Commissioner and Curator: Cathy Lang Ho is an independent architecture critic and editor based in New York. She is a contributing editor to Architect magazine and founding editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper. She has published hundreds of articles in publications worldwide. She is a member of the board of the Institute for Urban Design.
Co-curator: Ned Cramer is the editor-in-chief of Architect magazine, the official magazine of the American Institute of Architects and the media sponsor of the U.S. Pavilion. Previously, he was the curator of the Chicago Architecture Foundation and executive editor of Architecture magazine.
Co-curator: David van der Leer is the assistant curator of architecture and urban studies at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the curator of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a mobile laboratory for urban experiments and public programs traveling to nine major cities worldwide over six years (New York 2011, Berlin and Mumbai, 2012).
CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Paola Antonelli is a senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her writing has been published widely and she has lectured on design and architecture throughout the world, at such prestigious forums as the TED Conference, Davos, and the World Economic Forum.
Anne Guiney is the executive director of the Institute for Urban Design. She was previously the editor of the New York edition of The Architect’s Newspaper and senior editor of Architecture magazine.
Zoe Ryan is the chair and John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is building the museum’s first collection of contemporary design. She was previously the senior curator at the Van Alen Institute (VAI) in New York. Her writing has appeared in design publications worldwide.
Michael Sorkin is the founder of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City and the distinguished professor of architecture and director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at New York’s City College (CUNY). He has authored and edited 15 books, including most recently Twenty Minutes in Manhattan (Verso, 2009) and All Over the Map (Verso, 2011). Sorkin is the president of the board of directors of the Institute for Urban Design.
PROJECT MANAGERS
Gordon Douglas is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago. His work centers on issues of local cultural identity, urban development, and people’s interactions with the built environment, including so-called “do-it-yourself urban design.” His writing has appeared in The Journal of Urban Design, GOOD, and The Magazine for Urban Documentation Opinion and Theory.
Mimi Zeiger is editor and publisher of loud paper, a zine and blog dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse. She is the author of several books and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Domus, Dwell, and Architect, where she is a contributing editor. She has lectured internationally on “The Interventionist Toolkit,” a series of articles she wrote for Places Journal. She is currently the director of communications at Woodbury School of Architecture in Burbank.
DEVELOPMENT
Mina Chow is an architect and has taught design studio at the USC School of Architecture, Woodbury University and Santa Monica College. She is principal of LA design/multi-media firm mc2 SPACES. Currently, she is directing and producing FACE of a Nation, a documentary about architecture and global politics, and creating a web series about innovative architecture with the Mayor’s office in Los Angeles.
Emma Dunch is president of Dunch Arts, LLC (www.duncharts.com), a New York–based leader in management consulting for arts and cultural organizations. She has worked with many cultural organizations including the American Symphony Orchestra League, Aspen Music Festival, Dance/USA, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Glimmerglass Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, London Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and WNYC: New York Public Radio.
DESIGN
M-A-D: Erik Adigard and Patricia McShane are interdisciplinary communication designers focusing on the convergence of cultural and technological change. They are recipients of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design for a body of work that ranges from corporate branding to multimedia exhibitions. They have taught at California College of the Arts, and Erik frequently writes on design and media for industry publications, juries and lectures internationally, and is the winner of the 2012-2013 Rome Prize, Design.
FREECELL: Freecell is a Brooklyn-based design studio founded by Lauren Crahan and John Hartmann. Their rigorous search for innovative solutions is strengthened by their drawing, modeling, prototyping, and fabricating skills. Their site-specific installations that question the use and perception of space have been exhibited at SFMOMA, Henry Urbach Architecture, and Artists Space. Their recent work includes the completion of “Point to Line,” a public art commission at the University of Akron, and custom furniture for the fashion designer Alexander Wang. Lauren will teach an interdisciplinary design studio at Parsons New School in September. John is on the board of Superfront, a nonprofit supporting architectural experimentation.
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