Mohammad Gharipour is Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, USA. He has received many prestigious awards and has authored, edited, and co-edited thirteen books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions (2013) and Health and Architecture (2021). He is the director and founding editor of the award-winning International Journal of Islamic Architecture, the co-founder of the Epidemic Urbanism Initiative, and the second vice president of the Society of Architectural Historians. Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books at Dumbarton Oaks, an institute of Harvard University in Washington, DC. An architectural historian and specialist on early modern Italy, his scholarly work explores the intersections of art, science, and urbanism. He is the author, with Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, of Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s “Discrizione della Villa Pliniana”: Reimagining Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria (2021) and coeditor of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (2016) and Military Landscapes (2021).