Platform 11: Setting the Table (Gsd Platform)

Esther Mira Bang is an architectural designer and pharmacist. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and is currently pursuing a Master in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Lane Raffaldini Rubin is an American architectural and landscape architectural designer. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with distinction in architecture and Italian Studies, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum. He is currently pursuing the Master in Architecture and Master in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Raffaldini Rubin’s design work has been published and exhibited in KooZA/rch, Divisare, Platform, and other digital publications.

Enrique Aureng Silva is an architect. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2012 and has practiced architecture in Mexico and the United States ever since. Currently studying a Master of Design Studies in Critical Conservation at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, his research focuses on the intervention, transformation and reuse of historic buildings in Latin America, especially in post-disaster scenarios. He has expanded his academic interests into the editorial world, as co-editor in three Harvard GSD publications. When not thinking architecture or editing texts, he writes fiction in the form of short stories