Mitchell Squire is an architect, artist, storyteller, toymaker, provocateur, and member of the JAE Fellows Jury. He is also Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. In 2010 he was a resident of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as well as one of seven artists to receive the Midwestern Voices and Visions award, spending five weeks in residence at Ox-Bow, a Michigan school affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his BA in architecture and MArch from Iowa State University. He joined that faculty in 2001 and teaches, among other courses, a seminar on ethics and esthetics titled “Goodness and Beauty,” and a design studio on toys and the role of playfulness, curiosity, and “trouble-making” in intellectual development and problem–solving. Squire has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, and the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York.