| 2011 CED Distinguished Visiting Fellows |
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Kofi Bonner (M.C.P. & M.Arch., 1987) Kofi Bonner is Regional Vice President of Lennar Urban. In this role, Mr. Bonner oversees all land acquisition and urban development activities from Sacramento to San Jose, including the Hunters Point Shipyard, Candlestick Point, and Treasure Island. Born in Ghana, Mr. Bonner began his career as an affordable housing developer for Oakland Community Housing Inc., and then served as head of redevelopment for the City of Emeryville. He later held the positions of Director of Community and Economic Development and Interim City Manager for the City of Oakland, where he helped lead efforts to revitalize the city’s downtown neighborhoods. Zorana Bosnic, RIBA, LEED AP Zorana Bosnic was educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She started her carrier in London, joined HOK in Hong Kong and then moved to San Francisco office in 1999. As a Senior Project Designer she worked on numerous projects in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East and West Coast USA. Her expertise includes projects in office, corporate commercial, campus design, and hospitality sector. She has a keen interest in sustainable design technologies applied to façade engineering, focusing on energy savings and daylight enhancement technologies. To ensure the practice maintains its expertise, Zorana combines her project design work at HOK with research and active participation in international sustainable organizations, as well as promotion of sustainable practices. Caitlin Brostrom (M. Architecture, 1990) Caitlin Brostrom graduated from UC Berkeley in 1990 and in 1995 started her own architecture firm in Berkeley called First Bay Architecture. First Bay Architecture specializes in residential design with projects ranging from small garden structures and single room remodels to large scale historic renovations and custom home construction. Current projects include Alta House in Piedmont, Caperton Cottage in Piedmont and Nicasio in Nicasio Valley, California. Caitlin Brostrom and Professor Richard Peters will publish a book in September called A Frame for Living: The Life and Work of William Wilson Wurster, which comprises archival and new photography as well as original drawings and narrative history of 33 residential projects associated with the critical importance of Wurster’s work and theories on education and architecture. Ricardo Capretta (B.A. Environmental Design, 1981) Ricardo Capretta received an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Management in 1984 and a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1995. Ricardo is a licensed architect in the State of California and owner of Westrust Ventures, a real estate development and investment company in San Francisco with over $400 million in assets. Westrust invests in value added real estate and develops mixed-use projects ranging in size from $10 million to $200 million. Frederick C. Collignon Fred Collignon, Ph.D., FAICP, served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs for the College of Environmental Design. He held the Friesen Chair for Urban Studies from 2004 until June 2006. He is most proud of his roles in helping Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and in helping shape the 1973 Rehabilitation Action and the later ADA legislation for those with disabilities. From 1971-76 he directed the nation’s first center for program evaluation and policy analysis of disability programs, based at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. Dana Cuff Dana Cuff’s work focuses on affordable housing, modernism, and the politics of place. Her recent research on urbanism was published in a book titled The Provisional City (MIT 2000), a project supported by both the Getty Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts. She continues these studies through her research on neighborhood politics. Professor Cuff teaches various courses related to the profession of architecture as well as special seminars on cultural issues, suburban studies, and urbanism. Her current work concerns the relationship between emerging digital technologies and their social implications in physical space. Kevin Daly, AIA (B.A. Architecture, 1980) Kevin Daly received his Master of Architecture degree from Rice University. He has been Principal at Daly Genik for over 17 years. Prior to establishing a partnership with Chris Genik in 1990, Kevin worked with Hodgetts + Fung and Frank Gehry. Kevin is in charge of such projects as the award-winning Valley Center House, the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and the new Art Center College of Design South Campus Building in Pasadena. Current projects include new offices for BMW/DesignworksUSA, the UCLA Music Facilities Study, and the Harvard University Art Museum Art Center. Edward Denton, FAIA (B.A. Architecture, 1970) Edward Denton is responsible for planning, design, construction, maintenance operations, and real estate services for the Berkeley campus. He manages a staff of nearly 500 people, with an operating budget in excess of $64 million and a capital construction program totaling approximately $1.5 billion. Ed’s expertise includes project development, design, and program preparation and administration. His knowledge extends to seismic, energy and environmental impact issues, building codes, and ADA