De-Coding the “Fire-Escape”: Safeguarding Health, Safety, and Welfare in Nineteenth-century America

Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. His research focuses on architecture's interactions with science, technology, and medicine in the modern era, looking at the history of building technologies, construction practices, and systems of environmental control. Ansari is a founding principal of AN. ONYMOUS and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Ohio State University.