Christian Schittich (editor),Born 1956studied architecture at the University of Technology, Munichfollowed by seven years office experience and work as author;from 1991 editorial board of DETAIL, Review of Architecturefrom 1992 responsible editor, from 1998 editor-in-chief;author and editor of numerous textbooks and articles.Florian Musso,Born 1956studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Virginia;from 1984 to 1989 technical assistant at the Federal Institute of Technology,Lausanne, the Rhine-Westphalia University of Technology, Aachen and theFederal Institute of Technology, Zurich;from 1989 partnership with Claudine Lorenz in Sion, Switzerland and Munich;1990 to 2000 lecturer for building construction at the University of AppliedSciences Fribourg, Switzerland;1998 to 2002 guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;from 2002 professor for design, construction and material science at the Universityof Technology, Munich.Christoph Affentranger,Born 1965studied architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and at theUniversity of Technology, Helsinki;from 1991 own practice; 1996 guest researcher at the University of Architecture, Oslo;intensive contact with Scandinavian architecture and the theories of timberconstruction; numerous lectures, textbooks and publications on both subjects.Martin Rauch,Born 1958studied at the Technical College for Ceramics and Kiln Engineering, Stoob, Austria;studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, specialising in ceramics;from 1984 independently active in the fields of ceramics and adobe constructiontechniques; 1999 foundation of the Loam Clay Earth Architecture GmbH in Schlins;realization of innovative adobe clay construction projects in Austria, Italy, Switzer-land and Germany.Stefan Schafer,Born 1963studied architecture in Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart; worked as an architect in theRenzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa until 1994; from 1994 free-lance architectin Stuttgart; 1995 to 1998 technical assistant at the Institute for LightweightStructures and Conceptual Design in Stuttgart under Werner Sobek;from 1998 professor at the University of Technology, Darmstadt specialising instructural design and building construction;from 2000 own practice Architekten.3P in Stuttgart.