Theme Issue Introduction

Authors

• Nader Ardalan Harvard University
  Nader Ardalan is a practicing Architect with over five decades of award winning international experience. He was Senior Research Associate at GSD, Harvard University; co-author of The Sense of Unity, Chicago University Press; author of Blessed Jerusalem, Harvard University; and founding member Steering Committee, Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
• Thomas Barrie North Carolina State University
  Thomas Barrie AIA teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios and history-theory seminars. Professor Barrie served as Director of the School of Architecture from 2002 to 2007 and is the recipient of a number of teaching awards including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Creative Achievement Award and the ACSA/American Institute of Architecture Students New Teaching Award.