The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Contributors
Adrian Forty
Adrian Forty is Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, University
College London, where, with Iain Borden, he runs the master’s course
in architectural history. His book Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since
1750 was published in 1986; and a new book, on the history of the critical
vocabulary used in architecture, is to be published shortly.
Tom Gretton
Tom Gretton teaches in the History of Art Department of University College
London. Among colleagues who work to explain and reinvent the value
of expensive pictures, he works primarily on cheap ones. He is completing
a book on Posada’s place in Mexican “popular” culture, and has contributed
to an exhibition on printed representations of the 1848 Revolution, which
opened in Paris in February 1998.
Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American
Studies at Yale University, and the author of several books on the politics of
design, including The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs
for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (1981) and The Power of Place:
Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995).
bell hooks
bell hooks is Distinguished Professor of English at City College, New York,
writer, cultural critic, feminist theorist, and author of fifteen books, among
the most recent being two memoirs, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996)
and Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (1997) and a collection of essays, Reel
to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996).
Patrick Keiller
Patrick Keiller became an architect and practiced in the 1970s. His first audiovisual
installations were exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1982.
During the 1980s he made several short films and taught in art and architecture
schools. London was released in 1994 and Robinson in Space in 1997.