2002 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.

Joseph E. Brown
Landscape Architect
Education: B.Arch., Catholic University (1970); M.Land.Arch., Harvard University (1972)
Current position: President and CEO, EDAW, San Francisco (since 1992)

As a principal of EDAW, Joe Brown has directed numerous projects throughout the United States and abroad. EDAW was founded in 1939, and is now a 750-person planning and design firm with 23 offices worldwide. He is an experienced planner and landscape architect with particular strengths in new community planning, urban planning and redevelopment, community revitalization, historic and cultural design, and the issues confronting areas of rapid growth and development. Brown has been an aggressive voice in his profession’s move toward realizing broader collaboration among disciplines, greater professional visibility and outreach, and being involved early on in the strategic resolution of diverse land- and community-based challenges. He is committed to the fusion of sustainable resource management with enduring and distinguished physical design. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a founding member of the CEO Roundtable, a forum of leaders within the profession, brought together to offer national and international depth to the leadership of the ASLA. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning Association and served on the ULI Awards for Excellence jury for three years as well as contributed to several ULI publications.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor
Arts Administrator and Historic Preservationist
Education: B.A., Manhattanville College; M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Current position: President, American Academy in Rome, New York (since 1988)

Prior to joining the Academy she founded and was the executive director of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation. She contributes to professional journals, is a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is a member of a number of professional and civic organizations. She won the Rome Prize (1983-84) for historic preservation, and now is its president. From 1984-88, she served as director of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Design Program. She is also known as the wife of playwright John Guare (Atlantic City, Six Degrees of Separation).

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.

Peter Rummell
Education: B.A. (English) University of North Carolina; M.B.A.Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1971)
Current position: Chairman and CEO, The St. Joe Company, Jacksonville, Florida (since 1997)

Rummell began his real estate career with the Sea Pines Company in 1971, where he was involved in the development of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and Amelia Island, Florida. In 1977, he moved to the Arvida Corporation, where he served as general manager of the Sawgrass development in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He joined the Rockefeller Center Management Corporation in New York in 1983, leaving in 1985 to become president of Disney Development Company. During his 12 years at Disney, he helped manage the company’s theme park and resort development, including Walt Disney World in Orlando, and was a driving force behind the 20,000-person planned community of Celebration, Florida. At St. Joe, Rummell heads a publicly-traded company that is by far Florida’s largest holder of private lands, with over 1 million acres and 5.5 million square feet of office and industrial space. He is positioning the company to become the largest integrated real estate development and services firm in Florida. He is a governor for the Urban Land Institute Foundation and a trustee of the Urban Land Institute.

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