Detlef Mertins, Executive Advisor
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Detlef Mertins is the chair of the department of architecture at PennDesign. Teaches architectural history, theory and supervises doctoral research. Taught at the University of Toronto (1991-2003) and as a visiting professor at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Rice University. Held the Canada Research Chair in Architecture (2001-2003), the Konrad Adenauer Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Royal Canadian Society (2003), and a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998). Books include the English edition of Walter Curt Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, The Presence of Mies, and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces. Numerous essays in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as critical writings on contemporary architecture. Research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism.

Manuel DeLanda, Advisor
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Manuel is the author of four philosophy books, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002) and A New Philosophy of Society (2006), as well as many philosophical essays published in various journals and collections. He teaches two seminars at University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture: Philosophy of History: Theories of Self-Organization and Urban Dynamics, and Philosophy of Science: Thinking about Structures and Materials.