Robert Kronenburg PhD RIBA is an architect and holds the Chair of Architecture at the University of Liverpool, School of Architecture, United Kingdom. His books include
Houses in Motion: The Genesis,
History and Development of the Portable Building,
Portable Architecture, Spirit of the Machine and he is editor of
Transportable Environments. Professor Kronenburg is a past Fulbright fellow and in 1998 received a visiting fellowship at St. Johns College, Oxford University. His research has received support from the Building Centre Trust, London, the Graham Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. He curated the major exhibition
Portable Architecture held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, the touring exhibition
Spontaneous Construction and he was curatorial advisor on the Vitra Design Museum's exhibition
Living in Motion.
Filiz Klasen, Associate Professor, Ryerson University holds a Master of Architecture degree in Architectural Design from McGill University (1990) and a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from Middle East Techinical University (1987). She has given presentations at conferences internationally in Singapore, London and New York and been guest lecturer at Delft and Ankara. Her articles were published most recently in Transportable Environments II and have also been published in academic and professional journals such as the International Journal of Art and Design and On Site Architecture Magazine. She is also an independent curator. Her most recent curation, Home: Mobile, Modular and Light, was on display as part of Digifest at Design Exchange Museum, May 2004.
