Marina Lathouri studied architecture, philosophy of art, and aesthetics. She directs the Graduate Programme in History and Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association and lectures at Cambridge University. She has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and is Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain, and the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. She writes and teaches on a variety of subjects that lie in the intersection of history and modernity, architecture and writing, the city and political philosophy. Most recently, she co-authored Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (Routledge, 2008) and City Cultures: Contemporary Positions on the City (AA Publications, 2010), and has published several articles.