2001 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.

Paul Goldberger
Architecture Critic, Author, Educator

Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for the New Yorker, where he writes the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He is also a contributing writer at Architectural Digest, which like the New Yorker is published by Conde Nast Publications. He joined Conde Nast in July of 1997, following a 25-year career at the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his architecture criticism. He joined the New York Times in 1972 and was named architecture critic in 1973. In 1990, he was named cultural news editor and in 1994 he became the paper’s chief cultural correspondent. He lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, and historic preservation.

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.

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.

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.

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