Art historian and curator of the Wien Museum’s architecture collection. Research focus and publications: architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architectural drawing and photography, Otto Wagner, modern living culture. Based in Vienna, Austria.
Matt Tyrnauer is a director and writer, whose films include Valentino: The Last Emperor, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Where’s My Roy Cohn, and The Reagans.
Amber Benson is the author of the Echo Park Coven Novels and the Calliope Reaper-Jones Novels. She cocreated, cowrote, and directed the animated supernatural Web series Ghosts of Albion with Christopher Golden, which they followed with a series of novels, including Witchery and Accursed, and the novella Astray. Benson and Golden also coauthored the novella The Seven Whistlers. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the fan-favorite role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson wrote, produced, and directed the feature films Chance and Lovers, Liars and Lunatics.
Katie Horak is a Principal at Architectural Resources Group and manages the firm’s Downtown Los Angeles office. Her work at ARG ranges from rehabilitation projects on some of Los Angeles’s most recognizable landmarks to large scale planning projects, including SurveyLA. In addition, Katie is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC, where she teaches graduate-level courses in historic resource documentation methods, and she is the founding President of the Southern California Chapter of Docomomo US.
EDWARD R. (“Ted”) BOSLEY, Jr., Hon. AIA
Edward “Ted” Bosley is James N. Gamble Executive Director and CEO of The Gamble House Conservancy. He has served The Gamble House in various capacities since 1990. He publishes and lectures on architects Greene & Greene and the American Arts & Crafts movement, and teaches historic-site stewardship at Claremont Graduate University. His full-length book, Greene and Greene, published by Phaidon in 2000, is the premier study of the architects’ work, and he has published on architects Bernard Maybeck, Sylvanus Marston, Frank Furness, and the leading lights of the San Francisco Swedenborgian Church. A native of San Francisco, Ted holds a BA in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the UCLA Graduate School of Management.
Barbara Lamprecht, M.Arch., Ph.D., is an architectural historian, historic preservation consultant, and manages rehabilitation projects of MCM properties. She has written three books on Richard Neutra, and her dissertation, University of Liverpool, explored Neutra’s roots in 19th and 20th century landscape, evolutionary biology, and physiological psychology.
Anthony Denzer is the Department Head of Civil & Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming. He is an architectural historian focusing on the modern period (1920s-1960s) with special attention to social and environmental issues. His current research focus is on the Swedish homebuilding industry and its history.
Jeffrey Head writes about art, architecture and design. He is the author of Paul Evans: Designer & Sculptor, and No Nails, No Lumber-The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff, Regional Landscape Architecture: Southern California: Mediterranean Modern and Regional Landscape Architecture: Northern California: Rooted in Resilience. He contributed essays for Modern Americana: Studio Furniture From High Craft to High Glam, Hand in Hand: California Mid- Century Designs of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, Lustron Stories and Craig Ellwood: Self- Made Modern. Jeffrey curated the exhibition, Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design at Stanford University.
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Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture for print and radio.
She is currently writing a book, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, for Angel City Press.
She recently completed the production of Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problems of Waste, to air on the daily show Greater LA, on KCRW public radio station. For many years she hosted KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture radio show; prior to that she produced To The Point and Which Way, LA?, hosted by Warren Olney, also for KCRW.
Past series for DnA include Bridges and Walls, a series about the barriers and connections–both metaphorical and physical–shaping life in California today, and This is Home in LA: From the Tent to the Gigamansion (and Everything In Between).
Anderton also works with Helms Bakery District on programming talks and events for its design center. She has curated exhibitions, including Sink Or Swim: Designing For a Sea Change, a critically received exhibition about resilient architecture, shown in 2015 at the Annenberg Space for Photography.
She has served as correspondent for the New York Times and Dwell magazine. Her books include Grand Illusion: A Story of Ambition, and its Limits, on LA’s Bunker Hill, based on a studio she co- taught with Frank Gehry and partners at USC School of Architecture.
Honors include the Esther McCoy 2010 Award for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism from USC School of Architecture’s Architectural Guild; she was SCI-Arc’s “Honored Guest” at its 2018 Main Event and received the 2020 ICON Award from the Los Angeles Design Festival.
Maristella Casciato (architect and architectural historian) is Senior Curator Architecture at the Getty Research Institute (2016-to present). She was Mellon Senior Fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (2010) prior to being appointed Associate Director of Research at the same institute (2012-2015). She has taught history of architecture in Italy and in the United States. Since the late 1990s she has been engaged in a research project on Pierre Jeanneret and the planning of Chandigarh in post-colonial India. On this topic she has curated a few exhibitions and contributed to the publication of catalogues and essays. More recently, she co-curated the exhibition Gio Ponti Amare l’architettura at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and co-edited the eponymous volume.