AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Anna Agoston is a graduate of the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais.

Hiroto Kobayashi is an architect. He has worked for Norman Foster and Nikken Sekkei and is presently re­ searching Japanese urban forms as a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Sanford Kwinter is a writer based in New York. His recent books include Architectures of Time and Mutations. He teaches design at Rice University.

John McMorrough is an architect and partner in studioAPT (Architecture Practice Theory). He is also a doctoral candidate in the Architectural History and Theory program at Harvard University (with a dissertation on Charles Jencks and the language of postmodern architecture) and frequently collaborates with OMA/AMO as a researcher on selected projects.

Ryue Nishizawa established his Tokyo-based practice in 1997. He has received numerous awards, including the Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan, the Display Design Award, and the Gold Prize for Residential Architecture. He is also an associate professor at Yokohama National University.

Antoine Picon is professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the GSD. He has published extensively on the relations between architecture, urbanism, and technology. His recent work includes an essay on the contemporary urban landscape and its significance, "La Ville Territoire :Les Cyborgs" (1998), as well as a history of Parisian cartography, Un Atlas Parisien: Le Dessus des Cartes (1999).

Mutsuro Sasaki was the structural engineer for the Sendai Mediatheque. He established Sasaki Structural Consultants in 198O, after having worked with Kimura Structural Engineers for ten years. He also teaches at Nagoya University.

Koji Taki is a philosopher and art critic. He is the author of The Emperor's Portrait (1 988), Sisyphus' Smile: The Art of Anselm Kiefer (1998), The Theory of War (1999), and numerous other books. He was awarded the Minister of Education Award for Art in 1998.

Jennifer Taylor is an architect, critic, and historian who is noted for her work on Australian and Japanese architecture. She teaches at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She has received numerous awards including the RAIA Education Prize, the RAIA Marion Mahony Griffin Award, and fellowships from the Japan Foundation in 1975 and 1994-95. She is currently completing a book on Fumihiko Maki.

Ron Witte is an architect. He is a founding partner of WW in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Witte is on the faculty of the GSD, where he teaches design studios and seminars on new technologies.