Fulvio Adobati is associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo. He is director of the University Land Studies Center "Lelio Pagani," where he conducts research and applied research in the drafting of environmental and landscape studies and the development of planning and land-use planning tools.
Dr Lisa Beißwanger is an art historian focusing on art and architecture from the 20th and 21st centuries. She is currently a substitute professor of modern and contemporary art at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Previously, she held positions at the Department of Architectural Theory and Science and History of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Institute for Art Education at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, where she received her PhD in 2020. Her ongoing second book project is a critical study of university architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dr Katharina Borsi is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and the Deputy Director of Research Excellence of the Faculty of Engineering.
Her research and teaching focuses on the intersection between type and urbanism, with a focus on housing and urbanism and leaning landscapes. She has published extensively in these areas, including The Berlin Tenement and the City (Routledge 2024), Housing and the City (Routledge 2022), Housing, Inhabitation and the City (Special Edition of the Journal Architecture and Culture No 10.3/ 2022) and Architectural Type and the Discourse of Urbanism (Special Edition Journal of Architecture 23:7-8 2018). Katharina has also been involved in EU- and Innovate UK-funded research projects on sustainable and resilient cities and sustainable community energy networks with case studies in Nottingham. Her expertise also includes urban design consultancies.
Prof. Richard Brook is an architect and architectural historian whose work focusses on the mainstream modern architecture of the post-war. He is Professor of Architecture and Director of Research for the School of Architecture at Lancaster University. He was formerly Director of Research at the Manchester School of Architecture, where he worked for 15 years. He acts as advisor to the Modernist Society and is an active member of the Twentieth Century Society. In 2022 he co-convened the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, for whom he also judges the Colvin Prize. This year will see the publication of his monograph The Renewal of Post-War Manchester: Planning, Architecture and the State with Manchester University Press.
Dr Peter Cunich taught history for nearly thirty years at the University of Hong Kong where he wrote three books on the history of the university and became interested in British colonial architecture. Since retirement in 2021, he has returned to Sydney University where he is currently writing the history of St John's College, the second-oldest residential college in Australia.
Benedetta Di Donato (1983, Rome), Architect, PhD in Landscape Architecture. Benedetta is currently Researcher in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Design of La Sapienza, University of Rome. During her PhD training she has been visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research agenda focuses on the interaction between the Italian and US culture, investigating the multi-scalar intertwining between urban fabric and environment. Now she is working on the town design of pre-unitary and post-unitary Rome, unfolding its historical and operational relationship with the City Beautiful movement.
Daniel Elsea is a partner at Allies and Morrison, leading the team responsible for securing new work while also focussing on the international, culture and education portfolios. As an urbanist, he participates in masterplan competitions in cities ranging from Singapore to Milan, Oxford to London. He was instrumental in the recent winning design for the Barbican Renewal, following a global search. The project is delivering a multi-million-pound rejuvenation of the Barbican Centre, one of Europe’s leading arts venues and celebrated examples of brutalist architecture. As a design journalist, his by-line appears in publications from the Art Review to The Architects’ Journal. He is, along with Lionel Eid, a co-author of Complex City: London’s Changing Character, which grew out of the practice's research in urban characterisation. He and Lionel helped to conceive Allies and Morrison’s annual Citymakers conference. In addition, Daniel is co-chair of the Council of the Van Alen Institute, the New York-based urban design charity. He holds a BA in Political Science from Williams College and an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford.
Lionel Eid is an associate director at Allies and Morrison where he leads the practice's research in parallel to the design and delivery of masterplans and area strategies for local planning authorities across London. Recently, he has taken on an advocacy role, liaising with the Greater London Authority on their emerging tall buildings policy, and has been advising the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Office for Place on design coding. Lionel co-authored Complex City: London’s Changing Character with Daniel Elsea. Together, they helped to conceive Allies and Morrison’s annual Citymakers conference. Beyond practice, Lionel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and sits on the editorial board of the Urban Design Journal. He trained at the Architectural Association and at the London School of Economics.
Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. Her books include Architecture since 1400 (Minnesota, 2014) and Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany (Minnesota, 2018) as well as Bauhaus Effects (Routledge, 2022) co-edited with Sabine Kriebel. in 2021-22 she held an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. She currently directs the ERC project Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture.
Dr Katherine Fischer Taylor is associate professor emerita at the University of Chicago, where she taught the history of the modern built environment with an emphasis on its social use and reception. Her publications have addressed the history of judicial architecture and practice in France and the U.S. as well as the teaching of architectural history. Current research concerns the shift in attitudes towards private versus public building commissions and towards historic preservation versus new construction in Third Republic Paris and the introduction of modernist architecture and planning to the University of Chicago’s campus and neighborhood.
Dr Miriam Fitzpatrick is an Assistant Professor at UCD, a lecturer in Urban Design, and Director of the Masters in Landscape Architecture. She is Research Coordinator at the architecture firm Henry J Lyons. She graduated in Architecture from UCD, holds a master's from the LSE’s Cities Programme, and a Ph.D. from UCD. Previously she was Project Architect in a few cities including Toronto, London, Boston, and San Francisco. In her spare time, she is a founding member of a bottom-up group—working with Trinity College Dublin—called Green Pearse Street.
Dr George Francis-Kelly received his PhD in US History from the University of Leeds and has been a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher as part of the ERC-Funded 'Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture' team project at University College Dublin. His role in this project focuses on the relationship between architecture and racial politics on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States.
Dr Erez Golani Solomon is a senior lecturer in architectural design and theory at the Architecture School of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at Keio University and Waseda University. His research encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. During AY2023-24 he is expected to be affiliated with the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago as an Invited Professor.
Dr Melanie Hayes is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Irish Research Council CRAFTVALUE project at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses largely on Anglo-Irish eighteenth-century architectural history, with a specific interest in the transnational development of architectural culture and building practice in the early Georgian period. She has previously taught early-modern architectural history at Trinity College Dublin and has written and spoken widely on these topics. She is author of The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street Dublin and its first residents, 1720–80 (Four Courts Press, 2020) and co-editor of Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760 (UCL Press, 2023).
Nina Irmert is a doctoral student at the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation, under Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, ETH Zurich. In 2019, she finished her master’s degree in architectural history and preservation at the Technical University of Berlin. Her master’s thesis was on the first prefabricated GDR-watchtower designed for the Berlin Wall. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology from Humboldt University Berlin and has worked for the City Preservation Office of Tel Aviv, the German Archaeological Institute, and in various preservation projects.
Leen Katrib is an architectural designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Her work investigates present and historical practices of the built environment that have marginalized communities and erased their histories and material culture. Katrib’s research has been supported by MacDowell, Harry der Boghosian, Paul and Daisy Soros, Howard Crosby Butler Travel, George H. Mayr Travel, and William and Neoma Timme Travel Fellowships. Her work has been published in Future Anterior, Pidgin, Room One Thousand, and Bracket, and has been exhibited at Syracuse University, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Van Der Plas Gallery, and the A+D Museum. Katrib holds a MArch from Princeton University, where she was editor of Pidgin, and a BArch from the University of Southern California. Prior to teaching, Katrib practiced in NYC at Marvel, LTL Architects, Peter Marino, and OMA.
Tanja Kilzer M.A. M.A. is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Cologne. She is a member of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities Cologne. From 2019 to 2022, she was also a research assistant in the Department of Architecture, Department of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, at the University of Siegen. She holds a master's degree in art history (with a focus on architecture) and archaeology, as well as a second master's degree in history and medieval studies. She worked on the exhibition project "ParallelUniverse!?—Cologne and its University" of the Cologne City Archives on the reappraisal of the architectural history of the University of Cologne and its interplay with the urban history of Cologne. Her research areas generally include European and U.S. architectural history from the 17th to the 21st centuries, urban planning, commemorative culture, and historic preservation.
