Leon van Schaik AO, LFAIA, LFAA is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at RMIT in Melbourne. He is a widely published writer on architectural culture, promoting it worldwide through the design practice research program that he initiated in 1987. He was awarded the inaugural AIA Neville Quarry Prize for architectural education. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to architecture and education.

Series editor Dr Fleur Watson is the executive director of and chief curator for the Centre for Architecture Victoria/Open House Melbourne, a not-for-profit organisation that actively engages the public with the agency of good design to positively shape our built environment and communities. Previously, she was curator at Design Hub, an exhibition space dedicated to cross-disciplinary design practice and research at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

She has held senior curatorial positions in Australia and internationally, including as the founding executive curator of the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries; architecture curator for the National Gallery of Victoria's survey exhibition Melbourne Now (2013/2014); and program curator (architecture) for the European Capital of Culture (Maribor, Slovenia, 2012). In 2010, Fleur co-founded the independent Pin-up Architecture & Design Project Space. Fleur is the author of The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture & Design (Routledge) and a former editor of Monument magazine.