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Amanda Achmadi obtained her Bachelor of Architecture in 1998 from Parahyangan University, Bandung (Indonesia). Currently working as a practicing architect and critic in Jakarta and Stuttgart, she is a doctorate candidate in architecture and Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Guy Allenby is a Sydney-based journalist. He began his career writing about rock music, before specialising in design and architecture in the late 1980s. During a long stint at the Sydney Morning Herald he wrote on subjects ranging from architecture and design to travel, television and health. He was also the editor of the SMH section Domain (in its early days). His first book, Eight Great Houses (Pesaro Publishing), was published in 2002. Guy now writes for The Australian and a number of national and international magazines.

Pirak Anurakyawachon is a contributing editor to art4d magazine. He studied architecture at Silpakorn University, Bangkok and has practiced as an architect in Jakarta and Bali.

Patrick Bingham-Hall is a well-known architectural photographer, publisher and architectural commentator. He is the author of Austral Eden, Olympic Architecture and numerous titles for Pesaro Publishing. Patrick’s work is published internationally. Patrick is the editor and publisher of Pesaro Publishing.

Justine Clark is editor of Architecture Australia magazine. She has a BArch (hons) from the University of Auckland and a March (dist) from Victoria University Wellington.

Peter Cook was the founder of ‘Archigram’ and was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal (as ‘Archigram’) in 2002. His Graz Kunsthaus, designed with Colin Fournier, was a finalist in the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2004. He is a Life Professor at the HbK Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and is the Bartlett Professor of Architecture, University College, London. He was author of The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas.

Adrian Dannatt is a New York based architecture and art critic and curator. Born English he is the son of architect Trevor Dannatt, he was educated at St Chad's College, Durham University. Before arriving at university he had previously been the child star of the BBC television series Just William (1977), based on the novels of author Richmal Crompton. He has since worked as an artist, art critic and journalist.

Adrian Dannatt is the London correspondent for Flash Art International, contributing editor to Lacanian Ink and editor-at-large of Open City magazine. His poetry and fiction have been published widely.

Philip Drew is Sydney based independent architectural historian and critic. He has published 16 monographs including individual studies of the architects Frei Otto, Arata Isozaki, Harry Seidler and Edward Suzuki. His account of Glenn Murcutt, Leaves of Iron, has become a classic. In 1999. Philip completed the first biography of Jørn Utzon – The Masterpiece. Philip was a senior lecturer in architectural history and theory at the University of Newcastle, Australia and has been a visiting professor, and lectured widely, in the United States.

Peter Emmett is a freelance curator, writer and interpreter of the meaning of sites, spaces and collections, He has developed a multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary approach to revealing the unique and enchanted quality of places and their stories and the presentation of these in innovative museum installations, temporary exhibitions, public art projects and site-specific interpretations. He was Senior Curator of the Museum of Sydney in 1991-2000 and Hyde Park Barracks (1989-1991).

Phillip Goad is Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally respected critic and historian of contemporary architecture, with a particular interest in Asia. He is the author of Architecture Bali, New Directions in Australian Architecture and co-author (with Anoma Pieris) of New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture.

Anna Johnson is a lecturer in design, communications and history, and International Academic Support Coordinator for the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is an honours graduate from RMIT University Department of Architecture and began teaching within that department in 1998. She has been the feature writer for Monument magazine and is currently Monuments Melbourne contributing editor.

Chris Johnson was the New South Wales Government Architect from 1995-2005 and was chair of the Design Review Panel for Sydney’s Olympic Games. He is a member of the Heritage Council of NSW, the Central Sydney Planning Committee and the Board of Architects (NSW Chapter). Chris chairs the Sydney Harbour Design Review Panel and is an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney.

Michael Keniger is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland. Michael graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and was engaged with several award-winning architectural practices in London. His principal research areas commenced with architecture and urban change and developed into the nature of contemporary architecture in Australia. He was Queensland Architect of the Year in 1998 and held the advisory position of Queensland Government Architect from 1999 to 2006, with responsibility to advise on urban and architectural projects of major significance.

Peter Kohane is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of NSW, teaching architectural history and theory. He gained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, his thesis was entitled Architecture, Labour and the Human Body: Fergusson Cockerell and Ruskin, after graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1985. Peter is well known for his specialized lectures and publications on 19th century architecture and on the work of Louis Kahn.

Richard Leplastrier is a Sydney based architect and educator. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal from the Royal Australian Institute of Architecture and the international Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award from Finland.

Geoffrey London is the Professor of Architecture at The University of Western Australia Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, a position he has held since 1992. He also holds the position of Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is a past Chair of the Committee of Heads of Architecture Schools of Australasia. He is a past President of the Western Australian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the RAIA. In early 2004 he was appointed to the position of Western Australian Government Architect.

Paul McGillick has written many books on architecture and contemporary art, including monographs on the architect Alex Popov, and the painters Robert Jack and Michael Johnson. He has a master of architecture degree from the University of NSW and a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney. He is currently editor of Indesign magazine and was previously editor of Monument magazine.

Harry Margalit is an academic and practicing architect. He has researched and published extensively on Australian modernist architecture. He has extensive practice experience, and since 2001 has been a principal in Quinton-Margalit Architects.

Glenn Murcutt is an Australian Architect. He is also the founding president of the Australian Architecture Association. He won the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1992, and the Pritzker Prize in 2002. Murcutt works as a sole practitioner, producing residential and institutional work all over Australia. Murcutt teaches master classes for beginning and established architects.

Lim Teng Ngiom is one of Malaysia’s best-known architects and architectural critics. He was editor of Architecture Malaysia from 1991 to 1995, and was co-editor of 80 years of architecture in Malaysia. His architectural practice, Ngiom Partnership, has won many awards and his works have been featured extensively in international publications.

Anoma Pieris is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Melbourne. She has architecture degrees from the University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and gained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at the National University of Singapore, and has practiced as an architect in Singapore and Sri Lanka. She has written extensively on post-colonial issues, modernism and contemporary architectural design.

Katrina Place has a Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne and has worked for many years as an architectural historian in the area of conservation.

Robert Powell is an architect, educator and writer. He was associate professor of architecture at the National University of Singapore from 1990 – 2000. A former editor of the Singapore Architect (1997 – 1999). He has authored many books. Robert lives in Brighton England.

Xing Ruan is Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Prior to this appointment, he was the Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Before joining UTS in early 2002, Xing Ruan was Associate Professor of Architecture at Curtin University. Born in China, Xing Ruan received his architectural education from the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has practiced and taught architecture in China, New Zealand and Australia.

Stanley Saitowitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a practicing architect. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in 1974 and his Masters in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He is a Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rod Sheard is acknowledged worldwide as a leader in stadium design. He is a Senior Principal of HOK Sport, the world’s largest and most influential sports architecture practice. He was the author of Sports Architecture (2000) and Stadia: A Design and Development Guide (1994).

Bridget Smyth formerly the Urban Design Director of the Olympic Coordination Authority for the Olympic Games Sydney 2000.

Peter Tonkin graduated from Sydney University with First Class Honours and has maintained an independent practice since 1981. In 1987 he joined Brian Zulaikha to form Tonkin Zulaikha Greer architects. Peter has been a visiting design tutor at Sydney University, at the University of NSW and the University of Technology, Sydney. He is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Queensland and a Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW.

Paul Walker is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. He has BArch (hons) and a PhD from The University of Auckland.

Nielsen Warren is a Sydney Architect