Diane Ghirardo is a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California. [1] She is also the author of several books and essays on architectural history and theory. Her translation of The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi into English was first published in 1982.
Ghirardo received her B.A. from San Jose State University, and her M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University.
The ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) honored Ghirardo with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 1998-99. [2] She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship in 1973, a Fulbright Fellowship in 1976 and 2001, a Rome Prize fellowship in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, an NEH Senior Fellowship in 2001. She was elected President of ACSA in 1993, appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Education Board in 2005, and served as executive editor of the Journal of Architectural Education from 1988-1999.
Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She reigned as the governor of Spoleto, in her own right, a position usually held by Cardinals.
Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.
The House of Borgia was a Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. They were from Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from the town of Borja, then in the Crown of Aragon, in Spain.
Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December 1833 at La Scala, Milan.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
The Duchy of Ferrara was a state in what is now northern Italy. It consisted of about 1,100 km2 south of the lower Po River, stretching to the valley of the lower Reno River, including the city of Ferrara. The territory that was part of the Duchy was ruled by the House of Este from 1146 to 1597.
Denise Scott Brown is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia.
Sharon Egretta Sutton, is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington. In 1984, she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program while teaching at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University.
Steve Badanes is widely known for his practice and teaching of design/build. He is a founding member of the Jersey Devil design/build practice, and is currently a Professor in the University of Washington Department of Architecture, where he holds the Howard S. Wright Endowed Chair of the University of Washington College of Built Environments.
Thomas L Schumacher (1941–2009) was an American academic architect and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He was well known throughout the architecture community for his role in the development of Contextualism, along with Colin Rowe, under whom he studied at Cornell; and for his expertise in rationalist Italian architecture. Schumacher is ranked in the 90th percentile for research in architecture in a survey of over 3,000 architecture professors. He was also a registered architect and a member of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics.
Liane Lefaivre, a Canadian and an Austrian, is o-Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Art in Vienna Austria, now retired.
Francesca Rossi is an Italian computer scientist, currently working at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008.
Kathryn H. Anthony is an American professor of architecture, author and spokesperson specializing in gender issues in architecture. She is a Distinguished Professor from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) lifetime laureate. Her research has earned national awards from the American Institute of Architects and the Environmental Design Research Association.
Reiser + Umemoto is an architecture firm based in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto.
Mary Louise Lobsinger is a Toronto-based architectural historian, artist, and architect. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches the history and theory of architecture and design.
Patricia Fortini Brown is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University.
Victor A. RegnierFAIA is an American architect, professor, and researcher. His research and publications have explored the creation and evaluation of residential settings for the physically and cognitively frail with special attention to northern European precedents.
Grace La is a first generation, Korean-American designer, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), and Principal of LA DALLMAN. Co-founded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is a design firm recognized for the multidisciplinary integration of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape, with offices in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI. La previously served as the Chair of the Harvard GSD's Practice Platform and served as GSD's Director of the Master of Architecture Programs (2014–17).