JURY
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Allison Arieff Allison Arieff is Food & Shelter Ambassador for GOOD, and writes the “By Design” column for The New York Times. She also consults on media, design and sustainability, most recently for Urban Revision and IDEO. From 2002-2006, Arieff was Editor-in-Chief of Dwell, and was the magazine’s founding senior editor. Arieff is author of the books Prefab and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America. She began her editorial career in book publishing with stints at Random House, Oxford University Press, and Chronicle Books. Arieff lives in San Francisco where she has a 500-square foot urban farm in her backyard. |
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Teddy Cruz Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala City. He obtained a Master in Design Studies at Harvard University in 1997 and established his research based architecture practice in San Diego, CA in 2000. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, and in collaboration with community based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar, for his work on affordable housing in relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. In 1991, he received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and in 2005 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics. In 2008 he was selected to represent the US in the Venice Architecture Biennial and he is currently an associate professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. |
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Daniel DʼOca Daniel D’Oca is a Principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners, a New York-based architecture, planning, and research firm, and an Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Interboro's most recent projects include “LentSpace,” a 30,000 square foot sculpture space in lower Manhattan, “Community: The American Way of Living,” a submission to the American wing of the 2009 International Biennale Rotterdam (which Interboro co-curated), and the first neighborhood redevelopment plan of the Cory Booker Administration in Newark. He received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School in 2002. He lives and works in Brooklyn. |
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Rob Lane Robert Lane, Senior Fellow for Urban Design at Regional Plan Association, directs the Centers Program which is devoted to combating sprawl and promoting compact, transit-oriented development. Recent projects include the Stamford Master Plan (2002); the Somerville Station Area Vision Plan and redevelopment plan; and the Newark Vision Plan (2006). Research activities at RPA include Redesigning the Edgeless City, an initiative funded by the Lincoln Institute that focuses on redesigning the suburbs. Mr. Lane is an architect and urban designer who combines professional practice with urban design and planning research. Mr. Lane has initiated and completed major independent research projects including, The Machine Next Door, which examined industrial redevelopment strategies in American cities; and Beyond the Box, which focused on the urban design issues associated with “superstore” development in New York’s manufacturing districts. |
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Paul Lukez Paul Lukez is a practicing architect and teacher. He is also the author of Suburban Transformations (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) which proposes strategies and processes for transforming suburbs and edge cities into more sustainable and habitable environments, with a unique identity strongly linked to the landscape. His active practice is engaged in the design and construction of a variety of building types in the US and China. The studio’s current projects include the design of a state of the art 50,000 SF sustainable demonstration building in Hangzhou, China. In addition, his practice recently completed the urban design of a $500 million TOD in Massachusetts. Paul Lukez is a graduate of MIT and has worked for S.O.M. / Chicago, William Rawn Associates among others. He is the recipient of numerous academic and professional honors, and his work has been recognized by editors of local, regional and (inter)national publications. Paul Lukez taught most recently as a professor at MIT and Washington University. |
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Lee Sobel Lee Sobel is the Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst in the US EPA’s Development, Community & Environment Division (the Smart Growth program). Mr. Sobel’s work focuses technical assistance, outreach and education, and research and policy, related to real estate development that achieves smart growth goals and outcomes. Prior to joining the EPA, Mr. Sobel was a Senior Associate in the Miami office of CB Richard Ellis’ Investment Property Group, selling shopping centers and retail property throughout Florida. Mr. Sobel has been an active commercial real estate and mortgage broker in Florida for over eight years. Mr. Sobel is the author of Greyfields Into Goldfields; Dead Malls Become Living Neighborhoods, and co-author of This Is Smart Growth and Getting To Smart Growth II. He has a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and is a resident of Maryland. |
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Galina Tahchieva Galina Tahchieva is director of town planning for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ). DPZ, a leader in the New Urbanism, the movement to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment, has completed designs for more than 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects on five continents on sites ranging from 10 acres to more than 500,000 acres. An expert on how to successfully implement urban development in a range of environments, from downtowns to suburban retrofits and resorts, the topic of retrofitting suburbia is of special interest to Tahchieva, who has been working on a number of projects that transform sprawl into sustainable communities. |
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Georgeen Theodore Georgeen Theodore is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture and Design, where she is the Associate Director of the Infrastructure Planning program. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she graduated with distinction. She is a founding partner and principal of Interboro, an award-winning New York City-based architecture and planning research office. Theodore’s work has been published and exhibited widely and she has served on numerous juries, most notably on the Progressive Architecture Awards Jury in 2009. |
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Jury Coordinator June Williamson June Williamson is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the City College of New York / CUNY. A registered architect and LEED-accredited professional, she has contributed to numerous urban design projects while teaching and practicing in Boston, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Los Angeles and, now, New York. She is co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of the book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Architecture and Urban Planning from the Association of American Publishers, and her writing has been published in the book Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader as well as the journals Places, Harvard Design Magazine, Urban Land, the Journal of Urbanism, and Thresholds. |
