Budi Pradono is an Indonesian architect and founder and principal of Budi Pradono Architects since 1999. It is a research based architectural studio with interdisciplinary practice focusing on contemporary lifestyle, hospitality and urban design through an inclusive and rigorous methodology of research, expansive collaboration and experimentation. The works develop through research analysis of practical as well as theoretical issues ranging from program, typology, material, structure, and use, to larger networks of social, environmental and cultural consideration. BPA has won many awards including honourable mention at AR Awards for Emerging Architecture, London, 2005, and short listed for World Architecture Festival Award, Barcelona 2008. www.budipradono.com