Architecture and Irony

Kyle Dugdale

Kyle Dugdale is an architect, historian, and Senior Critic at Yale School of Architecture. He holds an undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a professional degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale. A resident of New York City, he has also taught at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His work has been published in journals including Perspecta, Thresholds, Utopian Studies, Classicist, Architectural Record, and Wolkenkuckucksheim. His most recent book is entitled Architecture After God.

Nika Grabar

Nika Grabar graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (2003), was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University, GSAPP, New York (2007-09), defended her PhD thesis at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture (2009). Her work involves research of architectural heritage and planning with an emphasis on the heritage of modernism, contextualised in the international condition. Her research investigates the possibilities of new critical approaches and methodologies in the field of architectural history and theory as key elements for understanding contemporary architectural issues.

Sam Jacob

Sam Jacob is the head of Sam Jacob Studio. Sam is Professor of Architecture at UIC and Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. He was co-curator of the British Pavilion in Venice (2014), is columnist and critic for Dezeen and Art Review as well as Contributing Editor for Icon magazine. Previously, Sam was a founding director of FAT Architecture.

Ariane Lourie Harrison

Ariane Lourie Harrison, PhD, AIA is a Principal and co-founder of Harrison Atelier (HAT) and a registered architect in New York State. She is a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture where she has taught since 2006, and a faculty member at Yale CEA (Center for Ecosystems and Architecture).She is the Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Urban Design at the Graduate School of Architecture, Pratt Institute and a lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught since 2022. HAT’s work on multi-species design has been internationally recognized, selected for the Barcelona Architecture Festival (2023), and awarded for Hempcrete Habitats (2022 Global Architecture and Design Award) and Pollinators Pavilion (2021 AIANY Design Awards). AB Princeton, M Arch GSAPP, Columbia, PhD NYU. Current projects include a hempcrete monitored Pollinators Habitat at The Bee Conservancy on Governors Island, NY. Her projects and writing explore the concepts and realities of making architecture for multiple species, from her anthology Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Routledge, 2013) to “Feral Architecture,” in Aesthetics Equals Politics (MIT Press, 2019); “Holes” in Ambiguous Territory (Actar, 2020); “Feral Surfaces” in Future Offices (Actar 2023) and “Building Envelopes as Multi-species Habitats,” AD Posthuman Architecture (2023). She earned her AB from Princeton University, her M. Arch from GSAPP Columbia University and PhD. From New York University.

Anna Neimark

Anna Neimark teaches visual studies and design studio at SCI-Arc. She is a co-founder of First Office Architecture in Los Angeles. First Office has received numerous honors, including the Architectural League Prize and the nomination as a finalist in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2016. Their work and writing were published in the Graham Foundation book, Nine Essays (Treatise Press, 2015).

Lejla Odobašić Novo

Lejla Odobašić Novo is a Bosnian-Canadian architect and researcher with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. from International Burch University. She investigates how the built environment can engage with contested histories and play a critical role in both perpetuating and transforming spaces marked by conflict. Lejla teaches at International Burch University and directs the Architecture Program at Kuma International in Sarajevo. She is also on the steering committees of the Architectural Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina and DoCoMoMo BH, and is a licensed architect with the Ontario Association of Architects.

Michael Osman

Michael Osman teaches modern architectural history at UCLA’s Architecture and Urbanism Department. He also directs the Department’s MA and PhD programs. Osman is one of the founding members of Aggregate: The Architectural History Collaborative, a platform for exploring new methods in architectural history. He is the author of Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), a book on the role buildings have played in developing systems for environmental and economic regulation.

George Papamattheakis

George Papamattheakis is a researcher, writer, and editor based in Athens, Greece. He holds masters in environmental studies (Yale M.E.D. ’23), human geography (Harokopio ’20), and architecture (NTUAthens ’17). He is interested in the study of infrastructures, environmental science, and the urbanization of the countryside. As a Fulbright scholar at Yale, he studied the overlaps between the hospitality industry and the production of environmental science in Greece. He is the 2023 Yale Environmental Humanities grantee to study post-tourism development imaginaries in Greek island. George is the editor of Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable (Yale School of Architecture and Yale University Press, 2025), and co-editor of Islands After Tourism: Escaping the Monocultures of Leisure (kyklàda.press, 2023), The Beach Machine: Operating the Mediterranean Coastline (kyklàda.press, 2022), and Athens, misprinted: Toward a counter-paradigm (Futura, 2019). His writing has appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Footprint, Log, Clog, Šum, and Cartha.

Ralitza Petit

Ralitza Petit is a practicing architect, educator and researcher based in Luxembourg. In partnership with Emmanuel Petit, she has co-founded the think-tank Episteme-Architecture, and co- leads architectural design studios at the John E. Dolibois European Center of Miami University in Luxembourg since 2018.

Ralitza was raised in Bulgaria and educated in the United States. She holds a Master’s degree from Princeton University, School of Architecture, and a doctoral degree from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Her research interests focus on the cross-section between digital and physical with a special interest in massively multiplayer online games, and artificial intelligence.

Emmanuel Petit

Emmanuel Petit: Emmanuel is author of Irony, Or, The Self-Crit­i­cal Opac­i­ty of Post­mod­ern Archi­tec­ture (Yale Press), and edi­tor of Philip John­son: The Con­stan­cy of Change (Yale Press), Stan­ley Tigerman's Schlep­ping Through Ambiva­lence: Writ­ings on An Amer­i­can Archi­tec­tur­al Con­di­tion (Yale Press), Reck­on­ing with Col­in Rowe: Ten Archi­tects Take Posi­tion (Rout­ledge), Ana­lyt­ic Mod­els in Archi­tec­ture (Yale SoA / Actar). He was Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the School of Archi­tec­ture at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, the inau­gur­al Sir Ban­is­ter Fletch­er Pro­fes­sor at the Bartlett School of UCL in Lon­don, and vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at MIT, the Har­vard GSD, the Ecole Poly­tech­nique de Lau­sanne. He received his Ph.D. and Mas­ter of Arts from Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, and his diplo­ma in archi­tec­ture from the ETH in Zurich. He is Prin­ci­pal of JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTES SA in Luxembourg-City.

Cesira Sissi Roselli

Cesira Sissi Roselli: Architect and photographer, she obtained a scholarship for the Master in Photography and Visual Design at the NABA Academy, Milan. The PhD at the Università degli Studi di Udine was on the relations between irony in architecture and Cedric Price. She was research fellow at the Università Iuav di Venezia focusing on architectural publishing and documentary photography. In 2019 she took part in the new scientific review “Vesper. Rivista di architettura, arti e teoria”. In 2021 she published the book “Ironia progettante. Tre sketch su Cedric Price” (Libria publishing). She exhibited her research “Archeologia scolastica” about the schoo’s universe at Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice (2018) and in many private art gallery. She is Professor on contract of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Laba Academy (Brescia, Italy). She collaborates with Università Iuav di Venezia and with Architecture-Engineering Università degli Studi di Brescia.

Katerina Zacharopoulou

Katerina Zacharopoulou is a PhD candidate in architectural history and theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her thesis explores humour in British postmodern architectural culture and is supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Her interest in humour and architecture dates back to undergraduate studies in Architectural Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and was developed further during an MA in History and Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association. Katerina has talked about the topic in conferences and public events internationally, and her research was recognised with a Graduate Student Award by the International Society for Humor Studies in 2022. She currently teaches history of architecture at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett. She currently teaches history of architecture at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett.