Kıvanç Kılınç is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Architecture Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and is managing editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA). He previously taught at Yaşar University and Izmir University of Economics (IEU) in Turkey, and at AUB as Visiting Assistant Professor. Kılınç received his PhD degree (2010) at Binghamton University, SUNY, and master’s degree (2002) at Middle East Technical University. His current research focuses on the transnational connections and their consequences which shaped contemporary social housing practices in Turkey and the Middle East. He has published extensively in academic journals as well as in edited books.
Mohammad Gharipour is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Graduate Program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. He has received major awards from the Society of Architectural Historians, National Endowment in Humanities, Foundation for Landscape Studies, Council of Educators of Educators of Landscape Architecture, American Institute of Architects, and Fulbright. Gharipour has published ten books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions (I.B. Tauris, 2013) and Gardens Renaissance and the Islamic Empires (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017). He has a forthcoming volume on Architectural Dynamics in Pre-Revolutionary Iran (Intellect, 2019). He is also the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
