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Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written eight books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books and Monacelli Press. He is a Contributing Editor at the Architect’s Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Contract, Architectural Review and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles. With collaborator Greg Goldin, Lubell is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus’ architectural history.

Greg Goldin is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. For a dozen years he was the architecture critic at Los Angeles Magazine. He has published widely in Architect's Newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Record, the L.A. Weekly, Village Voice, and other publications. He co-curated the exhibitions Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and Never Built Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles. He was a two-time recipient of a Getty Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in Los Angeles grant for his work examining vernacular architecture. With collaborator Sam Lubell, Goldin is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus’ architectural history.

Matthew Kreilich is a design principal at Snow Kreilich Architects in Minneapolis. The studio received AIA’s 2018 Architecture Firm Award, an honor that recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. He is the heart of the firm's collaborative working model, with an active participation in both strategic and detail design resolution. Kreilich provides his design leadership on all the firm's projects. He has taught at the University of Minnesota College of Design and Syracuse University and participated in visiting critiques at the GSD and Washington University. Kreilich was recently a juror for the Progressive Architecture Award. He continues to participate on AIA juries throughout the country and give lectures in both academic and professional settings.

Enrique Ramirez is a scholar and historian of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. He is a member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative and an advisory editor for Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism. Ramirez has lectured widely and his writings, which cover a variety of topics, have appeared in publications like the Avery Review, the Journal of Architecture (UK), Harvard Design Magazine, and Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal. He contributed an essay to the companion volume for Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Ramirez brings his former experiences as a lawyer and entertainment industry veteran to bear on his research, which considers diverse topics such as legal history and cinematic representations of landscapes. He is currently working on a manuscript that considers how exchanges between architectural and aeronautical cultures in 18th- and 19th-century France constructed new ideas about air and the natural environment.

Jorge Otero-Pailos works at the intersection of art, architecture and preservation. One of the leading thinkers defining the new field of “experimental preservation,” Otero-Pailos’ work on historic monuments has been commissioned and exhibited widely, from the Venice Biennale to the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is the founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, co-editor of Experimental Preservation (2016), author of Architecture’s Historical Turn (2010) and a prolific contributor to scholarly journals and books. He has received awards from major art, architecture, and preservation organizations such as the 2012 UNESCO Eminent Professional Award, the American Institute of Architects, the Graham Foundation, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. Otero-Pailos holds a PhD from MIT and was a founding faculty member of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He is director and professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture in New York.

Ben Wever has worked at the Miller House and Garden for nineteen years, first as a groundskeeper and then as site administrator for Newfields for the last nine years. As site administrator, Wever is responsible for the overall care and administration of the Miller House and Garden. Wever has also helped maintain several Dan Kiley landscapes, including North Christian Church. Previous experience included working the gardens and greenhouse of the Irwin Home as well as being a personal assistant to J. Irwin Miller for four years. An accredited horticulturalist since 2000, Wever has also managed the Columbus branch of Engledow Group, which maintained several Kiley designs for Cummins Inc. and Miller House and Garden. Ben has served on Landmark Columbus’ Design Advocacy Committee, where his knowledge of Columbus history and modern design and architecture helped preserve historical landmarks and architecturally significant buildings as well as public art and landscapes.

Kevin Adkisson is the collections fellow at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Since assuming that role in the summer of 2016, Adkisson has assisted with preservation, interpretation, and programs across the many buildings and treasures of Cranbrook. He has curated seasonal exhibitions within Saarinen House using collections from Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Art Museum. A native of north Georgia, Adkisson holds a BA in Architecture from Yale, where he worked in the Yale University Art Gallery’s American Decorative Arts Furniture Study. He is completing his MA in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, with a thesis examining the role of postmodernism in shopping mall architecture. Previously, Kevin worked for Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York as a research and writing associate and at Kent Bloomer Studio in New Haven, where he designed and fabricated architectural ornament.

Flora Chou is a senior associate and cultural resources planner for Page & Turnbull in the Los Angeles office. Based in California, Page & Turnbull is an architecture, planning, and conservation firm imagining change in historic environments through design, research, and technology. Chou leads the architectural history and preservation planning aspects of the firm’s Southern California projects. She holds a master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College, and is a LEED-accredited professional. She speaks regularly at conferences and workshops on preservation planning and practices. Prior to joining Page & Turnbull in 2013, Chou was a preservation advocate for the Los Angeles Conservancy. She currently serves on the national board of 51福利, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the buildings and sites of the modern movement.

Susan Saarinen, daughter of architect Eero Saarinen and sculptor Lily Swann Saarinen, is an artist, designer, and artisan comfortable working in many different media. Susan grew up in the Cranbrook Educational Community, an intensely creative environment where her grandfather Eliel Saarinen was director, sculptor Carl Milles and ceramist Maija Grotell were teachers, and Susan’s godfather Charles Eames, furniture designer Florence Knoll, weaver Jack Lenor Larsen, and metal sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia met and developed their crafts. Profoundly influenced by her early years, she holds degrees in Fine Arts (weaving and ceramics) and Landscape Architecture. Her firm, Saarinen Landscape Architecture, concentrates on environmentally appropriate projects. When she has time, she balances her design practice with fine arts. Saarinen has taught at Harvard, the University of Colorado at Denver, the Art Student’s League of Denver and a cultural exchange center in southwest France. She is presently writing her memoirs.

Gustavo Araoz is an American architect whose 40-year career has focused on the management and conservation of the historic built environment. His commitment to serve the professional conservation community and to broaden international cooperation to preserve the world’s cultural heritage earned him three terms as president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He was a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years, and has been a visiting lecturer internationally at institutions including Yale, Brandenburg Technical University in Germany, and the International Centers for Heritage Conservation in the Canary Islands and Buenos Aires. He participated in the Nara + 20 process convened by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs and served on advisory panels for the Getty Foundation’s Architectural Conservation grant programs. A native of Cuba, Araoz was awarded the Cuban National Heritage Foundation’s 2011 “Herencia” award. In 2017, he received the Ann Webster Smith Award given by US/ICOMOS.

Adrienne Heflich is an associate with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) in Brooklyn, NY. She improves contemporary public spaces by learning from and enhancing a site’s natural and cultural landscapes. For the past 6 years, she has been a part of MVVA’s design and construction administration team for the Gateway Arch Park in St. Louis, MO. As MVVA’s project manager for Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, NC, she guides the transformation of the site from former state institution to destination public park. The project seeks to promote healthy and diverse local communities through new opportunities for outdoor activities and education, rehabilitate the site’s cultural landscapes, and restore and celebrate the ecology of the region. In addition, Heflich has managed landscape improvements to Vassar and Albright Colleges and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Heflich is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bowdoin College and has worked with MVVA since 2009.

Theodore H.M. Prudon is a practicing architect and preservationist. He received his education in the United States (MS Arch and PhD from Columbia University) and the Netherlands (MS ArchEng from the University of Delft). He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Preservation Technology International. He has been on the faculty of the Graduate Programs in Historic Preservati