John McMorrough is a principal architect in the firm studioAPT and Chair of the Architecture Program at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. As an architect John has worked for design offices in Kansas City, New York, Boston and Rotter- dam, and has taught theory and design at the Yale School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ohio State University, and the Postgraduate Program Urban Strategies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas, a Master of Architecture (with distinction) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University, where his doctoral research was on the pre-history of post-modernism. His current writings on the problematics of contemporary design include treatments on architecture, urbanism and the apocalypse.