Korespondence

Claude Armstrong

Claude Armstrong is an architect, teacher, researcher, and partner in Armstrong + Cohen Architecture. His projects have been built in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, Florida, and Tanzania. A graduate of the City College School of Architecture and Columbia University’s GSAPP, he has previously designed for communities, non-profits, schools, and artists, has taught at the University of Florida and at Preservation Institute Nantucket. Armstrong was introduced to Donald Judd in 1982 by architect Lauretta Vinciarelli, and collaborated on projects in Marfa (TX), New York, and Switzerland. Armstrong + Cohen Architecture has continued work with Judd Foundation on historic preservation and new programs.

Uršula Berlot Pompe

Uršula Berlot Pompe, Ph.D., is a visual artist, art theorist and associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. Fields of research: art and science, theory of space in visual art, mimesis. She is the author of scientific monograph on Marcel Duchamp and numerous articles on art theory.

Judith Birdsong

Judith Birdsong is an educator, writer, and photographer whose work has been exhibited and recognized both in the US and abroad. She is a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, and in 2016 and 2017 held the position of Gibbons Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of South Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin (1985) and her Master of Architecture from The University of Florida (1992).

Viktorija Bogdanova

Viktorija Bogdanova (1991) is a poet and architect who investigates poem-drawing as a processual mode of creative research. She finished her master studies at the University ‘Ss. Cyril and Methodius’ in Skopje in 2014. After the thesis defense she continued her activity there as an associate assistant in the Housing Design Department, lead Minas Bakalchev) until today. In 2016 she started developing her PhD topic at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana: Emotive immersion through poem-drawing in spatial design. She took part in three cycles of CA2RE - Conference of Artistic and Architectural Research, where she presented different fragments of her research through exhibitions of her architectural poem-drawings (September 2017 in Ljubljana, April 2018 in Aarhus, September 2018 in Berlin). She is an author of two published books of poems and poem-drawings and a regular contributor to Writingplace: Laboratory for Literature and Architecture group, founded by Klaske Maria Havik.

Massimiliano Ciammaichella

Massimiliano Ciammaichella is Associate professor in Drawing and Director of the Master Degree in Performing Arts at the Università Iuav di Venezia (Italy), where he teaches Drawing, Animation and Digital Scene and Laboratory of Drawing and Modeling.

He is a founding member of New Design Vision, Spin-off of the Università Iuav di Venezia. He participates in several national and international research projects and conferences.He has published several volumes, essays and articles, on theories and techniques of representation and survey, assisted by digital tools. His research activity is focused on the borders of drawing evolution processes in design artifacts and in their communication.

Donna Cohen

Donna Cohen is associate professor of architecture at the University of Florida. She teaches design studios and history in Florida and Italy, as well as an interdisciplinary seminar on design anthropology with the UF Center for African Studies, where she founded the Architecture/Africa Initiative. A graduate of Smith College, the Cooper Union, and the University of Florida, Cohen is a partner with Armstrong + Cohen Architecture, where she specializes in community initiated projects. Their work has been published in New Architecture on Indigenous Lands (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy, and Social Equity (Routledge, 2007), and recognized with awards from the Graham Foundation, American Institute of Architects, the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the National Endowment for the Arts, Premio Dedalo-Minosse, and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Her research on Judd is based on her experience assisting the artist.

Agostino De Rosa

Agostino De Rosa (Bari, Italy 1963) is an Architect and Full Professor at University Iuav of Venezia (Italy) and at Venice International University. He co-ordinates the PhD program on Surveying and Representing Architecture and the Environment at the IUAV postgraduate school. He has written books and essays on the theme of representation, the history of images and land art. His books include, among the many published: Cecità del vedere. Per una storia anti-proiettiva delle immagini (forthcoming); Jean François Nicéron. Prospettiva, catottrica e magia artificiale. Rome: Aracne Editrice 2013; James Turrell. Geometrie di luce. Roden Crater project, Milan: Electa 2007). He has curated exhibitions in Italy and all around the world with his team, Imago rerum based at Iuav University.

Robert M. MacLeod

Robert M. MacLeod, AIA is a Professor at the University of South Florida School of Architecture & Community Design. He served as Director of the school from 2009-2023. Professor MacLeod's academic research focuses on urban design and community planning issues within the "unfinished project" of the contemporary city, public space infrastructure, conditions of suburban sprawl, and redevelopment strategies for abandoned commercial centers and edges.

