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Prize Committee & Jury
2003 COMMITTEE
Stanford Anderson is an architect, Professor of History and Architecture, and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Peter Behrens: A New Architecture for the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000).
Paul Broches, FAIA, has been a partner at Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in New York since 1980. He advises clients on evolving educational policies and facility programming and has led master planning efforts and designed buildings on many campuses.
John Cary, Assoc. AIA, is co-founder and executive director of ArchVoices -- an independent, nonprofit organization focussed on architectural education and training. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has completed his M.Arch. coursework.
Dr. Benjamin Clavan is Principal of Benjamin Clavan, Architect, AIA, West Hollywood, California. His residential, commercial, and institutional projects have been published in design magazines and featured on television, while his critical writing has appeared in professional journals. Dr. Clavan is a past member of the West Hollywood, California Public Facilities Commission and also of the West Hollywood Planning Commission.
Galen Cranz, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, is a sociologist, designer, certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, and Kellogg Fellow, who has been absorbing architecture for the last 30 years, while teaching and writing about its social aspects. She is the author of The Politics of Park Design:A History of Urban Parks in America and The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design. Other current writing topics include semantic ethnography for architects, defining the sustainable park, and taste in a consumer society.
Dr. C. Greig Crysler is Assistant Professor of Theory and Criticism in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. He is also Program Director of the Arcus Foundation Endowment. His book, Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1995-2000, is forthcoming from Routledge.
William Di Napoli teaches undergraduate design studios as a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. His undergraduate degree and masters' thesis, both from UC Berkeley, emphasized architecture as constructed social space. Di Napoli Architects primarily focuses on residential, commercial, and educational projects.
Thomas A. Dutton is an architect and professor of architecture and interior design at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is co-editor (with Lian Hurst Mann) of Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and editor of Voices in Architectural Education: Cultural Politics and Pedagogy (Bergin and Garvey, 1991). His research focuses on the connections between critical pedagogy, architectural education and and architectural theory and urban social practice. Dutton is also director of Miami University's Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, an inner-city neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was been active in the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement for twenty-two years.
Lynne Elizabeth is the editor of New Village. the national journal of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. She also co-editor of "Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods" (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).
Roberta M. Feldman is an architectural educator and researcher who has lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad on socially responsible housing and community design. Dr. Feldman is a Professor of Architecture and Director of the City Design Center, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Brian Gassman is a naturalist and visual artist. His recent works employ digital video and photographic techniques to archive the biomechanics of insect, marine and plant life, at high magnification, for design and teaching. He received a B.Arch. from the University of Arizona and an M.A. in Design from UC Berkeley. Gassman has worked in architecture and design offices in Los Angeles, Denmark, Berkeley and San Francisco.
Thomas Gensheimer is a professor of architectural history at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia where he specializes in African and Islamic architecture and urbanism. He has published on globalization and the urban history of the East African coast.
Ann Gilkerson has completed a Ph.D. thesis on Viollet-le-Duc at Harvard University (June, 2003). She has taught the history of modern architecture at Harvard, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of California, Davis. Dr. Gilkerson has also worked for the Northampton, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Historical Commissions.
Zachary Heiden is a lawyer in Portland, Maine, who works for minority assistance and protection using both legal and cultural tools. He has advocated for a jurisprudence based on respect for human dignity, and his scholarship has touched on issues of home design in James Joyce's Ulysses and the use of public land by religious minorities.
Bahram Hooshyar Yousefi is currently an M.Arch. candidate at Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, where he received his B.S.in Architecture. He has worked in the architectural division of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in Eastern Azerbaijan, as well as in architectural offices in Tabriz and Tehran, and has received awards for his writings on traditional and contemporary architecture, as well as for Art and Architecture, the best weblog on art and architecture in Iran.
Lance Hosey, AIA, currently an Associate with William McDonough + Partners, previously has worked with Gwathmey Siegel & Associates and Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York. He has published extensively on the social and cultural aspects of design and received the 2000 JAE Award for his study of architecture and political protest. In 2002, he won the international competition to design the African-American Burial Ground Memorial at Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, VA.
Michael Keniger, Professor of Architecture and Head of the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, has written extensively on contemporary architecture and urbanism in Australia. As the Queensland Government Architect, he has had an involvement with many major projects, including the 2002 Sydney Olympics, the National Museum of Australia and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff received a BES degree at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he is currently an M.Arch. candidate. He won First Prize in the Berkeley Prize 2002 Competition, with an essay entitled "The Clean Street Paradox" that is published in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). He has worked in architectural offices in Montreal, San Francisco, Barcelona and Toronto.
Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Prize Committee, is Professor the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has taught undergraduate design studios and writing seminars. His publications include Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People (1981), Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and the Physically Disabled (1987), and The Dervish Lodge: Art, Architecture, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey (1992).
Christine Macy, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has previously taught at UC Berkeley and the University of British Columbia. Currently in practice with Sarah Bonnemaison as FILUM, her firm specializes in the design of public spaces for festivals and commemorations.
