Hans Ibelings is an architectural historian and critic. He holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Coimbra. Since 2012, he has been the editor and publisher of The Architecture Observer. Prior to this, he was the editor and publisher of A10 new European architecture, a magazine he founded in 2004 together with graphic designer Arjan Groot.

Ibelings is the author of a number of books, including European Architecture Since 1890 (2011), published in English, Dutch, German, and Russian, and Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998 and 2003), published in English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Together with Boris Brorman Jensen he is working on a monograph on Danish modernists Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke.

BA, BArch (UBC), MArch (UPC, Barcelona)

Maria Denegri teaches architectural design and representation studios at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.  She has been teaching intensively at the Faculty as an adjunct assistant professor since 2002 at all levels of the graduate and undergraduate programs. From 2008 to 2013, she coordinated the Daniels Faculty Global Architecture Program in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
Maria was born and raised in Argentina. She moved to Canada with her family in the 1980s.  She did her post-graduate studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. There she worked with Ignasi de Sola Morales and Xavier Costa on cultural identity and public space.  She completed her professional B. Arch at the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, and holds a BA (Art History) from the University of British Columbia.
 
Maria Denegri is a registered architect and a LEED accredited professional.  In 2008, after fifteen years of design and production experience gained in very diverse urban environments including Los Angeles, Barcelona and Vancouver, she established her own firm in Toronto, Denegri Bessai Studio, with partner Tom Bessai. The studio is currently engaged in several urban infill projects at a range of scales. 

Aziza Chaouni is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the founding principal of the design practice Aziza Chaouni Projects (ACP) with offices in Fez, Morocco and Toronto, Canada. Chaouni is also the Director of the Designing Ecological Tourism (DET) research platform at the Daniels Faculty. Her practice, research and teaching focus on sustainable design and construction in the developing world. Chaouni’s research work focuses on two topics primarily: the integration of architecture and landscape, particularly through the implementation of sustainable technologies in arid climates, and modern heritage preservation and adaptive reuse. She is the co-author of Desert Tourism: Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development (with Virginie Lefebvre) and Out of Water: Design Solutions for Arid Regions (with Liat Margolis), and the author of Ecotourism, Nature Conservation and Development: Reimagining Jordan’s Shobak Arid Region. 

Chaouni has led several modern heritage preservation and awareness projects: on the future of Ontario Place with Professor George Baird and the ACO and with support from the World Monuments Funds, on the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Station in Morocco thanks to a Getty Foundation Keeping It Modern grant, with Mourtada Gueye on the International Fair of Dakar thanks to a Getty Foundation Keeping It Modern grant, and with the World Monuments Fund on Old Fourth Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone thanks to a grant from the US Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation.

In 2017, Chaouni co-created, with Halim Sbai, Thomas Duncan and Wanda Hebly, the NGO Joudour Sahara, which offers free music and anti-desertification classes to local children and youth in the Moroccan oasis of M’hamid El Ghizlane.

Chaouni’s design work has been recognized with top awards such as the Gold Global and Gold Regional Africa and Middle East prizes from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, as well as the Silver Global and Regional Acknowledgement prizes of this same award; the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award; the Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Award; the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Award; and the ACSA Collaboration Award, among others.

Her work has also been published and exhibited internationally, including at the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT) World Urban Forum, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.

Chaouni holds a Masters of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.

Erica Allen-Kim is an historian of modern architecture and urban design. Her work on global cities and cultural landscapes focuses on issues of memory and citizenship. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. She is completing her first manuscript, Mini-malls and Memorials: Building Little Saigon in American Suburbs, and has published on Vietnamese-American war memorials and the transnational politics of Chinatown gates. Her current book project, Chinatown Modernism, situates the architectural and urban projects of American Chinatowns within the broader context of modern architecture and planning.