SUSTAINABLE HOUSING & DESIGN IN SOUTHWEST CHINA
中国西南可 持 续 住 房 和 设 计 MAY 2014
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MAY 2014 SUSTAINABLE HOUSING & DESIGN IN SOUTHWEST CHINA
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION
2 American Institute of Architects & Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability
3 Itinerary & Hotel Arrangements
4-5 Program Description
AIA HOUSING KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY
6-49 AIA Housing Knowledge Community Member Portfolios 50-56 Participant Bios in Chinese APPENDIX 57-65 Notes 66-67 Delegation Leaders
S U S TA I N A B L E HOUSING & D ESIGN I N S O U T H W E S T CHI NA
AIA HOUSING COMMUNITY
The American Institute of Architects’ Housing Knowledge Community and the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech are sponsoring a delegation that will travel within China from May 19th to May 28th, 2014 to study housing in China’s Yunnan Province and explore options for continuing engagement in sustainability initiatives in the region including the curriculum of a new architectural program at Dali University.
The AIA Housing Knowledge Community tracks housing issues and develops relationships with industry stakeholders to encourage and promote safe, attractive, accessible, and affordable housing for all Americans.
AIA | AM E R I C A N I N S T I T UTE O F ARCHIT E C T S Founded in 1857, members of the American Institute of Architects consistently work to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through nearly 300 state and local chapters, the AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public well being. Members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct to ensure the highest professional standards. The AIA provides members with tools and resources to assist them in their careers and business as well as engaging civic and government leaders, and the public to find solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation and world.
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KNOWLEDGE
CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY
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The Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability (CLiGS), a center within Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment (CNRE), provides education, research, and leadership needed to navigate a rapidly changing world in order to contribute to a sustainable future. Bringing together faculty and students from Virginia Tech with partners from other educational, business, civic, and government institutions, CLiGS is dedicated to exploring and facilitating interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to sustainable development strategies in globally interconnected ecological, economic, and social environments. Located in the National Capital Region (NCR), CLiGS offers a range of graduate education and professional development programs to prepare students and leaders in environmental and natural resource sustainability to operate in a rapidly changing world.
ITINERARY DAY
HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS AM
Day 1 Monday, May 19
PM
LODGING
Meet in Beijing 6pm
Days Inn Hotel Beijing New Exhibition Center
Day 2 Tuesday, May 20
Fly to Lijiang (early)
Lijiang
Lijiang Zen Center
Day 3 Wednesday, May 21
Shaxi Village
to Xizhou Village
Xizhou Linden Centre
Day 4 Thursday, May 22
Xizhou Village
Erhai Lake and Shuang Lang Village
Xizhou Linden Centre
Day 5 Friday, May 23
Dali
Dali University Dali Old Town
Xizhou Linden Centre
Day 6 Saturday, May 24
to Shangri-la
Shangri-la
Shangri-la Zinc Hotel
Day 7 Sunday, May 25
Planning Meetings in Shangri-La
Planning Meetings in Shangri-La
Shangri-la Zinc Hotel
Day 8 Monday, May 26
Shangri-la
Ringha Valley
Shangri-la Zinc Hotel
Day 9 Tuesday, May 27
Fly to Shanghai (early morning departure)
Shanghai Closing Reception & Debrief
Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel Shanghai
Day 10 Wednesday, May 28
Shanghai
SESSION OFFICIALLY ENDS
Individual Add-On
Beijing (May 19-20) Days Inn Beijing -New Exhibition Center No. 13 Tianzhu Fuqian Ave. Shunyi District, Beijing, China [P] (+86) 106.457.6666 Lijiang (May 20-21) Zen Garden Hotel -Lion Hill Branch No.37 Shuang Shi Alley Xin Hua Street, The Old Town Lijiang, Yunnan, China 674100 [P] (+86) 888.518.9799 Xizhou (May 21-24) The Linden Centre No. 5 Chengbei Xizhou Town Dali City, Yunnan, China 671004 [P] (+86) 872.245.3699 Shangri-la (May 24-27) Zinc Hotel Old Town Shangri-la, Yunnan, China Shanghai (May 27-28) Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel Shanghai 595 Jiu Jiang Road Shanghai, 200001 CN [P] (+86) 213.313.4888
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BEIJING ( D AY 1 )
(DAYS 2-4 CONT.)
The group will convene in Beijing for a welcome reception and introduction to the week. You may want to consider arriving early to visit the Forbidden City and experience the symbolic code that resonates in traditional architecture throughout China. The key themes of harmony, cosmology, family structure, and social hierarchies are inscribed in traditional imperial architecture.
In Dali, we will meet with local leaders and Dali University faculty members to discuss the area’s goals and strategies for development, housing, and community services. These discussions will lay the foundation for a potential long-term study on sustainable development in the region co-sponsored by the Yunnan Sustainability Network and the AIA.
DALI & XIZHOU VILLAGE (DAYS 2-4)
LIJIANG & SURROUNDING AREA (DAYS 5-6)
With dramatic mountain ranges delineating the basin boundary and Erhai Lake at the center, the Dali region is characterized by the architecture and colors of the Bai culture, by extensive alluvial fields, intensively cultivated, and by ancient villages . . . with new construction springing up everywhere. Old Town Dali, which dates back to the 14th Century Ming Dynasty, is located at the southern tip of the lake and serves as a major tourism destination for the region, drawing domestic and foreign visitors to wander its narrow bustling streets. Further north up the lake is Xizhou Village, whose Bai character remains, despite increasing pressure from tourism and economic development. Leaders in the conservation of cultural integrity in this village have been Brian and Jeanee Linden, developers and proprietors of the Linden Centre, an award winning boutique hotel in Xizhou, where our group will stay. We will spend time with Brian, a CLiGS Fellow, and Jeanee as they lead us through the story of their decade of historical and cultural preservation work in locations across China, primarily in Xizhou Village.
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lijiang is a trading town dating back to the 13th century. Maintaining a still functional system of intricate waterways and bridges, Old Town Lijiang is heavily influenced by the Naxi culture, although the variety of architectural influences reflects the diaspora of cultures that characterize any centuriesold trading town. Lijiang has become a major tourism draw for the region, with 8 million visitors in 2012 alone. This volume of visitors creates conflict between access and authenticity and stresses the city’s economy, infrastructure, and community. The Old City as a traditional place of residence must now compete with commercial real estate use. We will explore two ‘old towns’ – one fundamentally changed by tourism, and one still thriving as a working village – and compare the issues around housing with local experts. We will also include time to explore the magnificent landscape around Lijiang.
SHANGRI-LA (DAYS 7-8) From Lijiang, we will travel up onto the Tibetan Plateau to experience a third distinct region of Yunnan Province – Shangri-La. Located along the Tibetan-Chinese border at almost 10,000 feet above sea level, Shangri-La’s landscape is markedly different, and the Tibetan cultural influence is significantly more pronounced, than at lower elevations in Yunnan Province. This is manifest in the building practices, land use patterns, natural resource stocks, culture, and economy. Enormous Buddhist monasteries overlooking the snowcapped Himalayas impart a cultural flavor unique within China. We will explore traditional regional structures including private homes, mainstreet buildings, grand monasteries, and Buddhist temples that speckle the hillsides. Of particular interest is the current housing boom in “traditional” Tibetan timber and rammed-earth home construction with the accompanying challenges of timber supply and land use conversion.
