Urban Menus

URBAN MENUS Team

Laura P. Spinadel
Idea generator for URBAN MENUS passionate about global networking around the project
Austro-Argentine architect with a holistic approach, multiple award-winning urban design projects (including the master plans for the innovative housing project Compact City and the university campus WU Vienna), founder and managing director of the architecture firm BUSarchitektur & the architecture-multimedia agency BOA büro für offensive aleatorik, both in Vienna. „I believe that only together, with many small steps, we can create the necessary matrix to allow the emergence of a collaborative space that is good for all of us - the emergence of holistic villages in our smart cities.“
Petra Bußwald
Strategy partner responsible for backend, data structures and algorithm mathematics
Co-managing director of the environmental informatics company akaryon (Vienna and Styria), founded in 1999, studied technical environmental protection and technical mathematics, involved for decades in international research projects on sustainability and conception of web tools for operationalizing sustainability (including CO2 calculator, energy simulation, climate change monitoring, etc.). „Structured data on estimated impacts helps to think about scenarios in an informed and factual way and to come to a consensus with a plan that makes as many different people or stakeholder groups happy as possible."
Petar Dikov
Institute for Urban planning PLC Bulgaria
Institute for Urban planning PLC Bulgaria Architect Dikov has more than 40 years of experience in architecture, urban planning and development from working in different positions as designer architect, deputy general director, commercial manager, executive director and chief architect and jury in various competitions. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Architecture and Construction in Sofia in 1978. His previous positions include: Deputy Executive Director of the National Center for Regional Development, head of design studio "Proarch" (2000-2003), Research and Design Institute for Regional and Urban Planning and Architecture (1978-1990). He was chief architect of Sofia Municipality for 10 years. (2006-2015) He is founder of the Institute for urban planning and lecturer in the Free University of Varna.
Florian Fritz

Responsible for the technical implementation of the websites. Member of the akaryon team.

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Juan Augusto Labriola

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Teodora Pavlova

In 2018 she graduated with a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UACEG, Sofia. She is mostly involved in urban regeneration and sustainable redevelopment projects. She worked for ProArch from 2018 to 2022. She is currently working for the site research team at Lidl Bulgaria.

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Karina Dikova

In 2020 she graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from UACEG, Sofia, specializing in History and Theory of Architecture. While studying, she worked in different offices in Sofia and attended several summer architecture workshops abroad in Italy, Belgium and the UK. She tutors children’s workshop classes on architecture and is involved in organizing courses for university students to meet with leading companies in the building sector.

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Margaret Aleksandrova Traykova

In 2014 she graduated from the Sofia high school for building, architecture, and geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the class water systems and buildings. In 2019 she graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture at UACG, Sofia. Every summer vacation, she enrolled in different countries Erasmus + internships.

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Barbara Kraml

Supports the URBAN MENUS team with research and text contributions. Studied German and Austrian Studies at the University of Vienna, worked in the cultural sector on expression and now uses her creative and writing talent in the sustainability industry.

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Bautista Antonio Olmos

Urban Menus Team Member

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Emilio Gagliardino

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Özge Taspinar

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Julieta Martinez

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Rati Sandeep Choudhari

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Tobias Kampl

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Sebastian Dan

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Gina Urazan Razzini

Member of the Urban Menus Team

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Gabriela Delova

Master in Urban Planning, graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia. My interest in sustainable development and sustainable planning emerged during my student years and I believe that these topics are fundamental to the Green Deal concept

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Catalina Pedraza Toscano

URBAN MENUS team member since 2016.

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Barbara Kavc

Develops parametrics and algorithms of URBAN MENUS impact analysis. Research focus of the architect is urban transformation, she worked for a long time in Barcelona and Graz, since 2009 in the team.

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Bianca Severin

Programs the 3D frontend for URBAN MENUS. Technology-oriented, fascinated by artificial intelligence, augmented architecture and parametric modeling, studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and teaches there, professional and educational stations in Romania, Italy and Holland, among others, joined the team in 2018

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The entire URBAN MENUS team includes numerous other people from the fields of architecture, infrastructure, computer science, mathematics and communications.