and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development design and construction requirements. Penny (Margaret) Dhaemers Penny Dhaemers was called back from retirement in 1996 to continue teaching courses in computer graphics rendering and animation. Dhaemers was the fifth chair of the Department of Design, CED, from 1970-1974, and chaired the Program for Visual Design from 1974-1976. Until 2005, she was the only female chair in the history of CED. After 1976, when all programs on the campus were required to be located in a department, a highly active Visual Studies facility was incorporated into Architecture. Her current research activity is primarily involved with creative output combining computer programs in both 2D and 3D. Betsy Dougherty (M.Arch., 1975) Dougherty and Dougherty was founded in 1979. Betsy served in 2007 as the Chancellor of the National of the AIA College of Fellows and Brian is well known for his work as chair of the AIA National Ethics Council and his LEED accreditation. The company is one of the first firms to embrace CAD technology and has been dedicated to the design of environmentally responsive facilities. Past projects include the Entomology Laboratory at UC Riverside, Anaheim Children’s Station, and the Pediatric Care Unit at Irvine Medical Center. Some recent projects include the San Marino Community Center, and South Region 7 Elementary School. John Ellis, AIA, RIBA John G. Ellis is an architect and urban designer. A graduate of Cambridge University, England, he has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1977. He is Director of Urban Design for Solomon Ellis Torney Corporation, a WRT company that specializes in housing and urban design. John is an Adjunct Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts and a contributing writer to the London-based Architectural Review. Russell Ellis Russell Ellis received his B.A. in Sociology in 1958 from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969. He has taught at the University of California, Riverside; Pitzer College, in Claremont, California; State University of New York at Old Westbury; Yale University; and UC Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture in 1970, where he dealt with the social aspects of architecture and urban design. Publications include Architects’ People (edited with Dana Cuff, Oxford University Press, 1989), which deals with architects’ and planners’ conceptions of the future. Philip Erickson Philip Erickson is a planner, urban designer, and architect with extensive experience in community and urban design, land use and site planning, land use/transportation planning, architecture, and feasibility analysis. The scale of his work ranges from the region to the detail of specific site and street design. Mr. Erickson’s successful completion of these projects results from his commitment to working with the client to critically analyze their needs and identify creative solutions and designs to satisfy these needs. His approach balances a stakeholder consensus-building process with design and technical analysis. His broad experience in design, implementation, transportation planning, market economics, and management allow him to effectively work with and focus the efforts of multidisciplinary teams. Mr. Erickson lectures throughout the country regarding land use and transportation issues and was the lead urban design contributor to the recently published ITE Proposed Recommended Practice – Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities. Norma Evenson Norma Evenson received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Architectural History. She joined Berkeley’s architecture faculty in 1963 as the first historian to be engaged on a full-time basis. Her teaching included both undergraduate and graduate courses as well as design studios, and she was active in the creation and direction of the Ph.D. program. She also served as University Ombudsman and Director of Graduate Studies in the Architecture Department. Professor Evenson’s area of specialization is the history of modern architecture and urban planning. William Fain (B.A. Architecture, 1968) Bill Fain is an architect and urban designer with an international reputation and a long list of professional honors. Mr. Fain has practiced architecture and urban planning for over 35 years. He is the managing partner of, and directs master planning and urban design for, Johnson Fain, a firm of 100 architects, planners, and interior designers headquartered in downtown Los Angeles. With extensive experience in urban design, community planning, downtown redevelopment, and transit-oriented development, his career has focused on advancing the practice of urban design as a bridge between the public good and private benefit. David Friedman (B.S. Civil Engineering, 1975) David Friedman has 33 years of experience as a structural engineer and is an active participant in many professional and nonprofit organizations. He chairs the board of the San Francisco Foundation and is a trustee of the University of California Berkeley Foundation. Focused on seismic engineering, David’s recent projects include the UC Berkeley Memorial Stadium, UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Past projects include the San Francisco Olympic Club, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, and the Morgan Hill Recreation Center. Frank Fuller, FAIA (M.C.P. & M.Arch., 1976) Frank Fuller is an architect and urban