Lily Chi is associate professor of architectural design, theory and criticism at Cornell University. She received her B.Arch in Canada, and M.Phil and Ph.D in architectural theory and history at Cambridge University and McGill University, respectively. Her doctoral work examined the role of Enlightenment concepts of custom, nature, and history in the formation of a modern architectural discourse. She is co-editor of an upcoming volume on Design Tactics and the Informalized City, drawn from a Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures sym-posium she coordinated at Cornell in 2012. The theme of temporal morphologies in contemporary urbanism is explored in a number of sponsored studios she conducted in south and southeast Asia, including a gradu-ate Rotch Traveling Studio to Hanoi. Chi served as Design Editor for the Journal of Architectural Education from 2000-2004.

Milton Curry is an academic, designer, curator and editor. He is founding editor of CriticalProductive—a peer-reviewed journal of architecture, urbanism and cultural theory distributed globally by Disticor, principal of OrbitMCA designstudio, and associate dean at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he also oversees Master of Urban Design and Master of Science degrees. Since 1992, Professor Curry has taught architecture at University of Michigan, Cornell, Harvard, and Arizona State University, and was director of the Cornell Council for the Arts from 2002-2008. Professor Curry has been awarded grants from the Graham Foundation, and has been featured on CNN Design 360. He is currently teaching and working on a manuscript that presents urbanization in the aftermath of postwar Modernist development in the United States and South / Latin America as a phenomena linked to the the unique quest for social freedom, and the role of racial theory in the constructed identities of Americans.

Roger Clark FAIA has taught at the University of Virginia and is currently a professor at the School of Ar-chitecture in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. During his tenure at NC State he has been named an ACSA Distinguished Professor and both an Alumni Distinguished Graduate and Undergradu-ate Professor, received the College’s Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, been elected to the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and been initiated into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Be-sides teaching and research, Professor Clark’s work has received twenty-eight design awards and has been widely published in architectural journals. He has been the chairman of the American Institute of Architect’s national Committee on Design, served on eight National Architectural Accrediting teams, and also served on forty-five Design Awards Juries. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Todd Erlandson, AIA (TSA ‘87) is a partner at (M)Arch. branded architectures, a collaboration of architects and marketing professionals in Santa Monica, California. Prior to establishing (M)Arch., Erlandson worked in a variety of architectural positions, including as a design architect at Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP on The Getty Center, and as project architect at the Wolfgang Puck Food Company. He has a Masters of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and Tulane University. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and is licensed in the State of California. He lectures and is frequently a guest critic for local and International design faculty, having taught previously at Tulane University, SCI_ARC in Los Angeles and Vico Morcote, Switzerland, Woodbury University, Art Center College of Design, and currently at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

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Derek Hoeferlin, RA, NCARB (TSA ‘97) is assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and an architect, urban designer, and principal of Derek James Hoeferlin Architect. His design work is presented and published internationally. He and his students collaborate with the University of Toronto on “Gutter to Gulf,” an internationally recognized initiative advocating for spatially integrated water manage-ment strategies for New Orleans. Additionally, Hoeferlin was a key contributor to the Waggonner & Ball Architects initiated “Dutch Dialogues” and is architect for Waggonner & Ball on the soon to be completed Water Management Strategy for the New Orleans region. With H3 Studio, Inc., he helped lead the Unified New Orleans Plan—the only formally adopted post-Katrina recovery plan. He currently conducts research on global comparative deltas and watersheds—primarily focused on the Mekong, Mississippi and the Rhine—to inform adaptive design strategies.

Deborah Gans is the principal of Gans studio and a full professor in the Architecture School at Pratt Insti-tute. She has also taught as visiting critic at Yale University. Deborah Gans is an editor of Bridging the Gap: Rethinking the Relation of Architecture and Engineering, which was honored by the AIA International Book Awards. She is also an editor of The Organic Approach, and Extreme sites: Greening the Brownfield. She is author of The Le Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition. Deborah received a BA from Harvard University and her M.Arch from Princeton University.

Sherry Hoffman (Tulane ‘88) is a partner at (M)Arch. branded architectures, a collaboration of architects and creative marketing professionals. Prior to establishing (M)Arch., Hoffman developed marketing strategies for major motion pictures and directed the brand management process for key property franchises at Universal Studios. She has extensive experience in advertising, having managed the Entertainment Division of Young & Rubicam (Y&R) Los Angeles. Prior to that she was responsible for the positioning and brand identity of several blue-chip clients at Y&R New York, such as Xerox and Kraft Foods. Hoffman has a MBA in marketing and international business from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Spanish from Tulane University. She currently teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Tim Love is principal of Utile. His primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city. He takes a strategic and collaborative approach to complicated urban projects –help-ing to bring together public agencies and diverse stakeholders around a single shared vision. Recent and on-going assignments include the redesign of Boston’s City Hall Plaza, a planning study for the Mill River District in New Haven, Connecticut, a master plan for the post-industrial parcels that surround Boston’s recently constructed convention center, and the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, winner of the 2011 Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects. Love is also a tenured Associate Profes-sor at the Northeastern University School of Architecture, where he teaches housing, architectural theory, and a research studio focused on contemporary market-driven building types.

Kiel Moe is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the area coordinator of the Energy & Environments concentration in the MDesS program and is director of the Energy, Environments & Design research lab. He is author of Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy, Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture, and Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture. He is completing work on Insulating Modernism, a history of insulation.

Jeffrey Rosenblum, FAIA (TSA ‘67) received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Architecture from Tulane University in 1967, and a Masters in Business Administration from Long Island University in 1969. Jeffrey founded his own firm in 1971 in Charleston, S.C., after working for Harrison and Abramovitz on the Rockefell-er Center expansion on 6th Ave. Within a few years he had a 6 person firm designing a variety of projects including historic renovations, new construction, and additions on residential and educational projects. Today Rosenblum Coe Architects Inc. still does custom residential architecture, but concentrates on higher learning, K- 12 educational, and health facilities. Rosenblum is a Fellow in the AIA, a Upjohn Fellow, and has received the Medal of Distinction from the AIA South Carolina Chapter. He served on the National AIA Board representing the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

David Thompson (TSA ‘91) is principal & founder of Assembledge+. He has over 25 years of diverse architec-tural experience in design and management as well as in the production and construction aspects of resi-dential and commercial projects. With a Bachelors and a Masters degree from Tulane University, Thompson has been a key member of several significant offices including Syndesis and David Hertz in Santa Monica and Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in Culver City. As a senior designer/project manager, he designed and man-aged several award winning residential, multifamily, and commercial projects including the internationally published Jai House, Cafe R & D for the Houston’s Group, and the Habitat 825 condominium project next to Schindler’s King’s Road house in West Hollywood, which was recognized with multiple awards including the AIA National Housing Award.

Derek Tynan FRIAI graduated from University College Dublin and, after working for a number of years in London, was a Fullbright Scholar at Cornell University, in the M.Arch (Architecture and Urban Design) program. He has taught at Cornell, University of Virginia, and University College Dublin, and has been an ar-chitect and urban design practitioner in Ireland for 20 years, as principal of DTA Architects (formerly Derek Tynan Architects). His work has a strong typological and design basis, with many critical urban design, architectural and housing projects. Several of his projects and buildings have been recipients of awards, in-cluding the UIA Sir Patrick Abercrombie Medal, RTPI Award for Central Areas, AAI Downes Medal, and vari-ous RIAI Irish Architecture Awards, including Silver Medals for Housing and Award for Best Housing Project.