Date: 21 February 2012

Chair: Will Hunter, Deputy Editor of The Architectural Review.

Frédéric Migayrou is the director of the Bartlett School of Architecture and head of the architecture department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. For more than a decade, he has been collecting work by up-and-coming architects from around the world, principally for France's central affairs office, amassing one of the most important collections in the world. He was an adviser for the French Ministry of Culture and director of the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC).

Anthony Vidler is the Dean of the Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. A prolific author, his books include The Writing of the Walls: Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (1987), The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), Histories of the Immediate Present: The Invention of Architectural Modernism (2008), James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (2010), and The Scenes of the Street and other Essays (2011).