Sick Architecture

Mark Wigley is a Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. As an architectural theorist and historian, Wigley explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. He wrote We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture with Beatriz Colomina (Lars Müller, 2025) and Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design with Beatriz Colomina (Lars Müller, 2016) and co-curated “We the Bacteria Notes. Toward Biotic Architecture” (Triennale Milano, 2025), again with Beatriz Colomina.

Guillermo S. Arsuaga is an architect (ARB, RIBA), tutor in History and Theory Studies and in the HTC MA program at the AA, and a PhD candidate at Princeton University. He was a Mellon-Marron Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is co-editor of Sick Architecture (MIT, 2025).

Gizem Sivri is a PhD student in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.

Shivani Shedde is an architect and doctoral student in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.

Kara Plaxa, is a Ph.D. student in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University investigating the intersections of gender, queer sexualities, and fetish play in urban landscapes.

Iván López Munuera is a New York-based architectural and art historian, critic, and curator. Since 2015 he has been developing his dissertation on the architecture of HIV/AIDS at Princeton University.

Rebecca Kellawan is a professional archaeologist and doctoral student in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.

Beatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University. Her books include We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture with Mark Wigley (Lars Müller, 2025), X-Ray Architecture (Lars Müller, 2019), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design with Mark Wigley (Lars Müller, 2016), Domesticity at War (Actar and MIT, 2007), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT, 1994), and Sexuality and Space (PAP, 1992). She co-curated "We the Bacteria: Toward Biotic Architecture" at the Triennale Milano (2025) with Mark Wigley, and her coedited volumes include Sick Architecture (MIT, 2025), Radical Pedagogies (MIT, 2022), and Clip/Stamp/Fold (Actar, 2010).

Carrie Bly is a licensed architect currently pursuing a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.

Victoria Bergbauer is a PhD student in the History Department at Princeton University.

Nick Axel is Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture and the Head of the Architectural Design department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He was recently Editor of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, and from 2020–2022, was Curator of Architecture and Chair of the Architectural Advisory Board at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kyiv.

An Tairan is an architectural historian, theorist, and designer. He is a PhD student in History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University.