Christopher Hawthorne

Editorial:
Robert Campbell is an architect in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and architecture critic for the Boston Globe. In 1996 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. He is the author of Cityscapes of Boston: An American City through Time (Houghton Mifflin), and practices as a consultant to cultural institutions.

Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for the New Yorker and the Executive Editor of Architectural Digest. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his criticism in the New York Times.

Christopher Hawthorne, a Metropolis contributing editor, lives in Brooklyn and writes frequently on architecture and design.

Steven Heller (not shown) is the author of The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption (Allworth Press) and Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful (Watson Guptil).

Karrie Jacobs was associate editor of Metropolis from 1987 through 1989 and was writer-at-large through 1995. She then became New York magazine's architecture critic. She's currently editor in chief of dwell, a San Francisco*based magazine about modern residential architecture and interiors.

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for criticism with a body of work that includes a series on Chicago's lakefront. His most recent book, Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago, was published by University of Chicago Press last fall.

James Howard Kunstler is the author of Home From Nowhere (Simon & Schuster) and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, to be published this fall.

Alex Marshall's first book, How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl and The Roads Not Taken (University of Texas Press), was published in January. He is a frequent contributor to Metropolis and his work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Architecture, the Washington Post and other publications. He recently was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

Philip Nobel is a Metropolis contributing editor and writes a monthly column, Far Corner, for us. He also writes for the New York Times, MSNBC, I.D., and Architecture.

Luc Sante (not shown) is the author of Low Life (Vintage), Evidence (Noonday), and The Factory of Facts (Vintage).

Rebecca Solnit lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco. She is the author of Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (Verso) and Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Viking).

Michael Sorkin is principal of Michael Sorkin Studio and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York.

Véronique Vienne is the author of the books The Art of Growing Up, The Art of Imperfection, and The Art of Doing Nothing (all Clarkson Potter). She also writes for Graphis, AIGA Journal, House & Garden, and Martha Stewart Living.

Allan Temko won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1990. He is the author of three books, No Way to Build a Ballpark, Notre-Dame of Paris, and Eero Saarinen, and worked on and off for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years.

ART:
David Carson designed the October 1999 issue of Metropolis, the last published in our former tabloid size. He is the principal of David Carson Design, Inc. which has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, and Paris. His book The End of Print (Chronicle) is the largest selling graphic design book of all time with over 200,000 copies currently in print.

Nancy Kruger Cohen was the Metropolis art director from 1990 to 1995. Since then she has been art director of New Woman, Details, and ESPN Magazine. She is currently at Carlson and Partners Advertising, where she is art director of national advertising for Polo Sport and Childrenswear at Polo Ralph Lauren, as well as for RL Girl, a magazine for girls.

Christopher Griffith has photographed for Nike, Issey Miyake, British Airways, Wallpaper, French Vogue, and Arena, among many others. His book, States, came out in May 2000.

Tad Hara, a native of Japan, is an art director at marchFIRST, pursuing interdisciplinary problem solving, including interaction design, information design, and environmental design. He co-chairs a newly formed R&D group dedicated to "Interactive Design: Theory & Practice" with Michael Chichi.

In addition to the monthly comic he does for Metropolis, Ben Katchor is the creator of "Hotel & Farm," a strip which appears in the Forward and a dozen other weekly newspapers around the county. His latest book is Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District (Pantheon). A 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he lives in New York City.

A native New Yorker, Conrad Kiffin was educated in fine art and commercial photography at Brooklyn College and the Germain School of Photography. Kiffin Studio has been creating images for clients for 10 years.

Photographer Kristine Larsen was recently on assignment in Grenada for Fortune. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Dwell, and numerous other publications.

The original 1980 prototype of Metropolis was done by Carl Lehmann-Haupt, who was also the magazine's creative director from 1990 to 1998. Last year he developed the prototypes for two magazines that will debut this month: the relaunch of Modern Maturity and the launch of the AARP's new magazine, My Generation.

Clement Mok is an author, design-patent holder, founder of two successful software companies, and currently the chief creative officer at Sapient*an e-service consulting company. He has been published internationally and has received hundreds of awards from professional organizations and publications including I.D. which named him among 1994's 40 most influential designers.

Paula Scher's redesign of Metropolis debuted in November 1999. She is a principal at Pentagram Design and her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

In 1989, after three and a half years as Metropolis Art Director, Helene Silverman left to co-found Hello Studio. She continues to work for clients in the publishing, music, and entertainment fields. For 10 years she has been the Design Director of the Red Hot Organization, producing music, video, and television projects dedicated to eradicating AIDS.

Shawn Wolfe is an artist and designer living in Seattle. He is best known as the man behind Beatkit, the self-styled "brand without a product," and his ongoing "Panic Now" campaign. A monograph of his work, Uncanny (Houston) was published in 2000.