SHANGHAI (DAYS 9-10) The program will conclude in the megacity of Shanghai, where our previous week in Yunnan Province will intensify the contrasts between the ancient and modern China. We will tour the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, which does a remarkable job telling the story of the city’s development, past and continuing, from its time as a colonial port (reminiscent along the Bund), to its modern day skyline just across the river. The program will conclude that evening with a farewell reception.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Nathanial Quincy Belcher Director and Professor | The H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University | 121 Stuckeman Family Building, University Park, PA 16802 | [P] 814.865.6112 [F] 814.863.8137 [E] nqb3@psu.edu
Nathaniel Quincy Belcher is a Professor of Architecture and former Director of the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University. He has held teaching appointments within six NAAB accredited programs. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and has served on the executive board of the Association of Collegiate schools of Architecture as Treasurer. He was also appointed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as a past member of the Intern Development Program- Advisory Council, jointly managed by the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and other notable foundations and research entities. He was educated at Virginia Tech and Harvard University and holds both bachelors and masters degrees in architecture. His work has been exhibited and published on many publications including Sites of Memory from Princeton Architectural Press, HarlemWorlds: Metropolis as metaphor exhibition/publication through the Studio Museum in New York City and most recently in the 2004 Arcilab exhibition in Orleans France. He has worked to establish an independent, research-based program dedicated to the development of critical theoretical ideas and the production/documentation of objects/environments that recognize marginalized influences on architecture and its related disciplines. He has a special interest in influences of modernism on “emerging context� and visa versa. He is a licensed architect and a licensed interior designer. He maintains his office in Miami, Florida.
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(above) Little Haiti Housing Assoc., Scattered Site Housing Project Architectural Design Competition for the design of affordable infill single unit new construction. This Exhibition will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, FL.
(right) Little Haiti Housing Association Architectural Design Competition funded by the NEA For the Design of Affordable Infill multifamily Housing, Villa Jardin III, 24 unit residential building, in the Little Haiti Neighborhood of Miami. (with Tim Mcdonald, Associate professor Temple university/ onion flats inc.)
(left) Architectural competition, Katrina Redevelopment Summer 2006, Biloxi, MI Design Team member, Phatt Collaborative with Stephen Slaughter Client: Architecture for Humanity. Invited design proposals for infill houses in Biloxi, Mississippi to replace housing devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Elizabeth Debs Community Development Consultant | 140 Brown Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906 | [P] 401.465.4041 [E] edebs@cox.net
Elizabeth Debs has been involved in architecture/planning, community development, and non-profit work for over twenty-five years. She has been especially interested in questions of social equity and has focused her work and volunteer activities primarily for public benefit. She believes that beauty and design, both natural and created, play an important role in the quality of life of individuals and communities. Elizabeth has worked in for-profit real estate development, as the executive director of a non-profit community development organization, and ran her own architectural practice in Florida. Later in her career, she focused on strategic planning for non-profits - often with significant facilities components - and creating mission appropriate income streams. In community development, she has worked extensively in affordable housing, homebuyer education, housing land trusts, asset management, and grantwriting. Most recently, Elizabeth has become interested in the ways that academia interacts with the larger community. She is currently teaching Non-profit Management in the graduate program at Clark University and continues to be involved in the Partnership for Community Development at Roger Williams University. She received a B.A.from Vassar College and M.Arch from Harvard University.
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(right) Roger Williams University Partnership for Community Development The Association of non-profit affordable housing and community development organizations - Housing Network - wished to increase professional skill levels, introduce a new generation to the work, and raise visibility and bona fides of industry through academic credentialing. Non-profits partnered with the local university to create curriculum through the School of Continuing Studies. A 5-course certificate in Community Development was launched and evolved into a concentration for a Bachelors degree. The program initially focused on housing and has been expanded to include public health, criminal justice, community arts, and education.
(left) Community Housing Land Trust In Rhode Island deed restrictions are not always enforced and affordability on housing units is lost during transactions and over time. Housing land trusts ensure permanent affordability using a model of shared ownership. A non-profit community group owns the land in perpetuity and the house itself is the only part of the property that changes hands in transactions. Ten non-profit affordable housing developers use the land trust model in RI and agreed to create a central statewide administrative entity and to use identical documents throughout the state. This allowed for better recognition and ease of use of the model by municipalities, lenders, attorneys, and potential homebuyers.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Kathy Dixon Principal | K. Dixon Architecture, PLLC | 137 National Plaza – Suite 300, National Harbor, MD 20745 | [P] 301.364.5053 [F] 301.686.8587 [E] kdixon@kdixonarchitecture.com
Kathy Denise Dixon, President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, is a licensed architect with over 20 years of experience. A graduate of Howard University’s School of Architecture, Ms. Dixon continued her secondary education at UCLA, matriculating with a Master’s degree in Urban Planning, with a focus on Housing and Community Development. During her career, Kathy has worked on a number of educational facilities in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. She spent several years working on national contracts with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) including Potomac TRACON and several Air Traffic Control (ARTCC) facilities. Prior to moving to government and institutional projects, she worked four years with McDonald’s Corporation developing new restaurants, site planning, designing commercial kitchens, and creating child oriented play areas. Most recently, she has designed civic facilities and faith-based institutions including fire stations, churches, family life centers, schools and senior housing. Ms. Dixon has been certified by the USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environment Design Program (LEED AP BD+C), the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), as well as CSI’s Certified Documents Technologist (CDT) program. Ms. Dixon is licensed in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Georgia and New Jersey.
(left) The 2014 NOMA Board of Directors at the 41st Annual NOMA Conference in Indianapolis, IN
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(above left) Potomac TRACON Location: Vint Hill, VA Size: 90,000 SF Year Completed: 2002 (above right) The Fishing School Location: Washington, Dc Cost: $600,000 Size: 2,400 Sf Year Completed: TBD (below left) Living Word Church Location: Waldorf, MD Cost: $300,000 Size: 4,500 Sf Year Completed: 2013 (below right) Cameroon Medical Campus Location: Limbe, Cameroon Cost: $60M Size: 27 Acres Year Completed: TBD
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Kathleen A. Dorgan Principal | Dorgan Architecture & Planning | 10 Eastwood Road, Storrs, CT 06268 | [P] 860.487.6740 [E] dorgan@kdorgan.net
Kathleen A. Dorgan, AIA, LEED-AP, Principal, Dorgan Architecture & Planning was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she studied participatory community design and development. She received a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute as well as a B. Arch and a B.S. Building Science from Rensselaer. Kathleen is an award winning designer and planner of sustainable communities and affordable housing whose work has been widely exhibited at museums and galleries including at the National Building Museum. She is past chair of the AIA Housing Knowledge Community and the 2013 Chair of the AIA Housing and AIA/HUD Secretary Awards juries. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer who received the Thomas J. Carroll Outstanding Teaching Award at Roger Williams University and served as Keynote speaker at housing conferences in Utah and Florida. She writes about development and design issues for books and journals and co-edited Cityscape; University-Based Reconstruction Projects Responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
(right) Participatory Praxis Users and neighbors are actively engaged in project planning through a variety of participatory techniques.
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(right) Dove Street Independent Living Home for formerly homeless individuals living with AIDS.
(below, left) North Reading Main Street Vision Explores strategies for reconnecting the fabric of a small new england town.
(above, left) Albany Affordable Housing Home ownership and rental opportunities for low & very low income families. AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 13
AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Deanne Evans Executive Director | Center for Building Knowledge, New Jersey Institute of Technology | 323 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102 | [P] 973.596.5310 [F] 973.596.8443 [E] deane.evans@njit.edu
Deanne Evans is a registered architect and currently directs the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years experience – in both the private and public sectors – in creating and disseminating information on high performance buildings; including jobs as: Senior Principal at Steven Winter Associates, a building systems consulting firm; Vice President for Research at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC; and the founding director of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) program at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. In his current position, Mr. Evans directs CBK, a multi-disciplinary research and technical assistance center focused on improving the performance of buildings and communities. In recent years, Mr. Evans has become increasingly involved with the creation and dissemination of tools that can improve the performance and sustainability of facilities, with a specific focus on housing. Among his activities in this area, he created and currently maintains the Affordable Housing Design Advisor (www. designadvisor.org), a unique, electronic tool for affordable housing developers and community leaders. The project was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Evans is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. He has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.Arch. from Columbia.
