Frances Anderton is a longtime broadcaster and writer on design and architecture. She is the author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles. Recently, she collaborated with FORT: LA and co-author David Kersh on a new media project, Awesome and Affordable: Great Housing Now, intended to explain and elevate LA’s affordable housing today. She writes a regular newsletter on design and architecture for public radio station KCRW, for which she previously hosted the show DnA: Design and Architecture, and produced the current affairs shows Which Way, LA? and To The Point. Honors include the Esther McCoy Award, from the Architectural Guild of USC School of Architecture. She serves on the boards of AIA/LA, Community Corp, and Palm Springs Modernism Week.  

Casciato is the Senior Curator, Head of Architectural Collections at the Getty Research Institute. She has been responsible for major acquisitions such as Frank Gehry Papers, 1954–1988, and Paul R. Williams Papers. She has curated exhibitions including The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 (2017), MONUMENT(ALITY) (2018), and Bauhaus Beginnings (2019). Among her recent publications: Rethinking Global Modernism. Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial, co-edited with Prakash and Coslett (2022); Technoscape. The Architecture of Engineers, co-edited with Pippo Ciorra (2022); and the facsimile reprint of Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951 (2024). Casciato was nominated as 2023 Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. 

An architectural historian, marketing researcher, and writer, Sian specializes in modern architecture and cultural history. As President of the Society of Architectural Historians/ Southern California Chapter, she has curated numerous architectural tours and events. She is among the authors of the forthcoming Historic Context Statement for the City of Bakersfield. She also wrote the award-winning Japanese American Historic Context for SurveyLA, was a contributing author to the book William Krisel’s Palm Springs, and wrote numerous successful National Register Nominations, including the Woman’s Club of Bakersfield. She received the 2019-2020 Friends of Residential Treasures (FORT) Fellowship and is on the Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design Board. Winship earned a Master’s in Historic Preservation from USC in 2011. 

Architect-historian Alan Hess has published twenty-one books with subjects ranging from Oscar Niemeyer to the Ranch House to Las Vegas. He serves on the California State Historical Resources Commission, and on the boards of Preserve Orange County and Palm Springs Modernism Week. He has been the architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News, and a grant recipient from the Graham and Clarence Stein foundations. Hess has received awards for his work from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Docomomo/US, and the Los Angeles Conservancy. Rizzoli will publish his next book, The Palm Springs School 1934-1975, next February. 

John Berley is a former Senior Associate at Frederick Fisher & Partners where he worked for 25 years.  Significant projects include the Annenberg Community Beach House (formerly the Marion Davies/William Randolph Hearst property) on Santa Monica State Beach, the Sunnylands Visitor Center in Rancho Mirage, numerous projects at Caltech, including the Walter Burke Institute for High Energy Physics, and the restoration/adaptive reuse of the Grand Central Passenger Terminal in Glendale. He is an Executive Board member of the SAH/SCC and is also currently assisting the Neutra Institute for Survival through Design with their three Neutra properties in Silver Lake. 

Noam Saragosti is Director of the Neutra VDL House in Silver Lake and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona University. He teaches architectural programming, first- and second-year design. Noam is also co-director of the design practice Park Saragosti with Juhee Park. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona University and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Dr. Neutra is the youngest son of Richard Neutra. After a public health career in environmental medicine and epidemiology at several universities and the California Department of Public Health, he has been drawn back to the legacy of his father and brother. He has been active in the preservation of the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences and several other Neutra projects. He is an “ambassador” for the Iconic House Network and has written scholarly articles on his father’s career. In addition to preservation, he endorses the Neutra commitment to socially and ecologically responsible design inspired by evidence.

David Coffey is the head of the Bakersfield Built Foundation and owns the Davis Residence (Richard J. Neutra, 1937).  He is also the curator /caretaker of the FLW Ablin House (1959-61) in Bakersfield. He has curated multiple architecture events in Bakersfield beginning with the 2009 “Masters of Modernism: Neutra and Wright in Bakersfield,” Bakersfield Built: The1930’s, and Bakersfield Built: The 1960s. He is on the board of the Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter and a board member of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. David grew up in Cincinnati and graduated from The University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music with a BA in electronic media. He is the founder of Crosley Resource Group, a contract office furniture dealership.