Nina Rappaport is an architectural historian, curator, educator, writer, and consultant in urban manufacturing. She is a founder of Docomomo US (a Vice President and board member) and of the first US chapter - New York Tri-State (President 2006-2012) and currently Vice-President. She has organized numerous programs, grants, and activities. She is author of Vertical Urban Factory (Actar 2015, paperback edition, 2020), co-editor of Design of Urban Manufacturing (Routledge 2020) and editor of Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City forthcoming with Actar July 2022. She curated the traveling exhibition, Vertical Urban Factory, which opened in 2011 in New York and has been shown in 12 venues including Brussels this year. She is Publications Director at the Yale School of Architecture where she edits Constructs, the schools book series, and exhibition catalogs. She is co-editor of the book, Ezra Stoller: Photographer (Yale University Press, 2012) and author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (The Monacelli Press, 2008). She was a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino (2019) and Sapienza Universita di Roma (2018). She is coordinator of history/theory at the Michael Graves College of Public Architecture at Kean University, has taught seminars and studios in New York area schools, writes for numerous journals, books, and lectures internationally. She has received numerous grants and research awards.

Chris Grimley is a communications designer and author working across the disciplines of architecture and urbanism. Together their work on the era of urban renewal has been exhibited in Boston, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Heinz Architecture Center at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Their work on this topic has been recognize by docomomo, the Boston Preservation Alliance, and featured in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Boston Globe, and Metropolis. They are staunch advocates for preservation and renewal.

Michael Kubo’s practice spans the fields of architectural history and theory, architectural design, publishing, and curation. He holds a a Ph.D. from MIT, where his dissertation focused on the rise and international extension of the architectural corporation after 1945. Together with Chris Grimley, their work on the era of urban renewal has been exhibited in Boston, at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Heinz Architecture Center at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Their work on this topic has been recognize by Docomomo, the Boston Preservation Alliance, and featured in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Boston Globe, and Metropolis. They are staunch advocates for preservation and renewal.

Lisa Napoles received her Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute. Her broad experience in preservation has included work in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, which has brought her to her current position as a planner for the Will County Land Use Department. She has presented her independent research at annual conferences for the College Art Association and the Vernacular Architecture Forum and at the 2013 Docomomo National Symposium in Sarasota. She has contributed to publications including the third edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago and Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America. She has walked on roofs and spent a summer on a scaffold restoring windows, but has always felt most at home in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.

Marcel Quimby, FAIA, is principal of Quimby Preservation Studio in Dallas, Texas, where she specializes in preservation architecture and planning. She is committed to the restoration and adaptive use of historic buildings, structures and communities and has led the restoration of both large and small projects ranging in scale from historic log cabins to the Hall of State in Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark. As an architectural historian, she uncovers and tells the story of buildings and communities, connecting them to their context, cultural and social histories. Marcel holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has served as President of Dallas AIA, of Preservation Dallas, of Dallas Architectural Foundation, Advisor Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, service on Dallas Landmark Commission and currently a member of Docomomo’s BTX Board. Her leadership in the local preservation community has been recognized with the Presidents Medal, Dallas Chapter AIA; Dorothy Savage Award, Preservation Dallas, Texas Society of Architects Award for Community Service and their Award for Excellence in the Promotion of Architecture through the Media.

Kathryn E. Holliday, Hon. AIA Fort Worth and Hon. AIA Dallas, is professor of architecture and landscape history at the University of Texas at Arlington in Dallas-Fort Worth and is founding director of the Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, which connects the university to local communities and non-profits to support more equitable practices in design and historic preservation. Her work focuses on the varied ways that architects, critics, city governments, and corporations shape the built environment in American cities. She is currently a Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC at work on the book project Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly. She holds a PhD in Architecture and an MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Art History and Environmental Studies from Williams College and is the author, previously, of the award-winning books Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age (2008) and The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture (2019). Her work has been supported by grants from the SOM Foundation, the National Park Service Civil Rights Grant program, the Kress Foundation, and the Hagley Library.