MacLeod was the co-director of the University of Florida Hong Kong/China Research Studio from 2004-09 and has developed research and professional work related to the Asian mega-city and podium building type. As an educator, Professor MacLeod's teaching and pedagogical development efforts have received several awards. He has worked with architecture offices in Orlando, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. He is a partner in Sanders MacLeod Studio, an architectural practice with diverse projects, ranging from residential to urban design works.

Robert McCarter

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, author, and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He has also taught at the University of Florida, Columbia University, and at six other institutions in the US, Netherlands, Peru, and Italy. During his 38 years in academia, McCarter has taught at least one design studio every semester, and he has taught more than 2,000 students. He has had his own architectural practice since 1982, in New York, Florida and St. Louis, with twenty-five realized buildings. He is the author of twenty-five published books to date, including A Moment in the Sun: Robert Ernest’s Brief but Brilliant Life in Architecture (2023); Louis I. Kahn (2nd edition 2022); Place Matters: The Architecture of WG Clark (2019); Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Aldo van Eyck (2015); Herman Hertzberger (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience (2012, with Juhani Pallasmaa); Louis I. Kahn (2005), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1997). Among other awards and honors, the curators of the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture selected McCarter as an International Exhibitor, and his exhibit was entitled “Freespace in Place: Four Unrealized Modern Architectural Designs for Venice; Carlo Scarpa’s Quattro progetti per Venezia Revisited;” and he was named one of the “Ten Best Architecture Teachers in the US” in December 2009.

Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Alberto Pérez-Gómez was born in Mexico City in 1949, where he studied architecture and practiced. He did postgraduate work at Cornell University, and was awarded an M.A. and a Ph.D. by the University of Essex (England). He has taught at universities in Mexico, Houston, Syracuse, Toronto, and at London’s Architectural Association. In 1983 he became Director of Carleton University’s School of Architecture. He has lectured extensively around the world and is the author of numerous articles published in major periodicals and books.

In January 1987 he was appointed Bronfman Professor of Architectural History at McGill University, where he founded the History and Theory Master’s and Doctoral Programs.

His book Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, 1983) won the Hitchcock Award in 1984. Later books include Polyphilo or The Dark Forest Revisited (1992), Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (co-authored with Louise Pelletier), and Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (2006). His most recent book Attunement (MIT Press, 2016) examines connections between phenomenology, recent enactive cognitive science and emerging language, seeking attunement in architecture and the urban environment and examining the issue of architecture as atmosphere. He has also recently published Timely Meditations (RightAngle Intl., 2016), a collection of essays in two volumes. Pérez-Gómez is also co-editor of the seven-volume series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.

Philip Ursprung

Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Dean of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He earned his PhD in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin after studying in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin, and taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Columbia University New York, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and the University of Zürich. He is editor of Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (Montreal CCA and Baden, Lars Müller, 2002) and Caruso St John: Almost Everything (Barcelona, Poligrafa, 2008). He is author of Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art (Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 2013), Der Wert der Oberfläche (Zürich, gta Verlag, 2017), Brechas y conexiones: Ensayos sobre arquitectura, arte y economia (Barcelona, Puente Editores, 2016) and Representation of Labor / Performative Historiography (Santiago de Chile, ARQ, 2018).

Tadeja Zupančič

Tadeja Zupančič is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture. She is Vice-Dean for research, teaches, supervises PhD-s/post- PhD-s, coordinates EU projects and the doctoral programme at the faculty. She studied architecture at UL and finished her Ph.D. in 1995. Her Ph.D. was a manifesto in favour of urban university integration. Her actual main research themes are promoting practice-based and research through design within the integral research tradition in architecture. Her interests are also the cultural dimensions of sustainability and public participation in urban design as an opportunity for life-long action-based learning of all the actors involved. She represents Slovenia in the evaluations of architectural diplomas (Subgroup for Architecture / Group of Coordinators for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications / European Commission). After the eCAADe presidency period (2017-19) she continued as Vice-President of eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; 2019-21). She is leading the Erasmus+ strategic partnership CA²RE+ (Collective Evaluation of Design-driven Doctoral Training), which supports the CA²RE community (Conference for Artistic and Architectural Research).