designer, overseeing Field Paoli’s urban design portfolio. His architectural design projects include mixed-use, retail and performance facilities. His urban design and campus projects encompass plans for cities and universities in California, the western United States and China; notable examples include the winning competition design for Nevada State College and ongoing master plans and developer guidelines for such cities as Long Beach, Glendale, and Fullerton, California. He has worked in Great Britain and in Finland where he completed a research fellowship in Helsinki. In addition to his professional practice, Frank has lectured and taught at international conferences and universities. Craig Hartman, FAIA Craig Hartman’s work in the United States, Europe, and Asia ranges from entire urban districts to singular works of cultural, commercial, and civic architecture. In his work he is consistently sympathetic to issues of contemporary place and time, as well as the sustainability of urban and natural ecologies. Prior to SOM, Craig established a premier West Coast Architecture group. His work has been recognized with over 80 awards for design, which, in addition to seven national AIA Honor Awards, include two Gold LEED® Certifications and AIA awards for environmental sustainability at Treasure Island and at UC Merced. Allan Jacobs Allan Jacobs taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning from 1975 to 2001 and twice served as its chair. Presently he is a consultant in city planning and urban design with projects in California, Oregon, and Brazil, among others. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Miami University and studied at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He received his master’s degree in city planning in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he later taught. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Publications include The Boulevard Book (with Macdonald and Rofe), Great Streets, and Looking at Cities. Ray Kappe (B. Architecture, 1951) After graduation from UC Berkeley in 1951, Ray Kappe cut his housing teeth working for the San Francisco firm of Anshen + Allen; as a designer of Eichler houses; and with Los Angeles-based architect Carl Maston, with whom he designed apartment buildings. He is the founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Throughout his career, Ray was especially drawn to urban planning and co-founded a collaborative, Kahn Kappe Lotery [Boccato] Architects. He taught design at the University of Southern California and in 1968 founded the architecture department at California Polytechnic State University at Pomona (Cal Poly). Christopher Kent ASLA (MLA 1993) At PGA Design, Chris Kent enjoys working on a wide range of projects serving public and private clients. As a member of the California Watercolor Society, his work has been exhibited at the Plattsburgh Museum, SUNY, as well as at the Frye Museum in Portland. His ongoing interest in documenting landscapes through watercolors helps him to analyze the richness of our built and natural environments, and better understand the problems. As a board member of the Northern California Chapter of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, Chris helps to influence public policy that justly advocates for and advancements the profession. Bob Lalanne (B.A. Architecture, 1978) Bob Lalanne’s early career included construction management work in San Franciso with Stone, Marraccini & Patterson and Dinwiddie Construction Company, where he served as project manager for the Crocker Center Tower and Galleria, and the corporate world headquarters for Levi Strauss & Co., Levi Plaza. In 2000, Bob formed The Lalanne Group. The firm is currently developing the Lofts at Albert Park, a 95,000 square foot mixed-use development in San Rafael. Bob is chair of the Finance and Administration Committee of the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees, and chairs the Urban Land Institute and the St. Mary’s Center Foundation Board. Bob has 24 years of experience as one of the most active multi-family housing developers, having produced approximately one thousand urban infill units in the Bay Area. Ted Lee (M.B.A., 1966) After he graduated with his MBA from the Haas School of Business in 1966, Ted Lee took on the role of real estate advisor for various minority communities in California and worked on urban redevelopment projects on their behalf. Ted had a hand in creating such projects as San Francisco’s Japantown and Jones Memorial Homes, Sacramento’s Chinatown, and the Filipino Center in his own hometown of Stockton. He created the Urban Land Company, based in San Francisco and Las Vegas. Gordon L. Linden (B.A. Architecture, 1968 & M.U.D., 1972) Gordon Linden has over four decades of experience in the planning, design and implementation of urban and regional projects. His academic preparation has given him a unique perspective on the dynamics of the project development process, and he has applied his knowledge to a variety of project types. These include leisure and recreation facilities, residential communities, commercial and institutional buildings, and transportation facilities that have spanned the globe. Robert Mangurian (B.Architecture, 1967) Robert Mangurian is an internationally recognized architect and a founding member of STUDIO WORKS Architects, where he has served as a principal since 1969. In addition to his primary endeavor