Jacek Markusiewicz and Ander Gortazar Balerdi are architects, graduated from Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology and the University of the Basque Country respectively. They met in IaaC, Barcelona, where they did the Master in Advanced Architecture. Ever since, they have been working together on different projects combining parametric approach and urban scale, and they are currently working in BAD, an international office based in Beirut and Barcelona. They remain in close relation to academia, giving classes in Warsaw University and IaaC, and studying Urban Planning in UPC, Barcelona.