Isabel Potworowski Editor

Federica Goffi is Professor of Architecture at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her most recent book, Architecture in Conversion: Time, Weather and Tempo in the Work of Carlo Scarpa, was published by Lund Humphrey (2025). Earlier, she published Time Matter[s]: Invention and Re-imagination in Built Conservation: The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter’s in the Vatican (2013). Her recent edited volumes include The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying (Routledge 2022); InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection in Doctoral Research in Architecture (Routledge 2019); Marco Frascari’s Dream House: A Theory of Imagination (Routledge 2017); and the co-edited Architectures of Hiding (Routledge 2024); Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (Routledge 2019). She is the editor of And Yet It Moves: Ethics, Power, and Politics in the Stories of Collecting, Archiving and Displaying of Drawings and Models (Routledge 2021). She has been Co-Chair of the PhD and MAS Program in Architecture (2017–2025), Interim Director (2021–2022), and Associate Director of Graduate and Professional programmes (2011–2017). She holds a PhD in Architecture and Design Research (Virginia Tech), a Dottore in Architettura (University of Genoa), and she is a licensed architect in her native country, Italy.

Isabel Potworowski is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches undergraduate design studio and drawing. She defended her PhD at Carleton University in Ottawa (2025) titled “Discovering Spiritual Atmospheres: Representation Practices in Atelier Zumthor’s Process of Design Buildings That Amplify Spiritual Atmospheres.” She completed her Bachelor’s in Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, her professional Master’s in Architecture at TU Delft, and obtained a Master’s in Architectural History and Theory at McGill. In the Netherlands, she worked at Barcode Architects, the International New Town Institute, and Mecanoo Architecten. Her research interests include the spiritual dimension of architecture, embodied and experiential qualities of space, the design process, and design pedagogy.

Kristin Washco, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture, and a Registered Architect. She received her PhD in Architectural History + Theory at the ASAU, Carleton University, Canada, where she was the former co-coordinator of CR|PT|C (Carleton Research Practice of Teaching Collaborative). She received her Master’s in Architectural History and Theory from McGill University and her professional degree in Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She has practiced professionally across the United States and Canada, and her professional work with NOROOF Architects, DXA Studio, and MADERA has won multiple awards, including the AIA Award of Excellence. In 2021, she co‑founded the design firm Métier Projects. Her research interests are centred around the synaesthetic experience of architecture, methods of architectural representation, and the translation from page to built work.