BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Stacey Frost
Founder, Urban Re:Vision
Stacey Frost is the Founder And Thought-Leader of Urban Re:Vision, Re:Vision TV, and author of The Urban Re:Vision Framework™. An activist through design, Stacey believes in the power of design to repair the urban fabric and to create the foundation for health and well-being for all. Urban Re:Vision is all about Re-Visioning sustainable and revitalized urban spaces, seeing city blocks as biomimetic systems which support the relationships and potential of the people who live there throughout their life cycle.
Re:Vision has designed a charrette where city leaders, decision makers, community leaders, designers, artists, and experts across disciplines come together to co-create the guidelines and design principles for a sustainable urban environment for their site and the surrounding area— one which focuses on the users of the space while addressing resources, transportation, economies, community, culture, construction, and education. Typically, this is followed by a design competition for the block based on the outcome of the charrette.
Re:Vision recently finished an international online design competition for a sustainable city block to be built in Dallas, a workshop for the Civic Center Sustainable District in San Francisco, and continues to work with other cities and communities to help them re:vision their public and private spaces.
Sergio Palleroni – Basic Initiative
Co-founder and Director of the BaSiC Initiative
Sergio teaches architecture and sustainable design and development at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development. Sergio earned his professional BArch from the University of Oregon and his MSArchS in History Theory & Criticism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at the University of Washington for 12 years where, he co-founded the BaSiC Initiative with Professors David Riley and Steve Badanes. He has worked on housing and community development in the developing world since the 1970’s, both for not-for-profit, governmental and international development and relief agencies such as the United Nations as well as the governments of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, India and Tunisia. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and design work for underserved communities, including the National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the White House Millenium Project in 2005. His books include: Time & Other Constructs: The Work of Carlos Miijares, co-authored with Rodolfo Santamaria (Escala Press, 1989); Studio at Large; Architecture in Service of Global Communities, with Christine Merkelbach (University of Washington Press, 2004); and Teaching Sustainability in Asia (NTUT Press, 2006). In addition, his work has appeared in numerous international magazines and publications including, most recently Design Like You Give a Damn, by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr (Metropolis Books, 2006), the forthcoming Good Deeds, Good Design II: Community Service Through Architecture, edited by Bryan Bell (Princeton Architecture Press, 2006), and also forthcoming Experiments in Design Pedagogy, by Mao-lin Chiu (Taipei, 2007).
Allison Arieff
Allison Arieff writes the “By Design” column for the New York Times and is Editor-at-Large for Sunset magazine. She does consulting work in the realms of architecture, sustainability and media, most recently as Senior Content Lead for the design and innovation firm, IDEO. From 2002-2006, Arieff was the Editor in Chief of Dwell, and was the magazine’s founding senior editor. Under her tenure, Dwell won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2005, the industry’s highest honor.
Ian Bryan
Ian Bryan creates scalable, results-driven programs which fuse Sensible City’s community approach to marketing and public relations with the tactical campaign framework necessary to align large communities around common goals, ideas and brands.
A whole-systems thinker, Ian’s contributions reflect Sensible City’s underlying framework: that in order to solve big problems, we start by embracing and interweaving the smaller human challenges which face our communities. His early marketing contributions to previous firms include brand-launches for Google, Network Solutions IC, Unilever HPC, Mailboxes Etc. and Anthony Robbins.
Nathaniel Corum
Outreach Director, Architecture for Humanity
A staff architect for Architecture for Humanity, Nathaniel Corum coordinates its international studio programs, including an AfH Container Studio, a Prefab Core Studio, a Floating Classroom Studio, and a Pac Rim Studio. He is also a design architect for various AfH projects, particularly a Tribal Elder Housing Initiative with Indigenous Community Enterprises and the Navajo Housing Authority. In addition Nathaniel leads a material science team for an AfH Alternative Masonry Unit (AMU) project, and serves as Cabin Architect and Sustainability Consultant for the Plastiki Expedition.
After studying product design at Stanford University, Nathaniel trained as an architect at the University of Texas at Austin. A subsequent Fulbright Scholarship allowed him to focus on preservation and urban poverty issues in North Africa. He is also the recipient of a Rose Architectural Fellowship, and author of Building a Straw Bale House (Princeton Architectural Press).
ADVISORY BOARD
Cameron Sinclair
Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco, CA,USA
Kate Stohr
Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco, CA, USA
Peter Head
ARUP, London, UK
Christine Arena
Author, San Francisco, CA, USA
FORMER COMPETITION JURORS
Eric Corey Freed
organicARCHITECT, San Francisco, CA, USA
Aidan Hughes
ARUP, San Francisco, CA, USA
Al Green
Green Planning, San Francisco CA, USA
Bob Thresher
National Wind Technology Center, Golden, CO, USA
Celeste LeCompte
Sustainable Industries, San Francisco, CA, USA
Elaine Hsieh
Kema Green Building, San Francisco, CA, USA
Daniel Chiras
Sustainable Systems Design Inc., Denver, CO, USA
David Baker
David Baker + Partners, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hut Landon
SFLOMA and NCIBA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Jim Heid
UrbanGreen, San Francisco, CA, USA
Justin Gerdes
Flex Your Power, San Francisco, CA, USA
Laurie Schoeman
Literacy for Environmental Justice, San Francisco, CA, USA
Marc Franke
Author:One Week to Save the Earth, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, CA, USA
Melissa Hawkins
Vetrazzo, Berkeley, CA, USA
Nathaniel Corum
Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco CA, USA
Olivia Teter
Vetrazzo, Berkeley, CA, USA
Paul Donald
Branch, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pliny Fisk
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Austin, TX, USA
Raquel Pinderhughes
Professor SFSU, Daly City, CA, USA
Richard Stover
Energy Recovery Inc., San Leandro, CA, USA
Ron Gremban
Cal Cars, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Sandy Mendler
Mithun, San Francisco CA, USA
Sergio Palleroni
BaSIC Initiative, Portland, Oregon, USA
Vicki Vlachakis
General Motors, North Hollywood, CA, USA