as Principal-in-Charge of Studio Works Architects, Mr. Mangurian served as the Director of the Graduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture from 1987-1997. In the first stages of the new $750 million dollar J. Paul Getty Museum and Center project, Mr. Mangurian was invited as a consultant to establish state-of-the-art, three-dimensional modeling facilities. Dan Marks Dan Marks has been with the Planning and Development Department for the City of Berkeley since 2003. Prior to joining the City of Berkeley, he was the Planning Director for the City of Fremont, and has held positions as a land use planner in the public, private and non-profit sectors for almost 30 years. W. Mike Martin Mike Martin’s teaching has focused on the study of practice and collaborative design, and storytelling as a means of knowledge transfer. Digital media is central to his process of representation of knowledge transfer from practice. Mike currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a visiting professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the 2005 AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Fellowship for Research. Tom Mead (B.A. Architecture, 1974) Tom Mead is a 30-year veteran of the construction industry, and is active in many nationwide construction and community-based projects. He is responsible for all hospitality projects at Webcor, as well as many high-rise residential projects and institutional projects. Tom’s past projects with Webcor include the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, the 60 story Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. He is currently working with the University of California to rebuild Cal’s Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. Tom serves as a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation. William Menking William Menking is an architectural historian, writer, critic, and curator of architecture and urbanism. He is professor of architecture, urbanism, and city planning at the Pratt Institute and has lectured and taught at schools in the United States and Europe. Bill has been published in numerous architectural publications, anthologies, and museum catalogues. He has curated and organized international exhibitions on the visionary British architect Archigram, the Italian radical architects’ Superstudio, and contemporary English design, and he served as Commissioner of the U.S. pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. Michael Painter (B.S. Landscape Architecture, 1956) Michael Painter’s interest in landscape architecture began with a part-time job doing site construction as a high school student with the Southern California design/build firm Hahn & Hoffman. Significant projects during Painter’s career include: San Francisco’s Great Highway and Ocean Beach; AT&T’s Administrative Center, San Ramon; the Genentech Campus, South San Francisco; the Children’s Playground in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; and the Hewlett-Packard Campus, Grenoble, France. His latest project, the Doyle Drive redesign, is a roadway tucked into the natural contours of the Presidio, a regional gateway connecting the city of San Francisco to the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Richard Peters Richard Peters, FAIA, taught at UC Berkeley for 35 years and was Chair of the Department of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Thesis Studios. Professor Peters has served as Director of the San Francisco Chapter of the AlA and is past president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He was a partner in the architectural firm Peters, Clayberg and Caulfield and is an internationally known lighting consultant who has completed many projects for architects Charles W. Moore and William Turnbull, and other Bay Area architectural firms. Stanley Saitowitz Stanley Saitowitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in 1974. He has taught at numerous schools and has given more than 200 public lectures in the United States and abroad. Stanley has completed numerous residential, commercial and institutional buildings, urban landscapes and promenades. Among his many awards, his Transvaal House was declared a National Monument by the Monuments Council in South Africa in 1997. Three books have been published on his work, and his paintings, drawings and models have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. Jon R. Schleuning (B.A. Architecture, 1962) An award-winning design principal and a founding principal of SRG, Jon Schleuning is highly respected for his enthusiastic, collaborative approach to a wide range of projects, from research and higher education facilities to signature civic projects. His past projects include Bellevue City Hall, the University of Oregon (Lillis Business Complex), and the Shriners Hospital for Children. His work has earned numerous local and national awards for design and sustainability. Fred Schwartz (B.A. Architecture, 1973) Fred Schwartz is an award-winning architect and planner with particular expertise in affordable, sustainable housing. He won the Guangzhou International Master Plan competition and was selected by the citizens of New Orleans and the New Orleans City Planning Commission to re-plan one-third of the city for 40% of its post-Katrina population. Mr. Schwartz is credited with changing the course of post-9/11 planning in New York City through his work, which facilitated an open site