John Lobell received his architecture degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and is a professor of architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Lobell has a widely ranging mind, addressing how changes in our structures of consciousness change our culture. He has written numerous articles, contributes to several websites, and has lectured throughout the world. He is the author of Visionary Creativity: How New Worlds are Born, Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy, Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn, and Joseph Campbell: The Man and His Ideas.