Gottfried Knapp is responsible for architectural reporting as cultural editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. He has written on contemporary architecture and urban development in almost all the specialist publications in Germany. Frank R. Werner was professor of history and theory of architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart from 1990 to 1993, since 1993 he has been director of the Institut fur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie at the Bergische Universitat in Wuppertal. He studied painting, architecture and architectural history in Mainz, Hanover and Stuttgart.