Conjuring Utopia’s Ghost

Reinhold Martin is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, where he directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and the PhD program in Architecture. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, as well as degrees from the Architectural Association and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room, he is also the author of The Organizational Comple: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space.

Jonathan Crisman is editor for Thresholds, Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture, and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books and PLAT Journal of the Rice School of Architecture. He has a background in architecture, geography, and urban planning from UCLA and MIT, and is executive director for 58-12 Design Lab, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization.