The Allegorical Architectural Machine

Daniel K. Brown (MArch, Yale) is a registered architect and Professor of Design Studio at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research investigates allegorical architecture - design as storytelling - situating architecture within the realm of social and cultural activism. He has won numerous international research fellowships including the Fulbright, as well as 12 teaching awards including the National Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching.

Michael Chapman is a practicing architect and Professor at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia. Chapman has written widely about the historical avant-garde, specifically Dada and surrealism as well as industrialisation, Marxism and cycles of modernism. Michael has been commended for numerous awards, including the AIA Unbuilt Award (special mention 2021) and the Australian Tapestry Workshop Architect's Design Prize (highly commended 2021).