Primarily a painter and sculptor, Tyree Guyton has also been described as an urban environmental artist. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming first a street in his neighbourhood, and then two city blocks into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery by using discarded objects including old shoes, bicycles and baby dolls to embellish abandoned houses, sidewalks and empty lots.
Berthold Lubetkin is widely regarded as the most outstanding architect of his generation to have practised in England. Lubetkin's designs are characterized by clear geometric figures, technical ingenuity, and a functional resolution that show modernism at its most poetic and powerful. Famous works include the Gorilla House and Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Highpoint One/Two Highgate, Dudley Zoo and Finsbury Health Centre.
Poet and computer scientist Richard P. Gabriel is a distinguished engineer at IBM Research, looking into the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems. He is the award-winning author of four books and a poetry chapbook, and popularized the phrase "Worse is Better" in his 1990 essay "Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big".
