Elaine Addison -- writer, educator, mother and documentary film-maker -- today combines all these talents as an international childcare expert. Author of Miss Poppy's Guide to Raising Perfectly Happy Children and co-founder of FAMILY LIFE parenting magazine, she has over 20 years of experience in child education and care. From teaching underprivileged children in inner city schools to caring for those of world leaders and Hollywood stars, she is the modern day Mary Poppins. Interested in how architecture can aid childhood development, she has worked with children living in tents in Cambodia to those in project housing and European stately homes.

Andrew Amara is an architect in Uganda working with DIMENSIONS, a regional architecture practice. He has worked on various community projects and social interventions in several cities across the world.  He is involved in local slum upgrade and heritage conservation projects, and is also a member of the Uganda Society of Architects editorial board.

Stanford Anderson is an architect, Professor of History and Architecture, and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Peter Behrens: A New Architecture for the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000).

Paul Broches, FAIA, has been a partner at Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in New York since 1980. He advises clients on evolving educational policies and facility programming and has led master planning efforts and designed buildings on many campuses. In 2003-2004 he was involved in a housing competition intending to address the common issue in cities of high density and low density affordable housing with a plan that encourages the diffusion and diminishing of social and ethnic stress in neighborhoods in transition. The scheme was premiated perhaps because it had both clear social objectives, fresh architectural presence (yet buildable) and the sustainable design that hinged on a "breathing" weather-mediating porch/winter-garden for each apartment. This caught the attention of developers as it was both rentable space and an energy saving source of heating and cooling. We are also heavily involved with the design of public schools in NYC in communities where the school house becomes THE 24/7 civic center, a public place and safety net for all.

Himanshu Burte is a practicing architect and independent scholar based in Goa, India.  He has been involved with architectural practice, critical writing, research and building a public discourse around issues in architecture and planning in India.  His first book, Space for Engagement: The India Artplace and a Habitational Approach to Architecture, was published in 2008 (Seagull Books, Kolkata).  He is a Fulbright Professional and Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California over 2008-09.

John Cary, Assoc. AIA is Executive Director of Public Architecture,  a national nonprofit, public-interest design organization based in San Francisco. The author of a forthcoming book on pro bono design to be published by Metropolis Books, John writes and speaks extensively on issues relating to architectural education, internship, licensure, pro bono and public-interest design. He has received multiple honors for his work in the public-interest design realm, including Senior Fellowship in the Design Futures Council, the Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, the 2009 Designer of the Year award from Contract magazine, and the Public Affairs Practitioner residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.  John has been involved with the Berkeley Prize since 2000.

Benjamin Clavan, Ph.D. is Principal of Benjamin Clavan, Architect, AIA, located in Los Angeles, California. His residential, commercial, and institutional projects have been published in design magazines and featured on television, while his critical writing on archtiecture has appeared in professional journals. He is also active in civic affairs and has served as an appointed Member of the West Hollywood Planning Commission, the West Hollywood Public Facilities Commission, and as an elected member of his Los Angeles neighborhood's Community Council and Chair of its Land Use Planning Committee. Benjamin is one of the founding Members of the Berkeley Prize Committe; he has helped develop the website, and serves as the website text editor.

Roddy Creedon is a Lecturer in design at U.C. Berkeley, where he is also actively involved with the Arcus Endowment, which supports a wide range of critical activities that explore the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. He studied at Tulane University, the Architectural Association and Harvard, and is a principal of the award-winning firm Allied Architecture and Design .

C. Greig Crysler, Ph.D., joined the Department of Architecture at Berkeley in 1999, where he is a professor in architectural theory and criticism. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also holds a professional degree in architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London, England, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. Professor Crysler has extensive experience in professional practice in Canada and the UK. He is the recipient of research grants from the Canada Council, the Graham Foundation, Chicago, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. His book, Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000, was published by Routledge in 2003. He is co-editor, with Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen, and Sibel Bozdogan of the Handbook of Architectural Theory (in development for Sage Press). He is also Program Director of the Arcus Endowment at the College of Environmental Design.

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He was educated in architecture at Curtin University, the University of Melbourne and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). He has published widely on theories of place and practices of placemaking in architecture and urban design, including the books Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Routledge, 2nd ed 2008), Fluid City (Routledge, 2005) and Becoming Places (Routledge 2009). 

