Professor of Architecture and Department Head of Architecture and Interior Design | University of Minnesota

Jennifer Yoos received a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Minnesota and Graduate Diploma in Design from Architectural Association of London, UK. She received the Loeb Fellowship in Urban and Environmental Studies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Jennifer was a faculty at University of Minnesota and served as the John G. Williams Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas. She was also the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and NADAAA Visiting Professor at Cooper Union. Jennifer is the principal and president of VJAA with Vincent James. Based in Minneapolis, the firm is known for its innovative approach to architectural practice, environmental design, and highly crafted buildings. VJAA's practice is grounded in the study of how architecture is interwoven with its social, cultural, and material context. VJAA's work is research-based, experimental, and intentionally diverse, including a wide range of scales from urban design and infrastructure, to architecture, adaptive reuse, installations, and furniture. Jennifer's practice, research, and teaching are grounded in the study of how architecture is interwoven with its social, cultural, and material context. She has developed research and scholarship that explore ideas prevalent in her architectural practice through collaborative publications. Jennifer is currently a Professor and Department Head of Architecture and Interior Design at University of Minnesota.

Associate Professor of Practice in the Masters of Sustainability Management | Columbia University

Lynnette Widder received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Masters of Architecture from Columbia University and Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich. She was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris and a MacDowell fellow. She has written widely on architectural history and sustainable building in journals including Daidalos, Bauwelt, architecture, Manifest, Kritische Berichte, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and The Social Science Journal: and is co-author of Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice and Ira Rakatansky: As Modern as Tomorrow. Her professional work with aardvarchitecture has been published in the United States, Europe, China, and Australia. She was principal investigator on a two-year project funded by the UN Development Programme in Guinea to support community-based environmental impact assessment from bauxite mining. Her other academic research projects include urban resource flows; community resilience; and life cycle assessment of historic buildings. Among her current projects are a study of Japanese-American architects in mid-century America funded through the Divided Cities initiative at Washington University in St. Louis and the Mellon Foundation; and an essay collection on the ways in which West German architects dealt with ruin and rubble in the period between surrender and the currency reform. Lynnette was an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design; she has taught at the ETH Zurich, Cornell University, City College of New York, and Cranbrook Academy.

Professor of Architecture and Dean of Architecture and Faculty of Architecture | University of Manitoba

Mimi Locher received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College and Masters of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. After working for architecture firms in the U.S. and Japan, including seven years with Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Tokyo, she began a full-time academic career. She taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Utah, where she served as Chair of the School of Architecture. Mimi's award-winning teaching and research focus on design practices and processes, community engagement through architectural design, and on Japanese architecture, gardens, and design. She is the author of four books on Japanese design: Super Potato Design, Traditional Japanese Architecture, Zen Gardens, and Zen Garden Design, as well as numerous articles and academic papers. Her research spans the disciplines of interior design, architecture, and landscape architecture with a common theme: connecting contemporary design practices to traditional culture through a deep understanding of nature, place, and time-honored design and construction methods and materials. Mimi also is a partner in Kajika Architecture, with projects in the U.S. and Japan. Mimi is a professor of architecture and Dean of Architecture and Faculty of Architecture at University of Manitoba.

Professor of Architecture | Pratt Institute School of Architecture

Lawrence Blough received a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Lawrence is Professor with Tenure at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Principal of GRAFTWORKS Design Research. Head of the Core Design Sequence in the undergraduate program, he also teaches in the Degree Project and Advanced Design Studio sequence. He has held teaching appointments at Washington University in St Louis, Tulane and Catholic University. Currently, his research is focused on two trajectories: the design of contemporary collective live/work typologies, and the relationship between building form and active solar potential to shape mid-rise housing. Recipient of multiple awards for design research, Blough has been funded by The Institute of Design and Construction Foundation, The Structurist Fellowship, The New York State Council on the Arts Independent Projects Award and the Pratt Innovation Fund. His work has been widely published both in the US and abroad including in the book Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production and in the forthcoming Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate. Blough’s projects and collaborations have been exhibited at ‘T’ Space in Rhinebeck, Kenderdine Gallery in Canada, Temple University, Museum of Modern Art, Locust Projects in Miami, CAUE 92 in France and Yale University among others.

Professor of Hammons School of Architecture | Drury University

Maurizio Sabini received professional and doctoral degrees in architecture from Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice, Italy and Masters of Architecture from University at Buffalo, NY, sponsored by a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a Professor of Architecture with the Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University, in Springfield, Missouri, where he also served as school Director. He previously taught at Kent State University, Ohio and at the Catholic University of America in

Washington DC. Maurizio has been a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico in Milan. He has been a registered architect in Italy and has practiced internationally, with several recognitions in international design competitions. He has published extensively, including on international magazines and journals (such as The Plan, Casabella, Rassegna, Domus, and the Journal of Architectural Education), and lectured and presented at conferences and symposia at an international level. His most recent publication is Ernesto Nathan Rogers. The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual, with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Previously, he edited the series “The Kent State Forum on the City”, authored the critical curation, with translation, of the Italian edition of Learning from Las Vegas, and guest-edited Rassegna 21 monographic issue on Louis Kahn. Since 2016, he has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of The Plan Journal.

Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism | Illinois Institute of Technology

Ron Henderson received a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Notre Dame, Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is a Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and a founding principal at LIRIO Landscape Architecture. Henderson’s range of research includes the gardens of China, cherry blossom culture in Japan, and, recently, the urban design implications of autonomous vehicles -- for which he has received a National Science Foundation grant. He has held prior positions at Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, Tsinghua University, and Rhode Island School of Design. LIRIO has received global recognition for the gardens of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston USA), Elizabethan Theater at Hardelot (Condette, France), Qingyuan Roof Gardens at the Chinese Pavilion (Expo 2010, Shanghai PRC), Sakura Orihon exhibition of his Japanese sketchbooks (US National Arboretum, Washington DC), and other works in Asia, Europe, and North America. Projects in which LIRIO has participated have planted over 900,000 trees. He was a Senior Fellow of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, a Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellow, a National Park Service Artist-in-Residence, and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Raymond E. Maritz Professor | Washington University

Sung Ho Kim received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design and an AA Diploma from Architectural Association of London, UK with Royal Institute of British Architects Part I and II. He also received his Master in Science in Architecture Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a project designer for Nasrine Seraji in Paris, France, and Wellington Reiter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as a principal researcher for the Interrogative Design Group at Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Sung Ho taught at Rhode Island School of Design and was an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. He was a Visiting Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea. Currently, he is a tenured Endowed Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and engaged in research with Biology and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He was a founding Director of Axi:Ome llc of Providence, RI from 2001 and has been Co-Director of Axi:Ome llc of St. Louis with Heather Woofter since 2003.

Professor of Architecture | Woodbury University

Ewan Branda received a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Waterloo and Master of Science in Architecture Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also received his PhD in Critical Studies in Architecture from UCLA. Ewan is an educator, architectural historian, former software designer, and former licensed architect. His research deals with architecture’s place in the information society of the late-postwar period, and his teaching focuses on the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence in the representation and production of architecture. He recently was the Multimedia Reviews Editor for the Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH).