GROWING URBAN HABITATS is a symposium organized to explore the development ideas and design concepts generated by the URBAN HABITATS competition for Sunrise Trailer Park. Competition finalists partnered with nationally recognized professionals will present their projects and ideas towards fulfilling the two-part mission of URBAN HABITATS:

The first is to integrate affordable and market rate housing into a medium-density, mixed-income, mixed-use community. The goal is to generate culturally and climatically responsive architecture through a sustainable continuum, from site development to energy efficient unit operation. That architecture must incorporate compact efficient floor plans that utilize innovative building technologies.

The second is to generate a new set of models for inclusionary community development and green building design to guide non-profit organizations, private developers, or public/private partnerships in the redevelopment of trailer parks while providing affordable housing for the current trailer park residents.

GROWING URBAN HABITATS is offered free of charge to the general public at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Campbell Hall. Free parking is available in Lot A9 off Rugby Road at Culbreth Road.

Registered attendees will receive a handbook of information on the day of the symposium. Register by email for the symposium at symposium@cvilledesign.org. Please include the name, title, company or school affiliation, mailing address, telephone number and email address of each individual attending.

Charlottesville Community Design Center
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
University of Virginia School of Architecture

Many thanks to our generous sponsors for their support.

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David Carley

Mark Anderson Anderson Anderson Architecture, San Francisco, CA
David Baker David Baker+Partners Architects, San Francisco, CA
Craig Barton Associate Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Lynne Conboy Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Phoebe Crisman Assistant Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Teddy Cruz Estudio Cruz Architects, San Diego, CA
Robin Dripps T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Julie Eizenberg Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Chris Genter Genter & Schinder, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Gutowski Waterford Development, LLC, Reston, VA
Russell Katz Architect and Developer, Silver Spring, MD
William R. Morrish E. R. Quesada Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Richard Price The Folsom Group, Charlottesville, VA
Lawrence Scarpa Pugh+Scarpa Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Susanne Schindler Genter & Schinder, Cambridge, MA
Katie Swenson Charlottesville Community Design Center
William Williams Associate Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Aaron Young Metropolitan Planning Collaborative, New York, NY

Air Travel
Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Airport (CHO), located 20 minutes north of downtown Charlottesville, is served by Delta, Northwest, US Airways and United Airlines. Richmond International Airport (RIC), about 50 miles to the east, is served by AirTran, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta, Northwest, US Airways and United. All major airlines operate out of Dulles International (IAD), about 100 miles to the north in the Washington, DC metropolitan region.

Hotel Accommodation
The Fairfield Inn (AAA three diamond rating) is holding a block of double rooms for symposium participants. The Inn, operated by Marriott, offers spacious rooms with two phones and high-speed internet access. Please contact them directly to hold a room in your name at 1 (434) 964-9411. Be sure to mention you are part of the UVA School of Architecture group.

Ground Transportation
Avis, Hertz and National Car Rental agencies operate out of Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional, Richmond and Dulles International airports.

The following taxi companies serve the Charlottesville area:
AAA Cab Company (434) 975-5555
A&M Taxi Cab Company (434) 971-8294
Discount Taxi (434) 960-9018
Farmer's Taxi (434) 960-7106
Silver Top Cab (434) 960-3359
Taxi 13 (434) 981-1535
VIP Taxi (434) 760-4588
Yellow Cab (434) 295-4131

Two shuttle services operate in the area:
Van On The Go LLC (434) 975-8267
A Goff Transportation (434) 990-0550 or 1-800-GOFF-CAR

GROWING URBAN HABITATS is offered free of charge to the general public at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Campbell Hall. Free parking is available in Lot A9 off Rugby Road at Culbreth Road.

Registered attendees will receive a handbook of information on the day of the symposium. Register by email for the symposium at symposium@cvilledesign.org. Please include the name, title, company or school affiliation, mailing address, telephone number and email address of each individual attending.

Mark Anderson
Anderson Anderson Architecture San Francisco, CA
Mark Anderson has worked in the construction industry since high school as a construction worker, architect, and general contractor. In partnership with his brother, Peter Anderson, he has designed and built numerous residential and light commercial buildings and public art installation projects in the United States and Japan. A significant focus of his work has been on new construction technology and he has served as a consultant in this area for corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and in Asia. His creative work has received numerous awards and has been included in group and solo exhibitions.

