Trained as an architect and historian, Jean-Louis Cohen has been
Chair for the History of Architecture at New York University's
Institute of Fine Arts since 1994. Since 2014, he has been a guest
professor at the Collège de France. His forty books include
Architecture in Uniform (2011), The Future of Architecture Since
1889 (2012), and Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
(2013). He has curated numerous exhibitions, including Scenes of
the World to Come at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1995),
Interférences / Interferenzen - Architecture, Allemagne, France at
the Musées de Strasbourg (2013), and L'Aventure Le Corbusier at the
Centre Pompidou (1987).
Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. His career has
spanned journalism, teaching and writing. He was the editor of
Domus magazine from 2000 to 2004, and founding editor of Blueprint
magazine. He has published many books on design and architecture,
including The Edifice Complex (2005), The Language of Things
(2008), Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture (2010), Shiro
Kuramata (2013) and B is for Bauhaus (2015). His most recent book,
Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things, was published by Phaidon
in September 2015.
Richard Anderson is Lecturer in Architectural History at the
University of Edinburgh. He specializes in the history of modern
and contemporary architecture in North America, Europe and Eurasia.
His essays have appeared in AA Files, Grey Room, Log and Future
Anterior, among other journals and edited volumes. He is editor and
principal translator of Ludwig Hilberseimer's
Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays (2012) and the author of
Russia: Modern Architectures in History (2015), a cultural history
of Russian architecture from 1861 to the present. His current
research explores the global effects of the Soviet architectural
system.
Eszter Steierhoffer is Curator at the Design Museum in London. She
holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in Critical and
Historical Studies and her research interests include the history
of modern and contemporary architecture exhibitions. She has
organized numerous exhibitions and symposia with architectural
foci, including Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities. Álvaro Siza
in Berlin and The Hague (2015); Zoo-topia. On zoo architecture as
taxonomies of national representation (2012); and Anatomy of a
Street (2010).
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