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Regina Stephan is an art and architectural historian, 1982 – 1988 studied art history, modern history and didactics of the arts at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, 1988 Magister Artium with the thesis Das Lustschlösschen Favorite in Ludwigsburg, 1992 doctorate with the thesis Studien zu Waren- und Geschäftshäusern Erich Mendelsohns in Deutschland, both LMU Munich.

1993 – 1999 Researcher and freelancer at the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg and the State Gazette for Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Stuttgart, 1995 – 1999 Lecturer at the Institute for Architectural History at the University of Stuttgart, 2000 – 2008 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and 2011 Habilitation in Architectural History and Theory by the TU Darmstadt. Since 2008 professor for the history of architecture and urban development at the Hochschule Mainz.

Her research focuses on the history of architecture between 1850 and 1950, and in particular on the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt with Joseph Maria Olbrich and Friedrich Pützer, as well as the architecture of Neues Bauen. Erich Mendelsohn’s life and work in three continents is a particular focus of her work. 2013 – 19 Member of the Advisory Boards „Aufbau Denkmalschutzzentrum Weiße Stadt Tel Aviv“, and 2014 – 2021 „World Heritage Application Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt“. Since 2017, member of the Independent Historical Commission „Bauen und Planen im Nationalsozialismus. Preconditions, Institutions, Effects“ of the BMUB. 2021 Co-initiator of the transnational Erich Mendelsohn Initiative Circle.

Member of the Deutscher Werkbund, the Association of German Art Historians, the German National Committee of ICOMOS, Trusted Lecturer of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

A historian of modern architecture, Kathleen James-Chakraborty has been Professor of Art History at UCD since 2007. A graduate of Yale, James-Chakraborty earned her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the University of California Berkeley, where she reached the rank of full professor, at the Ruhr University Bochum, where she was a Mercator guest professor, and at the Yale School of Architecture, where she was the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History. In 2019 she received the Gold Medal in the Humanities from the Royal Irish Academy. James-Chakrabortty’s books include Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism (Cambridge, 1997), German Architecture for a Mass Audience (Routledge, 2000) Architecture since 1400 (Minnesota, 2014; Guangxi, 2017), and Modernism as Memory; Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany (Minnesota, 2018). She is the editor of India in Art in Ireland (Routledge, 2016) and Bauhaus Culture from Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006). Her articles have appeared in German Politics and Society, the Journal of Architectural Education, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and New German Critique. She has contributed to the catalogues of exhibitions held at the Barbican (London), Folkwang Museum (Essen), the German Architectural Museum (Frankfurt), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Architecture Biennale (Venice), as well as more than a dozen edited books. In April 2021 she was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant, and during the 2021-22 academic year she held an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..

Jörg Haspel is Prof. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Ing., graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning in Stuttgart and in History of Art and Cultural Studies in Tübingen till 1981. He then became a custodian in the inventory department of the Monument Protection Authority in Hamburg and taught at the Hamburg University. From 1992 till 2018 he was Berlin State Curator of Historic Monuments (Landeskonservator) and from 2012 to 2021 president of ICOMOS Germany. Since 2014 he is chairing the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection (Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz).

Jörg Haspel is a permanent member of the Expert Group on Urban Heritage Conservation of the Federal Government in Germany and a founding member of the International Scientific ICOMOS Committee on the 20th Century Heritage Preservation (ISC 20C). He teaches as an honorary professor in heritage conservation studies at the Technical University of Berlin. His research and publication activities focus on the modern heritage of metropolitan culture. He is a member of the Action Group “Dissonant Heritage” of the Urban Agenda of the EU.

Ita Heinze-Greenberg is an architectural historian and professor emerita of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, where she was assigned to the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) from 2012 to 2019. She earned her doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on Erich Mendelsohn’s buildings in Mandate Palestine. Subsequently, she held research and teaching positions at various institutions, including the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion in Haifa (1984-1998), the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem (1993), the University of Augsburg (1999), the Delft University of Technology (2004-2005) and the Technical University of Munich (2008-2012). Her numerous publications concentrate on 19th and 20th century architecture with foci on nation building, identity construction, migration studies, and on the work of Erich Mendelsohn.

Eran Mordohovich is an Architect (Technion Haifa 1996). He holds M.Sc in Conservation (University of Leuven, Belgium 2005). Works 26 years as an architect on various architecture, urban design and conservation projects in Israel and Belgium. Since 2011 planning projects of archaeological conservation in the conservation department of the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Since 2017 he is the Northern Region Architect in the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

Since 2010 teaches architecture and preservation in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Haifa.

ICOMOS member Since 2011, member of the board since 2015 and from 2018 Chairman of the board of directors of ICOMOS Israel.

Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler (Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University, 2005) is a senior lecturer of architecture and visual culture at Sapir Academic College and head of the Visual Culture section in its Department of Communication. At Ben Gurion University of the Negev, she is a teaching fellow. Her main research areas are the modern architecture of Israel/Palestine and Israeli visual culture. Her lataest book, Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) is the recipient of the Concordia University Library – Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies for 2021. She is also co-editor of Israel as A Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978 (Intellect Books, 2020) with Anat Geva. Her research has been published in numerous journals, including Israel Studies, Israel Studies Review, The Journal of Architecture and Design Issues. From 2014 she serves as co-chair of the DoCoMoMo Israel branch, and from 2020 she serves as the head of the ICOMOS-Israel Committee for Twentieth Century Heritage.

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is Professor of history and theory at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Aronson Built Heritage Research Center. She received her PhD from MIT, and leading research institutes such as CASVA, the Getty/ UCLA Program, the Israel Science Foundation, and the Frankel Institute at the University of Michigan, supported her research. Her work on inter- and postwar architectural modernisms, including Erich Mendelsohn, I. M. Pei, “United Jerusalem”, “Whitened Tel Aviv,” critical historiography, and heritage has been widely published. As the head of the Technion’s Architectural Program she led the transition required for implementing a new curriculum of M.Arch studies. She was the president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), and co-chaired its conference “Histories in Conflict”. Her awards winning book Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification will be followed by the Israeli volume of Reaktion’s series Modern Architectures in History.