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CLARE LYSTER is an architect and founding principal of CLUAA, an urbanism and architecture firm in Chicago. She is editor of Envisioning the Bloomingdale: 5 Concepts, (Chicago: Chicago Architectural Club, August 2009) and co-editor with Cecilia Benites of 306090 vol. 09 Regarding Public Space, (Princeton Architectural Press, August 2005) and. Current work toward a publication explores the relationship between architecture and global flow networks as a way to explain the impact of globalization on the built environment. She is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago where she teaches seminars and studios on globalization and urbanism.
CHARLES WALDHEIM is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. His writing on landscape and contemporary urbanism has appeared in Landscape Journal, Topos, Log, Praxis, 306090, Canadian Architect, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Waldheim is editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader and CASE: Lafayette Park Detroit and co-editor, with Georgia Daskalakis and Jason Young, of Stalking Detroit. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Cullinan Chair at Rice University, and the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is presently writing the first book-length history of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport: Chicago O’Hare: A Natural and Cultural History.
MASON WHITE is an architect, writer, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He is a founding partner of Lateral Office in 2002 with Lola Sheppard, and a director of InfraNet Lab launched in 2008. Lateral Office has won or been shortlisted for competitions internationally, most recently the WPA 2.0 competition (2009) and Pamphlet Architecture #30 (2009) a publication forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press (2011). At InfraNet Lab, he is a curator of HYDROCity: Hydrology and Urbanism (2009-10) and an editor of the Graham Foundation grant sponsored journal Bracket (Actar, 2010). His recent research pursues questions of the role of infrastructure and networks within contemporary spatial practice. Mason is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.