William J.R Curtis

William J. R. Curtis is a historian, critic, artist and photographer. Educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and Harvard University, he has taught at many universities including Harvard and Cambridge where he was Slade Professor of Fine Art. His best-known books include Modern Architecture Since 1900 (1982, 1987, 1996) and Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms (1986, 2015), both widely translated and referred to as ‘classics’.

Curtis has published on a vast range of other subjects and has contributed critical essays in the Architectural Review, El Croquis, A+U, ARK (Finland), the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books, among others. Long interested in Finnish architecture, he has published seminal texts on Alvar Aalto and Juha Leiviska in particular. Curtis’s drawings and paintings, Mental Landscapes, were exhibited in the Museum of Finnish Architecture in 2000, and his photos, Structures of Light, in the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskyla, in 2007. In 2015 a retrospective was held in the Palace of Carlos V of the Alhambra: ’Abstraccion y Luz/ Abstraction and Light: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs by William J. R. Curtis’ with an accompanying book.

Curtis has received several awards, including the Gold Medal of the National Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts (USA), 1999; a 50-year Commemoration Medal from the Museum of Finnish Architecture, 2006; and the Médaille de l’Académie d’Architecture, 2022.

Henriette Steiner

Henriette Steiner holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge and is Professor in the Section for Landscape and Planning – Society at the University of Copenhagen where she currently serves as Head of Section.

Her research is on the history and philosophy of architecture. Recent books include Tower to Tower (with Kristin Veel, MIT Press, 2020), Touch in the Time of Corona (with Kristin Veel, De Gruyter, 2021), and Untold Stories – Women Gender and Architecture in Denmark (with Jannie Bendsen and Svava Riesto, Strandberg Publishing, 2023).

She is a recent recipient of a Monography Fellowship of the Carlsberg Foundation and together with Svava Riesto, she is currently co-PI of two research projects: Stories from Sofiegården: Alternative Forms of Living in Copenhagen as Cultural Heritage (funded by Augustinus Foundation) and Learning from Collaboration – Building Future Practice (funded by the philanthropic association Realdania).

Scott Wall

Professor Scott Wall, RA, is a registered architect, author, artist, and teacher. He has taught architectural history, technology, and design at Rice, Georgia Tech, Tulane, and now at the University of Tennessee. His research and creative work centers on the study of Finnish architecture and design culture.

He studies architecture broadly, as a medium transmitting cultural history through visual narratives, using text, physical and digital mapping techniques to find ways in which mapping can be used to provide ways to and graphically convoy meanings of the history of the Finnish city and Finnish land.

Wall was a Fulbright Fellow to Finland in 2003, studying the Finnish architectural competition, and in subsequent summers has served as the Residency Director of the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design’s Finland Summer Architecture Institute in Helsinki. He has attended seven of the Alvar Aalto Symposia since 2000.

Lari Ala-Pöllänen

Lari Ala-Pöllänen is a practicing architect currently working as an architectural group manager at Granlund. He studied architecture at The Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University in 2013-16 and later completed his studies at the University of Oulu in 2020. He has previously written articles on the architecture of Juha Leiviskä published in the Finnish Architectural Review.

Brian Ambroziak

Brian Ambroziak is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Tennessee. His research engages the creative process, the development of the artistic conscience, and focuses on the complex relationship between design and methods of representation and visualization. His publications include Michael Graves: Images of a Grand Tour (2005) and Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three Dimensional Mapmaking (1999) with Princeton Architectural Press. He and his partner Katherine Ambroziak have been finalists in design competitions that include the National World War II Memorial and a design for St. Mark’s Coptic Canadian Village. In 2008, Brian Ambroziak co-founded time[scape]lab with Andrew McLellan. The theoretical designs of time[scape]lab offer a unique framework for considering architecture, both in terms of its representation and its physical existence. The office’s methods of representation rely heavily upon systems of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional montage embracing fragmentary strategies that allow for open-ended interpretation and bias the acts of writing and collage.