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The Passivhaus Energy Design Standard is a rigorous, voluntary building energy standard focusing on a high performance envelope with a resulting minimized mechanical system. The Passive House concept is characterized by 70% - 80% reduction in overall energy consumption and 90-95% reduction of heating and cooling energy. NJIT was the PH Consultant on the ďŹ rst PH in NJ.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|R. Denise Everson Redevelopment and Green Building Specialist | District of Columbia Housing Authority, OCP | [P] 202.535.2566 [F] 202.535.2856 [E] reverson@dchousing.org
Denise is a Redevelopment and Green Building Specialist in the District of Columbia. A native of Decatur, Georgia, Denise is an active associate member of the American Institute of Architects and numerous civic boards. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Hampton University and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
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(above) President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Location: NE Washington, DC (above left) Former Hebrew Home Location: NW Washington, DC Denise served as the owner representative for the sustainability planning to redevelop a former Hebrew Home into affordable/workforce housing. (below left) Langston Dwellings & Langston Additions Location: NE, Washington DC Denise served as Project Manager for this $300,000 Feasibility Study funded by Mayor Gray’s Sustainable DC Budget Challenge aimed at determining the feasibility of redeveloping an idle power plant once fueled by coal into a model for renewable energy.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Rose Geier Grant Strategic Resources | State Farm Insurance Companies | [P] 309.766.7044 [F] 309.735.2968 [E] rose.grant.gsxj@statefarm.com
Ms. Grant is responsible for building construction research liaison activities for State Farm. She develops and manages research projects that determine performance attributes of buildings (natural hazard resistance and resilience). She is a Licensed Architect (B.S., M.Arch. University of Illinois). Rose has served on many committees including: International Residential Code, National Consortium of Housing Research Centers, Industry Advisory Committee for the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes, and Executive Steering Committee of the New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Task Group. She is a member of AIA, International Code Council, NFPA, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, National Institute of Building Sciences, ASTM and CPCU Society. Previously, she practiced architecture (multifamily, restaurant design), served as a building code official, and, while working at the University of Illinois’ Building Research Council, developed and administered the Home Energy Rating System for the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources.
(left) Rose and the team at TRAIL served as the designers of this house build by State Farm in Florida. It was developed as a resilient home with cut-away (interiors) as well as mitigation displays. It was open to the public so that people would be able to learn about hurricane resistant features. The house was designed to withstand a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds up to 155 mph).
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(left) State Farm’s TRAIL (Technology Research and Innovation Laboratory) The canon propels 2 x 4s at specific speeds in order to determine the impact resistance of windows, hurricane shutters, and wall assemblies. A pendulum ram is used to tested the effectiveness of residential door hardware.
(right) Stormstruck Rose served as a subject matter expert on the design of StormStruck, an interactive exhibit located in Innoventions East at Epcot’s Future World. The 3D movie based attraction takes guests into a home during a hurricane, and shows how modern building techniques can make a difference in the ability of the home to survive the storm.
(right) November 2013 | AIA Tornado Damage Assessment Team volunteers assist the city of Washington, IL
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Jenny Guan Designer | Flad Architects | 650 California Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 | [P] 415.614.4924 [F] 415.398.1606 [E] jguan@flad.com
Jenny Guan, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is a San Francisco based designer with an interdisciplinary background that includes experience in the realms of furniture fabrication, landscape design, and residential and commercial architecture. She is currently contributing to projects in the academic and science + technology sector at Flad Architects. An avid urban cyclist, Jenny is often found exploring the built environment and expertly dodging potholes on her trusty three speed.
(right) Jenny has a diverse background in a wide range of projects deeply rooted in sustainable ethos, including academic research into the densification potential of American suburbs and contributing design and technical support to a 220 unit affordable housing development, a prototype single family residence that promotes the organic and locally grown food movement, and exhibition design for a sustainable education center for the Boy Scouts of America.
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(right) Jenny’s current role as a designer at Flad Architects offers the opportunity to work on projects with ambitious environmental stewardship goals, including buildings that are slated for net zero energy use and achieving Living Building Challenge certification. (below) Current projects include a biology research institute for a renowned university and a high performance commercial high rise designed to accommodate life science research.
(left) Jenny is also involved with the San Francisco AIA chapter, including participation in the Bay Area Young Architects and the Missing 32% Project committees. She recently gave a presentation at a BAYA/AIAS event at the California College of the Arts, where she spoke to students and emerging professionals on her transition from school to practice. AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 21
AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Simon Ha Managing Partner | TSK Los Angeles | 888 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2020, Los Angeles, CA 90017 | [P] 213.614.0900 [F] 213.929.2247 [E] sha@tska.com
Simon is the Managing Partner of the Tate Snyder Kimsey Los Angeles office. He has over 10 years of large-scale mixed-use and multi-family design experience and education background in urban housing policy, finance, and development from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Understanding aesthetic and functional housing design along with development process, Simon yields the highest value for the client while achieving the goals of the city, community, and urban environment. Prior to joining Tate Snyder Kimsey, Simon was the founder of S∙Ha Architects and Principal at TCA Architects where he designed over 3,000 units in award-winning mixed-use and multi-family housing projects as a lead designer and studio director.
(right) Jigong Mountain Resort Type: Hotel Complex Location: Shenzen, China Year of Design: 2013 Size: 2,290,000 SF
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(below) Kunming CXTX Auto City Type: Commercial Complex Location: Kunming, China Year of Design: Under Development Size: 4,492,000 SF
(above) Topaz Type: Mixed-Use Housing Location: Los Angeles, California Year of Design: 2013 Size: 282,200 SF (right) 1010 Peachtree Street Type: Multi-family Residential Location: Atlanta, Georgia Year of Design: Under Development
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Tom Howorth President | Howorth Architects, P.A. | P.O. Box 1569, Oxford, Mississippi 38655 | [P] 662.234.7444 [E] tom@howortharch.com
Tom Howorth has been an AIA member and a firm principal since 1986, first with Mockbee-Coker-HoworthArchitects, and since 1990, as president of Howorth & Associates Architects. He practices architecture with concern about context, culture, and nature in projects that include, primarily, community facilities, historic preservation, and housing. Howorth has Bachelor’s Degrees in English and architecture, and a Masters in Natural Resources from Virginia Tech. He was recently named a Fellow of the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability (CLiGS). His lectures, presentations, and appearances include four national AIA Conventions, two AIA Grassroots panels, and several state AIA conventions. He has served on or chaired a dozen AIA component juries, including four for national. Active in the AIA/Committee on Design (COD) for eighteen years, Howorth, who chaired the COD in 2010, has led or participated in twenty-one COD conferences, fifteen in the US and six abroad.
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(left) Restoration of Rowan Oak Location: Oxford, Mississippi (the home of William Faulkner) (below) Pinecote Pavilion Restoration Location: Crosby Arboretum, Picayune, Mississippi (originally designed by AIA Gold Medalist, Fay Jones, FAIA, and constructed in 1986)
(above) Gateway Pavilion at Lamar Park
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Magnus Magnusson Principal | Magnusson Architecture and Planning PC | 42 West 39th Street 15th Floor, New York, NY 10018 | [P] 212.253.7820 [F] 212.253.1276 [E] mmagnusson@maparchitects.com
In 1986, Magnus Magnusson AIA, LEED AP started Magnusson Architecture and Planning, PC, a firm of architects and planners with a regional practice specializing in sustainable housing, commercial and community development. As Principal of the firm, Mr. Magnusson guides a talented team of architects and planners through each step of the planning, design and construction process on projects ranging from award-winning housing developments to state-of-the-art community-use facilities and large-scale planning projects. Among Mr. Magnusson’s noteworthy accomplishments are the Melrose Commons and the Rheingold Gardens Urban Renewal Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn, respectively, which have received numerous design awards and have been featured in a number of publications. Melrose Commons recently received Stage II Silver certification under the USGBC’s LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program. His research and development of sustainable and high-performance building design has received many honors, including being one the recipients of the “First Passive Solar Design Awards” and he has published many papers on energy efficient and solar building design. Mr. Magnusson received a Master in Architectural Technology at Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor of Architecture at City College of New York, School of Architecture, New York.
