Meet our board
Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director
Michael is a researcher, educator, author, and urbanist with an international consultancy. He has held appointments at ten graduate institutions in eight countries, in philosophy, architecture, and urban planning. He works with many collaborators to develop and disseminate new tools and strategies to address the urban, cultural and economic challenges of our time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mehaffy
Jenny Quillien, Director
Jenny is an anthropologist and Professor Emeritus at New Mexico Highlands University. She is the author of Delight's Muse: On Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order, and she worked with Alexander during the time of his development of a number of the concepts in this monumental and challenging work. https://jennyquillien.academia.edu/
Tigran Haas, Director
Tigran is Professor in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an internationally recognized scholar of urban form, urban governance, and the generative processes that shape cities. He is the author or editor of several influential volumes, including Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking Cities for the Future. https://www.kth.se/profile/tigran
FEATURED PROJECT: "The Impacts of Symmetry in Architecture and Urbanism: Toward a Research Agenda."
Mathematics has an ancient relationship to architecture, and the concept of symmetry (in the broad sense) has a central role in both. This new research paper looks at new insights and applications for better-quality human habitats Read the full paper here, or an article about the work written for practitioners here.