Angela Amoia

Angela Amoia is a partner at Amoia Cody Architecture and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design. She has balanced professional practice and teaching since earning her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she initiated her research on Alvar Aalto. Amoia has taught architectural history, theory, and design studios—including comprehensive design studios—and has participated in study-abroad programs in Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia as an intellectual historian with a focus on architecture and urban culture. In professional practice, she has served as an architectural project manager on a wide range of projects, including skyscrapers, large-scale academic facilities, landmark mixed-use developments, and adaptive-reuse residential work at both internationally and locally recognized New York City firms. Amoia and her partner, Robert Cody, co-authored the NYC Green Density Zoning Handbook (2018), Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture (2022), and Alvar Aalto and Urban Design (2025), reflecting their integrated approach to design, sustainability, and technology.

Nina Bačun

Nina Bačun is a designer, researcher, and educator exploring the domains of exhibition and set design, conceptual and speculative design, and film. Her collaborations with the Zagreb-based design collective Oaza reflect a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the Architecture and Urban Planning program at the University of Zagreb, where her research focuses on the intersection of architecture and moving images. *Oaza is an all-female collective that has been actively engaged in art and design research initiatives within the autonomous cultural sector since 2013. For more information, visit: www.oazabooks.com and www.o-a-z-a.com

Roberto Bottazzi

Dr Roberto Bottazzi is an architect, researcher, and educator based in London. He is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master in Urban Design at The Bartlett, UCL and Senior Tutor at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Digital Architecture beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design (Bloomsbury, 2018) and co-editor of Walking Cities: London (Camberwell Press, 2017, Routledge, 2021).

Harry Charrington

Dr Harry Charrington is an architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster. He has taught and practiced in the UK and Finland. He researches the history of modernism and has published on the Aalto atelier, including the oral history Alvar Aalto: the Mark of the Hand (Rakennustieto 2011) with Vezio Nava, winner of the RIBA President’s Medal for Research.

Petra Čeferin

Petra Čeferin is an architect, professor and research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches architectural theory and history. She received her professional degree in architecture from both the University of Ljubljana and Helsinki University of Technology. In 2003 she received her doctorate in architecture from University of Ljubljana on the international promotion of Finnish architecture. In 2015 she received her second PhD in philosophy of architecture with the title Architecture as Creative Practice. Petra Čeferin has lectured and written extensively on modern and contemporary architecture in connection with contemporary philosophy. Her publications include Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957-1967 (SKS Publishing, 2003), Transforming Reality with Architecture: Finnish Case (Fondazione Bruno Zevi, 2008) and The Resistant Object of Architecture. A Lacanian Perspective (Routledge, 2021). She is also the co-founder and editor of the book series Theoretical Practice of Architecture, and the recipient of The Annual Bruno Zevi Award.

Robert Cody

Robert Cody is a registered architect, LEED-accredited, and a member of the AIA and NCARB. He is a partner at Amoia Cody Architecture in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2005, he has taught at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design, where he has served as Associate Professor of Practice since 2019 and is currently Director of the Master of Architecture program. His teaching includes comprehensive and community design studios, building technology, and architectural theory, and he has led study-abroad programs in Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia. His academic leadership roles include Department Chair (2011–2017) and Interim Associate Dean (2017–18). With over 30 years of professional experience, Cody has worked on a wide range of projects, including housing, office buildings, towers, healthcare and educational facilities, community projects, and the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art’s garden façades. His practice emphasizes clear project parameters and continuity from concept through construction, enabling a seamless transition from drawings to on-site execution. Cody and his partner, Angela Amoia, co-authored the NYC Green Density Zoning Handbook (2018), Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture (2022), and Alvar Aalto and Urban Design (2025), reflecting their integrated approach to design, sustainability, and technology.

Martin Düchs

Martin Düchs studied both architecture and philosophy. After graduating in architecture from the Technical University of Munich (Dipl.-Ing.) and philosophy from the Munich School of Philosophy SJ (MA), he worked as an architect while simultaneously completing his doctorate in philosophy at LMU (Thesis: ”Architecture for a good life. On the responsibility, morals and ethics of the architect). He then ran his own architectural firm for some years before writing his habilitation thesis (Thesis: “Humane Architecture: A Philosophical Approach”). In 2017, he spent a year as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. In 2021, he was appointed full professor of art and cultural history/theory and history of architecture and design at the New Design University in St. Pölten, Austria. He has published numerous works on the history, theory and philosophy of architecture.

