correspondent of The Guardian.