Looking Beyond the Structure: Critical Thinking for Designers and Architects

Dan Bucsescu , MS, RA, AIA, is an architect and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he has been teaching since 1980 and served as the director of Pratt's International Summer Seminar in Architecture and Urban Design from 1992 to 2004. Bucsescu has lectured and written about architectural education with a focus on grounding the pedagogical experience in theories of knowledge and philosophy of art. He studied architecture at the Institute of Architecture (Ion Mincu) in Bucharest, Romania, holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The City College of New York and received a Master of Science in Environmental Psychology from University of Surrey, Guilford, England. Bucsescu has been in private practice in New York since 1978.

Michael Eng , PhD, is an assistant professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland. A former Fulbright Scholar and Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Museum of Art's Independent Study Program, he has also taught philosophy and architecture at Pratt Institute and served as co-director of Pratt's International Summer Seminar in Architecture and Urban Design.