Raymond Quek takes up his new role as Professor of Architecture at Bond University, Australia in 2012. He was recently Head of Architecture at Nottingham Trent Univeristy and was Director of Architectural Studies at University of Nottingham. He has also in taught in Universities in Liverpool, Singapore and New Zealand. His academic research explores Architectural Representation in the History of Ideas as a problem of knowledge, the meeting of East and West circa 14 – 18c, and the problematic dissemination of leading paradigms in art & architecture. He is editor of the volume 'Nationalism & Architecture' due for release in spring 2012 (Ashgate). He is the author of the forthcoming book, 'Fiction • Image • Tone: Metropolis & Architecture Witnessed' (Routledge, 2012) and is working on disegno, emblemata, stampe - a project on the rise of visual knowledge in architecture, as part of the larger project "Redefining Architecture as a Humanistic Discipline' for the Leverhulme Trust. A book manuscript titled 'Architecture Re-inscribed: Encountering Modern Architecture - Singapore 1923 – 1975', is also in preparation.
Robert Proctor is Lecturer in Architectural History at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. He studied at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities. He has written on French architecture around 1900, and on modern architecture in Britain, and has recently been awarded a major AHRC grant for a book project on Roman Catholic church architecture in post-war Britain.
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