Mark Mack was born in 1949 in Judenburg, Austria. He attended Technical High School in Graz and later entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During that time, he worked for Steiger & Partners in Zurich and Atelier Hans Hollein in Vienna.

After graduation in 1973, he came to America to work with Hausrucker and Emilio Ambasz, Inc. in New York until 1976. He later moved to San Francisco and worked as an architect and free lance renderer. In1976, he founded Western Addition, an organization devoted to fine architecture. He formed Batey and Mack in 1978 with partner Andrew Batey. Mark co-founded and edited "Archetype Magazine" in 1980. Mark has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe for professional conferences as well as academic forums. His written and built projects have been and continue to be published by major international publications.

In 1984, he founded his own firm, MACK Architect(s). He has held positions as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and since 1993 at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Monograph entitled "Mark Mack, A Californian Architect" was published by Wasmut in 1994. Major Exhibitions on his work were shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in1993 and the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna in 1994. In 1993, he moved his practice to Los Angeles and in1996, he opened a branch office, MACK International, in Judenburg, Austria. He now lives in Venice, California with his wife Faiza and son Mehammed.

Michael Webb writes on architecture and design, travel and film. His books include: It's a Great Wall! and Moore Ruble Yudell Build in Berlin (both 2000), Through the Windows of Paris (1999), four monographs on residential architecture, Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (1998), Architecture + Design LA (1997), Architects House Themselves (1994), LA Access Guide (1992), The City Square / Die Mitte der Stadt (1990), Hollywood.- Legend and Reality (Literary Guild selection,1986), Magic of Neon (1983), and Architecture in Britain Today (1969). Several of these books are illustrated with the author's photographs, which have also been published in leading magazines, and exhibited in a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.

Webb is executive editor for the city architecture guides of The Understanding Business, most recently New York City. He is a contributing editor for Domus and Interiors; a regular writer for Architectural Digest, Belle, Graphis, Hospitality Design, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Metropolis, Robb Report, and UCLA; and an occasional correspondent for A + U, Architecture, The New York Times, and Smithsonian.

In 1980, Webb moved to Los Angeles to write and consult on the arts. He developed a theatrical feature, wrote and co-produced a Smithsonian documentary, The Movie Palaces, an Emmy-nominated special on the history of Hollywood, and a DVD segment on Frank Gehry. He has served as a consultant on film for the Chrysler Corporation, Dentsu, Melvin Simon Associates, Mark Taper Forum, and the Wolfsonian Foundation. He curated Hollywood: Legend and Reality, the acclaimed Smithsonian exhibition, which toured to leading museums in the US and Japan; wrote the companion book, and created film sequences within the exhibition. More recently he contributed an essay on Blade Runner to Film Architecture (Prestel Verlag).

In 1948, Eric joined his grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright, as an apprentice at the Taliesin Fellowship, where we worked as draftsman and construction supervisor for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He left the Fellowship in 1956 to join his father Lloyd Wright, in his architectural practice in Los Angeles, and in 1979 he formed his own office. Through years of design experience, Eric Wright has developed an understanding that it is not the physical walls and roof, but the space within a building that forms its character - its soul. He gives careful thought to a project's physical, social and spiritual environment, with a focus on appropriate materials, quality, craftsmanship and careful detailing. Eric currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Taliesin Preservation Council. In association with Lloyd Wright, he has designed renovations for several of his grandfather's important works including Hollyhock House, Unity Temple and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois. His work on the Storer Residence in Los Angeles received the First Place Restoration Award from the California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Eric's recent contribution as consultant to architect Dean Andrews for the design of the Visitor's Center for the Wayfarer's Chapel in Palos Verdes, is intended to help make the new center an accompaniment to the original building which he worked on with his father three decades earlier. His other recent work has included custom residences, institutional and commercial projects throughout the United States.

Scott Ward is Executive Director of the Palos Verdes Art Center and a fine art photographer. He has been curator and juror for numerous public exhibitions and has had his own work exhibited in solo and group shows nationwide. He is represented in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the California Institute of the Arts. He has curated exhibitions covering such diverse topics as Los Angeles in the ‘30s, Vietnamese-American Artists, California Landscapes, Documentary Photography and Egyptian Papyrus. He has served as a juror for the public art component of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority’s green line stations as well as for numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in photography, watercolor, ceramics and mixed media.

An M.F.A. graduate in photography from California Institute of the Arts, Scott came to the Art Center after 10 years as executive director of the Downey Museum of Art. In his current position at the PVAC, he provides artistic direction and financial oversight for the Center’s exhibitions, education and development programs and community outreach activities. Scott has taught more than 125 fine art photography courses in colleges and universities throughout southern California.