Co-editor Thurman Grant is a Los Angeles based architect and educator (thurmangrant.com). He is a faculty member of the Interior Architecture Department at the Woodbury University School of Architecture, and through the university has taught in related programs in China and Italy. Grant has contributed to a long list of built residential, commercial, institutional and urban design projects, as well as award-winning design competitions in the U.S. and Asia. In 2011 he partnered with artist Olivia Booth on the installation Schindler Lab, Round One at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Grant is a former president of the LA Forum Board of Directors and was a project leader for the Dingbat 2.0 competition and exhibition.
Co-editor Joshua G. Stein is the founder of Radical Craft (radical-craft.com), a Los Angeles-based studio that advances design saturated in history (from archaeology to craft) and inflects the production of contemporary urban spaces and artifacts, evolving newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by virtuality, velocity, and globalization. He has taught at the California College of the Arts, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He was a 2010-11 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture, and is currently Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University. He is also a former member of the LA Forum Board of Directors and was a project leader for the Dingbat 2.0 competition and exhibition.
Joshua G. Stein is the founder of Radical Craft and the co-director of the Data Clay Network (www.data-clay.org), a forum for the exploration of digital techniques applied to ceramic materials. Radical Craft (www.radical-craft.com) is a Los Angeles-based studio that advances design tactics steeped in history—from archaeology to craft—to produce contemporary urban spaces and artifacts while evolving newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by virtuality, velocity, and globalization. Stein is co-editor of Dingbat 2.0, the first full-length publication on the iconic Los Angeles apartment building type and has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, including multiple grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the AIA Upjohn research award, and the 2010–11 Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture. He is a former member of the LA Forum Board of Directors and has taught at the California College of the Arts, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He is Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University where he also directs The Institute of Material Ecologies (T-IME).
“Arolat works do not necessarily refer to specific local traditions or forms […] He instead tries to find a way to make buildings that have a particular solidity and clarity that make sense of their position” says Aaron Betsky, in his introduction of Scent of the Trace, after his visit to Turkey to see the repertoire of EAA. “One can see all these aspects of Arolat’s work on display in the three projects on which this volume focuses."
