Wallpaper* Graduate Directory 2009

From artists to architects, photographers to foodies, fashion and graphic designers to perfumers, illustrators and travel gurus, here's Wallpaper's annual global graduate directory. This is our pick of the raw and the revolutionary who might just change your world forever.
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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Caribbean cool meets mid-century glamour at this new LA hotspot
From golden mirrored chambers to jerk-spiced tomahawk steaks, Lucia reimagines Afro-Caribbean dining and design
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Tour this fire-resilient minimalist weekend retreat in California
A minimalist weekend retreat was designed as a counterpoint to a San Francisco pied-à-terre; Edmonds + Lee Architects’ Amnesia House in Napa Valley is a place for making memories
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Love, community, anti-gay laws: the queer African artists redefining visibility through portraits
In honour of Pride Month, Ugonnaora Owoh speaks to three artists on African queer legacies and their optimism in advocating for queer rights through art
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Jaakko Torvinen and Elli Wendelin design transportable wooden building
Our Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe. Here, we profile architecture graduates Jaakko Torvinen and Elli Wendelin from Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
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Kamal Ranchod uses architectural drawing to decolonise Egyptian history
Our Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile Kamal Ranchod, from the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture, South Africa
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‘Cripping Architecture’: Shaina Yang reimagines the world for a different body type
Our Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile architecture graduate Shaina Yang from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA
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Matthew Avallone proposes ‘inhabitable park-scape’ for togetherness in Tijuana
Our Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile architecture graduate Matthew Avallone, from the Royal College of Art, UK
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Architecture
The next generation of architects and engineers exploring space and surface
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Architecture
We cast our nets wide to find the best emerging architects and engineers
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Architecture
The next generation of architects and engineers are setting themselves an ambitious agenda
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Graduate Directory 2012