Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and scriptwriter before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. His 1996 book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. Among many international awards, he has received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003). He directed the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, coinciding with the first publication of Elements of Architecture.

Irma Boom is a graphic designer specialized in making books. Since founding Irma Boom Office in 1990, she has worked with the likes of Chanel, the United Nations, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Fondazione Prada, Pirelli, and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. She received the Gutenberg Prize and the Johannes Vermeer Prize, the Dutch state prize for the arts, among others. Her work is in a permanent collection of the Design and Architecture Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since 1992, Boom is a Senior Critic at Yale University in the USA.

Wolfgang Tillmans è considerato uno degli artisti più influenti della sua generazione. La sua opera poliedrica - nature morte, ritratti, immagini astratte - copre varie tipologie di soggetti, in particolare movimenti politici, rappresentazioni fotografiche e subculture. Oggi le sue opere sono esposte in numerosi musei internazionali, tra cui il Museum of Modern Art e la Tate Modern. Inoltre, l’artista ha vinto numerosi premi, tra cui il Turner Prize nel 2000.