Thomas A. Dutton is an architect and professor of architecture and interior design at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is co-editor (with Lian Hurst Mann) of Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and editor of Voices in Architectural Education: Cultural Politics and Pedagogy (Bergin and Garvey, 1991). His research focuses on the connections between critical pedagogy, architectural education and and architectural theory and urban social practice. Dutton is also director of Miami University's Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, an inner-city neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was been active in the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement for twenty-two years.

Lynne Elizabeth is director of New Village Press, the publishing arm of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility.  She is also co-editor of Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods (John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 2005), Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts (New Village Press, 2006), and the forthcoming What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (New Village Press, 2010).

Roberta M. Feldman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Architecture and Co-Director of the City Design Center, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago.  She is an architectural educator and researcher who has lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad on socially responsible housing and community design. Most recently, her research and practice has focused on affordable and public housing including: author, with Susan Stall, of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents Activism in Chicago Public Housing (Cambridge University Press, 2004); editor of the pioneering Internet catalog, Design Matters: Best Practices in Affordable Housing; curator of the exhibit, “Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Affordable Housing” which opened at the Field Museum in January 2005; one of the organizers of “Design Matters: US-China Housing Exchange” hosted in September 2004 by the Shenyang Construction Committee, China; consultant to the Cabrini Green Local Advisory Council in the HOPE VI redevelopment of their community; and editor of The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale, a forthcoming guide on community revitalization though historic preservation.

Dorit Fromm is a researcher and consultant on innovative communities, design, and housing. Her background as an architect and communications director informs her writings, which have appeared in local, national and international publications including Urban Land, Metropolis, the Architectural Review, Communities Magazine, ArcCA, Baumeister, and AARP Journal. She is the author of Cohousing, Central Living and Other New Forms of Housing.

Thomas Gensheimer is a professor of architectural history at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia where he specializes in African and Islamic architecture and urbanism. He has published on globalization and the urban history of the East African coast.

Ann Gilkerson has completed a Ph.D. thesis on Viollet-le-Duc at Harvard University (June, 2003). She has taught the history of modern architecture at Harvard, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of California, Davis. Dr. Gilkerson has also worked for the Northampton, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Historical Commissions.

Zachary Heiden is a lawyer in Portland, Maine, who works for minority assistance and protection using both legal and cultural tools. He has advocated for a jurisprudence based on respect for human dignity, and his scholarship has touched on issues of home design in James Joyce's Ulysses and the use of public land by religious minorities. 

Lance Hosey, architect, recently founded ATMO / Atelier Modern, a Washington-based design enterprise focused on multidisciplinary collaboration and environmental innovation. For five years he was an Associate with William McDonough + Partners, a pioneer of sustainable design, and previously he has worked with Rafael Viñoly and Gwathmey Siegel in New York. His independent work has been featured in Metropolis magazine’s “Next Generation” series and Architectural Record’s “emerging architect” series, and his essays on the social and environmental aspects of design have appeared in the Washington Post, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Architecture magazine. With Kira Gould, he is co-author of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable.

Ocean Howell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. He serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Urban History, and his own peer reviewed essays appear in the Journal of Urban History, Space and Culture, the Journal of Planning History (forthcoming), and the Journal of Architectural Education.  His reviews  and commentaries appear in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Topic magazine. Previously he worked as an editor at Jossey-Bass, a John Wiley & Sons Company, where he created a series of books called Community Building. 

Daniel Karlin earned his Bachelor’s in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley with highest honors in 2007. Since then, his passion for the underserved has taken him to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he is currently enrolled as a medical student. In seeking out opportunities to interact with the underserved communities of Los Angeles, he is a proud recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Community Service Fellowship, the James Slotnick Fellowship at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, and the UniHealth Foundation Scholarship. Throughout this process, his interests have turned towards the intersection of medicine and urban design, especially in the union of integrated housing and medical services for the homeless and similar populations.

Michael Keniger is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture and Professor of Architecture at The University of Queensland. He also holds the advisory role of the Queensland Government Architect. He was the inaugural Chair of the Design Advisory Panel for Brisbane's South Bank, and a member of the Design Review Panel for the Sydney Olympics. He was a key adviser for the National Museum project in connection with the selection of the design, as a member of the Design Integrity Panel and as Chair of the Quality Review Panel. He has written and lectured extensively on contemporary architecture and urbanism in Australia. He is a Life Fellow and Past President of the Queensland Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and was Queensland Architect of the Year in 1998.

