Carsten Krohn was born in Hamburg and studied architecture, urban planning and art history at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, the University of Hamburg and at Columbia University in New York. He obtained a PhD in art history with a study on the reception of Buckminster Fuller in architecture. CarstenKrohn worked in the Berlin offices of Daniel Libeskind and Norman Foster and has taught at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin and as professor at Anáhuac University and at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is the author of books on the work of Peter Behrens, Mies van der Rohe, Hans Scharoun and Erich Mendelsohn, curated the exhibition Unbuilt Berlin and worked with Knut Klaßen on video projects. His photographs have been shown in various exhibitions.

Michele Stavagna studied architecture and the history of architecture at the Università IUAV in Venice, completing his doctorate in the History of Architecture and Urban Design in 2005 with a dissertation on the photobooks of Erich Mendelsohn in the context of his architectural work. He has taught Theory and History of Industrial Design at the Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) and lectures regularly at various European universities and at symposia in Europe, Israel and the USA. He is co-author (with Carsten Krohn) of Erich Mendelsohn – Buildings and Projects (Basel: Birkhäuser 2021), has written numerous articles on Erich Mendelsohn, Aldo Rossi and Baldassare Longhena and is editor and translator of the Italian edition of Die Baukunst der neuesten Zeit by Gustav Adolf Platz. Since 2005, Michele Stavagna lives and works in Berlin and is a correspondent for the magazine of the Association of German Architects (BDA) Die Architekt.

„Die Genese eines brillanten Gestalterduos zeichnet die Monografie auf geradezu klassische Art nach: mit informativen Eröffnungsessays, einem umfassenden Werkkatalog, einer klugen, konzentrierten Bildauswahl und einem wohltuend ruhigen Layout.“ (Ansgar Steinhausen in HÄUSER)

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„Den Autoren gelingt es (erneut), ein Werk umfassend darzustellen, von Expressionismus über neue Sachlichkeit und Heimatstil bis zum Funktionalismus der Nachkriegsmoderne einzuordnen und damit erstmals in dieser Breite zu würdigen.“ (David Kasperek in Die Architekt)