Lance Jay Brown
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Program SeriesCharles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture |
Lance Jay Brown is a New York-based architect, urban designer, educator, and author. He is the principal of the award-winning studio Lance Jay Brown, Architecture + Urban Design, founded in 1972. He has served as assistant director of the Design Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; professional advisor to the WTC Site 9/11 International Memorial Design Competition; co-directed the 2003 NEA funded Upper Manhattan Heritage Project; served as special advisor to the Mostar 2004 Urban Reconstruction Workshop, Bosnia Herzegovina, and co-directed the HUD-funded Crosstown 116: Bringing Habitat II Home From Istanbul to Harlem and numerous other urban design projects.
He has received the New York State AIA President’s Award for Excellence in Non-Traditional Architecture. In 2003, Brown was simultaneously named ACSA Distinguished Professor and Fellow, American Institute of Architects. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious AIA / ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the highest award for an educator in the United States. He is a re-elected member of the AIA NYC Board of Directors and co-chair of the AIA Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee established in 2011. Brown taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton and served two terms as elected chair and director of the School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture, CCNY, CUNY.
Brown was educated at The Cooper Union and holds two masters' degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has lectured nationally and internationally and has written numerous publications, including the Planning and Design Workbook for Community Participation (Princeton, 1970), Urban Design for an Urban Century (Wiley, 2009), and The Legacy Project, New Housing New York: Best Practices in Affordable, Sustainable, Replicable Housing Design (Oscar Riero Ojeda 2012). He is currently preparing a co-edited edition of Freedom of Assembly: Public Space and Democracy (WT, 2012).
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