Ane Gonzalez Lara Editor

Harriet Harriss (RIBA, PFHEA, PhD) is a Qualified Architect and Dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NYC. Her teaching, research and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, as captured in Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education & the British Tradition, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure that it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve, a subject she interrogates in her book, A Gendered Profession. Dean Harriss is also recognized as an advocate for diversity and inclusion within design education and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019. Her latest book, Architects After Architecture (2020), considers the multi-sector impact of an architectural qualification.

Ashraf M. Salama (FRSA, FHEA, PhD) is a Full Professor in Architecture and the Head of the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has led three schools of architecture in Egypt, Qatar and the UK, two of which he has founded, and was the Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, UK (2014–2020). With experience spanning across many contexts, he was the Director of research and consulting at Adams Group Architects in Charlotte, NC. Ashraf has published 14 authored and edited books, including Demystifying Doha (2013), Architecture Beyond Criticism (2014), Spatial Design Education (2015), Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf (2019), Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies (2020) and Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism (2021). He is the UIA 2017 recipient of Jean Tschumi Prize for Excellence in Architectural Education and Criticism.

Ane Gonzalez Lara is an Assistant Professor of undergraduate Architecture at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a registered Architect in Texas and Spain. Ane is the co-founder of Idyll Studio, balancing in her professional work social and cultural concerns with extensive formal and material research. As part of her studio teachings, she has developed academic research initiatives that have examined the United States-Mexican border and the Korean demilitarized zone. Ane received her Master-equivalent degree from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, Navarra, Spain. Prior to working at Pratt, she taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of Houston. Ane's research interests include pedagogy and social and climate justice topics as they relate to the built environment.