Guy W. Carwile, a practicing architect in Louisiana since 1985, is the Ken Hollis Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts in the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University. He has contributed to numerous publications, including the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal and CITE: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, among others.

Karen Kingsley, professor emerita of Tulane University School of Architecture, writes widely on southern architecture, including an architectural history column for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities' Cultural Vistas magazine. Kingsley is the author of Buildings of Louisiana and editor-in-chief of the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series, published by the University of Virginia Press.