Deborah Gans is Principal of Gans studio and Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute. She has also taught as visiting critic at Yale University. Deborah Gans is an editor of Bridging the Gap: Rethinking the Relation of Architecture and Engineering, which was honored by the AIA International Book Awards, of The Organic Approach and of Extreme sites: Greening the Brownfield. She is author of The Le Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition. She received her BA from Harvard University and her M.Arch from Princeton University.