Speakers
James Stevens Curl
Having graduated in Architecture at Oxford, James Stevens Curl went on to study Town Planning, writing his Dissertation under the direction of the German architect, Arthur Korn. JSC has had an especial interest in historic buildings and conservation, and became a full-time academic in 1978, having already published perceptive articles and books which began to establish his reputation. Among his most famous books are Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism and the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture cowritten with Susan Wilson.
Nir Haim Buras
Leading new traditional architect and urbanist, founder of the Classic Planning Institute, and author of "The Art of Classic Planning" (2017). Dr. Buras' current work helps local communities with their long-term planning, architects designing new local architectural styles, teaching institute fellows in architectural competence and classical planning, and researching the neuroscience of the built environment with society with his scientific colleagues. Dr. Buras designs cities, towns and buildings, he holds workshops, writes and lectures regularly.
Michael Diamant
Michael Diamant is the founder of New Traditional Architecture. Diamant is an urban sociologist with great interest in architecture, city planning, demography, history and social anthropology. He has been interested in traditional architecture and urban planning since he was 19, but it first in 2013 that he decided to start the advocacy that has now become global. This site and the others he has created on different socail nedia platforms are a part of a successful effort to change to discourse or public debate about what we allow ourselves to build.
Brandon Ro
Assistant Professor Brandon R. Ro, AIA, NCARB, ICAA is an award-winning architect, researcher, and educator. His projects have received awards from the U.S. Green Building Council, American Institute of Architects, American Planning Association, and Walt Disney Imagineering among others. As the co-founder of Utah Valley University’s new professional degree in architecture, he has been instrumental in developing new curricula rooted in the classical tradition. His published research aims at improving the interconnectivity between architecture, culture, and human experience.
Nikos Salingaros
Physicist and mathematician, urban planner and architectural theorist. A. Salingaros is a professor at the architecture faculty at Università di Roma III, Italy. His books include: “Principles of Urban Structure” (2005); “A Theory of Architecture” (2006); “Algorithmic Sustainable Design” (2010); and “Anti-architecture and Deconstruction” (2004), in addition over 120 scientific articles. Salingaros uses scientific methods and tools to replace outdated working assumptions that created dysfunctional urban regions after World War II.
Robert Patzschke
German architect Robert Patzschke studied in London and Berlin before joining the family’s architecture firm in 2001. Since 2015 he has taken the lead in the company’s head office in Berlin. Patzschke Architects was founded in the late 1960s by Robert’s father and uncle Rüdiger and Jürgen Patzschke. From the 1990s PAT has evolved into a strong promoter of contemporary classical and traditional architecture. In Germany the firm is seen as the early protagonist in this field. Robert studied architecture at Universität der Künste Berlin and is a frequent used lecturer - both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Justin Shubow
Justin Shubow is president of the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that promotes the classical and humanistic tradition in public art and architecture. He is former chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that is the aesthetic guardian of Washington, to which he was appointed by the American President himself. Shubow is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation and the Board of Academic Advisors of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.
Branko Mitrovic
Professor of architectural history and theory at NTNU. He has PhDs both in philosophy (2007) and architecture (1996). Mitrovic has been a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award and research fellowships from the Harvard University, Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Humboldt Foundation, the National Gallery in Washington DC and the Clark Art Institute. Professor Mitrovic is the author (or co-author) of ten books and his recent book "Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud" explores the abuse of philosophical jargon by modernist architecture profession.