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  • Contributors

Nathaniel Coleman is a reader in history and theory of architecture at Newcastle University. He first studied architecture at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and received his BFA and B.Arch degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MUP degree in urban design from City College of New York, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Utopias and Architecture (2005) and editor of Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia (2011), and his most recent book, Lefebvre for Architects, will be published in July 2014. Guest editor of this special issue of Utopian Studies on architecture and utopia, he has published numerous journal articles and book chapters internationally on the problematic of architecture and Utopia, the city, and architecture education. Coleman is particularly interested in Utopia’s generative potential.

Kyle Dugdale is an architect and a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Architecture. A graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, he is interested both in the philosophical pretexts of architecture and in the architectural presumptions of philosophy. His dissertation examines the persistence of the Tower of Babel as a paradigm within the narratives of both disciplines, devoting particular attention to Babylon’s resurgence in the twentieth century as a figure that is tied to the peculiar anxieties of modernity. He is also working on a translation into English of Uriel Birnbaum’s magnificent Der Kaiser und der Architekt, originally published in 1924, which acts as the focus of his research.

Donald Dunham, architect and theorist, is an assistant professor of architecture in the College of Architecture and the Built Environment at Philadelphia University. His published works include “Modulating a Dialogue Between Architecture and Nature,” in The New American Dream: Living Well in Small Homes, ed. J. Gauer (Monacelli, 2004); “Inclusivity, Objectivity, and the Ideal: The Museum as Utopian Space,” which received [End Page 264] the 2011 International Award of Excellence from the Journal of the Inclusive Museum; and “Architecture Without Nature,” in Earth Perfect: Nature, Utopia, and the Garden, ed. A. Giesecke and N. Jacobs (Black Dog, 2012).

Amir Ganjavie is a trilingual, professional architect and holds two master’s degrees in urban planning and the science of architecture from Université Laval in Quebec. He is currently doing a double program in political science and communication and culture at York University, Toronto. Fascinated by the issue of alternative and utopian space in modern urban settings, Ganjavie has published several articles and two books, one on utopia (Le rôle de la pensée utopique dans l’aménagement des villes de demain) and the other on walkable neighborhoods (Pour une ville qui marche).

Felipe Loureiro is a founding partner at Rio Arquitetura, an architecture practice based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Loureiro studied architecture in Brazil and Portugal, where he began independent research on the perception of space and its influence on individual and collective identity. The main goal of these studies is to clarify some of the many questions found in everyday life, especially— but not exclusively—those related to the daily practice of architecture. Loureiro has recently presented papers at the “Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment” conference, promoted by the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture at Newcastle University, and at the Twelfth International Bauhaus-Colloquium, held in Weimar in April 2013.

Diane Morgan is a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published on European philosophy, especially Enlightenment thought and the work of Immanuel Kant. She has also worked and published on nineteenth-century French utopian socialism and aesthetics (including architectural theory).

Jason Reblando received his MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and a B.A. in sociology from Boston College. He is a recipient of a Follett Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council. His work has been published in the New York Times, Slate, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Camera Austria. His photographs...

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