Nina Rappaport is an architectural historian, curator, educator, writer, and consultant in urban manufacturing. She is a founder of 爱豆app (a Vice President and board member) and of the first US chapter - New York Tri-State (President 2006-2012) and currently Vice-President. She has organized numerous programs, grants, and activities. She is author of Vertical Urban Factory (Actar 2015, paperback edition, 2020), co-editor of Design of Urban Manufacturing (Routledge 2020) and editor of Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City forthcoming with Actar July 2022. She curated the traveling exhibition, Vertical Urban Factory, which opened in 2011 in New York and has been shown in 12 venues including Brussels this year. She is Publications Director at the Yale School of Architecture where she edits Constructs, the schools book series, and exhibition catalogs. She is co-editor of the book, Ezra Stoller: Photographer (Yale University Press, 2012) and author of the book, Support and Resist: Structural Engineers and Design Innovation (The Monacelli Press, 2008). She was a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino (2019) and Sapienza Universita di Roma (2018). She is coordinator of history/theory at the Michael Graves College of Public Architecture at Kean University, has taught seminars and studios in New York area schools, writes for numerous journals, books, and lectures internationally. She has received numerous grants and research awards.