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Dagmar Motycka Weston Dagmar Motycka Weston trained as an architect in Toronto before undertaking graduate studies at the Architectural Association and the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from the latter. She has taught architectural history and design at the University of Edinburgh (where she is now an Honorary Fellow), specialising in early 20th-century art and architecture. She has published widely on the themes of modern culture, including spatiality, architecture and Surrealism, the artist’s studio and Le Corbusier.   David Leatherbarrow David Leatherbarrow has taught theory and design at the University of Pennsylvania since 1984, and before that at the University of Cambridge and the University of Westminster (formerly PCL) in England. He lectures throughout the world and has held honorary professorships in Denmark, Brazil and China. In 2020, he was awarded the Topaz Medallion, the highest award given by the AIA and ASCA for excellence in architectural education. He has also been the recipient of the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Canadian Center of Architecture (1997–98) and two Fulbright Fellowships. Some of his books include: Building time: architecture, event, and experience; 20th Century Architecture; Three Cultural Ecologies (with R Wesley);Architecture Oriented Otherwise; Topographical Stories; Surface Architecture (with Mohsen Mostafavi); Uncommon Ground; The Roots of Architectural Invention; and On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. His research focuses on the history and theory of architecture, gardens and the city.

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