Adrian Lahoud is an architect and teacher working on concepts of scale and their architectural, urban, and geopolitical consequences. Currently he is leading the Master of Architecture (MArch) in urban design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and is an external thesis advisor on the MPhil “Projective Cities” program at the Architectural Association, London. He joined the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011 as director of the MA program and research fellow on the Forensic Architecture European Research Council project; prior to this he was director of postgraduate urban design at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he led a small, award-winning private practice. His doctoral research sets out a philosophical, scientific, and architectural history of scale as a problematique, using case studies of post-war urban planning, territorial governance, and climate modeling. He has written extensively on questions of spatial politics and urban conflict with a focus on the Arab world and Africa. In 2010 he guest edited a special issue of Architectural Design titled “Post-traumatic urbanism.” More recently, his work has been published in The Journal of Architecture, Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, and New Geographies 5: The Mediterranean, and Performing Trauma. He exhibits and lectures internationally, most recently at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Tate Britain, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. He has been a guest critic at the Royal College of Art in London, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Angewandte Vienna, and the Technical University of Berlin.