Christian Rapp trained as a mason, and studied architecture at Berlin and Delft Universities of Technology. He has worked for the renowned architects Otto Steidle, Rem Koolhaas and Hans Kollhoff, and was in partnership with Stefan Höhne from 1992 to 1998. He founded Rapp+Rapp together with his wife Birgit in 1999. He was awarded the Maaskant prize for young architects in 1997. After having taught as a guest lecturer at various schools of architecture in the Netherlands and Germany, he was appointed to the chair of Rational Architecture at Eindhoven Institute of Technology since 2007.

Paul Diederen (1959) graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1986. He teached at the Academies of Architecture in Rotterdam, Tilburg and Arnhem and at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He delivers lectures and teaches several masterclasses. He was an advisor of the Incentive Fund for Architecture and participated in several panels for architecture prizes. He was a member of the monuments and design review committee of Rotterdam and supervisor of the Vleuterweide Heritage Utrecht. Since 2016 he is professor of Transformational Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Haike Apelt studied architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar and Chalmers University in Gothenburg. She worked in the offices of Karelse van der Meer Architecten, Diener & Diener Architekten, META and Robbrecht and Daem. Alongside with her husband Marco Arts she founded hama architects in 2011. She has been a guest lecturer at several Dutch, Belgian and German universities. As a guest professor, respectively -lecturer she is involved at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Eindhoven University of Technology. Since 2014 she has been a member of the design review committee in Antwerp.