June Williamson is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at The City College of New York and the coauthor, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs.
George Baird is a principal in Baird Sampson Neuert Architects and was the dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto until 2009.
Wretched excess. Sustainability and the rise of LEED. Architecture as spectacle. Architecture for Humanity. Buildings as collectibles and architects as brands. . . Making sense of the past decade means confronting forces and trends pointing in radically different directions. Should we remember the first 10 years of the 21st century — the naughts — for advances in digital technologies that allow building designs to be rapidly analyzed and improved or for those that allow super-tall buildings to rise in the middle of deserts? After a period of wealth creation on a scale never before seen, what do we have to
James P. Barrett is the national director of integrated building solutions at Turner Construction Company, where he oversees the adoption of building information modeling (BIM) on projects.
Paul Nakazawa teaches professional practice at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and works as a business strategist and coach for architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design firms.
Ricky Burdett is a professor of urban studies at the London School of Economics and the founding director of LSE Cities, an international research and teaching organization.
Alexandra Lange is a critic, journalist, and architectural historian. She is the coauthor, with Jane Thompson, of Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes.
Bob Berkebile, FAIA, principal of Kansas City, Missouri-based architecture and planning firm BNIM, has worked for decades to promote sustainable design. He is founding chairman of the of the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment (COTE) and was instrumental in the formation of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and it’s LEED rating system. Berkebile also played a key role in the development of the Living Building Challenge. The BNIM-designed Omega Center for Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, New York, is one of two projects to be named the world’s first Living Buildings. Architectural Record: Since its inception LEED has grown
Sheila Kennedy is a principal of Boston-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2000, she established MATx, a materials research unit at KVA investigating production across various fields.
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