(right) Melrose Commons / La Terraza Location: South Bronx, NY Type: Mixed-Use Housing / Retail Master planning of a new neighborhood in the South Bronx with affordable, mixed-use rentals on a former brownfield site.
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(left) Atlantic Terrace LEED-Gold Certified Location: Brooklyn, NY Type: Mixed-Income / Mixed-Use Coop Size: 80 apartments with retail and enclosed parking (below) Ellington on the Park and The Sutton Location: Harlem, NY Type: New Mixed-Use / Mixed-Income Coops Size: 133 units each / 340,000 SF
(above) Rheingold Gardens Location: Brooklyn, NY Size: 35 two and three family townhouses and 3 mid-rise apartment buildings
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Prescott Muir Chair | School Of Architecture, University Of Utah | 375 S 1530 E RM 235 AAC, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 | [P] 801.581.7414 [F] 801.581.8217 [E] muir@arch.utah.edu
For over thirty years, Prescott Muir, FAIA, has been the Design Principal of the award winning firm, Prescott Muir Architects with offices in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The firm has numerous AIA design awards and published the monograph, It By Bit in 2012 by Oro Press. The firm has a wide range of projects including art museums, libraries, performing arts centers, multiunit housing, and retail. Prescott graduated with a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California. He has lectured widely and is professor and current chair in the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. He is the former chair of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission, SL Chamber of Commerce, AIA Utah Board of Directors and is currently a board member of the International Sculpture Center.
(left) Weber County Library Headquarters
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(below) Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center
(right) East Canyon Residence
(left) Salt Lake Art Center
(above) Bridge Mixed Use Project AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 29
AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Rizal Oei Design Director | Oei Design, LLC | [P] 480.947.5888 [E] rizal@oei-design.com
Rizal Oei is the Creative Design Director at Oei Design, LLC. Founded in 1996 with his wife and business partner Kim Kunasek, Oei Design, LLC specializes in consumer environments. Oei Designs’ portfolio is broad and spans numerous industries including retail, restaurant, residential, exhibit and manufacturer’s product showrooms. Rizal Oei immigrated from Indonesia in 1975. He graduated from the University of Arizona College of Architecture in 1988. As a designer in NYC, he worked with Argentinian architect/designer, Emilio Ambasz on large scale international projects. It was with Emilio Ambasz that he relocated to Phoenix as the project designer for the Phoenix Museum of History. Prior to and after establishing his own multidisciplinary design firm, Rizal held Design Director positions at several notable companies. Rizal has contributed professional time to community projects. As a company, Oei Design has worked on probono projects for non-profit organizations such as Make-A-Wish Foundation Arizona. He is also on the advisory board for several Entrepreneurial start-up companies. He has assisted as a studio class critic and acted as a design jury member for Interior Design Department at The Herberger Institute, Arizona State University.
(left) Arby’s Arby’s teamed up with Oei Design and strategic partners to design a new, modern, spacious, and fresh brand identity prototype that supports new marketing tag lines: “Prepared for happiness” and “Slice by slice”.
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(left) Build-A-Bear Location: St Louis, MO Oei Design has been a design partner since the Build-A-Bear Workshop (BABW) opened its first store at The Galleria, St. Louis in 1998. Based on a new market research study, BABW’s in-house design team, Oei Design and strategic partners collaborated on a new prototype store.
(below) Downtown Disney Location: Anaheim, CA This new 5,000 SF fiagship store offers photoop, “try me” and kidz zones for the local Californian car culture and guests to Disneyland and California Adventure.
(right) Mark Miller Toyota Location: Salt Lake City, UT As part of LEED‘s certified auto dealership in Utah, Mark Miller Toyota was designed to bring public awareness of the sustainable “green initiatives” that were incorporated to both the building structure and interior environment. AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 31
AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Paul Craig Okamoto Principal | Okamoto Saijo Architecture | 18 Bartol St. San Francisco, CA 94133 | [P] 415.788.2118 [F] 415.986.2815 [E] paul@os-architecture.com
Paul Craig Okamoto has committed his professional architectural career to designing dwellings, mixeduse buildings, and neighborhoods in ways that optimize environmental and social conditions. With his San Francisco-based firm Okamoto Saijo Architecture, he designs affordable housing developments, custom passive solar residences, community-based neighborhood plans, and researches on sustainable design issues. Okamoto received his Bachelor of Architecture from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, in 1981, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1988. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design during 2000-2001. Before establishing OSA in 1991, Okamoto worked with several prominent architects including Paolo Soleri and Peter Calthorpe. He is the architect of several passive solar residences, including the Rubissow Farmhouse in the Napa Valley, and the Johnson-Theis Residence in Sebastopol, which have been featured in various publications. He is currently President of the Board of Directors of Urban Ecology, and on the Advisory Council of SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research), co-chairing its Sustainable Development Committee. Previously, he was on the board of directors of SPUR, Greenbelt Alliance, the steering committee for the Urban Habitat Program, and an appointed member to the City & County of San Francisco’s Environment Commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Advisory Council. He is a licensed California architect and a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council. Okamoto is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco’s Department of Architecture & Community Design and Department of Environmental Sciences.
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(below) Laguna West, CA (with Calthorpe Associates) Location: Sacramento, CA Type: New transit oriented development
(right, below) Rubissow Farmhouse Location: Napa, CA Type: Passive solar residence with rammed earth walls
(left) Weeks Neighborhood Plan Location: East Palo Alto, CA Size: 1 acre Type: New infill housing on rural large lots
(above) Crescent Park Apartments Location: Richmond, CA Type: Multifamily affordable housing with PV panels
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Casius Pealer Principal | Oystertree Consulting, L3C | 800 Common Street, Suite 200 New Orleans, LA 70112 | [P] 202-288-5927 [F] 415.986.2815 [E] casius@oystertree.org
Casius Pealer is trained as an architect and a real estate attorney and provides affordable housing and community development advising services through his consulting practice, Oystertree Consulting, and also as Of Counsel for the Houston-based law firm of Coats Rose. In addition to his private practice, Casius is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of Tulane University’s Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship (SISE) program. Casius has over 16 years of community development experience, including four years as legal counsel for public housing authorities across the country implementing mixed-finance redevelopment projects. Casius is a regular speaker at professional conferences nationally, and has been published in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, the AIA Journal of Architecture, and Affordable Housing Finance Magazine. Casius is licensed to practice law in New York State and Washington, DC, and is a Louisiana-certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-Basic). He holds a Masters in Architecture from Tulane University and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
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(right) Enterprise Oystertree conducted a nationwide survey of U.S. state housing finance agencies (HFAs) to assess green building programs. The final data showed that 63% of all units financed in 2010 committed to meet a holistic green building standard.
(above) MSRED Tulane University implemented an innovative Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development degree program in the 2011-12 academic year. Oystertree Principal, Casius Pealer, coordinates the capstone Directed Research class in the Spring semester, as well as a summer Field Study trip to Washington, DC, and New York City.
(below) HUD Green Academy The five-day certification program focuses on green building principles, operations and maintenance, project finance, organizational policies, and energy performance contracting.
