Ann Gray, FAIA is the founder of Balcony Media Inc. publishers of FORM: pioneering design magazine, and award-winning architectural books and monographs under the Balcony Press imprint. Prior to launching her business Ms. Gray practiced architecture in Los Angeles for 15 years, the last eight as Paramount Pictures’ studio architect.
Craig Hartman, FAIA
Craig Hartman, FAIA, is Design Partner for SOM San Francisco. His work has been recognized through numerous publications, exhibitions and awards including five National AIA Honor Awards and the Maybeck Award.
Vincent James, FAIA
Vincent James, FAIA is a Minneapolis based architect with nationally recognized design practice. He has taught architectural design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Tulane University and University of Minnesota.
Patricia Patkau
Patricia Patkau shares design direction in Patkau Architects with her partner John Patkau. She has a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and is currently a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia.
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith is Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She has curated, lectured, and published extensively on modern and contemporary architecture.
Urban Design Awards
Tom Anglewicz, FAIA
Tom Anglewicz, FAIA, is the Urban Studio Director for the Austin Veum Robbins Partners’ San Diego- based office. Mr. Anglewicz oversees the continued growth and development of the company’s Urban studio, which focuses on mixed-use and high-density residential projects. Mr. Anglewicz holds a B.A. of Architecture from the University of Detroit School of Architecture. He is a registered architect in California, Texas, and Michigan and is NCARB certified.
Patrick W. Caughey, FASLA
Patrick W. Caughey, FASLA, is partner and owner of Wimmer Yamada and Caughey in San Diego, CA. Pat served as National President to ASLA for 2006-2007, and led the society to its largest attended annual meeting in San Francisco this past October. He is recognized as an innovative leader in landscape design practices in the southwestern region of the U.S. with an emphasis in sustainable and water conserving landscapes.
Frank Fuller, FAIA
Revitalizing downtowns and creating vibrant urban environments has been central to Frank Fuller, FAIA’s, career as an urban designer and architect. His projects are primarily in the Western United States and encompass mixed-use buildings, streetscapes, urban design strategies and plans for cities and campuses.
Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA
Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA, is a native Angeleno who received her BA from Occidental College and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. Her work in the City Planning Department has covered a variety of critical initiatives. A 1990-91 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she brings a visionary as well as practical perspective to her new and exciting role as head of the Urban Design Studio
Lauren Meléndrez, FASLA
Lauren Meléndrez, FASLA, is President and CEO of Meléndrez, a Los Angeles Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning firm. She and her firm have been responsible for the design and planning of numerous high profile, award-winning projects such as Staples Center and the L.A. Civic Center’s “10-Minute Diamond Plan”, both of which have been catalysts for the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles.
Stephanie Reich, AIA
Stephanie Reich, AIA, is the Senior Urban Designer for the City of Glendale, California. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in 1986 and moved to Los Angeles in 1991. Stephanie is active in the local AIA chapter, serving as Chair of the AIA/LA Urban Design Committee (UDC) since 2001.
Savings By Design
Pablo La Roche, Ph.D. LEED AP
Dr. La Roche is Associate Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona University. He has a PhD in architecture from the University of California Los Angeles and has designed and published extensively in the field of green architecture.
Nancy L. Malone, AIA, LEED AP
Nancy Malone, AIA, is a leader in regionally appropriate, site sensitive, sustainable design. She has worked exclusively in Bay Area design firms and has made regional design a focus of her practice.
Ms. Malone holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from the University of California, Davis and earned a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has continued her relationships with both universities by teaching resource efficient design and design studio courses.
Alison M. Whitelaw, FAIA, LEED AP
President of Platt/Whitelaw Architects, a San Diego firm dedicated to sustainably designed public and community based architecture, Alison also teaches the Sustainable Design courses at NewSchool of Architecture and Design.