Jaime J. Ferrer Forés

Jaime J. Ferrer Forés is Professor in the Department of Architectural Design at the Barcelona School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC). He is a recipient of a FPU Research Fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. His PhD in Architecture was awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from UPC. He was awarded the José Castillejo Fellowship for post‑doctoral researchers by the Ministry of Education, and he is a Fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome. Forés is the author of Jørn Utzon: Works and Projects (Gustavo Gili, 2006). He received recogition as a “Europe 40 Under 40” laureate. His work has been exhibited at Vogadors at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012) and Time Space Existence at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014).

Tammy Gaber

Dr. Tammy Gaber is Director and Full Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture, at Laurentian University in Canada. She joined as Founding Faculty in 2013 and helped create new curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has won awards for the impact of her teaching and research. She was awarded Canadian Federal SSHRC funding for her research on sacred spaces in 2015, 2021 and 2022. She has published extensively and taught in architecture programs for over two decades. Dr. Gaber’s groundbreaking book, Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design , published by McGill-Queen’s Press in 2022, was profiled in various newspapers, journals, periodicals and television. In 2019, Dr. Gaber won the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women. In 2020 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Teaching Excellence Award for a full-time professor, and in 2025 she was awarded Laurentian University’s Research Excellence Award.  In 2024 Dr. Gaber designed and curated an exhibition based on her research on the sacred spaces by the Modernist architects Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Foundation at the Aalto2 Museum Centre in Finland.

Heini Hakosalo

Heini Hakosalo is a Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) in History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Oulu. She specializes in the modern and contemporary history of medicine, with a special interest in the relationship between health and the built environment. Her publications include: “Interspecies issues: Perceptions of urban animals as a health threat, from the 1880s to the present”, in Helka-Liisa Hentilä et al (eds). Pandemics and Urban Planning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cities, Planning and Disease (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025); ”The walled-in illness: The twentieth century Finnish tuberculosis sanatorium as lived space”, in Johanna Annola et al (eds.), Lived Institutions as History of Experience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo (eds.), Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Heini Hakosalo & Esa Ruuskanen (eds), In Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Lessons from Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus (Routledge, 2021).

Leif Høgfeldt

Leif Høgfeldt Hansen was appointed in 2007 as a research associate professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. His general research focuses on Asian and Scandinavian architecture. Currently, his teaching and research angle is on adaptive reuse. He has been published in international books and journals and participated in international exhibitions, such as Milan Design Week in Italy, the Busan Biennale, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and the Gwangju Folly III exhibition in South Korea. He was appointed Global Studios Curator of the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2023 in South Korea from 2022 to 2024. He has been working in architectural offices in Denmark, Finland, Japan, and South Korea

Ann Charlott Hästö

Ann Charlott Hästö is an architect, entrepreneur, and context-driven thinker with nearly two decades of experience leading her own architectural practice. She graduated from what is now Aalto University in Helsinki, with exchanges in Sweden and Denmark. Her learning has continued throughout her career, including a specialist qualification in Business Management and further studies in Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School. These experiences have deepened her understanding of organizations, leadership, and long-term value creation. Her professional path moves across scales and disciplines — from working at one of Finland’s leading architectural firms to urban planning and product development within the luxury boat industry. In her own practice, she has worked on projects ranging from custom made interiors and single-family houses to industrial buildings and regional development. She operates in the intersection of project leadership, innovation, and tradition, where architecture becomes tools for translating visions into sustainable and meaningful contexts. Alongside her practice, she has taught in cultural education programs at Novia, University of Applied Sciences, and facilitated its masters program, Circular Design. Raised in Ostrobothnia, she carries a heritage of craftsmanship, resourcefulness, and closeness to nature — shaping her view of the architect’s role as cultural, strategic, and deeply human. See: https://www.architec.fi/about

Sotiria Inetzi

Sotiria Inetzi is an architect-engineer (MArch, 2004), with post-graduate specialization (MSc, 2018) in research by design, accomplished at the School of Architecture of National Technical University of Athens. She is currently undertaking a PhD in the same institution. Her professional activity extends to both educational and practicing activities. In particular, she is a teaching assistant in the field of set design at Vakalo Art & Design College in Athens, while she practices architecture as a freelancer for private projects and as collaborating architect in public projects. Inetzi formerly worked as an early-stage researcher at the Centre of Applied Mathematics ofat the École Polytechnique (Paris) within the framework of the ”OPTARCH – Optimization Driven Architectural Design of Structures” research project (HORIZON 2020- MSCA – RISE).

