Airport Landscape Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and educator, is the Dean and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at the Harvard GSD. His work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. He curated the exhibition “Nicholas Hawksmoor; Methodical Imaginings” at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. In the Life of Cities (2012) and Instigations (2012) are among his most recent publications.

Richard de Neufville is Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. His recent books are Flexibility in Engineering Design (2011) and Airport Systems: Planning, Design, and Management (second edition, 2013). He has worked on the design of airport terminals on every continent except Antarctica.

Anke Ortlepp is Professor of American Cultural History at the University of Munich (LMU). She is the author of German American Women’s Clubs in Milwaukee (Steiner Verlag, 2004) and the co-editor of Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004) and Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange (University Press of Mississippi, 2011).

Suleiman Osman is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University and of American Council Learned Societies fellowship recipient. His book The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity (Oxford University Press, 2011) won the New York Society Library’s Hornblower Prize.

David Pascoe is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the Utrecht University, Netherlands. His research interests lie in the interactions between literary and visual culture and technology. His publications include Aircraft (Reaktion, 2003) and Airspaces (Reaktion, 2004).

Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the Harvard GSD. His numerous publications include Digital Culture in Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2010), and most recently Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (Wiley, 2013).

Dominick A. Pisano is curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. His publications include To Fill the Skies with Pilots (University of Illinois Press, 1993), the coauthored Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air (University of Washington Press, 1992), and the edited book The Airplane in American Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2003).