Dietrich Neumann is the Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of the History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism. He was trained as an architect in Munich, Germany and at the Architectural Association in London and received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich. His publications have dealt with the history of skyscrapers, movie set design, architectural illumination, building materials and in particular with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He has won fellowships at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, at the American Academies in Berlin and Rome and won the Founder’s (1996) and Philip Johnson Awards (2003) from the Society of Architectural Historians, where he served as president 2008-2010 and was named a fellow in 2018. He held visiting professorships at the Yale School of Architecture, the Architecture School of Porto University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Committee on Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and currently serves as president of Docomomo New England.