Aisling Mulligan is an architect graduate currently working at Grafton Architects. Aisling is presenting the 'Myth of Elasticity' as part of her research into Belfield campus for Belfield 50 research seminar, 'Our Campus'. She completed an award-winning design thesis on architecture and the circular economy (RIBA dissertation award, 2020) and a research dissertation ‘J.V. Downes, The Quiet Protagonist of Modern Irish Architecture and His Profound Influence on The Development of University College Dublin’ in 2020.
Phoebus I. Panigyrakis is a Greek architect and academic based in Rotterdam. His research addresses the relation between architecture and mass media, the history of midcentury modernism, and architectural design processes. His PhD dissertation was titled Architectural Record: 1942-1967; Chapters from the history of an architectural magazine and he is currently conducting postdoctoral research at TU Delft on the topic of Open Science and Citizen Science. He has been awarded grants and scholarships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, CCA, Creative Funds NL, and the Limmat Foundation. Since 2015 he maintains his practice Iconic Ironic Architecture that deals with architectural, curatorial, and open-access publishing projects.
Mario Paris is an architect with a PhD in urban and regional planning. Over the last fifteen years, he collaborated with Universidad de Valladolid and Politecnico di Milano and since 2021 he joined Università degli Studi di Bergamo as a teacher for the MS GeoUrbanistica and as a lecturer in the field of urban planning. He is the editor of two books and author of two scientific monographs and has written several articles for national and international scientific publications. He studies the impacts of the presence of clusters of services and tertiary functions at urban and regional scale, and how these presences produce processes of urban and territorial regeneration.
Lucia Pennati is an architect, a teaching assistant and a PhD candidate at the Institute for the History and Theory of Art and Architecture (ISA) at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Lucia holds a Master of Science in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano and a Master of Advanced Studies in History and Theory of Architecture from the gta Institute at the ETH Zurich. Her research interest spans between unconventional ritual spaces and their presence in the urban context to educational practice, its relationship with the built environment, and design education. Her doctoral project deals with the relationship between spatial design and pedagogy by looking at the specific case of the Swiss architect and design professor Dolf Schnebli (1928–2009). Within this framework she researches educational practices in architecture with a focus on the architecture faculty of ETH Zurich between the 1970s and 1990s. Her work has been published on architectural periodicals such as Archithese, GAM Graz Architecture Magazine and Stoà Journal.
Vassiliki Petridou is a Professor of History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, Greece. She studied Architecture at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy, holding a PhD in History of Art and Architecture, University of Sorbonne—Paris IV, Paris (1992). She has translated Aldo Rossi’s The Architecture of the City into Greek (1987). Her research focuses on the constitution of artistic and architectural knowledge in relation to the organization of modern Western society. She has published studies and articles on modern and contemporary art and architecture in Greek and international journals, in conference proceedings and has authored chapters in collective volumes. She recently published ‘The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras’ in Planning Perspectives, Volume 37, Issue 5 (2022).
Monica Resmini is assistant professor in the field of the “History of architecture” at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo. From 2004-2005 she has taught “History of Architecture”, “History of building techniques” and “History of garden and landscape”. She has held a research grant and has partaken in ministerial research projects (PRIN) with the Politecnico di Milano. She is conducting research activities at the Centro Studi sul Territorio “Lelio Pagani” in Università degli Studi di Bergamo. She has published several essays about the history of architecture, with a particular reference to the Lombardy environment between 16th to 17th and 19th to 20th centuries.
