Susanna Sirefman is the founder and principal of Dovetail Design Strategists LLC, a firm that matches clients with designers, architects, and landscape architects. She is the author of several books, including New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture, Chicago: A Guide to Recent Architecture, Whereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities, and The Contemporary Guesthouse: Building in the Garden; has contributed to Architecture, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and Graphis; and is currently a contributing editor for Surface. Sirefman trained at the Architectural Association School of Archiecture in London before returning to her native New York, where she has taught at the Parsons School of Design and at the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York. She was recently an advisor for "Urban Voids: Grounds for Change," an international design competition for Philadelphia's vacant land sponsored by the Van Alen Institute and the City Parks Association of Philadelphia.
