Before | After: Thresholds Roundtable: The History and Legacy of Thresholds Journal

Timothy Hyde is a historian of architecture whose research focuses on the political dimensions of architecture from the eighteenth century to the present, with a particular attention to relationships of architecture and law. His most recent book Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye explores episodes in aesthetic debates on architecture and ugliness in Great Britain over the past three centuries and reveals the ways in which architectural discourse participated in the legal formulations of social techniques of the modern city.

Mark Jarzombek is a Professor of History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and works on a wide range of topics both historical and theoretical. He is the author of Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age, which interrogates the digital/global imaginaries that shape our lives, as well as Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective. He has published several books and articles on global history, including the textbook A Global History of Architecture with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash and noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching.

Ana María León’s work traces how spatial practices of power and resistance shape the modernity and coloniality of the Americas. León teaches at the University of Michigan and is co-founder of several collaborations laboring to broaden the reach and scope of architectural history.

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is an Associate Professor at the Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Architectural Heritage Research Center. Her research focuses on the politics of architecture and heritage, architectural modernism, and critical historiography, with a focus on Israel and the United States. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.