CHARRETTE PARTICIPANTS 2002

Visiting Professionals

J. Max Bond FAIA is a principal of the New York-based firm of Davis Brody Bond, one of the United States' leading architectural design practices, having been honored with over one-hundred major design awards in the past ten years. Projects completed by the firm include Valeo Thermal Systems Headquarters and Technical Center in Auburn Hills, an award-winning facility designed for the independent automotive components manufacturer. Recent commissions include the Apollo Performing Arts Center in New York, the Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, and a new consular office building for the U.S. Department of State in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Ken Greenberg is an urban designer and architect, and principal of Greenberg Consultants in Toronto, Canada. He served as Director of the City of Toronto's Division of Architecture and Urban Design, which he founded in 1977. Since leaving the City in 1987 to form Urban Strategies, he has continued to focus on rejuvenating neighborhoods and districts in such cities as Amsterdam, Paris, Montreal and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His award-winning Development Framework for St. Paul, Minnesota identifies projects that will reconnect the downtown to the Mississippi River, and he is currently serving part-time as the first Director of Saint Paul's Design Center. Mr. Greenberg is also guiding other large-scale strategic revitalization projects in Detroit, Hartford, Charleston, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Miriam Gusevich is an associate professor at Catholic University. She is an award-winning architect and urban designer, a teacher and a scholar. From 1988 to 1996 she was the chief urban designer for the Chicago Park District where she worked on various masterplans ranging in scale from the reconstruction of Chicago's shoreline to small neighborhoodparks. Her built projects include the Jane Addams Memorial Garden and sections of Grant Park, including the Cancer Survivor's Garden, Congress Plaza, and Queens Landing. She received a Loeb Fellowship for her ongoing research: "Graves and Ghosts, recovering the body and soul of the American city."

Peter Hasselman FAIA, is an architect, urban designer and perspectivist practicing as a consultant from his studio in California. He is an enthusiastic advocate of the charrette process and has participated in many such programs all over the world. One of his interests is the process of drawing and how it can be used as a design tool and the means of communicating the potential of an idea.

Local Participants

Tom Barrie AIA, is both an architect practicing in Royal Oak, Michigan and a member of the faculty of Lawrence Technical University. A 600 square foot house designed for two artists in Massachusetts by Barrie was the only residential property to receive a 2000 AIA Michigan award This tiny house is site specific and is the first phase of a larger compound.

Julie Ju-Youn Kim is a principal of studiozONE in Detroit. She earned her master’s of architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her bachelor of arts from Wellesley College. studiozONE is a small architectural firm focusing on commercial, industrial and residential projects as well as new loft construction and renovation. Completed projects include Huntington Woods Community Center, Kay's Bridal Loft and the Fred Barton Company Headquarters, the latter two in Detroit. She is on the faculty of University of Detroit Mercy.

Damon K. Leverett, AIA serves as Albert Kahn Associates’ assistant director of architectural design services. As assistant director, his responsibilities include facility master planning, programming, and schematic design. He also serves as director of the Kahn Digital Studio, an AKA service group that provides clients with advanced computer graphic imaging, three-dimensional modeling, and immersive environmental studies. With more than nineteen years of experience in the A-E industry, Mr. Leverett is highly visible in the architectural field. A graduate of Lawrence Technological University, Mr. Leverett has served as an adjunct faculty member and guest critic at the University’s School of Architecture and Design since 1990, teaching design, theory, and computer graphics.

Francis Resendes is a senior associate and director of design for Gunn Levine Associates. He is actively involved in all phases of the design process from conceptual design to construction documentation. He has worked as the design architect for various project typologies including k-12 schools, higher education, public libraries, municipal buildings, museums and auditoriums. As an architect/artist, his work has also been exhibited and published internationally.

Consultants

Yvette Amstelveen works with Detroit school children through a non-profit organization called InsideOut as artist-in-residence and program director. She received a bachelor of fine arts from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a master of fine arts in painting from the University of Michigan. She has participated in each of the three Detroit Design Charrettes. Her window gallery project, which originated during the Cass Corridor Charrette, was recently completed by art students from UM and Cass Tech with funding from DTE. The installation can be viewed in the vacant upper stories of the Lindell AC at 1310 Cass Avenue.

Kate Beebe is president of the Greater Downtown Partnership a non-profit planning group which helps oversee development in the central business district. As president of the Partnership, her focus is on linking successful urban districts with large-scale projects. As a private urban planning and real estate consultant, she helped develop Orchestra Place, an $80 million expansion of Orchestra Hall. She holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan.

Eric Larson is the founder, president and chief executive officer of the Larson Realty Group. He coordinated General Motors’ purchase of the Renaissance Center and the Millender Center. Mr. Larson also negotiated and directed the Hines property and development management services for the more than $2 billion redevelopment of these properties. In addition, he directed the management and leasing of Comerica Tower and provided advisory services to the Detroit Medical Center in conjunction with the planning and consolidation of its new corporate headquarters. He serves as chairman of Detroit Downtown, Inc. and as a director of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation. In addition, he is a member of the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Building Operations Management Association (BOMA), Urban Land Institute (ULI), the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, Inc. (NACORE).

Mark S. Rosentraub, Ph.D. is professor and dean of Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. The College, Ohio’s only College of Urban Affairs, is ranked among the top eight schools of urban affairs in the United States.Rosentraub’s research interests focus on the economics and politics of professional sports teams and their relationships with cities; the financing of sports facilities; the financing, organization, and delivery of urban services; and economic development issues. His work has included studies of urban change and growth, public-private partnerships, economic development strategies, and the relationship between sports, economic development, and the public sector. Rosentraub has also been a consultant for Major League Baseball, the San Diego Padres and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Racing League as well as the new Staples Center in Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles’ role in a new NFL franchise for that community, and the placement of minor league baseball teams in New York City.

Taubman College Faculty

Robert Beckley FAIA, is professor architecture and urban planning at the University of Michigan. He served as dean of the College from 1987 to 1997. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan he taught at the University of Wisconsin and was a principal in the firm of Beckley/Myers Architects. In addition to teaching he is researching downtown retail commercial redevelopment and is a design consultant for a major urban park.

Robert Fishman is professor of architecture at Taubman College and teaches in the urban design, architecture and urban planning programs. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally-recognized expert in the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning. He has authored two books, regarded as seminal texts, on the history of cities and urbanism.

Doug Kelbaugh FAIA is dean and professor of architecture and urban planning at Taubman College. He has popularized the design charrette more than any other professional or academic in the country, having organized over fifteen and participated in over twenty-five of them in the USA and abroad. His book Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design is based on theory and practice developed in these charrettes. He edited The Pedistrian Pocket Book, a national bestseller in its field that chronicles a charrette in Seattle.

Robert Kleyn is adjunct associate professor of architecture teaching design at Taubman College. He has also taught at Arti, Aquila, in Italy at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Vancouver and University of Detroit Mercy. Currently he is project architect on Camp Rogel, Vail Colorado and project designer for the Davidson Residence, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, both for Luckenbach Ziegelman Architects, Birmingham, Michigan. He is also acting as project architect, University of Detroit Studio Theater with Allen & Laux Architects, Detroit.

Roy Strickland recently joined Taubman College as director of the Urban Design Program. Formerly he was director of the New American School Design Project at Massachusetts of Technology (MIT). He received a master of architecture from MIT and a bachelor of arts from Columbia University. Strickland has lectured nationally and internationally on school design, housing, and urban design. He recently published, Designing a City of Learning:Patterson New Jersey based on his work with the New American School Design Project.

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