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Martin Rein-Cano is founder and creative director of the award-winning Berlin-based design firm TOPOTEK 1. Hailing from Buenos Aires, Martin studied art history and landscape architecture in Germany before founding TOPOTEK 1 in 1999. Working at the intersection of the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and architecture, TOPOTEK 1’s designs explore the fringes of typologies and scales, using strategies such as the recontextualization of objects and scenographic sequencing to challenge and engage the user. Its work has been widely exhibited and written about, and has received many prestigious awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 for Superkilen in Copenhagen; the Qatar Sustainability Awards 2018 for the Novy Arbat project in Moscow, the German Landscape architecture Prize 2015 for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Cloister Lorsch in Germany, and the FIABCI 2017 Prix d’Excellence Germany Gold Prize. Martin is a visiting professor at Dessau Institute for Architecture and a veteran of many design competition juries.