Chris Wilson is a leading cultural, architectural, and landscape historian whose award-winning books include The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition and Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem. He is coeditor, with Paul Groth, of Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson. He is the J. B. Jackson Chair of Cultural Landscape Studies at the University of New Mexico and founding director of its Historic Preservation and Regionalism Program.
In addition to operating his architecture and urban design firm based in Pasadena, California, Stefanos Polyzoides is one of the founders and past president of the Congress for the New Urbanism. His coauthored book, Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Analysis, helped revitalize the study of design typologies in architectural theory.
Miguel Gandert is one of America's leading documentary photographers. He has exhibited throughout the world. His series Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland was the subject of a book and a one-person exhibition for the National Hispanic Culture Center of New Mexico, and his work was selected for the 1993 Whitney Museum Biennial. He is a Distinguished Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.