Dr Ellen Rowley is Assistant Professor in Modern Irish Architecture at the School of Architecture (APEP), University College Dublin. She is a teacher, researcher and writer interested in architectural obsolescence, the intersection of social histories and buildings, and the place of the Catholic Church in Ireland’s built environment. Her current research, Evolving Legacies, is looking at the life of Catholic buildings in Ireland while her primary teaching interest is in housing, retrofit systems, community and participatory design. Ellen has published extensively including Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition (2019, Routledge, Taylor + Francis); and (co-editor), Making Belfield. Space + Place at UCD (2020, UCD Press); as well as More Than Concrete Blocks, volumes 1 and 2 (2016/9, Four Courts Press) which are socio-cultural histories of Dublin’s buildings from 1900 to 1972. Volume 3 (1973 - 1999) is currently under production and will be published in November this year. Before that she was co-editor of the landmark Yale series, Art and Architecture of Ireland (Volume 4, Architecture 1600 – 2000, YUP/RIA, 2014), Generally, this history is pioneering and so, she admits, there are mistakes. In 2017, Ellen was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, for services to Irish architecture. Ellen is an advocate for access to university education and specifically, the need for widening participation in architectural education.
Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz is an architectural historian and has been working at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg since 2018. Previously, he held visiting professorships at Ruhr University Bochum and Freie Universität. His expertise lies in the field of modern architecture, with a focus on theater building and on architectures of mobility. He is an ICOMOS member and a member of the Hamburg Monument Council.
Dr Pinai Sirikiatikul is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He studied architecture at Silpakorn University before receiving his PhD in architectural history from the University College London in 2012. His PhD thesis, supervised by Adrian Forty, is entitled ‘Constructional “Theory” in Britain, 1870s-1930s’. Since returning to Thailand, he has developed a strong interest in the construction history of Thailand since the late 18th to 20th centuries. His recent research explores the works of lesser-known architect, Amorn Srivongse, released in 2020 as Unpacking the Archives: Amorn Srivongse.
Dr Benjamin J. Smith is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. Smith’s research centers on the history and theory of architecture, design pedagogy, and architectural aesthetics. Prior to joining Minnesota, Smith taught at Tulane University, where he was an assistant professor of architecture and director of graduate architecture programs. He has also taught at SCI-Arc and the University of Michigan. His degrees include a PhD from the University of Michigan, an March from SCI-Arc, and a BA from St Olaf College.
Conor Sreenan is a Director of the Grangegorman Development Agency, with specific responsibility for Strategy and Design. As part of the diverse Agency team—and along with a variety of development stakeholders and project partners—he coordinates and manages the implementation of the c.400,000m2 Grangegorman Strategic Development Zone Planning Scheme, through a variety of capital projects. The social and urban renewal of the historic thirty-hectare Grangegorman site is being delivered by the Agency on behalf of the Health Service Executive, Technological University Dublin, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, the Department of Education and ultimately the existing and emerging communities within the Grangegorman neighbourhood. He is a regular contributor to undergraduate and postgraduate architecture courses at several of the Universities on the island of Ireland.
Maurix Suárez-Rodríguez is an architect from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and holds an MBA from the Universidad de los Andes. He also pursued studies in geography at the University of Chile. Currently, he serves as the Campus Manager at the University of the Andes. Additionally, he is the director of the Progresa Fenicia urban renewal program, situated in the city's historic centre. His primary focus has been on structuring urban projects within heritage contexts, aiming to ensure the sustainability of the campus and its surroundings. He has extensive experience as a lecturer in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, with a specialization in urban planning and geographic information systems. He actively participates in the network of universities located in the historic centre of Bogotá and coordinates the national network of facilities offices for private universities.
Dr Andrew Tierney is an Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Project Fellow (CRAFTVALUE) at TRIARC in Trinity College Dublin. He has an M.A. in the history of art and a PhD in archaeology from University College Dublin, and has taught at University College Dublin, NUI Maynooth, and the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. His research and publications cover a broad chronology from medieval to Victorian architecture. His volume Central Leinster (Yale University Press, 2019) was short-listed for the 2020 Colvin Prize by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.