Shirley Surya is Curator, Design and Architecture, at M+. Since 2012, she has contributed to building the M+ Collections through her research on design and architectural production across greater China and Southeast Asia. At M+, she co-curated the opening exhibitions Hong Kong: Here and Beyond (2021) and Things, Spaces, Interactions (2021), In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (2018), and Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection (2014).

Li Chung (Sandi) Pei is the co-founder of PEI ARCHITECTS (formerly Pei Partnership Architects) and the third son of Eileen and I. M. Pei. With a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in 1976 he entered I. M. Pei & Partners where his award-winning projects include the Wiesner Building / MIT Arts + Media Technologies Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Creative Artists Agency Headquarters in Los Angeles, and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.

Calvin Tsao is the Architect Principal of Tsao & Mckown Architects, based in New York. Before co-founding Tsao & Mckown Architects in 1985, Tsao joined I. M. Pei & Partners in the early 1980s as one of the architects working on the Fragrant Hill Hotel. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Cooper Union, Syracuse University, and Parsons School of Design, The New School, lectured at universities and served as guest critic internationally.

Aslıhan Demirtaş is the founder of Khora, an expanded architecture practice based on research, art, and ecology, first established in New York and currently based in Istanbul. After completing her graduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she collaborated with I. M. Pei as the lead project designer for the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar, and the Miho Institute of Aesthetics Chapel in Japan. Demirtaş has lectured and taught at Parsons School of Design, Bilgi University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and MIT, among others.