Teija Isohauta

Teija Isohauta worked in the Alvar Aalto Museum during 1986-2009 as curator of education in contemporary art, design and architecture. She has curated several Aalto exhibitions, including Alvar Aalto, Architecture to Read (2003), Dimension on Wood (2007), Shifting Contours (2009), and Alvar Aalto – Cultivated Landscape (2020). She is the author of Alvar Aalto and the Art of the Landscape (Routledge, 2022). Her recent research interest lies on the evaluation of Aalto’s city image
She has been copartner of Periferiadesign and been teaching in Aalto University 2013-2023. Isohauta has been a member of National Board of Architecture in Finland, as well as a member of the Central Finland Arts Council. Isohauta is a founding member and first president of the organisation Playce.

Elie Haddad

Elie Haddad PhD is a Professor of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, where he currently serves as the dean of the School of Architecture & Design. Among his publications are: Modern Architecture in a Post Modern Era (Lund Humphries, 2023), The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory (Routledge, 2022) and A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, the latter co-edited with David Rifkind (Ashgate, 2014).
Haddad received several fellowships to conduct research in Germany, specifically on social housing and the work of Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner, and Hans Scharoun in Berlin, and Ernst May in Frankfurt. He has also served on international juries, among which the jury for the Sheikh Zayed Museum in Abu Dhabi (2007), the Arch-Marathon in Milan (2015), and he chaired the jury for the Arab Architects Awards, held for the first time in Beirut (2018). Haddad was also elected to the position of president of the Association of Arab Architects (2020-2023).

Johannes Kalvelage

Johannes Kalvelage is a professor of urban design and rural planning at Anhalt University in Dessau. Previously he taught in Magdeburg (1996 – 2006) where he is also based as an
architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at TU Darmstadt and at RWTH Aachen.
In research and teaching he has been engaged in longstanding academic collaboration with European schools of architecture particularly with Politecnico di Milano and ENSA Nantes. His research focuses on urban morphology, organic architecture and design theory.

Aatu Kavalto

Aatu Kavalto is an architectural history guide and architecture enthusiast. He wrote his my master’s thesis (MA in History, University of Jyväskylä) on tuberculosis treatment in Finland in the 1930s, using Paimio Sanatorium as an example of the modern discourse found in the Finnish sanatorium system. He has guided tours in the University of Jyväskylä campus in Seminaarinmäki, Muuratsalo Experimental House and Paimio Sanatorium, forming a deep connection to these sites and the values they represent. Kavalto works with Oskari Luoma and the talented group of writers in the “Aallot Alajärvellä” book project, writing an article about the Alajärvi municipal hospital that Alvar Aalto designed in the 1920s. In the article for this publication, and more broadly in the book project, ourthe main interest is in the theme of locality in Aalto architecture – not only Alvar Aalto’s titular work but expanding to the architects working in the Aalto office through the decades.

Jonas Malmberg

Jonas Malmberg, M.Sc. (arch.), M.A. (art history), was employed at the Alvar Aalto Foundation 2012-2025, supervising restorations of Aalto sites, and since 2025 has worked at Finnish Heritage Agency as a senior architect. He was the main author of the Paimio Sanatorium Conservation Management Plan (Aalto Foundation, 2015). Malmberg was a member in the working group preparing the UNESCO World Heritage nomination dossier Aalto Works (Finnish Heritage Agency, 2025). He has widely lectured on Finnish modernism. He is currently chairman of the board of DOCOMOMO Suomi-Finland and a voting member in the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage. He is preparing his PhD on Säynätsalo Town hall at Aalto University, Helsinki.

