Torkar, Felix: - Felix Torkar is an architecture historian with a focus on 20th and 21st century architecture and design. His research centers on Brutalist architecture and its resurgence. He is the author of Brutalist Berlin (2025).

Gopnik, Blake: - Blake Gopnik is one of North America's leading art critics. He has served as the art and design critic at Newsweek, and as the chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada's the Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He is the author of Warhol: A Life as Art (2020) and The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream (2025). He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

Pollock, Naomi: - Naomi Pollock FAIA is an American architect who writes about architecture and design in Japan. Her recent books include The Japanese House Since 1945 (2023), Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook (2020) and Jutaku: Japanese Houses (2015).