Thomas-Bernard Kenniff is a PhD candidate at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, England, where he is doing research on public space design, heterology, and ethics. He received his M.Arch degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005. Thomas-Bernard won first prize in the Berkeley Prize 2002 Competition with an essay entitled "The Clean Street Paradox" that is published in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). He most recently collaborated with MSDL Architectes of Montréal on the project for the Grand Foyer Culturel de la Place des Arts. 

Barbara Knecht is an architect, writer and researcher in New York and Boston. She is currently the Director of Design at Adaptive Environments, a Boston-based, international nonprofit organization committed to enhancing the experiences of people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design. She is co-director of the IHP “Cities in the 21st Century,” a multi-country travel/study program for undergraduates that offers comparative exploration of social, political and environmental aspects of urban environments. She consults on affordable housing and community development projects at Westhab, Inc. a not for profit organization in Westhchester County, New York. She has been a contributing writer for magazines (Architecture, Architectural Record, Design Book Review and the Enterprise Quarterly) and books (Design and Feminism, Futures in Urban Housing [forthcoming]). Ms. Knecht holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. She was awarded a Kinne Fellowship from Columbia University, a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, and received a Graham Foundation grant.

Malini Krishnankutty is an architect and planner based in Goa, India.  She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Masters in Architecture and in City Planning (1994).  She is currently an independent planning consultant involved in architectural practice, teaching and research.  She has been active in building a discourse around architecture and planning issue in India and is currently co-writing (with Himanshu Burte) two books on contemporary Indian architecture, including one on sustainable architecture.

Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Prize Committee, is Professor in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has taught undergraduate design studios and writing seminars. His publications include Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People (1981), Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and the Physically Disabled (1987), and The Dervish Lodge: Art, Architecture, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey (1992).

Christine Macy Christine Macy is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University, Canada. Her research interests include the representation of cultural identity in architecture, public spaces, civic infrastructure, and festival architecture. She practiced architecture in New York and San Francisco before establishing her partnership, Filum, with Sarah Bonnemaison in 1990, specializing in lightweight structures and public space design for festivals. Her books with Sarah Bonnemaison include Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape (Routledge, 2003), Festival Architecture (Routledge, 2007), and Responsive Textile Environments (TUNS/Riverside Press, 2007).  Other books include Greening the city: ecological wastewater treatment in Halifax (TUNS Press, 2000), Free Labs: Design-Build Projects from Dalhousie University (TUNS Press, 2008), and Dams (W.W. Norton, 2009).

John Q. McDonald is an astronomer and spacecraft flight engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. For two years, he was a student in writing seminars at Berkeley's Department of Architecture, and assists in reading for a current seminar there taught by Prof. Raymond Lifchez. John is a landscape painter and author who has published writings that interweave memoir and the built environment.

Keith Mitnick is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He received an M.Arch. from UC Berkeley, and has practiced in Berkeley and San Francisco. Mitnick has been Burnham Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan, and was awarded First Place in the 2002 Boston Society of Architecture Unbuilt Architecture Competition. In 2004 he was awarded the Young Architects Award by the Architecture League of New York.

Anusha Narayanan is currently pursuing an undergradute Architecture degree in architecture from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University , located in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.  Born in the metropolitan Mumbai, she holds the potpourri of essences of places as far and varied as Chennai, Prague, Singapore, Jammu & Kashmir, and the capital city of India- New Delhi. In her second year of university, she won the First Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship, going on to organize Sparsha - a nation wide Shelter Design contest, sponsored by the Berkeley Prize Committee in the year 2008. Currently she is undergoing her professional training at Arcop Associates Pvt. Ltd.,India. Architecture being her first love, she aspires to preserve the historical roots of architecture and apply them in the modern context through in-depth analysis and architectural journalism

Angela Nkya graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Iowa State University in 2004 where her senior research project was on alternative housing for the homeless. She received First Prize in the Berkeley Prize 2004 Competition for her essay, "At Home in the City." Nkya works for Gillis and Associates in Costa Mesa, California.

