Duncan Stroik is a practicing architect, author, and professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame. A native of the Washington, D.C. metro area, he worked on federal, civic, and private buildings in Washington early in his career. He is the founding principal of the South Bend, Indiana-based firm Duncan G. Stroik, Architect, a national architecture practice focused on civic and ecclesiastical buildings and informed by the timelessness of classical architecture and the humanism of traditional cities. Stroik’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Architect, and Traditional Building. A frequent lecturer on sacred architecture and the classical tradition, he is the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal and the author of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal.

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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of DPZ CoDesign, and Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami where she directs the Master in Urban Design Program. Her practice ranges from building and community designs to zoning codes. She teaches university courses in architecture, urban design, and adaptation to climate change. She is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and has served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Among the awards she has received are the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture and the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize.

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Robert Adam is a world-renowned architect and a leading authority of modern traditional and classical design. He currently practices at Robert Adam Architecture Consultancy. He previously founded ADAM Architecture in 1992, which is now the largest architecture practice specialising in traditional design in Europe. He has written six books, including the principal textbook on classical architecture and his latest, Time for Architecture. He has won numerous prizes including the world’s highest value architectural award, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, for “the highest ideals of traditional and classical architecture in contemporary society”. Adam also advised Scruton on his work as the co-chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission and Scruton, in turn, reviewed and endorsed a number of Adam's books.

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Nicholas Boys Smith is the founding director of Create Streets, a non-partisan social enterprise that fosters traditional, street-based urbanism. In just a few years, Create Streets has had an enormous impact on urbanism in the United Kingdom, working closely with both the national government and with numerous local authorities of both left and right, and transforming public discourse on how we should build our cities. Scruton asked Boys Smith to serve as a Commissioner on the Building Beautiful Commission, and during Scruton’s illness in the latter part of 2020 they worked together as Co-Chairs: Scruton described Boys Smith as ‘a wonder, a force of nature’. In his work, Boys Smith stresses the empirical arguments for traditional urbanism, from its demonstrable popularity, through its effects on health and wellbeing, to effects on the natural environment.

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