7 CONTRIBUTORS
2STAN ALLEN
3 Stan Allen is an architect and George Dutton '27 Professor of Architectural Design at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he served as dean from 2002 to 2012. His practice, SAA/Stan Allen Architect, has realized buildings and projects from single-family houses to urban master plans, in the United States and abroad. The extensive catalog of architectural and urban strategies he developed to respond to the complexity of the modern city is presented in Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City (1999), and his essays are collected in Practice: Architecture. Technique and Representation (2009). His most recent book is Landform Building: Architecture's New Terrain (2011).
4 DANIEL LÓPEZ-PÉREZ
5 Daniel Lopez-Perez, a Ph.D. candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, is an assistant professor of architectural design and founding faculty member of the architecture program at the University of San Diego. In 2009 he coedited The Function of Form, a comparative taxonomy of structural and formal systems. A Fuller scholar, Lopez-Perez is currently completing the manuscript of a book entitled R. Buckminster Fuller's Spherical Atlas, 1944–1980.
6 ALEJANDRO ZAERA-POLO
7 Alejandro Zaera-Polo is dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture. The internationally renowned architect and scholar previously served as dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, occupied the Berlage Chair at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and held the Norman R. Foster Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale University. Widely published in leading journals, such as El Croquis. Quaderns, and A+U, his essays are collected in The Sniper’s Loa: An Architectural Perspective of Generation-X (2012). The award-winning work of Zaera-Polo's firm, AZPA, includes the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal in Japan, distinguished by its dramatic form and innovative use of materials.