(left) Legends South The former Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, IL, was at one point the largest public housing development in the U.S., housing approximately 27,000 people in a facility planned for 11,000. Legends South is the second phase of the redevelopment of this site with 118 rental units, a new community center and management office.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Andrew Perlstein Assistant Director for Executive Programs | Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, Virginia Tech, College of Natural Resources and Environment | [P] 650.479.6294 [F] 415.986.2815 [E] asp789@vt.edu
Andrew Perlstein has recently joined Virginia Tech’s Center for Global Leadership in Global Sustainability as Fellow and Assistant Director for Executive Programs. He received his PhD from Stanford University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources where he focused on the topic of urbanization and urban planning in China. Prior to Stanford he received an M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in Environmental Earth Sciences and Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. Andrew has been an avid student of Mandarin Chinese for nearly two decades and has spent more than four years cumulatively in mainland China for work, study, and research. Prior to his graduate studies he worked in Yunnan on a consulting project to formulate a tourism development plan for the provincial government.
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(above) Studying the Comprehensive Plan for Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province (below left) At the Nanchang City Urban Planning Exhibition Hall (below right) Touring a factory in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Linda Reeder Associate Professor | Manufacturing & Construction Management Department, Central Connecticut State University | 1615 Stanley Street New Britain, CT 06050 | [P] 860.832.1835 [E] reederlin@ccsu.edu
Linda Reeder, AIA, LEED AP, GGP is the sole practitioner of Linda Reeder Architecture, LLC in New Haven, Connecticut and an associate professor in the Construction Management program at Central Connecticut State University. She is associate editor and a contributor to the Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice (15th edition) and has written about sustainable housing topics for Fine Homebuilding magazine. Linda is currently at work on her second book. She is a member of the AIA’s Small Project Practitioners Advisory Group.
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(above left) In 2005, Linda started her own practice designing small projects and collaborating with other firms on large projects. (above right) Linda has written about sustainable design for Fine Homebuilding and the AIA. In 2010, Wiley published her book Guide to Green Building Rating Systems. Linda is currently working on a book on net zero energy buildings for Routledge. (below) While working at Roth and Moore Architects in New Haven, Linda was the project architect on this $53 million mixed use development in downtown Hartford, which included additions to and renovation and conversion of a historic department store into loft apartments, with parking garage and student townhouses behind it. AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 39
AIA Housing Knowledge Community|David Wojcik Principal | Wojcik + Associates Architects, Inc. | 265 Cottonwood Dr. Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 | [P] 847.439.0815 [E] d.wojcik@wojcikarchitects.com
David Wojcik is the owner and principal architect at Wojcik + Associates Architects, Inc. based outside of Chicago, Illinois. David is also a certified LEED AP with an Operations and Maintenance specialty, a Certified Level 2 Building Envelope Inspector, Registered Energy Professional with the City of Chicago and Level 1 Certified Infrared Thermographer. Graduate of Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, David continues his progressive learning at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His practice is primarily focused on high performance buildings which have helped the firm win contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense to residential developers in China.
(right) Pavilions Multi-Family Type: Multi-tenant condominium repair/renovation project. Program requirements included replacement of all bay window units and wall construction using a rain screen system and non-combustible materials while increasing the energy efficiency and acoustics. Enlarged details provide an easy to understand scope of work and material specifications.
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Private Cabin Project | Red Hill Resort Location: Yizheng City, Yangzhou Prefecture, China Located near the Zaolin Reservoir; the resort offers a fun, relaxing and exquisite ‘getaway’ for city dwellers. The grounds host a hotel, spa, restaurants, angling, boating, equestrian, archery, karting, air gliders and more. With a high speed rail station nearby, it is becoming a popular attraction to people who want to escape the ‘Big City’ for a few days. This project incorporated a pier foundation as an economical solution to the more expensive and higher taxed poured foundation wall, solar thermal water heating and passive solar design.
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Kevin Yoshida Managing Principal and Director of Design | The Abo Group | 12600 West Colfax Avenue, Suite C200 Lakewood, CO 80215 | [P] 303.531.4990 [E] k2y@theabogroup.com
Kevin believes in responsible design that upholds both ethics and aesthetics. He believes that design should advocate for those who have limited representation and that design should build consensus between all stakeholders and be responsible to social equality. Kevin upholds that ethical design must conserve resources, is a manifestation of higher societal aspirations and must uplift the human spirit. Kevin is a Denver native and third generation Japanese American who received his architectural design training at the University of Southern California and returned to practice architecture in Denver, CO in 1994. He merged his successful housing and planning practice, B+Y Architects, with the Abo Group in 2012 and currently serves as Managing Principal and Director of Design. Currently, Kevin is working on innovative urban design, unique affordable housing and ground-breaking net-zero projects in Colorado. He is a past director of the American Institute of Architects, Denver Chapter. He received an Architectural Guild Traveling Fellowship from U.S.C for self-directed urban design studies of Nevsky Prospeky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is currently a mayoral appointee to the Facilities and Energy Efficiency Board for the City of Denver and a member of the Professional Advisory Network for the Colorado Creative Industries, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.
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(above) Artspace Loveland Lofts Artspace’ inaugural project in Colorado is to redevelop an underutilized urban lot in historic downtown Loveland. New construction is sensitive to the historic building and integrates 30 units of affordable live/work residences for income-eligible artists.
(below left) Boulevard One At Lowry (Buckley Annex, Denver, Co) Having served since 2002 on the design review committee for the original New Urbanism, Kevin Yoshida is establishing new design guidelines and assisted with zoning entitlements for the annex of 70 acres projected to include 800 residential units, 200,000 square feet of commercial office and retail space and a 4.5 acre park. Advancing the sustainability of market rate construction is a foundational concept for this LEED- ND (Neighborhood Design) mixed-use community.
(below right) Benedict Park Place 5B Benedict Park Place 5B is an urban infill project that offers affordable housing with immediate access to employment opportunities in downtown Denver. Located at 290 Park Avenue West, the project consists of four-story apartment building (75 units) and row homes (16 units).
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Hisham Youssef Board Member | AIA Shanghai, AIA International Region Board 2014 | [P] +86 150 0035 3053 [E] hisham.youssef@aiashanghai.org
Hisham Youssef is an accomplished design professional. He brings over 20 years of design experience, at leading international design firms, including Rafael Viñoly Architects and Gensler, where he successfully led a diverse range of large scale architecture, and interior design projects. A member of AIA since 1999, Hisham has been a key driver in the development of two of AIA’s 6 international components – he cofounded and served on the Board of AIA Middle East and AIA Shanghai. He continues to be very active in the development of AIA Shanghai. In his new role on the Board of AIA International, he works passionately to drive AIA’s international agenda. Hisham has lived, traveled and worked in the USA, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the Middle East. He currently resides in Shanghai. Hisham is a dual Egyptian US national – he was born in Cairo and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees on the East Coast of the US, where he still maintains a residence in New York City.
(left) State Grid Campus Tianjin 2012 (with RTKL) State Grid Campus Nanjing 2012 (with RTKL)
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(left) Dubai Mercantile Exchange Omani Oil Futures Exchange Floor 2006 (with Gensler)
(above) State Grid Campus Nanjing 2012 (with RTKL) (right) Lenovo Beijing HQ Competition 2012 (with RTKL) (above) Exhibition and Convention Center Tokyo International Forum, 1996 Cost: USD 1.4 million Size: 125,000 sm (with Rafael Vinoly Architects) (left) Algiers Exhibition Center, 2007 (with Gensler)
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AIA Housing Knowledge Community|Jess Zimbabwe Executive Director | Urban Land Institute Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership | 1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW Suite 500 West Washington, DC 20007 | [P] 415.200.8216 [E] Jess.Zimbabwe@uli.org
Jess Zimbabwe, AIA, AICP, LEED-AP, serves as the founding Executive Director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The Center’s flagship program is the Daniel Rose Fellowship for public leaders, which brings the mayors and senior leadership teams of 4 cities together for a year-long program of learning from land use experts, technical assistance, study tours, leadership development, and peer-to-peer exchange. Previously, Jess was the Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. In that capacity she worked with over 125 American mayors and cities to help local leaders better understand issues of urban design so that they could advocate for better built environments in their own communities. Prior to that, Jess served as the Community Design Director at Urban Ecology, providing pro bono community planning and design assistance to low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jess earned a Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Architecture from Columbia University. Jess was an Urban and Regional Policy Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and a Fellow of the Women’s Policy Institute of the Women’s Foundation of California. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Next City, and she was appointed by Mayor Vincent Gray to the Washington, DC Green Building Advisory Council She is a licensed architect, certified city planner, and a LEED-Accredited professional.
