Alison Fisher is the Harold and Margot Schiff Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. She specializes in alternative histories of modern architecture, design, and urbanism and has curated many exhibitions in these areas, including Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention; The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980; and Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City; and Bruce Goff: Material Worlds.