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Patrick Condon
Patrick Condon is a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and has also taught at the University of Minnesota. He is a recipient of the prestigious Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Teaching Award, and has been at UBC since 1992, serving first as Program Director and more recently, as the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. As Chair, he organizes the Sustainable Urban Landscapes Charettes. Patrick is a former Director of Community Development for the City of Westfield Massachusetts, where he was responsible for many improvements to Westfield's land use control system. He is also a partner in the firm of Moriarty/Condon Landscape Architects Ltd. Patrick has a B. Sc. and a M.L.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His area of research focuses on landscape design theory and sustainable urban design. He has published widely and lectured at many North American universities on topics ranging from sustainable community design to landscape space perception theory.
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Clare Cooper Marcus
Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of four books - Easter Hill Village: Some Social Implications of Design; Housing as If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing (with Wendy Sarkissian); People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space (with Carolyn Francis); and House as Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home - she has also contributed numerous articles to design and academic journals. In 1983, she was recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award for Exemplary Design Research for her Book, Easter Hill Village. In 1984, she received the annual Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association. In 1989, she received a Guggenheim Award to research a forthcoming book, Cohousing: Architecture and a Sense of Community. Her book, Housing as if People Mattered received a Citation for Research in Progressive Architecture's annual award program, 1992. People Places received a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1993. Marcus has co-authored several works with her business partner, Marni Barnes on gardens in heathcare facilities, including recently published, Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations. Marcus has lectured and consulted in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and China. Her firm, Healing Landscapes, a consulting firm offers services related to the programming, design , and evaluation of outdoor spaces in heathcare settings. Her areas of special interest include medium density housing, public housing modernization, public open space design, children's environments, housing for the elderly, post-occupancy evaluation of designed settings, design guidelines, healing environments, and the psychological meaning of home and garden.
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Samuel Mockbee
Samuel 'Sambo'Mockbee is a counselor, friend and mentor. He is alsoan educator, both to the Auburn University (AU) students who live and work at the College of Architecture, Design and Construction's Rural Studio and to the West Alabama people whose lives are changed by the work that he and his students do. An award-winning architect in his own right with Mockbee/Coker Architects in Canton, Miss. and Memphis, Tenn., Mockbee and AU architect professor D.K. Ruth founded the Rural Studio in 1993 in Hale County, one of the nation's most impoverished areas. He's passionate about what he believes: teaching students the "how-to'of architecture while instilling in them their social responsibility as architects and the kind of professionalism he wants his students to embrace. His passion has always been in designing affordable housing, even when he was designing single family dwellings and larger structures. It was on one of his many trips from Mississippi to the AU campus that he came up with the idea of a rural studio: to take student architects to the people who needed housing the most. Students have built homes for the elderly, made repairs to hundreds of homes for safer living conditions for residents, built playgrounds and even designed and built a chapel from stucco-covered recycled tires. They have used straw bales for insulation, corrugated-metal siding, fragmented curbstones, colored-glass bottles and milled timber to complete houses and other structures. "The goal is not only to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it,'Mockbee says. 'What we build are shelters for the soul as well as homes for bodies."
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Steve Loken
Steve Loken is the owner of Loken Builders and founder of the Center for Resourceful Building Technologies in Missoula, MT. Steve is a nationally recognized building technology expert. He has consulted on resource efficient buildings for corporations, public utilities and municipalities, and demonstration rational speaker in the field of environmentally responsible construction. Steve Loken designed and built the award-winning ReCRAFT 90 project demonstration house using recycled building materials, job waste site reduction, and energy-efficient technologies. Other nationally-acclaimed innovative and resource-efficient building project constructed by Loken Builders include restoration of the historic Ovilla Building in downtown Missoula and construction of a Native American health clinic.
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