Norihito Nakatani / 中谷礼仁 // Japan

（なかたに　のりひと／歴史工学／早稲田大学理工学術院建築学科准教授）
特異な活動で知られる建築史家。近世大工書の編纂、古代から現在までの土地形質の継続性と現在への影響の研究、最近では90年前に今和次郎が訪れた民家すべてを再訪し、その変容を記録する活動を主宰。編集出版組織体アセテートを作り、レアで普遍的な他人の著作を刊行。著書に『セヴェラルネス 事物連鎖と人間』(鹿島出版会，2005) 『国学・明治・建築家』（一季出版、1993） など。

Architectural historian and Assistant Professor at Waseda University. He received his PhD in 1998 from Waseda University in Tokyo. His interests cover a wide range, from technical to ideologic aspects of architecture. While producing historical studies and critical texts as a scholar, he also sometimes works on house-renovation projects as a designer. In order to promulgate so-far unknown fine texts written by others, he has created a small editing and publishing organization named "Acetate," from which this particular volume is issued. from 2010, he assumed the chief editor of Kenchiku-Zassi (http://jabs.aij.or.jp/), the oldest architectural monthly magazine in modern Asia over 120 years, is published from Architectural Institute of Japan.

For more info :www.nakatani-seminar.org

Jeeth Iype // India

Eco architect practicing environmental alternatives in architecture, has over 20 years of experience working on group housing, educational, institutional, tourism and health care facilities. With a talent for innovation and translating ideas into architecture, his designs have created many satisfied users.
His passion for alternate lifestyles has lead him to research in human behavior in relation to the built environment, organic farming and Permaculture design.
He is design head of Good Earth, building sustainable communities, which is a pioneer in the field of alternative design built architecture since the past 20 years.
Having worked on the design of Sambhavna Clinic Trust , a holistic medicine clinic for the Bhopal Gas victims, is familiar with the Bhopal site and its surroundings. Is also an architect in the team for the Adyar Eco Park- a eco restoration of an estuary, for the people of Chennai.

For more info : http://www.goodearthhomes.net/Design.html