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The mission of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership is to achieve and support excellence in land use decision making. The Center encourages public officials to generate efficient, successful, and sustainable land use by sharing best practices, peer networks, and innovative ideas.
Through the Daniel Rose Center, ULI significantly expands its public sector engagement and mission to provide leadership in the responsible use of land. The Daniel Rose Fellowship program provides the mayors of four large U.S. cities with ULI assistance on a local land use development challenge, while its workshops and webinars provide discussion forums for best practices on topical land use issues to a wide array of public sector practitioners. Through its education and training programs that bring competent, honorable, and knowledgeable participants together from the public and private sectors, the Rose Center aspires to facilitate effective working relationships between the public and private sectors.
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Sustainable Housing & Design in Southwest China|Participant Biographies NATHANIEL QUINCY BELCHER Nathaniel Quincy Belcher 是宾夕法尼亚州立大学建筑学教授,建筑和景观设计学院前任主任。他一直在6项NAAB认证项目里教学。目前 他是国家建筑学鉴定委员会董事会成员，并曾在大学建筑学院协会执行委员会的财务主管。他还被任命为美国建筑师协会实习发 展计划咨询委员会(成员由全国委员会共同管理的建筑注册委员会组成)。他曾获得美国国家艺术Graham和其他重要基础研究机构的 基金,读于弗吉尼亚理工大学和哈佛大学,拥有建筑学学士和硕士学位。他一直致力于建立一个独立的研究项目,开发理论思想和对 识别影响建筑及其相关学科边缘化的对象/环境的文档建立。他是一名注册建筑师和注册室内设计师,事务所在佛罗里达州迈阿密。
ELIZABETH DEBS Elizabeth Debs,25年一直从事于建筑/规划,社区发展,非营利性工作。她一直对社会公平问题特别关注,并为公共利益和志愿者活动工 作。她认为美和设计、自然和创建在个人和社区的质量生活中扮演着重要的角色。她在佛罗里达做商业房地产开发的同时在非营 利性社区发展组织作执行董事。近期,她专注于非营利组织战略规划，往往与重大设施和创建适当的收入为任务。在社区发展中, 她曾在保障性住房、购房教育、住房土地信托公司、资产管理公司和资助计划书申请。她目前在克拉克大学的研究生课程管理教 学,并继续参与罗杰威廉姆斯大学社区发展的伙伴关系。她拥有瓦萨尔学院本科文凭和哈佛大学的硕士。
KATHY DIXON Kathy Dixon 作为国家少数民族建筑师组织主席、是一位有20年经验的注册建筑师。毕业于哈佛大学建筑学院，并在加州大学洛杉 矶分校深造城市规划硕士学位,关注住房和社区发展。在她的职业生涯中,凯西一直从事在华盛顿市区的教育设施建设。她曾与美 国联邦航空管理局合作，包括Potomac 终端雷达进场系统和几个空中交通管制设施(航线)。在进入政府和学会项目之前,她曾与麦 当劳公司合作四年，设计新餐馆、规划店面、设计商业厨房,并创建儿童游憩区。最近,她设计了市政设施和宗教机构，包括消防 站、教会、家庭生活中心、学校和高级住宅。她已获得美国绿色建筑委员会的能源和环境设计方案领导力资格证,全国建筑注册委 员会,以及CSI的认证文件技术师。同时她也是在马里兰州,维吉尼亚州、哥伦比亚特区、乔治亚州和新泽西州注册设计师 。
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KATHLEEN A. DORGAN Kathleen A. Dorgan,是哈佛大学设计研究生院研究员,她研究了参与式社区的设计和开发。她拥有普拉特研究所城市和区域规划的硕 士以及伦斯勒理工学院的建筑科学学士学位。她是一个获奖设计师,她在可持续社区和保障性住房的工作已广泛在博物馆和美术 馆展出,其中包括国家建筑博物馆。她曾是住宅项目知识社区的主席和2013年主席友邦保险住房和友邦保险/住房和城市发展部部 长奖陪审团。作为交流演说家和讲师,她荣获罗杰威廉姆斯大学托马斯卡罗尔优秀教学奖,并在犹他州和佛罗里达住房会议担任主 讲人。她在相关书籍和期刊中有开发和设计的文章发表,共同编辑”城市景观”,参与应对卡特里娜飓风和丽塔飓风大学校园重建 项目。
DEANNE EVANS Deane Evans是一名注册建筑师,目前在新泽西理工学院建筑知识中心任主任。他在私人和公共部门拥有30多年经验，包括: 在建 筑系统的咨询公司Steven Winter Associates中任高级负责人；华盛顿特区美国建筑师学会研究组副总裁；美国住房和城市发 展部为推进住房高新技术运用的伙伴关系主任。目前,埃文斯先生领导的中心，在改善建筑和社区的性能方面，提供了多学科的 研究和技术支持。在住房项目中，近年来他日益参与的创建和传播工具，可以提高设施的性能和可持续性。目前他创建并维护 的住房设计经济型顾问(www.designadvisor.org)，对于住房经济型开发商和社区领导是一个独特的电子工具（该项目由美国住 房和城市发展部支持）。埃文斯先生是美国建筑师学会会员,目前作为可持续发展的建筑行业委员会的副主席。他拥有耶鲁大学 的学士学位和哥伦比亚大学的硕士学位。
R. DENISE EVERSON Denise Everson是哥伦比亚特区重建和绿色建筑方面的专家。丹尼斯女士是美国建筑师学会一名活跃的会员。她拥有汉普顿大学的 本科建筑学位,和乔治城大学公共政策硕士学位。
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Sustainable Housing & Design in Southwest China|Participant Biographies ROSE GRANT Rose Grant 负责为国营农场建筑研究联络活动，发展和管理的研究项目，评估和确认建筑物对自然灾害抵抗力。她是一名注册建 筑师，拥有伊利诺伊大学学士和硕士学位。她与许多委员会合作过，包括:国际住宅代码、国家住房协会研究中心、工业咨询委员 会为Better Homes保险研究实验室，和新马德里执行指导委员会地震场景任务组。同时她也是国际代码委员会,美国地震工程研究 所、国家建筑科学研究所、美国试验材料学会和美国财产意外险协会的会员。之前,她也以建筑规范官员身份，参与过商业住宅, 餐厅设计。在伊利诺伊大学的建筑研究委员会，她为该州能源和自然资源部门开发和管理了的家庭能源评级系统。
JENNY GUAN Jenny Guan，美国建筑家协会成员及认证专家,她具有包括家具制造,景观设计,住宅和商业建筑的跨学科背景，旧金山为她的主工 作区域。目前她在Flad建筑公司的学术、科学及技术部门工作。作为一个狂热的城市自行车爱好者，珍妮非常善于发现建筑的环 境，巧妙地利用她娴熟的三级变速避开路面上的坑洞。
SIMON HA Simon Ha 作为Tate Snyder Kimsey洛杉矶办公室的合伙管理人，他毕业于哈佛大学设计研究生院，有超过10年在在城市住房政策、金 融、和发展方面，大型多用途、商业小区的设计经验和教育背景。理解美学和功能的结合在住宅设计以及开发过程的重要性，他 善于为客户实现最大收益，同时服务于城市,社区和城市环境。加入该公司之前,西蒙创立了SHa建筑公司和担任美国电信协会建筑 师负责人，作为首席设计师和工作室总监，他已设计了3000户多功能商业住宅项目。
TOM HOWORTH Tom Howorth自1986年以来一直是美国建筑师协会成员。他起初创建了Mockbee-Coker-Howorth-建筑师公司，1990年成为Howorth 建筑 师联合公司的总裁。 在社区设施、文物保护和住宅项目中，他关注于建筑及其背景、文化与自然的融合。他拥有英语和建筑学士学 位,及弗吉尼亚理工自然资源硕士学位。近期他被任命为全球可持续性发展领导力中心(CLiGS)的会员。他四次参加国家建筑师协会 大会，两次美国建筑师协会基层董事会，多次州级会议。他曾参与或主持过包括国家级别的美国建筑师协会会议。18年来他一直活 跃在美国建筑师协会/设计委员会，2010年荣当设计委员会主席。在他领导参与的21次设计委员会大会，15个在美国和6个在海外。
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MAGNUS MAGNUSSON Magnus Magnusson是美国建筑师协会成员，认证专家。1986年他建立了Magnusson建筑和设计公司，一家关注区域可持续建筑， 商业和民用发展的公司。作为公司老板，他带领着才华洋溢的团队，通过规划、设计和施工的每一步工作，完成多个艺术级的 社区设施和大型规划项目，屡获殊荣。在他引人注目的作品中，在布朗克斯和布鲁克林的Melrose Commons 和 Rheingold 城市 花园项目最为代表，分别收到了众多设计奖项和刊登在多个出版物上。Melrose Commons最近收到美国绿色建筑委员会，能源与 环境先锋奖社区发展试点项目二期二等奖认证。他在可持续和高性能的建筑设计的研究和发展获得了许多荣誉，他是“无源前 级太阳能设计大奖”的获奖者，发表了许多关于节能和太阳能建筑设计的文章。他拥有纽约城市大学的建筑学硕士。
PRESCOTT MUIR Prescott Muir, 美国建筑师协会成员，三十多年一直担任一家著名公司的设计总监，该公司在盐湖城和洛杉矶设有办事处。该公司 拥有众多设计奖项和发表专著。公司业务涉足广泛，包括艺术博物馆、图书馆、表演艺术中心、公寓楼房和零售商业楼。普莱 斯考特拥有南加州大学建筑学士和哥伦比亚大学硕士学士。他四处演讲,现任在犹他大学的建筑学院主席。他是盐湖城计划委员 会的前主席，该市商会、美国建筑师协会犹他州董事会董事，目前也是国际雕塑中心的董事会成员。
RIZAL OEI Rizal Oei，Oei设计公司设计创意总监。1996年与妻子及商业伙伴Kim Kunasek Oei共同创立该公司，专门从事消费环境。他的设 计非常广泛：零售、餐饮、住宅、展览和制造商的产品展示厅。Rizal Oei1975年从印度尼西亚移民至美国。1988年毕业于亚利 桑那大学建筑学院。作为一个在纽约的设计师,他与阿根廷建筑师/设计师Emilio Ambasz合作了几个大型国际项目。埃米利奥安 巴兹搬到了凤凰城，设计了凤凰城历史博物馆。Rizal在成立自己的公司前后，在其他著名的公司也担任设计总监。Rizal也参 与过社区项目，公司为如亚利桑那州许愿基金会等非营利组织进行过公益设计。同时他也为几家创业公司做咨询顾问。在亚利 桑那州立大学Herberger研究所，他以工作室评论家和室内设计部门的陪审团成员的身份进行合作。
