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Nan Ellin,Ph.D.

Nan Ellin is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University. She holds an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. She has previously taught at the University of Cincinnati, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the University of Southern California, and New York University. She was a Fulbright Scholar in France where she carried our research for her dissertation on the European New Urbanism.

She is the author of Postmodern Urbanism (1996; revised edition, 1999) as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Lotus, History of European Ideas, Journal of Architectural Education, Design Book Review, Thresholds, Intersight, Urban Studies Review, and the Encyclopedia of New York City. er anthology Architecture of Fear has been featured on the architecture bestseller list at amazon.com since making its appearance in 1997.

Having explored degenerative and reactive trends in urban design, Ellin is now exploring reconstructive and proactive alternatives to these in a book entitled Slash City: Towards an Integral Urbanism (forthcoming) and in the studio she coordinates at ASU called the Integral Studio (IS). She is also writing a monograph on New York architect and urban designer Deborah Berke (forthcoming).

Rick Lowe

Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston, Texas. The project was begun by Lowe after confronting the need for social change.

He renovated the disadvantaged Third Ward neighborhood into a thriving cultural center. The houses now provide residence to community members, gallery and performance space for African-American artists, and space for community social service programs. Lowe was born in Eufaula, Alabama in 1961 and attended to Harvard Graduate School of Design, in Cambridge, Mass.

As an artist, Lowe has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. From 1996 to the present, he has exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, Kwangji Bienale, Kwangji, Korea, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School, and the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.

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