2006 Jury Members

A. Eugene Kohn
Chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects PC

Gene Kohn currently serves as chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the architecture firm he co-founded in 1976 with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox. KPF is a 400-person international practice that provides full architecture, master planning, space planning, programming, building analysis, and interior design services, with studios in New York, London, and a growing presence in Shanghai. 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; as well as a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Japan Institute of Architects; and an honorary member of the Fellows of the Philippine Institute. Gene has helped established and teaches at the Harvard International Real Estate Center. He has also served as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and currently is an overseer for the School of Design and a member of the Wharton Real Estate Advisory Board. 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 and the National Building Museum.

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.

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.

Jeremy Newsum
Group Chief Executive, Grosvenor Estate

Jeremy Newsum is chief executive and a trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, responsible for international strategy and development of the business. He is a director of TR Property Investment Trust plc; an adviser to Bidwells; chairman of the Property Advisory Committee for the Rector of Imperial College; chairman of the advisory board to the Land Economy Department at the University of Cambridge; a director of Sonae Imobiliaria (Portugal); a past president of the British Property Federation; and trustee of the Urban Land Institute.

Newsum joined Grosvenor in 1976 after reading Estate Management at Reading University. In 1979 he left to join Savills where he advised institutional and corporate clients on commercial property investment and development. In 1984, he established a London office for Bidwells, and in 1987 he returned to Grosvenor, where he has been chief executive since 1989.

Under his leadership, Grosvenor has expanded from its home base in London’s Mayfair and Belgravia neighborhoods to an international property development and investment group with interests across the United Kingdom and Ireland; the Americas; continental Europe; and Australia and the Asia Pacific. Grosvenor manages a portfolio valued at approximately $7.8 billion, with interests in 16 countries.

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