Maristella Casciato, architect and architectural historian, is the senior curator of architecture at the Getty Research Institute (2016–present). She was Mellon Senior Fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (2010), prior to being appointed the associate director of research at the same institute (2012–2015). She has taught history of architecture in Italy and in the United States. Since the late 1990s she has been engaged in a research project on Pierre Jeanneret and the planning of Chandigarh in post-colonial India. On this topic she has curated multiple exhibitions and contributed to the publication of catalogues and essays. More recently, she co-curated the exhibition “Gio Ponti Amare l’architettura” at the MAXXI Museum in Rome and co-edited the eponymous volume.

Diane Ghirardo is an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California and a world-renowned architectural historian. Ghirardo’s pivotal studies of interwar Italian architects’ ties to fascist politics provided a disciplinary watershed. Her most recent book is Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture (2019), and her other works on Rossi include the co-authored Aldo Rossi. Drawings with Germano Celant (2008) and the first English translation of Rossi’s 1966 volume Architecture of the City in 1982. Ghirardo’s other books include Building New Communities. New Deal America and Fascist Italy (1989); Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture (1992); Mark Mack. A California Architect (1994); Architecture After Modernism (1996); Dopo il Sogno. Architettura e città nell’America di oggi (2008); Italy. Modern Architectures in History (2013); and the monolith La vita quotidiana di Lucrezia Borgia a Belriguardo (2019).