Maire O'Neill is Associate Professor at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate level design since 1990. She has also taught at University of California, Berkeley. She is a practicing architect, licensed in California and Montana, and is on the Montana Board of Architects and Landscape Architects. Her teaching, research, and writing has focused on haptic experience in understanding space and place. She explores how we develop our understanding of natural elements of the landscape and forces of local climate, and the ways in which our built environment aids or inhibits in the development of this knowledge. O’Neill is a member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and in 2009 co-chaired the international VAF conference in Butte, Montana. She has served for six years on the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau, presenting her on-going research on the morphology of historic agricultural structures in the Rocky Mountain West, and the relationship of form to community knowledge and social influence. Through exploratory foreign studies programs with her students in rural Asia (Thailand, Nepal, and India), she practices a cultural immersion learning experience, challenging students’ powers of observation and integration of design knowledge. With her students she has developed design drawings for community service projects such as an international cultural learning center for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Darjeeling, India (Manjushree Centre for Tibetan Culture), and a paleontology Museum in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia (Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs), and community design projects in Kathmandu, Nepal.  
 

Adriano Pupilli, is a recently qualified practicing Architect who led a community-building project in Papua New Guinea in 2005. He has now returned home to Australia to focus on Indigenous housing issues throughout urban and rural Australia with the nationally-based Housing for Health program, which is sponsored by the government of New South Wales to ensure safe and healthy living environments within Aboriginal homes. Pupilli's research has highlighted environmental health conditions, particularly the failure of existing housing and health infrastructure in many Aboriginal communities, as being an important contributor to the higher rates of infection, injuries, and chronic disease in Aboriginal people. Adriano Pupilli gained his Bachelor of Architecture with first class honors from the University of Sydney Australia. Part of these studies included a semester abroad at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout student life, Adriano was awarded a number of grants enabling him to pursue social research projects in architecture nationally and abroad. These investigations included recycled self-build housing in Sydney, Australia; informal building processes in Manila, Philippines; education infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; community-initiated revitalization in Istanbul, Turkey; and self-made housing in Barcelona, Spain. Pupilli’s work in Barcelona was made possible by the Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship in 2004. Pupilli's publications include: "Barcelona Notes" (Architectural Theory Review, 2004); and "Paper House: Self-Help and Waste Reuse towards Affordable, Sustainable and People Empowering Architecture" (Bachelor of Architecture Honors Thesis: University of Sydney, 2006).

Scot Thrane Refsland, Digital Media Architect, received his Ph.D. in Computer Systems and Software Engineering at Gifu University in Japan. He has won several awards for his digital media installations and performances in Australia and Japan, is a Visiting Fellow in Computer Arts, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland and is the designer/programmer for the Berkeley Prize Competition websites.

Hadas Rix, a senior student at the Israel Institute of Technology, has an interest in green architecture and socially responsive planning. She is the winner of the 2005 Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship to Istanbul and has received an honorary mention for her participation in "Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World" - a 2005-06 ACSA design competition.

Daves Rossell is Professor of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, where he specializes in American architecture and urbanism, cultural landscape, and the vernacular. He is Chair of the Chatham County Historic Preservation Commission, and Director of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 2007 Annual Meeting in Savannah.  He is past co-editor of Arris, the journal of the Southeastern chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and is co-editor of an upcoming book on Commemoration and the American City with the University of Virginia Press.

Ananya Roy is Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley , where she chairs the undergraduate major in Urban Studies.  She is also Associate Dean of International and Area Studies, responsible for various undergraduate majors such as Development Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies. She is the author of the book, City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota, 2003) and co-editor of the volume, Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Press, 2004). Roy is currently working on a new book titled Poverty Experts: The Production of Truth in the New Global Order (Routledge, 2007).  In 2006, Roy received UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus's highest teaching honor.

Magda Saura is an architect, art historian and professor of architecture at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Saura advises the Officer of Cultural Affairs of Catalonia on social and historic preservation policies; has led the master planning team for the Greco-Roman archeological site of Empuries, Spain; and built a promenade for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Her publications include articles on the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona and also on Leon Battista Alberti, as well as Pobles Catalans/Catalan Villages (Barcelona, 1997).

Anthony Schuman, a past president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Architecture. A registered architect, his articles on housing design and community development appear in eight books and numerous journals. He has been a founding member of several advocacy and activist organizations in architecture and planning.