for the 9/11 memorial and a way to repair the city’s skyline. He is the founder of Haiti Green Home, an initiative established to supply Haitians with housing kits that can evolve into permanent homes. Paul Sedway, FAICP (M.C.P., 1960) Paul Sedway has been recognized by the Bureau of Government Research, Business of New Orleans Council and River Region as one of the nations’s foremost planning experts. He has worked on plans and planning documents ranging from entire states to single city blocks. Over his extensive planning career, he has served as a mentor to many now-seasoned planners. He has volunteered his services to AIP and APA, and other related planning organizations such as SPUR and ULI. Carol Shen, FAIA (A.B. Environmental Design, 1969) Carol Shen received her M.Arch. from MIT in 1971 and worked for Bechtel, Inc. from 1973 to 1980. She was with ELS Architecture and Urban Design from 1980 to 2006, serving as managing principal. While at ELS, she was principal-in-charge for many mixed-use projects, including the redevelopment of Clarke Quay, a five-block historic district along the riverfront in Singapore; the renovation of the historic Konak Pier in Izmir, Turkey; and several retail projects for the Rouse Company, including the first phase of Pioneer Place, a retail-office development in downtown Portland, Oregon. Bay Area projects include Stanford Shopping Center enhancements and the award-winning seismic retrofit of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Civic Center in Berkeley. Rob Steinberg (M.Arch., 1977) Rob Steinberg is a third-generation architect who joined his family firm in 1977 and focused on design and public outreach. Rob assumed leadership in 1994 and has taken the office from 12 to 130 people with three office locations, growing the firm while respecting the values and foundation established by the previous generation. Steinberg Architects, founded in 1953, has been involved in the planning and design of community, residential and educational facilities. His past projects included the Technology Museum of Innovation and Stanford University’s School of Business. His recent projects include a master plan for an urban community in the City of Chengdu, located in southwest China. William K. Stout (B.A. Architecture, 1969) William Stout started Stout Books in 1974. In 1995 he started Stout Publishers and has built a reputation for bringing important out-of-print source books back into print, and shining light on overlooked architects and landscape designers such as Louis Sullivan and R.M. Schindler, as well as publishing important new additions to the literature of architecture. Stout’s association with the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California allows him to distribute Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903-2003, an intimate historical record of the evolution of one of the most innovative programs for the teaching of architecture in the 20th century and beyond. Stephen O. Tobriner Stephen Tobriner taught a survey of world architecture and cities for thirty-five years. His philosophy of teaching can be found in an essay he wrote when he received an award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs in 2004. He was trained as a scholar of Baroque architecture and Mesoamerican architecture and cities at Harvard, where he wrote a significant paper on the planning of ancient Teotihuacan. Sim Van der Ryn Born in Holland and trained as an architect at the University of Michigan, Sim Van der Ryn has applied the principles of physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design throughout his career in design, teaching, and research. As California State Architect, he developed the nation’s first government-initiated energy efficient office building program and led the adoption of energy standards and disability access standards for all construction in California. Julian Wekel From 1987 to 2001, Julian Wekel led the urban design planning departments for the cities of Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. He was formerly the Director of Urban Development and Environmental Protection for the Berlin State Senate. In 2001, Julian developed an urban planning research agenda and a public service consultancy. Steven Winkel, FAIA (B.A. Architecture, 1971) Steven Winkel has over 35 years of experience as an architect, engineer and landscape architect, which include such award-winning projects as the International terminal at the San Francisco Airport, the seismic rehabilitation of the historic landmark Oakland City Hall, the post-production sound editing building for Lucasfilm at Skywalker Ranch, and the renovation of Stonestown Shopping Center in San Francisco. Paul Woolford Paul Woolford received a degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1983. He has 20 years of experience in the practice of university, corporate, research, hospitality, and transportation architecture, as well as urban design and planning. His recent accomplishments with HOK include the BART Station at San Francisco International Airport and the Whitehead Biomedical Research building at Emory University. Current Bay Area projects include the master plan for San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center, and the expansion of the China Basin Bioscience Building at Mission Bay, which will include the world’s first state-of-the-art base isolation seismic system on top of an existing building. |
