Pavel Kuznetsov is an architecture historian, museologist, and curator. He served as the deputy director of Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow (2010-2022) and as the founding director of the State Museum of Konstantin and Victor Melnikov (2014-2022). He had overseen the collections and archives of the Melnikov House and its transition from a private home to a public museum. He led the pre-conservation survey of the house in 2017-2019, supported by Getty Foundation. In 2022-24 he taught the history of the early Soviet modernism in Accademia di Architettura (Mendrisio, Switzerland). Kuznetsov is the author of The Melnikov House: Icon of the Avant-Garde, Family Home, Architecture Museum (Berlin: DOM, 2017, 2021) and the curator of exhibitions Le Corbusier/Melnikov: rencontre à la villa Savoye (2017, Villa Savoye, France), Melnikoff/Мельников(2022, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia), Melnikov: Architect of the Impossible (2023, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio), and Soviet architectural avant-garde: utopias, theories and practice (2024, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio).

Thilo Schulte supports the whole chair through various tasks.

Philip Stöcker supports the work linked to the lecture GdgU (Geschichte der gebauten Umwelt).