The architects programme for CAB 2016 will feature renowned architects working as artists. Line-up includes 2015 Turner Art Prize winners Studio Assemble (UK) with Madelon Vriesendorp (The Netherlands), Balmond Studios (Sri Lanka), Ciriacidis Lehnerer Architekten (Switzerland) and students and graduates from 5 universities from New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and UK. The resulting workshops and installations will be carried out in close participation with the community members of Slave Island, cumulating in a ‘Great Feast’. 

CAB will also host an Architecture symposium featuring Professor Tony Van Raat (New Zealand), Alberto Foyo (USA); the symposium hopes to contribute towards improving the conditions of environmental learning, practice and knowledge, and promoting why designed efforts are necessary to bring about socio-ecological benefits. 

Here is a brief introduction to some of the architects taking part this year and their work. 

Studio Assemble (UK) 

Studio Assemble are an art, architecture and design collective based in London. Founded to deliver a single self-build project in 2010, Studio Assemble have since delivered a diverse and critically acclaimed body of work, and won the 2015 Turner Prize for their on-going collaborative work with a community in Granby, Liverpool, UK. Studio Assemble's working method actively involves the public as accomplice and collaborator in the delivery of projects, whether at the scale of furniture or at the scale of a building, both making things, or making things happen. 

Madelon Vriesendorp (The Netherlands) 

Madelon Vriesendorp (Bilthoven) is one of the most important living Dutch artists. Her extraordinary international career spans five decades, launched when she co-founded of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in the early 1970s with Rem Koolhauss. Madelon's painting and installations have been exhibited around the world, in the Serpentine Gallery, London, Guggenheim and Max Protetch Galleries, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, SAM, Basel, Stedelijk , Amsterdam, Gallery Ma, Tokyo and AEDES, Berlin. The largest collection of her work – a set of 26 six pieces - is in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York, and Vriesendorp has produced illustrations for Built, Domus and Rarebit. Madelon's work was exhibited in major installations at the 2008 Venice Art Biennale and the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. 

Ciriacidis Lehnerer Architekten (Switzerland) 

Ciriacidis Lehnerer Architekten is a Zurich based architectural practice lead by Savvas Ciriacidis and Alex Lehnerer. By understanding architecture as cultural practice, the office works within all scales, from big to small, wide and narrow—from buildings to planning tasks and exhibitions. Further critical discourse resonates in their work through teaching and research activities - Alex’ position as assistant professor at ETH Zürich and Savvas’ teaching at Hochschule Luzern. Both have been the commissioners of the German pavilion at the 14. International Architecture Biennial in Venice in 2014. Their projects have been widely published and won several prizes. 

Will Alsop 

Professor Will Alsop, OBE RA is a prominent architect and artist who established aLL Design in 2011. He has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize for Peckham Library, London and the first RIBA World Award for The Sharp Centre for Design (OCAD), Toronto, amongst numerous other prestigious accolades for a multitude of projects. His work encompasses all sectors of architecture including urban design and planning. His studio practice also incorporates painting and product design.