Stephen Schreiber
Currently an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, Schreiber earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and his Master in Architecture from Harvard University in 1984. He has also taught at the University of Miami and the Boston Architectural Center. Schreiber concentrates his research on the architecture of the Southwest and Miami and recently contributed to Pueblo Style and Regional Architecture. In addition to his academic career, He is a practicing architect and is registered in both New Mexico and Massachusetts.
Grady Clay
An author, consulting editor, contributor, and lecturer, Clay's work includes: Right Before Your Eyes: Penetrating the Urban Environment, Closeup: How To Read The American City, and Alleys: A Hidden Resource and The Competitors . He was the founder of the St. Simons Island Star in Georgia and Editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine from 1960 -1984. As a graduate of Emory and Columbia universities, he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. He has been a contributor to 11 published books, and essay collections, including, Public Property (1987), and Geographical Snapshots of North America (1992). He has been a visiting instructor at the Department of Architecture and City planning, MIT, and the Department of Landscape Architecture at Texas A&M University. He is an Honorary member of the American institute of Architects, The American Society of Landscape Architects, and he is a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Ford Foundation grantee.
Jacek Dominiczak
A Ph.D. from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, where he is a Senior Lecturer, Jacek received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1991 to do research on the compositional codes for cities in the United States, continuing in 1992 with additional support from the Kosciuszko Foundation. While in the United States, Jacek has been teaching at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Carnegie Mellon's Department of Architecture as a Visiting Professor. Prior to arriving in America, Jacek was one of two partners in a successful architectural firm "Architectural Creation Partnership" that won many honorable mentions and a first prize in design competitions in Poland.
Enrique Vivoni-Farage
Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico and Director of the Architecture and Construction Archives at the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He established both the AACUPR and the Historical Archives Network of Puerto Rico (ARCHIRED), for which he received the Manuel A. Pérez Award for Excellence in Public Service in 1990. In 1993, the Society of Librarians of Puerto Rico awarded the Archives of the Year Award to the AACUPR.
Dr. Vivoni-Farage has curated over 15 architectural exhibitions and published various articles and essays. Among these, "Antonin Nechodoma: threshold for a new Caribbean architecture"; "Pedro éndez: obrero de la arquitectura puertorriqueña"; and "The Capitol of Puerto Rico, 1907-1929. The transformation of an ideal." He is currently Project Director for two projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: "Hispanophilia: the Spanish Revival in Architecture and Life in Puerto Rico, 1900-1950" and "Arrangement and Description of the Collections of the Centrales Guánica, Aguirre and Fajardo Collections."
Amos Rapoport
A Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rapoport has taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney (Australia), University of California at Berkeley and University College London. He has held visiting appointments in Israel, India, Turkey, Britain, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and elsewhere and has lectured by invitation all over the world.
He is one of the founders of the new field of Environment-Behavior Studies. His work has focused mainly on the role of cultural variables, cross-cultural studies and theory development and synthesis. He is the editor or co-editor of four books and the author of approximately 200 papers, chapters and articles and of four books: House Form and Culture (1969), Human Aspects of Urban Form (1977), The Meaning of the Built Environment (1982, updated edition 1990), and History and Precedent in Environmental Design (1990). A book of collected papers is currently in press. His work has been translated into a number of languages.
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