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Pilar Maria Guerrieri Author

Pilar Maria Guerrieri is an architectural historian who has lived between Italy, UK and India for almost 10 years. She has a PhD in Architectural Composition, History and Theory and a second degree in Philosophy. Currently, she teaches History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. She is the author of Maps of Delhi (Niyogi, 2017), Negotiating Cultures: Delhi’s Architecture and Planning from 1912 to 1962 (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Egizio Nichelli Architetto (1937-1991), (Franco Angeli, 2022).

Marco Biraghi is a full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, where he teaches History of Contemporary Architecture. His published works include: Project of Crisis. Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture (The MIT Press, 2013), Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2015 (with S. Micheli, Einaudi, 2013), L’architetto come intellettuale (Einaudi, 2019), Questa è architettura. Il progetto come filosofia della prassi (Einaudi, 2021) and Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II 1945-2023 (Einaudi, 2023).