Joan Busquets is a world-renowned architect, urban designer, and educator. He is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the founder of the design firm, BAU Barcelona.
Nikos Katsikis is an architect and urbanist. He holds a Doctor of Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is also a research associate in the Urban Theory Lab. He is on the editorial board of New Geographies journal and co-editor of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Dingliang Yang is currently a teaching fellow and research associate, as well as a Doctor of Design Candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he was awarded the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize and Paul M. Heffernan Fellowship. His most recent publications include Hangzhou: From Canal Grid to Maxi-block and Townization: In Search of New Paradigm of Urbanization in China. He also has contributed to the publications, Common Frameworks Rethinking the Developmental City in China: Xiamen the Megaplot, The Countryside as a City, The Urbanistic Plan in 21st Century, and EL Croquis. Yang is a founding partner of Preliminary Research Office (PRO), a Los Angeles based emergent interdisciplinary design office, with a focus on work in China and the US.
