Nikola Beim, born in Slovakia, is an architect and architectural theorist based in Austria. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under the supervision of Professor Maria Carpa. She completed her degree in architecture in the studio of Hani Rashid. Beim studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. From January to July 2023, she served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York, collaborating with Professor Jorge Otero-Pailos. In addition to the Fulbright scholarship, she received the Marietta Blau Grant for studying in the USA and the National Design Award 2021 from the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Design Center. She gained professional experience in architectural offices across Europe, including UNStudio in Amsterdam, Pichler & Traupmann Architekten in Vienna, and LAVA in Stuttgart.

Starting from the academic year 2024/2025, Nikola Beim will teach the course "Architectural Expression" in English at the Faculty of Architecture at VUT. She will also further develop her research in the digitalization of architecture and experimental heritage conservation.

Ryan Manton is a British architect, a graduate of UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. Afterward, he pursued postgraduate studies in the history of architecture and sustainable urban development at the University of Oxford. For the past three years, he has been a lecturer at ARCHIP in Prague, teaching master's courses in Architectural Research, Professional Ethics, and Psychology and the City.

At FA BUT, he will begin teaching the course "Architectural Practice" and contribute to the preparation of a new bachelor's program in English, set to open in September 2024. In the summer semester, he will lead bachelor's projects on the topic of new typologies for temporary housing titled "Mix/Match." He looks forward to collaborating with students and colleagues and engaging in exciting new projects.