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// Jørg Himmelreich is editor in chief of the Swiss architectural magazine

// Katrina Stoll is an architect, urban designer, and educator. She has taught

archithese. He is an architect, historian as well as a scholar in art and design.

architecture and theory at Syracuse University, ETH Zurich, and North Caro-

He taught and conducted research on architectural theory at ETH Zurich and

lina State University and worked with Studio SCAPE, Studio Gang and Atelier

is the author of several books and articles on architecture history and theory.

Bow-Wow. Katrina co-designed IP2100 (Island Proposition 2100), which was

He was editor in chief of Architektur+Technik and also contributed to the

featured in the Australian Pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale. She edited

ETH Zurich student journal trans.

together with Scott Lloyd Infrastructure as Architecture: Designing Composite Networks (Jovis, 2011). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropol-

// Mark Jarzombek is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the

ogy from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia Uni-

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, where he was also

versity.

the Associate and Interim Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. He is the co-founder with Vikramaditya Prakash of Global Architecture His-

// Marta H. Wisniewska is a researcher and teaching assistant at the Assistant

tory Teaching Collaborative, funded by a million dollar grant from the Andrew

Professorship of Architecture and Construction Dirk E. Hebel at the ETH Zu-

Mellon Foundation in 2014. He has worked on a range of historical topics from

rich, and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore. Prior to her engagement

the Renaissance to the modern age and published numerous books and ar-

at ETH Zurich, she was the 1st year architectural program coordinator at the

ticles on the theme, lately Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective

Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Develop-

(Wiley Press, 2013).

ment in Addis Ababa. In 2014, Marta H. Wisniewska together with Felix Heisel and Dirk E. Hebel has published Building from waste: Recovered Materials in

// Jesse LeCavalier is an architect and an Assistant Professor with strong

Architecture and Construction (Birkhäuser, 2014).

interests in logistics and urbanism in the College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD from the ETH Zurich, a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley,

// STUDENT PROJECT CONTRIBUTIORS

and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. He is a co-author, with John

Raegan Albright, Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, Anne-Charlotte Malterre Barthes,

Harwood and Guillaume Mojon, of the publication This Will _ This (Stand-

Helawi Sewnet Beshah, Charis Christodoulou, Daniel Tibebu Desta, Fujan

punkte, 2009) and his essays have appeared in journals like Public Culture,

Fahmi, Duan Fei, Nicolò Fenu, Sebastian Alfaro Fuscalo, Valentina Genini,

JAE, A+D, and Cabinet. He has also contributed to the collections Infrastruc-

Kathrin Gimmel, Jasmine Kastani, Noboru Kawagishi, Xenia Kokoula, Sander

ture as Architecture (Jovis Verlag, 2010).

Laureys, Lincoln Landon Lewis, Hui-Ju Lee, Laura Maccioni, Imke Mumm, Hyeri Chang Park, Tomas Polach, Christian Josef Sergio Schärmer, Stefanie

// Eliana Perotti has a PhD in art history. She has been a research assistant

Scherer, Matthew Gerald Skjonsberg, Thomas Pieter Chris Vermeulen, André

at the Institut gta of the ETH Zurich since 2000. Her focus is on research and

Lourens van der Westhuizen, Simon Kramer Vrscaj, Andreas Westner, Darik

publications about the history and theory of architecture and urban develop-

Zebenigus Wuhib, Ronald Emerson Yearwood

ment from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, lately in Theoretikerinnen des Städtebaus. Texte und Projekte für die Stadt (Reimer Verlag, 2015) with Katia Frey. She has been engaged in several research projects in the field such as “Italian Architecture Overseas. An Iconographic Atlas,” a research project by the Università di Bologna in 2008/09.

// Cary Siress is an architect and urban theorist who holds a PhD from ETH Zurich. He has taught at ETH Zurich, University of Edinburgh, University of Nanjing, and the TU Munich. He was senior researcher in Territorial Organization at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore (FCL). His current research pertains to global urbanization processes and how human and material realms become entangled under various political-economic agendas.

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