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Sustainable Housing & Design in Southwest China|Participant Biographies PAUL CRAIG OKAMOTO Paul Craig Okamoto作为专业建筑师，致力于设计住宅，多用途建筑和优化环境和社会条件社区。在旧金山他的Okamoto Saijo建筑设计 事务所，他设计了保障性住房的发展，定制太阳能住宅，以社区为基础的社区计划，研究可持续发展的设计问题。1981年他获的加 州理工大学建筑学士，1988年获得澳大利亚阿德莱德大学的建筑学硕士，2000年 – 2001年他是哈佛大学的研究生院勒布设计研究 员。1991年建立公司之前，他曾与Paolo Soleri和Peter Calthorpe几位著名建筑师共事。在加州纳帕谷的Rubissow农舍他设计了被 动式太阳能住宅，并且在塞瓦斯托波尔Johnson-Theis住宅项目经常被各种出版物刊登。目前他是城市生态董事会主席和旧金山规划 与城市研究的咨询委员会，主持其可持续发展委员会。他曾担任该市绿地联盟董事会董事，指导城市栖息地项目，旧金山的环境委 员会和海湾地区空气质量管理地区的顾问委员会成员。他是加州注册建筑师和能源与环境，美国绿色建筑委员会认证专家，旧金山 大学建筑学及社区设计和环境科学的副教授。
CASIUS PEALER Casius Pealer 是密西根大学法学博士和新奥尔良杜兰大学建筑学硕士。Pealer教授为保障性住房发展和财政提供咨询意见。他同时协 调学生的毕业研究和杜兰大学硕士课程可持续发展的房地产开发计划的夏季野外调查。他经常出席行业会议,并在美国律师协会的期 刊上发表关于经济型住房和社区发展的文章。
ANDREW PERLSTEIN Andrew Perlstein(白昱炜)最近加入弗吉尼亚理工大学的全球可持续性发展领导力中心,担任高级主管项目的主任助理。他拥有斯坦福大 学环境和资源跨学科项目的博士学位,关注中国城市化和城市规划。之前他获得达特茅斯大学亚洲及环境地球科学研究的本科学位, 及威斯康星-麦迪逊大学城市和区域规划硕士学位。白博士学习中文近二十年,在中国工作和学习四年多,他在云南参与过省政府旅游 发展规划制定的咨询工作。
LINDA REEDER Linda Reeder，美国建筑师协会会员，美国绿色建筑委员会认证专家，她是Linda Reeder 建筑事务所里唯一一个从事GGP的人员， 康 州州立大学施工管理项目副教授，建筑师专业实践手册(第15版)的副主编，并为精品住宅建筑杂志撰写可持续建筑的文章。琳达正 在准备她的第二本书，她是美国建筑师协会小项目从业者咨询小组成员。 52 | AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014
DAVID WOJCIK David Wojcik，Wojcik + Associates建筑师事务所总裁和首席设计师，该公司位于芝加哥外的伊利诺斯。大卫也是美国绿色建筑委员会认 证专家，操作和维护专业，二级建筑评估检查员，芝加哥城市能源注册专业师，拥有一级红外显像仪认证。大卫研究毕业于南伊 利诺伊大学，并继续在威斯康辛-麦迪逊大学深造。他关注科技建筑领域，他的公司也因此获得美国国防部在中国开发住宅开发商 的合同。
KEVIN YOSHIDA Kevin Yoshida 相信设计应坚持民族和美学。他认为设计应该提倡有节制的表现，设计应和相关利益者达成共识，担任社会平等的 义务。凯文主张民族设计必须保护资源，表现社会更高的愿望，提升人类的精神。凯文来自丹佛，第三代日本美国人，他毕业于 南加州大学建筑专业， 1994年回到丹佛从业。他把成功的住房和规划实践融合在一起，2012年加入Abo集团，现任管理主管和设 计总监。凯文目前正在创新城市设计，独特的保障性住房和在科罗拉多州突破性的项目。凯文是美国建筑师学会，丹佛的前任主 任。他曾获得美国建筑自主旅行奖学金，到俄罗斯研究圣彼得堡的涅夫斯基。他目前被市长任命为丹佛市设施和能源效率的董事 会成员，及科罗拉多州经济发展和国际贸易办公室的创意产业专业咨询网络的成员。
HISHEM YOUSSEF Hisham Youssef是一名颇具成就的专业设计师。他把20多年的设计经验，融入到领先的国际设计公司,如拉斐尔Violy和Gensler建筑 事务所。在后者，他成功地领导了一系列多元化的大型建筑和室内设计项目。1999年加入美国建筑师协会，是协会6个国际分会 的主要推动者，特别是协会在中东和上海分会的创建者和董事会成员。目前，他积极推动上海分会的发展，及其它国际议程。这 些年，他一直游走于美国、亚太地区、澳大利亚和中东地区，目前定居在上海。Hisham具有美国埃及双重国籍——出生在埃及开 罗，在美国东部完成了本科和研究生学位，有时也住在纽约。
JESS ZIMBABWE Jess Zimbabwe，城市土地研究所丹尼尔罗斯公共领导中心是创始执行主任。之前,杰斯是该市城市设计和研究所担任城市生态社区 的设计总监，提供公益性服务社区规划设计，援助在旧金山湾地区低收入社区。她是一个注册建筑师、注册城市规划师和绿色建 筑协会成员。 AIA Housing Knowledge Community 2014 | 53
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JOHN FLOWER, PHD & PAM LEONARD, PHD SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | FELLOWS, CLIGS John Flower (historian, Ph.D. University of Virginia) and Pam Leonard (anthropologist, Ph.D. University of Cambridge) began working in rural China in 1991. Their research over a twenty year period is a longitudinal study of the changing economy, environment, culture and values in Xiakou village, Sichuan, during a time of fundamental transformation in the Chinese countryside. That research is collected online in Moral Landscape in a Sichuan Mountain Village: a digital ethnography of place published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. The ethnography explores the creation of place and local understandings of the landscape, documenting the transition from subsistence agriculture to wage labor, as well as changes in domestic space, material culture, social institutions and religious belief. Their particular interest in vernacular architecture and sustainable housing stems from both their experiences in the Chinese countryside, and from their ongoing personal experiments in green building and organic farming at home. Former faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, they currently teach at Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC where they are leading the new China Fieldwork Semester program for high school students to learn about rural life and economic change in China.
TOM HOWORTH, FAIA HOWORTH & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS | FELLOW, CLIGS Tom Howorth has been an AIA member and a firm principal and since 1986, first with Mockbee-Coker-Howorth-Architects, and since 1990, as president of Howorth & Associates Architects. He practices architecture with concern about context, culture, and nature in projects that include, primarily, community facilities, historic preservation, and housing. Howorth has bachelor’s degrees in English and architecture, and a Masters in Natural Resources from Virginia Tech. He was recently named a Fellow of the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability (CLiGS). His lectures, presentations, and appearances include four national AIA Conventions, two AIA Grassroots panels, and several state AIA conventions. He has served on or chaired a dozen AIA component juries, including four for national. Active in the AIA/Committee on Design (COD) for eighteen years, Howorth, who chaired the COD in 2010, has led or participated in twenty-one COD conferences, fifteen in the US and six abroad.
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CASIUS PEALER, J.D., LEED-AP ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TULANE UNIVERSITY | DIRECTOR, SOCIAL INNOVATION & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Casius Pealer received a J.D. from the University of Michigan and an M.Arch/B.Arch from Tulane University in New Orleans. Professor Pealer has a consulting practice focusing on affordable housing development and finance, and he coordinates both the capstone research class and summer Field Study course for Tulane University’s Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development (MSRED) program. He regularly presents at industry conferences and has published articles in the American Bar Association’s Journal on Affordable Housing and Community Development.
