Ron Yeo was born on June 17, 1933 in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1959. He was officially licensed in 1960 as an architect. In 1963, he founded Ron Yeo, Architect, Inc. With his office located in Corona del Mar, he worked on a variety of projects located in and around Orange County. In 1965, he was appointed to be on the board of directors for the University of California, Irvine’s “Project 21,” which had the goal to ensure that Orange County entered the 21st century with a well-planned area. He led one of the multiple study groups titled, Open Space. He was a member of the Orange County Planning Commission from 1972-1973, and again from 1975-1976. In addition, he was the chairman of the Orange County Housing and Community Development Task Force in 1978. He assisted in the development of the Upper Newport Bay Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center and Back Bay Science Center, which eventually opened in 2001. He has been listed as a notable architect by Marquis Who’s Who in 2004.
As a national correspondent for Yahoo News, Romano reports on national affairs from Los Angeles; he previously covered three presidential campaigns and authored numerous cover stories as a senior writer for Newsweek. In his spare time, Romano geeks out over architecture and design on Instagram (@andrew__romano) and contributes related stories to Monocle, Apartamento and The New York Times T Magazine. In 2018, Romano published a small book about his house (The Walker House, RM Schindler) with Apartamento.
Emily Bills is an educator, curator, and author with research interests in urban history and architectural photography. She is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Urban Studies program at The New School in New York and directs the development of new sustainability programs for Woodbury University in Burbank, CA. In her former role as managing director of the Julius Shulman Institute she collaborated on exhibitions featuring photographers Hélène Binet, Pedro E. Guerrero, Catherine Opie, and Richard Barnes, among others. Emily is the coauthor of California Captured: Marvin Rand Mid-Century Modern Architecture (Phaidon, 2018), and the author of Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern (The Monacelli Press, 2020). She is currently curating an exhibition on Thom’s work for the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA which opens in October, 2022.
As Senior Director of Advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, Adrian Scott Fine oversees the organization’s outreach, advocacy and response on key preservation issues within the greater Los Angeles area. Previously he was with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. He currently serves as the President of the board of trustees for the California Preservation Foundation, is a founding member of Docomomo US/Southern California, and teaches at the University of Southern California Heritage Conservation Summer Program, the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, and as part of the Getty Conservation Institute’s (GCI) Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.
Architect Dplg, PhD in Art History, Dominique Rouillard is founding member of Architecture Action sarl, office for architecture and urban design. She is scientific director of LIAT (Laboratoire, Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire), research laboratory habilitated by the Office of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research under the Direction of Architecture and Civil Heritage (BRAUP-DAPA). She is member of the National Historical Monuments Commission.
Dominique Rouillard is a tenured professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM), and adjunct professor at AMUR masters program (Architecture and Urban Planning Project Management), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She has been visiting professor in different international universities, and at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne in 2008.
Consultant for various exhibitions at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris (Les années 50, La Ville, Archigram), her researches are focused on immediate history of contemporary architecture and infrastructures.
Main publications :
Architecture contemporaine et monuments historiques. Guide des réalisations en France 1980-2000, Les Editions du Moniteur, Paris, 2006.
Superarchitecture. Le futur de l’architecture 1950-1970, Les Editions de la Villette, Paris, 2004
L’Institut d’Architecture de Moscou. Enseignement et pratiques du projet d’architecture (Direction de l’Architecture), Ville Recherche Diffusion, E.A Nantes, 1991.
Les monuments de la langue (BRAU-DAPA) , Ville, Recherche, Diffusion, Nantes, 1989.
Construire la pente. Los Angeles 1920-1960 Ed. In Extenso, Paris, 1984. Translations: Building the slope. Hillside houses in Los Angeles, Arts + Architecture Press, Santa Monica, USA; re-edition Hennessy and Ingalls, 1999.
Le site balnéaire, Ed. Pierre Mardaga, Bruxelles, 1984.
Organization of the following international conferences and research seminars as well as their consequent publications : La métropole des infrastructures (2009) ; Le temps des infrastructures (2007) ; Echelles et dimensions. Ville, architecture, territoire (2003) ; Mobilité et esthétique. Deux dimensions des infrastructures territoriales (2000).
Naomi House is a Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Interior Design, and Leader in Spatial Cultures and Critical Contexts. With a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Interior Design, she has an MSc in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL. Working in practice for a number of years for clients including the RIBA, Anish Kapoor and the Tate, she has taught at the Bartlett, London Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art where she is currently Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies.
Harriet Harriss’s teaching, research and writing are largely focussed upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, particularly those that respond to specific community challenges: as captured in her noted publications, Architecture Live Projects: Pedagogy into Practice (Routledge, 2014); and Radical Pedagogies: Architecture & the British Tradition (RIBA Publishing, 2015). Her most recent publication, A Gendered Profession (RIBA publishing, 2016) asserts the need for widening participation in architecture, as a means to ensure the profession remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve.
Dr. Harriss has earned degrees from Manchester University, the Royal College of Art, Kingston University, and Oxford Brookes University, where she was awarded her doctorate in architecture in 2015. She is a Chartered Architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects and is currently an elected Council member of the European Association for Architecture Education.
Susan Morgan has written extensively about art, design, and cultural biography. Her work has been featured in specialist periodicals and mainstream magazines—publications as diverse as the Archives of American Art Journal and the New York Times.With artist Thomas Lawson, Morgan co-edited REAL LIFE Magazine, an alternative art publication produced in New York throughout the 1980s. A former contributing editor at Interview, Mirabella, Elle, Metropolitan Home, and Aperture, she serves as a contributing editor for East of Borneo, the online magazine of contemporary art, and its history, as considered from Los Angeles.
In addition to authoring artist monographs, profiles, and essays, she edited Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader (East of Borneo Books, 2012) and, with Kimberli Meyer, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, co-curated Sympathetic Seeing (2011), the first exhibition about the groundbreaking work of writer and social critic Esther McCoy.
Currently, with support from Some Serious Business, Morgan is at work on a New Mexico-based intergenerational, collaborative project centered on One Hundred Wildflowers of the Pueblo Country with Tewa Indian Names and Uses, an unpublished collaborative project produced in 1935.
Catherine Jurca is Professor of English at Caltech and active in Southern California historic preservation efforts. She is a founding member of the Laguna Beach Historic Preservation Coalition, which is working to reverse recent changes to that city’s historic preservation program that would eliminate protections for hundreds of historic resources if allowed to go into effect.
Ken Bernstein has devoted much of his career to preserving and enhancing the unique architecture and cultural heritage of America’s second-largest city, using historic preservation to transform communities. For Los Angeles City Planning, he directs the Office of Historic Resources and Urban Design Studio and has directed the department’s citywide planning and community planning initiatives. He has led the creation of Los Angeles’ comprehensive historic preservation program and the completion of SurveyLA, a ground-breaking citywide survey of L.A.’s historic resources. He previously directed the preservation advocacy work of the Los Angeles Conservancy, the nation’s largest membership-based local preservation organization, and lectures frequently on preservation and urban planning.
