Bio
Experience
Co-Founder/Executive Director
Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco
April 1999 – Ongoing
Representative Projects:
Open Source Architecture Network, 2006 - ongoing
Responding to Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - 2008
Post-Tsunami Reconstruction, 2004 - 2007
Siyathemba, Youth Sports Center and HIV/AIDS Outreach facility, 2004 - 2008
Cincinnati Freedom Summer Charrette, 2004
Mobile Health Clinic to Combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2001-2004
Transitional housing for Returning Refugees in Kosovo, 1999-2000
Project Architect
Gensler, New York
January 2000 – September 2002
Representative Projects:
Lehman Brothers, NY, NY, 2001/2002 – Member of 9/11 disaster recovery team
School for the International Center of Photography, NY, NY, 2000/2002
Goldman Sachs, NY, NY, 2001 – Interior renovation of downtown offices
Baron Funds, NY, NY, 2001 – 10,000 gallon salt water aquarium
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, NY, NY, 2001/2 – Five-floor renovation project
Fresh Kills Landfill, NY, NY, 2000 – 30-year plan for transforming existing landfill into usable public space
Project Designer
Lauster Radu Architect, New York
January 1998 – January 2000
Representative Projects:
Union Health Center, NY, NY, 1999 – A primary health care facility for UNITE!
UNITE! Local 62-32, NY, NY, 1999 – Union headquarters
Targu-Jiu, Romania, 1999 – 30-year urban redevelopment plan
Brancusi Sculptural Complex, Targu-Jiu, Romania, 1999 – Restoration of Brancusis’ Endless Column, Gate of the Kiss and Table of Silence
Harlem Redevelopment Plan, NY, NY, 1998 – 15-year urban redevelopment plan
Park Slope Food Coop, Brookyln, NY, 1998 – New retail/commercial space
Assistant Architect
Steve Blatz Architects, New York
January 1997 – December 1997
Representative Projects:
Clinique and Estee Lauder, GUM Department Store, Moscow, Russia
11 Clinique and 5 Estee Lauder stores in Europe, Africa and North America
DKNY, Harvey Nichols, London, UK – Renovation of retail space
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Education
Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
Pre-diploma of Architecture, 1997
Thesis: Transitional housing for New York’s’ displaced population
Westminster University, London, UK
Bachelor of Architecture (Honors), 1992-5
Thesis: Japanese Architecture through the 20th Century
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Advisory Boards
Institute for State Effectiveness
Acumen Fund (Housing)
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
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Awards
2008 National Design Award (Design Patron) - Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
2008 Young Global Leader – World Economic Forum
2007 10 Cutting Edge Designers – Business Week
2006 UK Designer of the Year - Finalist
2006 TED Prize
2005 AIAS Presidential Citation
2005 Target/RISD Emerging Designer of the Year
2005 INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards (Community)
2005 Lewis Mumford Award for Peace - ADPSR
2004 Design for Humanity Award - American Society of Interior Designers
2004 Aspen Seven, seven people changing the world for the better - Fortune Magazine
2004 Fast 50 – Fast Company Magazine
2002 Nice Modernist Award - Dwell Magazine
2001 SARA Excellence Awards – International Center of Photography
1999 A.I.A./B.S.A. Willo von Molke Urban Design Honor Award – 30 year urban redevelopment plan, Targu-Jiu, Romania
Exhibited Projects and Art
2007 Design Indaba 10x10 Housing Project, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Show and Tell, Zimmer Childrens Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Under A Tenner, Design Museum, London, England
2004 The Voting Booth, Parsons School of Design, NYC
2001 Brancusi Sculptural Complex, World Monuments Fund, NYC, NY
1999 Targu-Jiu redevelopment plan, BSA Build Boston, Boston
1999 Pier 40 Exhibition, Van Alen Institute, NY, NY
1998 Fredrick Douglass Blvd. Redevelopment, Municipal Arts Society, NY, NY
Selected Speaking Engagements
2008 Seoul Digital Forum, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Young Presidents Organization, Sydney, Australia
2007 World Economic Forum in Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Design Indaba, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Tasmeen Design Conference, Doha, Qatar
2006 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference, Monterey, CA
2005 Pop!Tech, Camden, Maine
2004 Stories From the Source, Art Center Conference, Pasadena, CA
2004 American Institute of Architectural Students Forum
2003 Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
2003 International Design Conference in Aspen, Aspen, CO
Teaching Engagements
2008 University of Southern California – Visiting Critic/Scholar
2008 Drexel University – Rankin Visiting Scholar
2006 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN – Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor
2004/5 Montana State University, Bozeman, MT – Adjunct/Visiting Professor
Selected Publications
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (Metropolis Books) 2006 – Co-Editor
Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (Royal Society of Art) 2006 - Contributor
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams) 2006 – Contributing Writer
Safe: Design Takes on Risk (Museum of Modern Art) 2005 - Contributor
