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Torsten Schmiedeknecht Editor

Torsten Schmiedeknecht teaches design, history and theory at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, UK. His research interests include the representation of architecture in print media; rationalism in architecture; and architectural competitions. He is the co-editor of The RationalistReader, Rationalist Traces, An Architect’s Guide to Fame and Fame and Architecture. He is currently working on an RIBA-funded project about the representation of (modern) architecture in children’s literature.

Andrew Peckham teaches architecture at the University of Westminster, UK. He has co-edited, with Hannah Lewi, a series of annual anthology issues of The Journal of Architecture (2016–2018) and is currently editing a book on teaching ‘studio’: The Intrinsic and Extrinsic City. His Architecture and its Imprint is due for publication in 2018.