Antonio Furgiuele

Antonio Furgiuele has taught architecture at Pratt Institute and City College of New York, at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has also taught at Parsons the New School for Design and the City University of New York. In 2007, he founded the O/S Group, a collaborative design practice based in Brooklyn. He has recently returned to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the History, Theory and Criticism program.

In 2011, he gave a lecture entitled Light, Le Corbusier and the Technological Sublime at The Cooper Union as part of the Feltman Lecture series,. At the A.S.C.A. Conference in Montreal he presented a paper titled Computing the Paranoid Critical.

Furgiuele has been an invited critic at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, N.J.I.T., N.Y.I.T., Harvard University, M.I.T., Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Technical University of Munich, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. 

Ayala Levin

Ayala Levin is a doctoral candidate in the history and theory of architecture at Columbia University. She received a B.A. in comparative literature and the multidisciplinary program in the arts from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. in cultural studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has worked as an assistant curator at the Museum on the Seam, a socio-political contemporary art museum in Jerusalem, and her work has been published in various academic platforms.

Diana Martinez

Diana Martinez is a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in architecture from UC Berkeley and received a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She has practiced as an architect in San Francisco (at Ogrydziak/Prillinger architects), Manila (at Palafox Associates), and New York (with Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis). Martinez has taught design courses at Columbia University and has assisted in teaching history and theory courses at Barnard College and Columbia University. While working at the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, she acted as a curator on the exhibition "Form as Strategy" and as an executive editor on several books including Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture, by Sven-Olov Wallenstein, and Architecture of the Off-Modern, by Svetlana Boym. Martinez’s current research, on the architecture of the Progressive Era in the United States, focuses on the intersections between politics, planning, and design.

Andrea Merrett

Andrea Merrett trained as an architect at McGill University and practiced for five years before returning to study as a historian. Working for Marosi+Troy Architects and Atelier TAG in Montreal, she was involved in the design and execution of houses, several university buildings, a theater and a park. In Dublin, she worked in conservation at Blackwood Associates Architects. Merrett holds an M.Arch in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill, where she studied under Alberto Perez-Gomez.  She was on the editorial board of the award-winning student journal The Fifth Column and has worked as an architectural historian for the Montreal YWCA. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at Columbia University.

Peter Minosh

Peter Minosh is a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University. He received his B.A. in architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a M.S. in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art from MIT.  He has practiced as an architect in the Boston area, has taught architectural design at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and has assisted teaching in design studios at MIT, and architectural history and theory courses at Columbia.  His current research focuses on the relationships between political, ideological, and aesthetic regimes.

Brett Snyder

Brett Snyder holds a B.A. in graphic design from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.Arch. from Columbia University. He has taught design courses at Columbia, the Pratt Institute, The Cooper Union, and University of the Arts. Brett is a principal of the New York-based design firm Cheng + Snyder. His design experience spans several scales, from working on large commercial architecture projects (at Steven Holl Architects) to collaborating on watch designs (at Swatch Watch) to working on exhibition, signage, print, and Web matter (at the Cooper Union Center for Design and Typography). Snyder is also a founder, designer, and editor of the architecture and design publication 32BNY.

Filip Tejchman

Filip Tejchman is the principal of Untitled Office, a multi-disciplinary design office based in Brooklyn. He received is B. Arch. at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, in 2001 and his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2002. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a design studio critic in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. Previously he was a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute. In 2009 he was awarded a development grant by Pratt Institute for his contribution to the Language/Making program, a trans-disciplinary initiative between architecture and the humanities. Mr. Tejchman is a Project Editor for the Praxis Journal of Building+Writing. His writing has appeared in Museo as well as various monographs and exhibition catalogs. Most recently he contributed the essay “Weird is Good” to the Museum of Outdoor-Art exhibit of MOS architects as well as “Luxury, Supplanted by Resurgent Value of Serious Play” in The New City Reader; an online and print publication that accompanied the New Museum’s recent exhibition, The Last Newspaper. 

Guy Zucker

Guy Zucker is the principle and founder of Z-A studio, based in New York City. With a focus on advances in digital technology, Z-A strives to generate new design tools that can address complex social issues. Z-A is currently collaborating with the New York City Department of Health, Department of Design and Construction, and City Planning on an initiative to redesign low income housing.

Z-A studio has gained national and international visibility through numerous awards and through publications such as The New York Times, CNN, Channel 13, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Dezeen, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Architectural Record, Frame, Wall Paper, and Metropolis. Z-A has been exhibited and acknowledged by institutions including The Venice Biennale, Perspecta Lisbon, Compotec Massa-Carrara, The Municipal Art Society of New York, Columbia University, The Van Alen Institute, the Ramat-Gan Museum, the Fulbright Foundation, and the William Kinne Fellowship.

In addition to running his practice, Zucker has been teaching a graduate architecture studio at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, and Parsons Graduate School of Design. He holds a master's of science in advanced architectural design from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Technion Institute of Technology.