Julia Albani - Lisbon, Berlin

Is a curator, critic and co-director of cultural communications specialists BUREAU N in Berlin and Lisbon. She specialises in inspiring and facilitating exchange between individuals and institutions doing extraordinary things within the fields of humanising architecture, urbanism and design.

Cristina Ampatzidou - Rotterdam, Athens

Cristina Ampatzidou is an independent researcher and writer based in Rotterdam. She is interested in the changing structures of authority in city planning and the emergence of local collectives and their influence through social media. She has been a guest teacher at TU Delft and collaborated with the Architecture Film Festival of Rotterdam and Play the City! foundation. She is a regular contributor to a number of architecture-related magazines and a founding member of the artist collective Beforelight. www.cristina-ampatzidou.com

David Bench - New York

Is a registered architect based in New York and works for Selldorf Architects. He is interested in the intersection of architecture and politics and has explored these themes in writings for Clog and in seminars at Abrons Art Center.  He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Yale University.

Crystal Bennes - Helsinki

Is a writer, curator and artist based in Finland. Along with Cecilia Lindgren, she is co-editor of independent culture and urbanism magazine, Pages Of, and contributing editor of Icon magazine. She runs the blog Development Aesthetics and is one third of the London Research Kitchen.

Anneke Bokern - Amsterdam

An architecture journalist from Frankfurt am Main and living in the Netherlands since 2000. Anneke writes about Dutch architecture, art and design for publications including uncube, Bauwelt, Baumeister, DAMn°, Mark, Azure and Stylepark. annekejournalist.wordpress

Jessica Bridger - International

Is an urbanist, journalist and consultant. She holds a degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University. As an editor and contributor for various international books, magazines and radio programmes, her focus is on urbanisation and landscape-related issues. She is also a consultant for corporate and institutional projects related to the built environment. She was an in-house editor for uncube from 2012-2013 and continues as a contributing editor. www.jessicabridger.com

Oliver Elser - Frankfurt

Oliver Elser is a curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt and also works as an architecture critic. His exhibition topics have included postmodern architecture, architectural models in the 20th century, and the architect Simon Ungers. www.architekturtexte.de

Claire L. Evans - Science and Culture

Is a writer and artist working in Los Angeles, California. Her “day job” is as the singer and co-author of the conceptual pop group YACHT. A science journalist and science-fiction critic, she was the editor-in-chief of the relaunched OMNI Magazine and is currently Futures Editor of Motherboard. Her writing has been extensively anthologised, and she regularly participates in panels, conferences, and screenings on the subject of science and culture. clairelevans.com

Jason Hilgefort - Urbanism

Jason Hilgefort studied urbanism at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at UBC in Vancouver. He has worked in a range of contexts from New York to Bombay. He is a project leader at Maxwan A+U, and won Europan 11: Vienna with his partners at Impressively Simple. In 2012 he founded his own office, Land + Civilization Compositions. He’s an American in Europe, a walker, cyclist, train-nerd. A lover of infrastructure, ecology, and tacos, he’s also a man about town (the internet).

Norman Kietzmann - Milan

Studied industrial design at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and at École National Supérieure de Création Industrielle Paris. He works as a freelance journalist covering architecture, design, and fashion for publications such as uncube, BauNetz, Designlines, Pure, Deutsch, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Klaus - Cartoons

Klaus is a frustrated cartoonist who lives in an old castle in Europe. In his other life he is also a frustrated architect and scholar who has spent the last years researching the role of comics in the construction of the image of the city of the future. klaustoon.wordpress.com

Gili Merin - Tel Aviv

Is an architect, photographer and journalist based in Tel Aviv and Berlin. She studied architecture at the UdK Berlin, Waseda University in Tokyo and recently graduated from The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She has worked with AMO*OMA in Rotterdam, with COBE in Berlin and ArchDaily in Santiago de Chile. She publishes her writings and photography in numerous international print and online publications including Mark Magazine, Wallpaper, Ha’aretz, ArchDaily, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Quaderns, Detail and Frame. www.gilimerin.com

Ethel Baraona Pohl - Barcelona

Is a writer, critic and curator, but she prefers the term professional amateur. Her [net]work is a real hub linking several publications and acteurs on architecture and theory. She is co-founder of the independent research practice and publishing house dpr-barcelona, and editor at Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme. www.dpr-barcelona.com

Luise Rellensmann - Berlin

Luise Rellensmann lives in Berlin where she works as an architecture critic with a special interest in the heritage and conservation of the contemporary past, and in conservation of modern and contemporary architecture in historic urban environments. She also teaches at the Technical University in Cottbus.