2000 Jury Members
Robert C. Larson
Chairman, Lazard Freres Real Estate Investors LLC
Robert C. Larson is chairman of Lazard Freres Real Estate Investors LLC, and a managing director of Lazard, a private investment bank providing global financial services. He also is the nonexecutive chairman of Larson Realty Group, a privately owned, Detroit-based company engaged in real estate investment, development, management, leasing and consulting. He is chairman of the ULI Foundation; a trustee of the Urban Land Institute; a member of the executive committee and immediate past chairman of the advisory board of the Wharton Real Estate Center at the University of Pennsylvania; and a member of the Real Estate Roundtable.
Robert Campbell
Architect, Author, Educator
An architect since 1975, Robert Campbell has worked for nonprofit institutions and for cities. As architecture critic for the Boston Globe, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1996. In a review of his book, Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter wrote “Campbell is esteemed by many to be the leading architectural critic in America today.” Mr. Campbell has written more than 80 feature articles and is a contributing editor for Architectural Record and Preservation magazine. He has lectured at a number of colleges and universities, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Regent of the American Architectural Foundation.
Harvey Gantt
Public Official, Architect
Harvey Gantt is the current chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission and a partner in Gantt Huberman Architects, an architectural firm in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was mayor of Charlotte from 1983 through 1991, and is a former member of the Charlotte City Council and the U.S. Democratic Committee. Gantt was named Citizen of the Year by the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1975 and 1984. Because Charlotte experienced unprecedented growth during Gantt’s tenure as mayor, he is credited with much of the success enjoyed by the city today.
Alex Krieger
Architect, Author, Educator
Alex Krieger is chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a principal with Chan, Krieger & Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an award-winning architect and is well known for his work developing master plans. Krieger also is a contributor to several professional journals and magazines.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
Architect, Educator
Jaquelin Robertson is a principal with the architectural firm, Cooper, Robertson and Partners, in the city of New York. He and fellow architect Robert A. M. Stern designed the land use plan for Celebration, Florida, the community developed by the Walt Disney Company. Robertson is professor emeritus for the University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Architecture, where he served as dean. He currently serves on the University Council Committee on Architecture at Yale University’s School of Architecture.