Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, FAIA, has made significant contributions in the fields of architectural journalism, research, teaching, and practice. Having served as an editor at Architecture: The AIA Journal, Progressive Architecture, ArchitectureWeek.com, and is editor-in-chief of Faith & Form, a quarterly journal on religious art and architecture, he is also a frequent contributor to Architectural Record and writes about architecture and design for the Hartford Courant.

While he has appeared as an architectural expert on The History Channel, he is also the author of more than 20 books on architecture (including five books for children) and has edited and contributed to more than 20 others. Crosbie’s work is also frequently featured on CommonEdge.

Additionally, he has served as an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University and Catholic University and has lectured and served as a visiting critic at architecture schools in North America and abroad, including the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and the Moscow Architectural Institute.

Crosbie is a registered architect in the State of Connecticut and has practiced with Centerbrook Architects & Planners and Steven Winter Associates.

Julia Gamolina is dedicated to advancing the built environment and to celebrating the extraordinary people transforming it. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine and media start-up focused on the extraordinary women that shape our world for the better. Trained as an architect herself and with a decade of experience across all aspects of design and business development, Julia stays engaged in professional practice as an Associate Principal at Ennead Architects. Previously, Julia worked in business development at FXCollaborative, and in design at Studio V, Gabellini Sheppard, and Rockwell Group.

In 2024 and 2023, Julia was listed in Wallpaper*’s Creative America, a list of the people defining the creative landscape in the US. She also received the Special Citation from AIANY in 2019. Julia is also the author of “Both, And” on Substack, and her other writing has been featured in A Women’s Thing, Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, and the Architect’s Newspaper. She serves on the advisory board for Untapped New York’s Journalism Fellowship.

Julia frequently speaks about Madame Architect’s evolution and topics such as architecture, career development, entrepreneurship, and brand building across college campuses such as Harvard, Mount Holyoke, and UCLA; at international conferences like the Women, Architecture and Sustainability Congress in Bogota and the 2023 UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen; and at events such as Sustainability Summit NYC and New York Design Week. She also organizes “Madame Architect Presents,” Madame Architect’s event series where she interviews architects in the spaces they designed.

Julia earned her Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University, graduating with the Charles Goodwin Sands Medal for exceptional thesis. She was born in Novosibirsk, later immigrated to Toronto and then to Colorado Springs, and is based in New York City, having also lived and worked in Austria, Italy, France and Brazil.

Ina Dajci is an architectural designer and Ph.D. researcher at the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture, focusing on the development of regenerative building materials and energy systems. She investigates biological and natural systems that actively contribute to ecological regeneration, redefining architecture’s approach to metabolizing energy, water, and materials in innovative ways. Her research elevates system performance by hybridizing ancient biomaterial cultivation techniques with new, environmentally responsive functions emerging from contemporary material science and nanotechnology.

Alan co-founded MASS with classmates at the Harvard Graduate School of Design to build a more just and beautiful world. Under his leadership, MASS has garnered international acclaim for its innovative approach to addressing global challenges through design.

Alan regularly teaches advanced architecture studios, including at Harvard and Yale, where he was most recently the Louis I. Khan Visiting Professor. As a sought-after speaker, Alan has presented at universities, conferences, and events around the globe. He has authored books, op-eds, and essays, as well as produced films, focused on the role of architecture in catalyzing social change. Chris Anderson, chief curator of TED, described his TED talk as “a different language about what architecture can aspire to be.”

He lives in a house he designed in Cambridge, MA, with his wife and three children, who provide him with regular design critiques. Before architecture, he tried many other fields but is mainly asked to tell stories about a stint as a commercial fisherman in Alaska.

Alan holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College.