New England Architectural Guide

Sam Gurwitt (born 1996) is a writer, journalist, and translator. He grew up in Vermont and spent formative years in New Haven. His work has focused on architecture, urban history, and the social contexts of the built environment. He studied history at Yale University, where he explored architectural culture on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2021, he move to Germany on a Fulbright grant to research the legacy of East Germany’s mass housing program in Leipzig. He is the author of the two-volume Architectural Guide New England.Dietrich Neumann (born 1956) is the Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and former Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Trained as an architect and historian in Munich and London, he has held visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of Porto and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on building types and materials, architectural illumination, film sets, and the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He is the co-author of the section on Providence in the Architectural Guide New England.Natascha Meuser (born 1967) is a German architect, professor, and publisher based in Berlin, working at the intersection of practice, teaching, and architectural publishing. From 1991 to 1993, she studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she worked in the academic environment shaped by Helmut Jahn. She taught architecture in Dessau, Germany, for many years, including courses in interior design and architectural drawing, and consistently worked to foreground women architects. She is active as an architect on international and overseas projects, and is co-founder of DOM publishers (with Philipp Meuser).Philipp Meuser (born 1969) is a German architect, architectural historian, and publisher based in Berlin, combining practice, research, and editorial work. He completed his first architectural internship in 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia, gaining early professional experience in the United States. During his visiting professorship at Brown University (2022), he initiated the Architectural Guide New England together with Natascha Meuser. He is active as an architect on international and overseas projects with a special focus on crisis regions. Honorary professorships in Ukraine and Uzbekistan underscore his commitment to international cultural exchange.

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