About the Author

Randy Gragg is the executive director of the John Yeon Center for Architecture and the Landscape, University of Oregon. He worked as an architecture critic with the Oregonian for 17 years, and has written on architecture for the New York Times, Harper's, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and numerous other publications. He was a 2006 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and a 1995 National Arts Journalism Fellow at Columbia University. Brian Ferriso is director and chief curator of the Portland Art Musem. Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Architectural History at Columbia University. He is also curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, where from 2007 to 2013 he served as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. He has curated numerous major exhibitions, including Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 and Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, and is the author or editor of several books, including Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, Mies in Berlin, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia. J. M. Cava is an architect in Portland, Oregon. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He teaches the history and theory of modern architecture and writes on modern and contemporary design in the Pacific Northwest, and he collaborated with Kenneth Frampton on the book Studies in Tectonic Culture. Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and a historian and critic of landscape and architecture. He has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia, and he is the author of John Yeon: Modern Architecture and Conservation in the Pacific Northwest.