About the Author

IAN LUNA is the author and editor of several books on architecture, urbanism and design for Rizzoli, including New New York: Architecture of A City (2003); Imagining Ground Zero (2004, with Suzanne Stephens and Ron Broadhurst); Retail: Architecture and Shopping (2005), and On the Edge: Ten Architects from China (2007, with Yung Ho Chang and Thomas Tsang).�

MORI TOSHIKO is principal of her firm, Toshiko Mori Architect, in New York City.� She is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has been Department Chair since 2002.�

LAUREN A. GOULD is an art director and writer based in New York City. She is currently working on a number of monographs on photography and fashion.�

TOM MES & JASPER SHARP co-edit Midnighteye.com, the premier English-language website on Japanese cinema. Tom Mes is an authority on contemporary Japanese cinema and is the author of several books, including Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto (2005), Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike (2004), and with Jasper Sharp, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film.