KATHLEEN A. DORGAN, AIA, LEED-AP PRINCIPAL | DORGAN ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING Kathleen Dorgan was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she studied participatory community design and development. She received a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute as well as a B. Arch and a B.S. Building Science from Rensselaer. She is an award winning designer and planner of sustainable communities and affordable housing whose work has been widely exhibited at museums and galleries including at the National Building Museum. She is past chair of the AIA Housing Knowledge Community and the 2013 Chair of the AIA Housing and AIA/ HUD Secretary Awards juries. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer who received the Thomas J. Carroll Outstanding Teaching Award at Roger Williams University and served as Keynote speaker at housing conferences in Utah and Florida. She writes about development and design issues for books and journals and co-edited Cityscape; University-Based Reconstruction Projects Responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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BRIAN LINDEN CO-FOUNDER OF THE LINDEN CENTER | FELLOW, CLIGS Brian Linden has spent over 25 years involved in education, business, and journalistic ventures throughout Asia. He began his career working for CBS, after which he received a fellowship from the US Defense Department to pursue a Masters in Asian Economics at the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana. Brian returned to China on a scholarship with the Hopkins-Nanjing program before enrolling in an Asian History doctoral program at Stanford University. Brian has traveled to every province in China and has spent over 200 nights on trains. He has worked and sojourned in over 75 countries, yet over the years, it has been Brian and his wife Jeanee’s passion for China’s history, traditions, and people that have kept drawing them back. A trip to Xizhou in 2006 brought them one step closer to realizing their dreams and in 2008 the Linden Centre became a reality – an elegant retreat where foreigners and Chinese alike could share their passion for intellectual exchange, authentic cultural immersion, and life-long learning.
XIAOTANG JIANG COORDINATOR | YUNNAN SUSTAINABILITY NETWORK Xiaotang Jiang is a Yunnan native. She received her M.S. in ecology at Yunnan University. She began her career with The Nature Conservancy working with an ecotourism project in Three Paralleled Rivers World Heritage Site, in which she worked extensively across Yunnan Province. She then spent two years living and working in Dubai where she worked with the Emirates Group, inspiring her to focus on issues of cultural preservation and environmental conservation. Her second visit to Xizhou Village in Dali was to work with the Linden Centre, where she lead the development of the Yangzhuoran Program, the second Linden property in the village, which was established as an international education center in 2013. She accepted the position of Coordinator of the Yunnan Sustainability Network in late 2013 and has been meeting with numerous stakeholder groups across the province to start brokering partnerships.
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MICHAEL J. MORTIMER, JD, PHD DIRECTOR & SR. FELLOW | CLIGS Michael Mortimer is Director of the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability in the College of Natural Resources and Environment. Dr. Mortimer received a Ph.D. in forestry from the University of Montana, a law degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and B.A. in biology and English from Washington and Jefferson College. Dr. Mortimer teaches courses in Natural Resource Law and Policy, Environmental Conflict Management, and Institutional Aspects of Sustainability. His most recent interests are comparative policy approaches to sustainable development among sovereign nations, and has delivered lectures and worked with partners around the globe, including in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Sweden, Belgium, France, South Africa, Spain, and Russia. His research is published in Society and Natural Resources, Journal of Forestry, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Environmental Practice, Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, and other leading natural resource journals. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Yunnan Natural and Cultural Heritage Conservation Council in Kunming, China.
ANDREW PERLSTEIN, PHD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | CLIGS Andrew Perlstein is an expert on urbanization, land-use policy, and urban planning practices in China. He is particularly interested in understanding the scale and pace of urban growth in China, the decision-making processes that have contributed to such rapid change, and the implications of this change for environmental sustainability. Andrew has a PhD from Stanford and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from University of WisconsinMadison. Andrew has spent a lot of time in mainland China including Yunnan Province where he assisted a team of consultants to create a tourism development plan for the provincial government. He is fluent in Mandarin and has also done a lot of work translating Chinese design guidelines into English.
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