Julian von der Schulenburg co-founded SUM ARCHITECTURE together with Eduard Navarro in 2007. Prior to SUM, Julian spent several years training with celebrated architects such as Caruso St John Architects in London, Pritzker Prize winning Peter Zumthor in Switzerland and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in New York. At the OMA spin-off REX NY, he was responsible for the facade design of Louisville's largest skyscraper, the 214 meter tall Museum Plaza. He won 1st prize in Europan 8 Competition in 2006 and was invited guest critic at Parsons School of Design in New York. Originally from Germany, he studied under the guidance and strong influence of Valerio Olgiati and Peter Zumthor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland, receiving his Master of Architecture in 2004.

Eduard Navarro co-founded SUM ARCHITECTURE together with Julian von der Schulenburg in 2007. He is also the founder of the Georgia Beautiful Movement, a think tank on dense urbanism in the American South, and principal of Percheron&Pegasus Investment Corp. With SUM as architectural consultant, Percheron&Pegasus is currently working on the design, financing and development of a collection of avant-garde, green, dense urban villages in Georgia. Originally from Valencia, Spain, Eduard studied architecture at the Ecole d'Archietcture de la Villette in Paris and at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he received his bachelors in 2000. At Columbia University in New York he achieved the Master of Finance in Real Estate and the Master of Architecture in 2004.

Ilya Korolev had joined SUM ARCHITECTURE as a partner in 2010. He has over ten years of professional experience working for Slade Architecture and for Andrew Berman Architect in New York. Prior to that Ilya had attended Moscow Architecture Institute in Russia and moved to United States in 1997 to complete his studies at Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn. Ilya is a New York State registered Architect since 2009.