Professor Dr. Tom Sandqvist is a writer and scientist who graduated in 1979 from the University of Helsinki and defended his doctor´s thesis on Mimimalism and its theoretical background in American aesthetics in 1988 at the University of Lund. After working as art critic in both Finland and Sweden and as senior curator at Swedish Travelling Exhibitions in Stockholm he worked as professor in art theory and history of ideas at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm as well as at the University College of Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden. He has also worked both as senior lecturer and professor at The University College of Photography and Film in Gothenburg, Sweden. Currently Sandqvist is assistant professor in art history at the University of Lapland, Finland, and senior lecturer at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Sandqvist has published several books and studies on contemporary art, philosophy, and aesthetics, at the moment involved in a research project on Eastern European Modernism. In Janurary-February 2004 he will publish a book called “Dada East” on Dada and its cultural history in Romania and Eastern Europe. As curator Sandqvist has been responsible of several exhibitions in both Sweden, Finland and elsewhere. Tom Sandqvist lives and works in Lid, Nyköping, and Stockholm, Sweden.




Professor Dr. Ana Maria Zahariade has graduated in 1973 the “Ion Mincu” Institute of Architecture in Bucharest. After three years of architectural practice, she returned to the School as an assistant professor at the Architectural Design Chair. With a thesis that tried to interrogate the official stance on high-rise buildings for the housing areas, she received the Ph. D. degree only in 1990. After the 1989 revolution she has been enthusiastically involved in the updating process of the Romanian architectural education. She joined the Chair of Theory and History of Architecture, being in charge with the Theory of Architecture section. She is a professor since 1999, and Head of the Chair since 2002. Getty Senior Fellow (1998 and 2000), Ana Maria Zahariade pursued her theoretical researches on Romanian and East European Modernism. Since 1991, she has lectured in Paris, Liege, Prague, Brno, Hamburg, Hanover, Vienna and Florence. Co-author of the “Horia Creanga”, “Marcel Janco” and “Romanian Modernism” retrospectives, she was vice-curator of the Romanian exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennials in 1996 and 2000, and author of the Romanian catalogues. Professor Zahariade has published numerous articles in Romanian and foreign architectural journals and magazines, and has contributed to various architectural congresses and seminars. She has been awarded the Romanian Union of Architects Prize for her publications in 1998 and is the recipient of the 2003 Herder Prize awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation and the University of Vienna for her theoretical work and cultural activism. Ana Maria Zahariade lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.