About the Author

Esther Choi is a Ph.D candidate at Princeton University School of Architecture, where her dissertation examines the intersection between architecture and the life sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently assistant professor at OCAD University and has been a guest critic at Princeton University, University of Toronto, University of Buffalo, Syracuse University, and Columbia University. Marrikka Trotter is a Ph.D candidate in architecture, urbanism, and landscape at Harvard University. With a background in architectural practice and site-responsive art, Trotter has taught at Harvard University and Boston Architectural College and is a guest critic at Northeastern University, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Design Magazine, Log, and Big Red & Shiny. Choi and Trotter previously edited the volume Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press, 2010). Contributors: Matthew Allen & Cyrus Penarroyo, Caitlin Berrigan, Adrian Blackwell, Keith Bresnahan, D. Graham Burnett, Jill H. Casid, dpr-barcelona & Francesco Vedovato, David Gissen, John Harwood, K. Michael Hays, Patty Heyda, Sandi Hilal, John J. May, Marta Guerra Pastrian & Pablo Perez Ramos, Trevor Patt, Troy Schaum & Rosalyne Shieh, Jonathan Tate, Olga Touloumi, and Andrew Witt.