Oskari Luoma

Oskari Luoma works at the Aalto2 Museum Centre as a customer service representative and guide. His connection to Alajärvi stems from his previous work as a museum educator at the Alajärvi Art Museum, also known as the Nelimarkka Museum. It was from there that the ”Aallot Alajärvellä” book project, to which the authors’ research seminar article relates, was launched in collaboration with local actives. Luoma has long been interested in the connection between Aalto’s architecture, cultural history and the lives of local communities. A particularly special area for him is the Seminaarinmäki area in Jyväskylä, where he attended the Aalto elementary school in the 1990s and later roamed the area as a history student at the University of Jyväskylä.

Mikko Lindqvist

Architect Mikko Lindqvist works in Helsinki City Museum Cultural Environment Department in the field of restoration and building preservation. He has done research and a monograph on the Neoclassical architecture of Helsinki, concentrating on its environmental relations. Lindqvist has co-published books on Helsinki’s historic architecture and urban development. He has lectured on architecture history in the Helsinki Open University and Aalto University in Espoo.

Anne-Maija Malmisalo-Lensu

Anne-Maija Malmisalo-Lensu is an art historian and a PhD student at the University of Jyväskylä. She is currently finishing her doctoral thesis, in which she examines the motives and experiences of visitors to Alvar Aalto’s house museums. Previously, she taught museology at the University of Jyväskylä for twelve years. Her master’s thesis in art history dealt with Alvar Aalto’s museum projects from the 1920s to the 1950s. Later, she has written, among other things, about the design project of Kunsten, the art museum building in Aalborg (2017) designed by Alvar Aalto, Jean-Jaques Barüel and Elissa Aalto, and – together with architect Päivi Lukkarinen MA – about Aalto’s unrealized plan for a chapel on the University of Jyväskylä campus (2023). She is currently researching and writing about Aalto’s plans for the Åland Islands.

Malmisalo-Lensu also holds a master’s degree in education, and her interests include museum education and visitor experiences. In 2021, she published a paper on authentic experiences at Aalto’s Experimental House. As a sideline, she also enjoys guiding visitors at the Aalto2 Museum Centre, at the Experimental House, and on the University of Jyväskylä campuses.

Andrea Nalesso

Andrea Nalesso is a qualified architect with a PhD in the History of Arts. His work bridges professional practice and academic research, combining design expertise with critical inquiry. Founder of Step Architects, he leads projects defined by functional minimalism and a deep exploration of spatial quality, with particular attention to the concept of atmosphere in architecture. His approach is strongly influenced by architectural photography, the central focus of his doctoral research. He graduated from Università Iuav di Venezia and earned his PhD at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with the thesis Exhibitions as Spatial Visual Stories. The Art of Narrating in G. E. Kidder Smith’s Architectural Photography, analysing how visual strategies shape spatial narratives. His research further investigates the relationship between architecture, visual culture, and exhibition practices, exploring how space is constructed, perceived, and narrated through images. This background enables him to approach each project through a narrative lens, acting as a visual strategist who defines how space and light communicate identity. He has developed international experience in interior and exhibition design, collaborating with museums and institutions, and serves as a Teaching Assistant at Università Iuav di Venezia in History of Architecture and Architectural Photography.

Aino Niskanen

Aino Niskanen, architect MA, PhD was Professor of History of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology/Aalto University in 2007-2018. She has written about public interiors in 19th century Munich, co-operative society architecture in Finland, Alvar Aalto, Reima and Raili Pietilä and Finnish architecture of the 1960s. She has been a member of the board of The Finnish National Council of Architecture and Design, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and the Association Alvar Aalto en France.

Anja Quinn

Anja Quinn is a British-Finnish graphic designer living in Bristol, UK. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, which shaped her theoretical interest in architecture within the field of visual cultures. She is currently researching the ways in which art and architecture intersect. With an interest in critical theory and dialectics, Anja seeks to understand how developing architecture in the neoliberal sphere can both hold and reject artistic values simultaneously. In addition, Anja is a Trustee at Arnolfini Arts, an international centre for contemporary arts.

