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1. Anthony Vidler

   Author of The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture

2. John Brickerhoff Jackson

   Author of A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics

3. Rem Koolhaas

   Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, S,M,L,XL

4. Spiro Kostof

   Author of The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History

5. Robert Harbison

   Author of Eccentric Spaces, The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning

6. Colin Rowe

   Author of Collage City, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

7. Robert Venturi

   Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

8. Robert A. M. Stern

   Author of New York 1960, New Directions in American Architecture, New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915

9. Neil Leach

   Author of Rethinking Architecture: Reader in Cultural Theory, The Anaesthetics of Architecture

10. William R. Taylor

    Author of Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World, In pursuit of Gotham : culture and commerce in New York

11. Vincent Scully

    Author of American Architecture and Urbanism, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

12. William J. Mitchell

    Author of City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, e-topia

13. Dolores Hayden

    Author of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History

14. Beatriz Colomina

    Author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

15. Marc-Antoine Laugier

    Author of Essay on Architecture

16. Thomas L. Schumacher

    Author of The Danteum

17. Joseph Rykwert

    Author of On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History

18. William Harvey Pierson

    Author of American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume 2: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

19. Aldo Rossi

    Author of The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)

20. Sharon Zukin

    Author of Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World