Troy Conrad Therrien holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, where he received the American Institute of Architects medal as the top ranking student in his class, the Goodman scholarship from the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and the William Kinne traveling prize. He is the founder of the Imagining Recovery project, a multifarious global experiment to recover the imagination in the midst of ‘crisis’. He holds a bachelor degree in applied science in computer engineering and honours mathematics, and was awarded a grant by the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council to study a problem in computational mathematics, and to co-design CUBEE, a cubic, interactive fish-tank virtual reality display unit exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2006. He is currently conducting a separate studies on youth in architecture, and on the history of objectivity in architecture and landscape which he will continue at the Architectural Association in London. He has curated exhibitions in New York, Montreal and Rotterdam, and has worked in architectural firms in New York, London and Paris. He currently lives in New York.