Rafi Segal received his professional Architectural degree (1993) and M.Sc in Architecture (2001) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.  Between 1992 and 2000 he worked together with Zvi Hecker on the design of the Palmach History Museum built in Tel-Aviv and other projects. He later established his own practice and also formed a partnership with Eyal Weizman with whom he undertook diverse projects,  exhibitions and publications, among them A Civilian Occupation: the Politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso, Babel, 2003), The Ashdod Museum of Art  (2000-2003), and ‘Mythos’ set design (2002).  He taught diploma studio at the Faculty of Architecture and Town planning in the Technion, and later design studios with Stan Allen and Mario Gandelsonas at Princeton University School of Architecture where he is currently writing a doctoral dissertation. Rafi Segal received several prizes and awards for his work among them the Israeli Ministry of Culture Young Artist award (1996) and the Israel Architects Association Young Architect award (2001). He has curated and exhibited work internationally at Storefront - NYC, KW-Berlin, Witte de Witte –Rotterdam and other galleries in Tel-Aviv, Vienna, Stockholm and Malmo.

Avikal Somvanshi (b 1987) grew up in the city of Allahabad, India. After completing his schooling from the Boys' High School & College at Allahabad, he went to pursue an under graduate degree in architecture at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in Katra, Jammu & Kashmir in 2006. During his second year he won the First Berkeley Prize Architectural Design Fellowship 2008 and went on to organize Sparsha - a shelter design contest, as the fellowship endeavor. Currently he is undergoing professional training at HCPDPM, a design firm in Ahmedabad. He aspires to build a better understanding of the built and the unbuilt environment among people and help address the socio-architectural dilemmas of society.

Murray Silverstein is a partner in the architectural firm of Jacobson Silverstein Winslow/Degenhardt, Berkeley, California. He is co-author of four books on architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press), and has recently published a volume of poetry, Any Old Wolf (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006).

Philip Tidwell is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Architecture at Princeton University. In 2003 he was awarded the Berkeley Prize for his essay, "Place, Memory and the Problem of the Architectural Image." Previously he studied architecture and urbanism in the United States and France, and was the recipient of a 2006 Fulbright Fellowship to Finland. He has worked as an architectural and graphic designer in New York and Helsinki, and is a founding member of the New York-based Urban Research Group (URGe). Currently he serves as Programs Coordinator for the Princeton Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure and as editor of the School of Architecture’s semi-annual publication Pidgin.

Leslie Van Duzer is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at schools of architecture throughout the United States and Europe and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including most recently, a 2006-2007 Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellowship. Prof. Van Duzer has published three books in collaboration with Kent Kleinman: Villa Muller: A Work of Adolf Loos, Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision, and Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas and is currently working on two more: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands and Architects of Illusion (working title).

Matt Werner earned his Bachelor's in English from UC Berkeley with highest honors in 2007. He is currently writing his dissertation for a Master's in English at the University of Edinburgh, where he studies on the Winston Churchill Scholarship awarded by the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco. While at McSweeney’s Publishing, Werner worked on the titles What is the What, Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan, Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and 2006 Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other titles. Werner is currently working on an oral narrative collection of interviews with recent college graduates. Werner is the Communications Director for the nonprofits the Global Micro-Clinic Project and Sparkseed.

Keith Wilson, Principal, Seaton/Wilson Architects, received his BA and MArch from UC Berkeley and was an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the California College of the Arts. After twenty years of architecture, he has left active practice and is concentrating on watercolors inspired by vernacular structures, public spaces and the social organizations that shape the built environment. Extensive travel that began with the UC Branner Traveling Fellowship has shaped his understanding and appreciation of the buildings and cultures of the world.

Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi is a PhD candidate in architecture, Technische Universitat Wien/Austria and a researcher at the Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Stockholm/Sweden. He completed an M.Arch. at Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, where he received his B.S. in Architecture. He has worked in the architectural division of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in Eastern Azerbaijan, as well as in architectural offices in Tabriz and Tehran, and has received awards for his writings on traditional and contemporary architecture. Yousefi  writes for a wide range of design and consumer titles, he is the author of several articles, and frequently teaches and lectures (now teaching in Tehran Sooreh and Qazvin Azad Universities). He is the writer of Art & Architecture (the first Blog of architecture in Persian) and the funder and editor of the first architecure and urban news agency in Persian. Yousefi is the writer of architectural service of Hamashahri Nespapaer (Tehran-Iran) and chief editor of Daris (monthly on architecture), Tazinaate Sakhteman (monthly on interior design) and Interior Decoration (monthly on interior design), he was used to be the editor of architecture service of Mehr weekly, Rah-o-Sakhteman Monthly and Donyaye Eghtesad Newspaper, etc. He is a member of AA of London Iranian Architects Society and Iranian Construction Engineers Organization.