Mahdi Motamedmanesh is an architect by training and a technologist in his thinking. He studied architecture in Tehran (MSc. University of Tehran, 2008) and Berlin (Dr.-Ing., TU Berlin, 2019). He has been working in the development of architectural thought with the goal of incorporating architectural technology and the humanities into architectural theory. He has also conducted intensive research on the building technology of ancient Persia. He currently holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as the German Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte. His research on the history of construction in Asia has received awards from international institutions.

Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
Email: m.motamed@modares.ac.ir

Yiting Pan was trained as a conservation architect, heritage researcher, and construction historian in China (BEng, Tongji University, 2008), Italy (MSc, Politecnico di Milano, 2010), and the UK (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2016). She specializes in architectural and construction history of modern China (19th and early 20th centuries), focusing on Sino-British relations, hybridity, and the conservation of historic building construction. She currently holds a position as a Distinguished Researcher (Associate Professor) at the China–Portugal Joint Lab on Cultural Heritage Conservation Science, Soochow University (Suzhou, China), where she contributed to the development of the BEng program in Historic Building Conservation (established 2016). She is a Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities (2025–2026) at Simon Fraser University (Canada), and an Adjunct Scholar at Dalhousie University (Canada). She is also a Trustee and Board Member of The Construction History Society (UK), and a Board Director of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation (Canada).

Affiliation: Soochow University, China
Email: etingpan@gmail.com

Jiat-Hwee Chang is Associate Professor of Architecture and Research Leader of the Science, Technology and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (2016), which is awarded an International Planning History Society Book Prize 2018 and shortlisted for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize 2017, and the co-author of Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore (2022). Jiat-Hwee is currently working on a book manuscript on the socio-cultural histories and techno-politics of air-conditioning and climate change in urban Asia. Jiat-Hwee’s research has been supported by institutions in North America, Britain, Germany, Australia, Cyprus, Qatar and Singapore.

Affiliation: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Email: jiathwee@nus.edu.sg

Haiqing Li is a Professor of architecture at the School of Architecture, Southeast University (SEU). He has taught architectural construction and design in SEU since 1995, and he has worked at ETH and NTNU as a visiting scholar. He is among the earliest researchers to study the history of architectural technology in modern China with a focus on the building mode in the context of global mobility and the impact of concept on design practice. His academic works include Modern Transformation of Chinese Architecture (中国建筑现代转型, 2004) and Further Exploration of Modern Transformation—Research on the History of Technology of Indigenized Modern Architecture in China (再探现代转型——中国本土性现代建筑的技术史研究, 2020). His numerous papers on the history of construction in East Asia are published in national and international journals.

Affiliation: Southeast University, China
Email: 101004583@seu.edu.cn

Changxue Shu is a historian of 19th- and 20th-century construction, focusing on knowledge production and circulation between Chinese, European, and American contexts. Her research explores the intersections between the intellectual sphere and the built environment. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Between 2017 and 2023, Changxue was an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, where she undertook the project “Fired Clay in the Built Environment” (EU2020). Before that, she held fellowships at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge (2015–2016) and the Politecnico di Milano (2010–2013). Her research has also been supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Research Foundation Flanders, and the CNR Institute for Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage in Italy, among others. She is an ICOMOS member and has worked on World Heritage, national and local monuments and sites, as well as lesser-studied historical sites, first as an architect, planner, and surveyor, and later as a conservator, historian, and educator.Valorization of Cultural Heritage Italy, amongst others. She is an ICOMOS member and has practiced with World Heritage, national and local monuments and sites but also uncharted historical sites, firstly as an architect, planner and surveyor, and later as a conservator, historian and educator.

Affiliation: University of Hong Kong, China
Email: changxue.shu@hku.hk

Amit Srivastava is the Director (India) for the Centre of Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) based at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Having trained and practiced as an architect in India, Srivastava’s primary work focused on the architectural and construction histories of colonial and postcolonial India. His other current research focuses on the themes of the transnational exchange of materials, skills, and construction processes across the Indian Ocean world, from Africa and the Middle East to South East Asia and Australia, with special interest in cases of South-South cooperation. He is also working on a project looking at Australian Architects in Asia and their impact on the material culture in Australia.

Affiliation: University of Adelaide, Australia
Email: amit.srivastava@adelaide.edu.au

Yunlian Chen was trained as an architectural historian in Japan (MPhil, Ph.D., Kyoto Prefectural University, 2002-2010). After completing postdoctoral programs at Nagoya University and the University of Cambridge from 2010-2016, she is currently teaching at the Faculty of International Studies of Gunma University as an Associate Professor. Her main research interests are the construction process of colonial architectures and cities in the Modern East Asian Region. Her first book entitled Urban Formation History of Modern Shanghai (in Japanese 風響社, 2018) sheds light on the construction process of Modern Shanghai’s road, drainage system, as well as harbor and residential architecture. Her current research project which is sponsored by JSPS since 2016 focuses on the history of harbor construction in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and China.

Affiliation: Gunma University, Japan
Email: chenunren@gunma-u.ac.jp

Hilal Tugba Ormecioglu is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Head of the Building Science Programme at the Department of Architecture, Akdeniz University. She studied architecture in Istanbul, Ankara, and Rome (BArch, ITU 2000/MSc, ITU 2003/Ph.D., METU 2010/VGR, UdR-Tor Vergata 2008). Her doctoral thesis was awarded the YTMK Dissertation of the Year Award in 2011. In addition to being a founding member of DoCoMoMo-tr and AkdSMD, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of PlanArch (Ataturk Uni. Press.). Her research interests include modernization, technology, and design relations within the contexts of the history of architecture and construction.

Affiliation: Akdeniz University, Turkey
Email: ormecioglu@akdeniz.edu.tr

Hongbin Zheng is currently an Associate Professor at the Cheung Kong School of Art & Design, Shantou University (Shantou, China). He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China (2014). He was also a visiting Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge University (2012-2013). He specialises in architectural and construction history in Modern China (19th and early 20th centuries), with a focus on foreign architects’ building activities in China and the dissemination and localization of western construction in China.  He is a member of the Architectural History Branch of the China Architecture Society.

Affiliation: Shantou University, China
Email: hbzheng@stu.edu.cn