Nina Rappaport is an architectural historian, curator, educator, writer, and consultant in urban manufacturing. She is a founder of Docomomo US (a Vice President and board member) and of the first US chapter - New York Tri-State (President 2006-2012) and currently Vice-President. She has organized numerous programs, grants, and activities. She is author of Vertical Urban Factory (Actar 2015, paperback edition, 2020), co-editor of Design of Urban Manufacturing (Routledge 2020) and editor of Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City forthcoming with Actar July 2022. She curated the traveling exhibition, Vertical Urban Factory, which opened in 2011 in New York and has been shown in 12 venues including Brussels this year. She is Publications Director at the Yale School of Architecture where she edits Constructs, the schools book series, and exhibition catalogs. She is co-editor of the book, Ezra Stoller: Photographer (Yale University Press, 2012) and author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (The Monacelli Press, 2008). She was a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino (2019) and Sapienza Universita di Roma (2018). She is coordinator of history/theory at the Michael Graves College of Public Architecture at Kean University, has taught seminars and studios in New York area schools, writes for numerous journals, books, and lectures internationally. She has received numerous grants and research awards.

Naomi Kroll is a senior conservator with the National Park Service, where she has worked since 1998 providing technical preservation services to parks as part of the Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center. A twentieth-century enthusiast, her recent projects have included the expansive Cold War fallout shelters beneath Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Site in Woodstock, VT and Thomas Edison’s concrete buildings at Edison National Historic Park in West Orange, NJ. She holds master's degrees in architectural history and in the conservation of historic and artistic works from the Conservation Center/Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.  

Douglas Hassebroek, AIA, is an architect and associate principal at Skidmore Owings & Merrill in New York. He has worked on some of the great icons of modernism including Beyer Blinder Belle’s conversion of Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Flight Center into a hotel, SOM’s renovation of Perry Dean Rogers’ 1977 Wellesley College Science Center, and Rafael Vinoly’s unbuilt expansion to Edward Durell Stone’s 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Doug won a national SARA award, with BRB Architects, for master planning the creative destruction of Eggers & Higgins 1970 brutalist superblock One Pace Plaza at Pace University. Doug grew up in Philadelphia’s South Jersey suburbs and spent his twenties living and working in Center City, where he also led walking tours for Philadelphia’s Foundation for Architecture. His career has been flanked by bit roles in two Philadelphia structures: Venturi Scott Brown’s 1992 Christopher Columbus Monument and SOM’s current renovations to Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White’s 30th Street Station. Doug holds architecture degrees from Rice and Columbia, where he received a Kinne Traveling Fellowship to study the State Department’s postwar embassy building program and wrote on Ed Bacon’s postwar moment for Perspecta.

Lee Webb is a historic preservationist and urban planner in Washington DC with close to 30 years of experience in historic preservation, urban design, and planning. Lee has worked at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as with non-profit foundations, and has a wide range of diverse experiences. In his career, Lee has pursued opportunities to introduce new and cutting- edge strategies to assist in historic preservation regulatory reviews. During his tenure at the federal Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, Lee worked with the Department of Energy to establish a nationwide prototype programmatic agreement, to assist in the reviews of weatherization and energy related projects—the first use of this type of agreement document under the ACHP’s regulations. Lee has also worked on creating state level legislation to establish state tax incentives and credits for historic rehabilitation projects. Lee has served on local Historic Preservation Commissions, statewide organizational professional boards and panels, and provided expertise on planning issues for planning commissions. Currently, Lee serves as the Federal Preservation Officer at the National Capital Planning Commission. Prior to joining the NCPC, he was the Executive Director for Thomasville Landmarks, a foundation focused on neighborhood revitalization and historic preservation.