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Michelle Howard is an architect, professor, author, researcher and consultant. She is a professor of art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2007, and head of the Platform for Construction, Materials and Technology - which resolutely embraces the heuristic path of empirical experimentation and the intelligence of making by exploring the dextrous movements of the human hand and its synergy with body and brain. Works on revealing and counteracting Gender Bias in the Built Environment while exploring the paths technology might have taken had the skills of women been given greater value. She directs a practice called, constructconcept, committed to time, construction and the environment with an increasing emphasis on Maintenance Repair and Regeneration. Her Stacked House, in Berlin, Weissensee, won the KFW award for sustainable building in 2014 and cost less than €1,000/m2. Much of her career prior to academia has been spent collaborating with some of the most important Architectural practices in the world. Notably with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in France, Italy and Germany in the 90s and subsequently leading two seminal projects for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the Dutch embassy in Berlin and the Casa da Musica in Porto. She is an active member of wirmachendas, founded in 2015 by 100 women from the worlds of art, academia and public life. Now a growing alliance of numerous initiatives, individuals and institutions and united by the common goal of facing up to the challenge of worldwide migration with humanity and expertise.