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Alexander
Garvin, Director of Planning for NYC2012,
the city's bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to
the United States, New York City Planning Commissioner,
professor for over 30 years at Yale University, and
author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't
the seminal text of urban planning and development
and winner of an AIA book award. Mr. Garvin has described
our event as "the first new idea in community
building in nearly 100 years."
Daniel
Libeskind, winning designer of the project
for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero as well as the
award-winning Berlin Holocaust Museum.
Bill
McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle:
Remaking the Way We Make Things, 1999 Time Magazine
"Hero For The Planet," and a recipient of
Presidential Awards for Sustainability from both Bill
Clinton and George W. Bush.
Randall
Stout, internationally respected "green"
architect and former associate with Frank Gehry, and
the designer of Roanoke's new Art Museum of Western
Virginia.
Sarah
Susanka, author of The Not So Big House series.
Sarah Susanka is a cultural visionary leading a movement
that is redefining the American home. Today, her "build
better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture
has been embraced by homeowners, architects and builders
across the country and her Not So Big philosophy has
sparked a national dialogue.
As a leading advocate for the re-popularization of
residential architecture, Ms. Susanka has improved
the quality of home design while countering the elitist
image of architects so commonly held by the public.
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