Jean-François Lejeune, Ph.D. is a professor of architecture, urban design, and history at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His research ranges from Latin American architecture and urbanism to 20th-century vernacular modernism in Spain and Italy. His publications include The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, with Allan Shulman (Rizzoli, 2001), Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005), Sitte, Hegemann, and the Metropolis (Routledge, 2009), Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities, with Michelangelo Sabatino (Routledge, 2010), Cuban Modernism: Mid- Century Architecture 1940-1970, with Victor Deupi (Birkhäuser, 2021) and Rural Architecture and Water Urbanism: The Modern Village in Franco’s Spain (DOM-Publishers, 2021). He curated various exhibitions in Brussels and Miami, including with Victor Deupi, Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile: The Modernist Generation. He holds a diploma from the University of Liège in Belgium and the Ph.D. from the TU Delft. He was founder of Docomomo US/Florida and is the current treasurer. He was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2007.

Isabella Leite Trindade is a Ph.D. architect, interior designer, and educator whose research focuses on architectural history, theory, and criticism with a particular emphasis on mid-century modern architecture and interiors in the years following World War II. Her interdisciplinary analysis emphasizes cultural influences from Europe and North America in the making of buildings and interiors in Brazil. In addition to receiving a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), she holds a M.Arch from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), a Postgraduate Coursework (Cours d'Études Approfondies en Architecture-CEAA) - Architecture, City, Heritage and Development: Disruptions and Continuities from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux (France), and a B. Arch from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil).

Anne-Marie Russell works at the intersection of art, preservation and cultural policy, bringing together diverse stakeholders to create dynamic and inclusive “third places”. As Director of MOCA Tucson, she led the transformation of a fire station into a contemporary art museum, was a founder of the Modern Architecture Preservation Project, spearheaded the preservation of an important Garrett Eckbo landscape and worked to preserve historic warehouses, catalyzing urban revitalization through cultural adaptive reuse. She was founding Director of the Sarasota Art Museum, where she led the transformation of a 1926 “Collegiate Gothic” high school into a contemporary art museum and was the founding Director of Architecture Sarasota. She currently works in the realm of preservation, education and advocacy as an independent scholar and consultant.

Jason Alread, AIA, LEED AP is a Professor and the former Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. He was educated at the University of Florida and Yale University, and has been a registered architect in professional practice for over 30 years. He was a founding partner in Substance Architecture and an Associate at HLKB Architecture, the 2001 AIA National Firm of the Year. He is the author of Design-Tech: An Integrated Approach to Building Science and Technology (now in its 3rd edition) with Thomas Leslie and Rob Whitehead and A Century of Iowa Architecture.