2004 Jury Members
Peter Rummell
Jury Chairman
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.
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.
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.
A. Eugene Kohn
President, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Gene Kohn has been the president of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) since he co-founded the firm in 1976. KPF is a 400-person practice that provides full architecture, master planning, space planning, programming, building analysis and interior design services. Kohn is a registered architect in 26 states and the United Kingdom and Japan. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and in 1998 was president of the AIA New York City Chapter. Kohn has chaired and served on a number of design award juries, has published widely, and has served as a visiting critic and lecturer at numerous colleges and universities as well as conducting courses at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the past ten years. Kohn holds Bachelors and Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Kohn serves on many boards of both civic and professional organizations and serves as a Trustee of ULI.
Ronald Ratner
Executive Vice President and Director, Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
Ronald Ratner currently holds the position of Executive Vice President and Director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. In addition, he is President of Forest City Residential Group which comprises all of the multifamily residential ownership, development, management and financial activities of Forest City Enterprises. Ratner’s experience with Forest City began in 1975 and has included direct development, construction, financing and management responsibilities, beginning with individual projects and executive supervision of multiple large-scale developments on a national level. He has had direct responsibility for over 40,000 residential units in 15 states. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Brandeis University and completed the Masters Program in Architecture at UCLA. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and a Director of the National Multi Housing Council, and has served as a member of FNMA’s National Housing Impact Advisory Council.
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