Troels Rugbjerg

Troels Rugbjerg is a doctoral researcher at ASUTUT, the Sustainable Housing Design research group at Tampere University, Finland, and a Teaching Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. Troels’ research involves case studies of selected housing projects in the Nordic countries from the modern era (1930-1970), immediately preceding the development of a contemporary concept of sustainability, to learn about architectural properties that may contribute to sustainable housing practices in the Nordic countries today. Troels is a co-author of the article: “Re-evaluating the Aaltos’ Pre-war Housing: A field study of the home environment in a case study”, Architectural Research in Finland, vol. 8, no. 1 (2024), and a co-editor of the book: Utzonia: From/to Denmark with Love (Italy: Listlab, 2020).

Esa Ruskeepää

Esa Ruskeepää is a Helsinki-based architect and lecturer at Aalto University, where he teaches building design with a focus on public architecture. He runs his own practice, Arkkitehtitoimisto Esa Ruskeepää Oy, in Helsinki. For Ruskeepää, architecture is a living language—and studying cities and buildings is a way of understanding the people who made them. In his view, architecture has always been shaped by technology, culture, and money. He is particularly interested in why great cities are so hard to build today, and what it would take for us to think in centuries again.

Szymon Ruszczewski

Szymon Ruszczewski is an architect, researcher, and scholar, who graduated from the University of Florence, and later received a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. His work focuses on themes related to the history, heritage, and conservation of modern architecture. He published earlier his research on Alvar Aalto and his work in Italy, and on Jerzy Sołtan, a Polish member of CIAM and Team 10. He has taught at the universities in Florence, Pisa, and Sheffield, and at the Polytechnic of Milan. He works as a registered architect in Florence.

Julien Salabelle

Julien Salabelle is a PhD candidate at the Gerphau laboratory at the School of Architecture Paris-la Villette. Following his graduation from the Berlin University of the Arts, he pursued a career in Mexico. A rare neurological disorder gradually limited his ability to work as an architect, prompting a transition to academic research.
His work, funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education, focuses on the spatial practices of people considered to be outside the norms of health, well-being and well-behaving. His research adopts a cultural approach to disability and examines its contributions to the field of architecture. He studies processes of knowledge co-production from marginalised bodies, their emergence and dissemination, with a particular emphasis on the recognition of a cultural heritage of disability.

Ana Isabel Costa e Silva

Ana Isabel Costa e Silva is an architect based in Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal. She holds a Master’s in Spatial Planning and Urban Project, and a PhD in Architecture. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto. Alongside academia, she runs an architectural studio where she maintains an active professional practice, which began in the office of architect António Madureira, whose work included co-authored projects with Álvaro Siza.

Rachel Simmonds

Rachel Simmonds is a Senior Lecturer in Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), The University of Edinburgh. She trained as an architect and interior designer in Scotland and France and became a full time academic in 2016. She currently teaches undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD students. Rachel is a trustee of Interior Educators (IE), a UK based organization representing more than 50 higher education institutions with interiors programmes.

Her research focuses on connections between modernist architects in Scotland and the Nordic countries, particularly Finland. She has also investigated historic exhibition design and the role of photography in understanding ephemeral projects. Rachel is currently undertaking part- time PhD study at The University of Westminster, investigating the role of the Aaltos exhibitions within their wider design paradigm.

Christian Volkmann

Christian Volkmann is an Associate Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York (CCNY), USA. His teaching focuses on Design and Technology, functioning as essential elements of comprehensive design thinking. He is thus dedicated to tasks of connecting between both curricular areas through tangible Design+Build projects. The main perspective is to develop new pedagogic concepts affecting skill sets crucial to emerging architects and therefore influential on how architecture is commonly practiced, emphasizing the making of an artefact. He is a licensed architect in New York, originally educated in Germany (TU Berlin) and Switzerland (ETH Zürich). He is the principal of the New York City based firm of aardvarchitecture, focused also on Design-Build implementation, specifically on resolving and integrating the detail architecturally, engaging the motivation of craft with skills of fabrication and meaningful production. He has worked in his career, among others, for Josef Paul Kleihues (Berlin), Mario Campi & Franco Pessina (Lugano) and Annabelle Selldorf (New York).