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Contributors
Joe Kerr
Joe Kerr is Senior Tutor in Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London.
A native of London, his love of that city is not diminished by an enthusiasm
for the ambitions and artifacts of modernism. A founding member of
Strangely Familiar, he is co-editor of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture
in the City (1996). He is currently writing, with Murray Fraser, a book
titled The Special Relationship: The Influence of America on British Architecture
since 1945.
Sandy McCreery
Sandy McCreery lectures in the history and theory of architecture at the
University of East London and Middlesex University. His current doctoral
research is concerned with the relationships between the experience of
speed, culture, and architecture. He lives in Hackney, London.
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey is Professor of Geography at the Open University. She is the
author of Space, Place, and Gender (1994), Spatial Divisions of Labour (2d ed.
1995), and of many articles on spatiality, globalization, and identity. She has
co-authored and co-edited a range of other books, including High-Tech Fantasies
(1992), A Place in the World? (1995), Geographical Worlds (1995) and
Re-Thinking the Region (1997). She is also co-founder and co-editor of Soundings:
A Journal of Politics and Culture.
William Menking
William Menking is Professor of Architecture and City Planning at Pratt
Institute in New York City. He has worked as a community organizer for
Cesar Chavez, owned a tour business in New York, and been an art director
for Miami Vice. His critical writings have appeared in various journals, magazines,
and newspapers in the United States, Britain, and Europe. He is
currently a member of REPOHistory (a working collaborative of artists,
writers and performers) and is also curating architecture exhibitions at various
venues in the United States. He is on the Board of Directors of the
Storefront for Art and Architecture.