UCL Director John J. Parman, M.Arch. is a Senior Editor of ARCADE, the Seattle architecture magazine, and an editorial advisor to AR+D, the research imprint of ORO Editions, and Room One Thousand, the graduate architecture annual at U.C. Berkeley. He was a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley (2018-2023), and Editorial Director and Senior Advisor at Gensler (1997-2019). He and UC Berkeley Professor Richard Bender (1930-2022) were research collaborators and writing partners for 50 years.

UCL Co-Director Elham K. Hassani, Ph.D. is an Associate Editor of Built Form and Architecture. Construction. Design, and a peer reviewer at the Q1 journal SASBE and the Q1 publisher Routledge. She has taught, supervised, and conducted research at Sapienza University of Rome, where she has an expert qualification in historic district regeneration. She has had visiting posts at Lund and Malmö Universities, and Tashkent University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2020-present).