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Contributors
Lucy Bullivant is an architectural curator,
critic and author who works internationally.
Her publications include Responsive
Environments: Architecture, Art and Design (V&A
Contemporary, 2006) and Anglo Files: UK
Architecture’s Rising Generation (Thames &
Hudson, 2005). She writes for Domus, The Plan,
a+u and Indesign, and was guest-editor of the
4dspace: Interactive Architecture (2005) and Home
Front (2003) issues of AD. She has curated
exhibitions for the Milan Triennale, Vitra
Design Museum and the British Council, and
is consultant curator for the Science Museum.
Michel Conan is a sociologist, and is currently
the director of Garden and Landscape Studies
at Dumbarton Oaks. His research has focused
on the cultural history of garden design, and
publications include Quarries of Crazannes by
Bernard Lassus (Spacemaker Press, 2004) and
Essais de Poé tique des Jardins (Olschki, 2004). He
is also the editor of the last nine symposium
volumes published at Dumbarton Oaks in the
Colloquium Series on the History of Landscape
Architecture (Harvard University Press).
Peter Cook currently leads the Olympics
Design Group for the London Olympics
2012. An influential architect and teacher in
Britain since the 1960s, his impact has been
truly global. He was a tutor at the
Architectural Association from 1964 to 1990,
and is currently a professor of architecture
at the Bartlett, University College, London,
and at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was a
director of ICA (1961–71) and Art Net, London
(1972–9), and a visiting professor at UCLA
(1968–9), and has also held several similar
positions across Europe. He received the Royal
Gold Medal for Architecture (RIBA, 2002), and
the Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et Lettres
France, 2002). He also led the pioneering
Archigram Group from 1961 to 1976.
Felipe Correa is currently a design critic in
urban design at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design where he teaches
in the core urban design studio, as well as
faculty research seminars on diverse topics
in urbanism. Among his current research
projects is ‘Cities – 10 Lines: Approaches to
City and Open Territory Design’, a faculty
research initiative in association with Joan
Busquets that explores the most salient lines
of work being deployed in the contemporary
city. Correa received his BArch from Tulane
University and a Master of Architecture and
Urban Design from Harvard’s GSD.
Paul Guzzardo is a lawyer and media
activist, and a director of MediaARTS
Alliance. For the last 10 years he has used
theatre and new media praxis to probe the
consequences of emerging digitalinformation
archives on the design and
occupation of public space.
Lorens Holm is senior lecturer and director
of the History/Theory programme at the
School of Architecture, University of
Dundee. He has taught at the Architectural
Association, the Bartlett and the
Mackintosh, and is a director of the Geddes
Institute for Urban Research. His
forthcoming book on architecture and
psychoanalysis is entitled Brunelleschi Lacan
Le Corbusier: Constructing Subjectivity.
Victoria Marshall is a landscape architect
and urban designer, and founder of TILL, a
resiliency based practice. She is adjunct
assistant professor of architecture at
Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Architecture Preservation and Planning,
where she teaches urban design with a focus
on the North East Megalopolis – translating
the urban ecosystem approach to urban
design models.
Brian McGrath is a co-founder of urbaninterface,
which explores socio-ecological
change through urban designs and new
media. His Manhattan Timeformations
(2000) (www.skyscraper.org/timeformations)
has received numerous awards from
international arts, architecture, educational
and science organisations. He recently
completed an artists’ residency and digital
installation in New York City’s World
Financial Center, and is currently working
with an interdisciplinary team on the
Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
Jayne Merkel, a contributing editor and
editorial board member of AD, is the author
of Eero Saarinen (Phaidon Press, 2005). She
also writes for Architectural Record and the
Architects Newspaper, both in New York, and
other publications. She was previously the
editor of the New York AIA magazine, Oculus,
and the architecture critic for the Cincinnati
Enquirer. She has also taught writing and art
history at various colleges and universities.
Juhani Pallasmaa has been practising
architecture since the early 1960s and
established Pallasmaa Architects in 1983. In
addition to architectural design, he has been
active in urban planning, product and
graphic design. He has taught and lectured
widely in Europe, North and South America,
Africa and Asia, and published numerous
books and essays on the philosophies of
architecture and art. He was previously a
professor at the Helsinki University of
Technology, director of the Museum of
Finnish Architecture and rector of the
Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, and has
also held visiting professorships at several
universities in the US.
Grahame Shane received a Diploma in
Architecture from the Architectural
Association, a Master of Architecture in
Urban Design from Cornell University, and a
PhD in architectural and urban history from
Cornell University. His book Recombinant
Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture,
Urban Design and City Theory was published by
Wiley-Academy in 2005.
Christiana Spens was educated in St
Andrews, Scotland, and Hutchison School in
Memphis, Tennessee. She currently works as
a researcher, author and painter in London.
In 2004/05 she went to Memphis on an
English Speaking Union Scholarship. She
has contributed to Studio International
(www,studio-international.co.uk) and music
journal rockfeedback.com. During her year in
the US she travelled and worked in New
Orleans with a group from the University of
Mississippi to alleviate the devastation
caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Michael Spens qualified as an architect at
Cambridge University, and has received
several design awards. He focuses on the
engagement of architecture with landscape.
Whilst researching Alvar Aalto, from 1993
he worked in support of a restoration
programme for Aalto’s Viipuri Library in
Russia that involved professionals from
Russia and Finland, and published Viipuri
Library 1927–1935: Alvar Aalto (Academy
Editions, 1994). Knighted by the President of
Finland, in 2002 he became University Reader
in Architecture at Dundee University. Other
publications include Landscape Transformed
(Academy Editions, l996) and Modern Landscape
(Phaidon, 2003), and he also contributes to
AD, Architectural Review, Architectural Research
Quarterly and Topos (Munich).
Sean Stanwick is an associate at Farrow
Partnership Architects Inc in Toronto. With
a particular interest in contemporary urban
design, he is a frequent contributor to AD.
He has written for numerous architectural
journals worldwide, and recently coauthored
Wine by Design (2005) and Design
City Toronto, to be published by John Wiley &
Sons in March 2007.
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