Ciro Najle
www.aap.cornell.edu

Ciro Najle teaches architecture at Cornell University. He has previously taught at Columbia University, the Berlage Institute and the University of Buenos Aires. Since 1991, he practices in several associations in Buenos Aires, New York and London, where he resides. His publications include theoretical essays and projects published in After the Sprawl, Oris, Architectural World, Egg Magazine, the introduction to the 2G FOA Monograph, the editing, design and research of the Tokyo Bay Experiment and of the forthcoming “Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for a Machinic Landscape”. Throughout his professional and academic experience he has moved across several fields of investigation, in search for expanding the limits of the practice and exploring methods of collaboration with other fields of expertise.

Ben Nicholson
www.saic.edu

Ben Nicholson teaches architecture at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Throughout his body of work, Nicholson has questioned and rearticulated the inherent meanings within architecture. He creates a critical inquiry that exposes the confluence of systems and desires at work within architecture and Western society. Some of his most notable projects include the Appliance House (MIT 1990) and Loaf House (1997, CD-Rom from renaissancesociety.com). As part of his long-standing interest in American culture, he contributed to Hartmut Bitomsky's documentary film B-52 (2001). His recent writing and design projects include The Hidden Geometric Pavement in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, a book that muses over the nature of number, geometry and the structure of knowledge, and The World Who Wants It?, a satire on Western method.

Heather Roberge
www.gnuform.com

Heather Roberge received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Ohio State University where she graduated with honors. She trained in the offices of Peter Eisenman, Architecture Research Office, and Davis Brody. As project designer for Architecture Research Office, she worked on the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square and the Soho loft. Both projects earned design awards from The American Institute of Architects. Ms. Roberge has taught design studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Pratt Institute, and University of California Los Angeles. She is currently on faculty at UCLA where she teaches design studio and is director of Jump-Start, a summer career discovery program.

Rhett Russo
www.design.upenn.edu

Teaches first year graduate design studio and coordinates the first year of visual studies. Was a visiting critic at Pratt Institute, Cornell University, and adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Planning and Preservation. Served as the first year design coordinator at Pratt institute from 2000 - 2001. He is the founder of OrangeHorse, a New York based design and research initiative. The recipient of the SOM Fellowship (1994), The McKim Award, (1995) The Van Alen Institute Dinkeloo Fellow at The American Academy in Rome, researching the work of Giovanni Michelucci (1998) and The Young Architect’s Award (1999) Published projects include, Second Nature. (2001) and Metropolis, The Future is Now. (2001).