Michael Vahrenwald is a photographer and co-founder of the publishing imprint ROMAN NVMERALS. His works have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, El Croquis, A+U, DOMa, Arch+, Dwell, Wallpaper, and Flash Art amongst others.

His works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Museum, and the Nerman Museum. He received a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA in Photography from Yale University. Michael has taught photography at The Cooper Union, Bard College, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Hartford, and Yale University. He is represented by the photographic agency Esto.

Michael lives and works in The Bronx, New York.


Christopher Neville is an independent historic preservation and public history consultant. His research-driven interdisciplinary practice draws on over twenty-five years of experience in heritage conservation, architectural restoration, field archaeology, public art, and other forms of site-specific investigation and interpretation. Significant past collaborations include projects with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Place Matters project, the historic preservation consulting firm Higgins, Quasebarth & Partners, the public art collective REPOhistory, and the architectural restoration firm Traditional Line, all in New York. He teaches in the historic preservation programs at both Pratt Institute and Columbia University.


Marianela D’Aprile is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She writes broadly on culture and politics, with a focus on architecture and art. Her work has appeared in Jacobin, The Nation, Metropolis, and The Architect’s Newspaper, among many others. With Cooper Rogers, she was Editor-in-Chief of Room One Thousand, UC Berkeley’s journal of architecture. She currently serves as the deputy editor of the New York Review of Architecture.