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Field-Of-Study: Architecture, Planning and Design
Emily Talen
I am passionate about urbanism and the prospects for creating walkable, socially diverse, sustainable urban neighborhoods in the U.S. and elsewhere. I am primarily an urban planner and urban designer, but my work also spans the fields of geography and sociology. I started my career working as an urban planner for the cities of Columbus,
Nezar AlSayyad
Nezar AlSayyad is an urbanist and a public intellectual. His scholarship, teaching, and practice demonstrate a wide and diverse range of interests and expertise. Educated as an architect, planner, urban designer, and urban historian, AlSayyad’s main focus has been the cross-cultural and comparative understanding of cities in their historical contexts. In 1988, he co-founded the
Zhongjie Lin
Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a cofounder of its Master of Urban Design program. He is also a cofounder and principal of Futurepolis, an award-winning design practice of architecture, landscape, and planning. He received a Ph.D. in architecture from the
Lynn Spigel
Lynn Spigel is a Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. She earned her Ph.D. at UCLA’s Department of Film and Television in 1988, where she began her investigations into the cultural history of media, technology, and gender. Her first book, Make Room for TV (University of Chicago Press, 1992), explores the cultural
Teresa Caldeira
Teresa P. R. Caldeira is a scholar of cities and their political practices. Her research focuses on predicaments of urbanization and reconfigurations of spatial segregation and social discrimination, mostly in cities of the global south. She has been especially interested in studying the relationships between urban form and political transformation, particularly in the context of
Jorge Ricardo Ponte
Jorge Ricardo Ponte received his graduate education in Architecture at the University of Mendoza in Argentina. Between 1992 and 1994, Mr. Ponte held a position as the Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Management of the City of Mendoza, Argentina. After defending his Ph.D. dissertation at the École des Hautes Études en
Christy Anderson
Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The Guggenheim Fellowship will support her current project on the meanings of architectural materials. Architects worked alongside craftsmen in shaping the form of buildings, drawing on their combined knowledge of the natural world, material technology, and local
Thomas J. Campanella
Thomas J. Campanella is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he is also a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He taught previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
