The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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Contributors
Nigel Coates
Nigel Coates formed Branson Coates Architecture with Doug Branson in
1985; their projects include the National Centre for Popular Music,
Sheffield; the Geffrye Museum, London; the British exhibition for the Lisbon
1998; and Hanover 2000 World Expositions; and the Oyster House at
the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1998. Having taught at the Architectural Association,
he is currently Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College
of Art. A monograph of his work by Rick Poynor was published in
1989.
Cornford & Cross
Matthew Cornford and David Cross are London-based artists who began
collaborating in 1987 while studying at St. Martin’s School of Art and afterward
at the Royal College of Art. Their practice since then has led to a
number of solo and group exhibitions, including East International at the
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia; Power to the
People at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Backpacker in Chiang Mai, Thailand;
Digital Dreams 4 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; City Limits in Stoke-on-
Trent; Bitter Twist at UKS, Oslo; and Something Else at the Camden Arts
Centre, London.
Barry Curtis
Barry Curtis is Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies in the School
of Art, Design, and Performing Arts at Middlesex University. He is an editor
of Block and of Parallax. Recent publications include essays on the 1960s
and Archigram.
Fashion Architecture Taste (Fat)
Fat is a collaborative, creative, and cross-disciplinary practice that straddles
architecture, interior design, fine art, and urban art events. The practice includes
architects, artists, graphic designers, and musicians (among others),
and is involved in curating large-scale urban art events, designing and constructing
architectural projects, research into art and architecture, the making
of art, and designing and organizing exhibitions and events. Its work
operates at the boundaries between architecture and fine art practice.