Keith Mitnick is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He received an M.Arch. from UC Berkeley, and has practiced in Berkeley and San Francisco. Mitnick has been Burnham Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan, and was awarded First Place in the 2002 Boston Society of Architecture Unbuilt Architecture Competition.
Dr. Maire O'Neill is Associate Professor at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, where she has taught since 1990. She is a licensed architect in California and Montana. Her research focuses on haptic experience in understanding space and place. Currently she is serving on the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speakers Bureau.
Giles Oliver is an Associate with Penoyre & Prasad Architects in London. He is also an affiliated lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Cambridge, and visiting tutor to its Master's Programme in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment.
Michael Pyatok, FAIA, is principal of Pyatok Architects, Inc., of Oakland, CA. His firm specializes in both non-profit and for-profit housing development throughout the United States. He is also Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, and has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Design School and elsewhere. He has won numerous design awards, and is also co-author of Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing, New York, 1996.
Amanda Reeser is co-founder and co-editor of the architectural journal Praxis. She received her M.Arch. from Columbia University, and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University. She has practiced with Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, Weiss Manfredi Architects and Gluckman Meyer Architects in New York. Currently she is a doctoral student in architectural history at Harvard University.
Scot Thrane Refsland, Digital Media Architect, received his Ph.D. in Computer Systems and Software Engineering at Gifu University in Japan. He has won several awards for his digital media installations and performances in Australia and Japan, is a Visiting Fellow in Computer Arts, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland and is the designer/programmer for the Berkeley Prize Competition websites.
Daves Rossell is Professor of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, where he specializes in American architecture and urbanism, cultural landscape, and the vernacular. He edits the Vernacular Georgia Newsletter, is co-editor of Arris, the journal of the Southeastern chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and is on the board of the Coastal Georgia Land Trust.
David Salazar, a native San Franciscan, conducted his formative training in architecture at UC Berkeley. In 1998 he enrolled in London's Diploma School at the Architectural Association. He is now a member of the Office of Zaha Hadid, London.
Anthony Schuman, a past president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Architecture. A registered architect, his articles on housing design and community development appear in eight books and numerous journals. He has been a founding member of several advocacy and activist organizations in architecture and planning.
Murray Silverstein is Partner, Jacobson Silverstein Winslow Architects of Berkeley. He is a co-author of A Pattern Language; The Good House; and Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design (Taunton Press, 2002).
Leslie Van Duzer, Associate Professor at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, has published two books in collaboration with Kent Kleinman, Villa Muller and Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision. Their recent research focuses on Mies van der Rohe's brick villas. Last year she studied the Danish coastal landscape while teaching in Denmark. Currently she is a visiting professor at Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
2003 JURY
 BRIT ANDRESEN, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, BRISBANE AUSTRALIA Norwegian architect Brit Andresen teaches and practices architecture in Brisbane, Australia. She has been awarded the 2002 Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the first woman to be so honored. After competing her architectural studies in Norway she was awarded a scholarship to study housing in The Netherlands and subsequently began practice in Great Britain where she won the competition for the Burrell Museum in Glasgow with John Meunier and Barry Gasson. Andresen taught architecture part-time at Cambridge University and at the Architectural Association before traveling to Australia to teach at the University of Queensland with periods at UCLA as a visiting professor. Projects from the architectural partnership of Brit Andresen and Peter O'Gorman include timber houses that explore the expressive capacity of materials and the potential for relations with the landscape.
 FRANCESCO BANDARIN, UNESCO, PARIS, FRANCE Director of UNESCO World Heritage, Francesco Bandarin is a graduate of the University Institute of Architecture, Venice and received a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently on leave from his position as Professor in the School of Planning in Venice. His two decades of experience in urban and environmental project design include the International Campaign for the Safeguarding of Venice (1995-2000), and technical director for Jubilee Year 2000 celebrations for the City of Rome. He is also a consultant to the World Bank in urban management and cultural heritage conservation, and has conducted research and training programs as well as lectured at many universities in Italy, the United States, and the developing world.
 JO NOERO, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Professor of Architecture and Director of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jo Noero was educated as an architect at the University of Natal, South Africa, he holds an M. Phil. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. He has previously held tenured positions at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Washington University, St. Louis, USA. In private practice as Jo Noero Architects in Johannesburg, South Africa from 1984 to 1998, and now in the firm of Noero Wolff Architects in Cape Town, South Africa since then, he has won several major architectural awards, and was recently awarded first prize in an open competition for the design of the Museum of Apartheid in Red Location, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He has lectured in Europe, the United States and Africa on his work, which has also been widely published and exhibited.
 BRIGITTE SHIM, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA A principal of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, Canada, Brigitte Shim is also Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she was educated at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her architecture and design firm specializes in the integration of furniture, architecture and landscape design, and has won numerous design awards. Shim has also taught at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (Switzerland), as well as Yale and Harvard Universities in the United States and has also lectured throughout Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. Her firm's work has been widely published and exhibited. Among her honors are an American Institute of Architects Education Honors Award and six Royal Institute of Canada Governor General's Medals.
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