2005 Jury Members
Joseph E. Brown,
Chairman
President and CEO, EDAW, Inc.
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
Architectural Critic, Boston Globe
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 magazines. 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.
Bonnie Fisher
ROMA Design Group
Bonnie Fisher is a Principal of ROMA Design Group and Director of Landscape Design. Her project experience ranges in scale from planning for major open space preservation and restoration projects and the planning of new urban districts to the specific design and implementation of urban open space, plazas, and streetscapes.
Fisher is a registered landscape architect, and holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor’s of Arts (Cum Laude) from UCLA. Over the course of her career, she has taught and lectured at various educational and other institutions, has contributed numerous articles and chapters and authored a book (in progress); has served as major speaker at various conferences, such as the National Society of Ecological Restoration, the Urban Land Institute, and the American Planning Association. She has served on numerous awards juries, including the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Congress for New Urbanism, and has also received numerous awards for her professional work. Currently, she serves as a member of the newly formed Urban Forest Council for the City and County of San Francisco and is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for the new University of California campus at Merced.
Over the past twenty years, Bonnie has played a key role as the lead designer and planner on a number of projects in California, across the country and around the world. In San Francisco, she has played a longstanding role in the redevelopment of the urban waterfront and its transformation from industrial and maritime uses to a vibrant mixed use urban district served by transit and connected by a necklace of diverse open spaces. Currently, she is actively involved in the urban design effort associated with the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall on the Seattle waterfront and is the landscape architect for the design of the Martin Luther King National Memorial on the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC.
A. Eugene Kohn
President, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
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.
Christopher B. Leinberger
The Brookings Institution/University of Michigan
Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer, and author, based in Washington, D.C. He is a Professor of Practice and the Director of a new Graduate Real Estate Development Program at the University of Michigan. Leinberger is responsible for providing leadership to the university’s emerging real estate initiative which has been spearheaded by the architecture college and involves the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Law School as well as several other University of Michigan schools and colleges.
He is also a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C, focusing on research and practices that help transform traditional and suburban downtowns and other places that provide “walkable urbanity.” In addition, he is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a progressive real estate development firm with projects in downtown Albuquerque; Independence, Missouri; Seaside, Florida; and five projects in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Leinberger also spent 20 years as managing director and co-owner of Robert Charles Lesser & Co., the country”s largest independent real estate consulting firm.
Leinberger has written award-winning articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Urban Land magazine, among others, and is the author or has contributed chapters to six books. He has been profiled by CNN, NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio, Progressive Architecture, among others. Chris is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School.
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