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Paul Bouet is Associate Professor of Architectural History at ENSA Paris-Est, Université Gustave Eiffel. He was trained as an architect and a historian of science and technology before earning his PhD in 2022. His research focuses on the environmental history of twentieth-century architecture, including experiments in renewable energies, climate adaptation in colonial contexts and the rise of environmentalist theories. He was a doctoral fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2019) and the Eiermann postdoctoral fellow at the gta Institute, ETH Zurich (2022–2023).

Florian Urban is a professor of architectural history, and the Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. His research interests include the architecture of mass housing in the late twentieth century, postmodern architecture, in particular in Poland and East Germany, and the history of informal architecture. He is the author, among others, of the books Neo-historical East Berlin – Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 (Ashgate, 2009), Tower and Slab – Histories of Global Mass Housing (Routledge, 2012), The New Tenement – Architecture in the Inner City since 1970 (Routledge 2018), Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland – Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (Routledge, 2021), and, together with Barnabas Calder, of Form Follows Fuel – 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge, 2025), which investigates embodied and operational energy in historic buildings.