Stanford Anderson is a registered architect and Professor of History and Architecture in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1963. He co-founded and directed MIT's pioneering PhD program in History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture, and Urban Form from 1974 to 1991. He served as Head of the Department of Architecture from 1991 to 2005. Anderson was educated in architecture at the universities of Minnesota and California, and holds a PhD in history of art from Columbia University in New York City.He was the 2004 AIA/ACSA Topaz Laureate, the highest American award in architectural education. Anderson's research and writing concern architectural theory, modern architecture in Europe and America, American urbanism, and epistemology and historiography. Anderson translated and wrote the introductory essay for Hermann Muthesius: Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and its Present Condition (Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center, 1994). He is the author of Peter Behrens: A New Architecture for the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000; Italian edition, Milan: Electa, 2002). He is the entrepreneur and editor of On Streets (MIT Press, 1978) and Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004). His MIT traveling exhibition on Dieste has been seen in North and South America, and a European edition opened in Rome in April 2007. He is now co-editing a volume titled Alvar Aalto and America. Current research is on mid-rise high-density housing, conducted with colleagues at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and the Berlage Insitute before receiving his Ph.D. from the Berlage Institute/Delft University of Technology. His studies focus on the relationship between architectural form, political theory, and urban history. Aureli teaches at the Berlage Institute where he is Unit Professor. Currently he is visiting Professor at the Architectural Association in London, Columbia University in New York, and Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. He, together with Martino Tattara, is the cofounder of DOGMA. In 2006, they shared the first prize in an international competition for a new administrative city for 500,000 inhabitants in Korea. They received the first Iakov Chernikov Prize for Young Architects in 2006.
Bernard Cache, born in 1958, developed the concept of non standard architecture in his book Earth Moves published by MIT Press in 1995, concept that was given the name OBJECTILE by Gilles Deleuze in his book on Leibniz: The fold. In 1996, Bernard Cache founded the company Objectile together with his partner Patrick Beaucé in order to conceive and manufacture non standard architecture components.
Leslie Kavanaugh is both an architect and a philosopher. She is a registered architect in both America and the Netherlands. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She holds not only degrees in architecture but a B.Phil., M.Phil., and a Ph.d. in Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. At present, she is a Senior Researcher specializing in the philosophy of space and time at TUDelft, and Program Director of the Ph.d. School, the Delft School of Design (DSD). Kavanaugh recently published: The Architectonic of Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2007). Other recent publications include “On the Aggregation of Bodies and the Unity of Monadic Substances: The Problem of Cohesion” for the International Leibniz Conference Proceedings, Hannover; and “The Ontology of Dwelling: Heidegger and Levinas” in Hauptmann, Deborah (ed.); Bodies in Architecture (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2006). Forthcoming is the volume entitled: "Chrono-topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities" with contributions from esteemed international scholars exploring the consequences of time, and its relationship with space through a multi-disciplinary approach, including the philosophy of space and time, social geography, economic theory, post-Marxian social theory, new network theory, philosophy of art and culture, musicology, evolutionary biology, historiography, psychoanalytic theory, and global-local urbanism debates.
Special fields of expertise the theory and ethics of architecture and planning, ecological urban planning, and communication and participation in planning, epistemology and its applications in planning and in education, and the aesthetics of architecture. Leader of the interdisciplinary research project Ecopolis (Ecological City - an Option for the Future?), financed by the Academy of Finland, in 1993-96. Leader and researcher in a number of multidisciplinary projects, including "The City and Planning Professions", also financed by the Academy of Finland, the Finnish contribution of the EU 5th framework project "Communicating Urban Growth and Green" (GREENSCOM), Governing Life, financed by the Academy of Finland, Housing Preferences, Sustainable urban Structure, and Everyday Life (financed by the Ministry of the Environment), and Power/Knowledge in Urban Development (financed by the Academy of Finland). Management committee member of the EU COST-Action C11, "Greenstructures and Urban Planning", and C 358 (Pedestrian Quality Needs). Cuurently leading the projects Modalities of Space (The Academy of Finland), Housing Preferences, Sustainable Urban Structure and Everyday Life (The Ministry of the Environment), and Power/Knowledge in Urban Development (The Academy of Finland).
Professional experience: University lecturer at the University of Tampere, Hämeenlinna institute for the education of primary school teachers (Hämeenlinnan opettajankoulutuslaitos) in 1982-85, teaching the basic and advanced courses in art, architecture, environmental aesthetics, and the philosophy of eduacation and of science. Acting assistant lecturer in urban planning at the Department of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, in 1988-89. Planner in the cities of Jyväskylä (1981) and Hämeenlinna(1982) and in the municipality of Kangasala (1986). Planner at the Planning Unit of Vaasa Surveying Office 1989-90, and in the Engineering and Architecture Office Plan-Ark Ltd 1990-1993. Research Director at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies 1997-1999. Acting Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology 1999-2001. Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology since 1.4.2001.
Professor Jane Rendell BA (Hons), Dip Arch, MSc, PhD, is Director of
Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer, she is author of Art and Architecture, (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure, (2002) and co-editor of Pattern (2007), Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination, (2005), The Unknown City, (2001), Intersections, (2000), Gender Space Architecture, (1999), Strangely Familiar, (1995). She is on the Editorial Board for ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly) and the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and chair of the RIBA President’s Awards for Research. In 2006 she was a research fellow at CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge and received an honorary degree from the University College of the Creative Arts. She is currently completing a book entitled Site-Writing: Art, Architecture and Criticism.
