Tadao Ando, a Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, is one of the most important contemporary architects working today. Frédéric Migayrou is a deputy director at the Centre Pompidou Paris. He is Chair and professor of architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture. He founded the Frac Center Collection and ArchiLab. He has curated exhibitions for the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the 21st Century Museum of Art and has contributed to many exhibition catalogues. Serge Lavisgnes is president of the Centre Pompidou. Bernard Blistène is a director at the Centre Pompidou. Masao Furuyama is vice president and professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology; he has published extensively on architecture and on Tadao Ando. Asira Asada is a Japanese postmodern critic and curator specialized in contemporary art, the history of social thought, and economic philosophy. He is dean of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and former associate professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University. Riichi Miyake is professor at Fuji Women's University in Sapporo and previously taught at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Université de Liège, Keio University, and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He has written and contributed to many books on Japanese architects.
