Dr. Jüri Soolep was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1962. He received his Diploma in Architecture in Tallinn (1986) and defended his doctoral dissertation On Realities and Horizons of Design in Architectural Education at Portsmouth University, UK (2001). He was Professor and Head of CPD at the NC State European Center in Prague. He has been Guest-Professor in Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden. He has been the Rector of the Nordic Academy of Architecture as well as dean and professor of the Faculty of Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He was involved in implementing the Architectural Policy of the Estonian Government and was the member of the European Commission Advisory Committee on Training and Education in the Field of Architecture. He has lectured in the universities of Tartu, Oulu, Porto, Cork, Portsmouth, Liverpool, and Tokyo. He is in the editorial board of journals Ehituskunst and ArchiDoct. He has been a member of steering boards for Strong Research Environments ResArc and Making within Swedish Research Council Formas grant. Since 1991 he has been partner and lead architect in the architectural studio Archimedium. Most of his designs are built in Pärnu and Tallinn. His current field of research includes studies in the representational systems of architectural phenomena in the Digital Age. He author of several books and lectures on history and theory of architecture.