David Baker
David Baker+Partners Architects San Francisco, CA
David Baker FAIA, has been practicing architecture for 28 years. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous awards, and in 1996 was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. David founded San Francisco-based David Baker + Partners, Architects in 1982 and now leads the firm with Peter MacKenzie AIA, and Kevin Wilcock AIA. DB+P is known for combining social concern with a signature design character. From 1977 to 1982, David was principal of Sol-Arc, a firm dedicated to energy-efficient architecture. Before becoming an architect, he was a union carpenter.

Craig Barton
Associate Professor, Director of Urban Studies Program
UVA School of Architecture
Through his practice, research, and teaching Mr. Barton investigates issues of cultural and historical preservation and their interpretation through architectural and urban design. Much of his practice focuses on assisting African-American communities to preserve and interpret their significant cultural resources and to utilize them to stimulate community development. In 1997, he was awarded grants from the Graham and George Gund Foundations to develop “Sites of Memory”: a symposium exploring aspects of identity and spatial representation in African-American culture. An anthology of essays developed from the symposium entitled Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2001.

Lynne Conboy
Chair Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
As Chair of the Sunrise Park Planning Committee, Ms. Conboy and the Resource Development Committee proposed the idea of buying and redeveloping trailer parks to create medium density mixed-income developments and to prevent the displacement of trailer park residents that often occurs when trailer parks are sold. Ms. Conboy and her committee also created the annual Roof Over Every Child pledge event and the Homes for Humanity Society, a multi-year giving society, and encouraged the creation of a successful store that encourages the re-use of building materials that otherwise might go to the landfill.

Phoebe Crisman
Assistant Professor UVA School of Architecture
Ms. Crisman’s teaching, research and practice investigates the intersection of architecture and urbanism – a narrow, yet expanding space between two academic and professional disciplines. Rather than accept the increasingly marginalized position of architecture due to globalization, environmental concerns, rapid urbanization, and the loss of place within the contemporary American landscape, her work seeks to develop a theoretical basis and specific architectural strategies for difficult urban conditions. Investigating concepts of urban and architectural palimpsest, terrain vague, interpretive openness and hybridization, she began a research agenda that focuses on linear indeterminate spaces within the morphological continuity of densely structured American cities.

Teddy Cruz
Estudio Teddy Cruz, San Diego, CA
The work of Estudio Teddy Cruz dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Mr. Cruz is involved in many civic and cultural advocacy groups. He teaches and frequently lectures at universities in the US and Latin America. His work has received numerous awards for projects on both sides of the border. Most recently, he was honored with the James Stirling Memorial “Lecture On The City” Prize sponsored by the CCA in Montreal, the Van Alen Institute, and the London School of Economics.

Robin Dripps
T. David Fitz-Gibbon Professor UVA School of Architecture
Professor Dripps has recently been writing and lecturing on the structure of myth as a fundamental basis for architectural form. Published as The First House: Myth, Paradigm, and the Task of Architecture, the work received a Phi Beta Kappa book award in 1999. Her recent research, writing, and teaching deals with the pragmatic and poetic opportunities of a shift in interest from the figure to the intellectual and physical grounds, fields, and other networks that give order to human action. Her essay, “Groundwork” will soon be published in Site Matters, an anthology on recent re-thinking about sites edited by Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn.

Julie Eizenberg
Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Ms. Eizenberg’s belief that design excellence can be achieved in restricted budget and socially-oriented projects has been a driving force at Koning Eizenberg Architecture. Her current projects include the Herb Alpert Educational Village, Oakwood Elementary School, Rad Sunset Lofts, and a community park for the City of Santa Monica. She has won numerous awards for the firm in the past 20 years, including the Savings by Design Energy Efficiency Integration Award, Westside Urban Forum Prize, AIA California Council Honor Award for PS #1 Elementary School and the AIA California Council Merit Award for 5th Street Affordable Family Housing.

Andrew Gutowski
Waterford Development Reston, VA
Mr. Gutowski is a registered architect and Vice President of Development with Waterford Development of Reston, Virginia. He manages the firm’s urban infill mixed-use developments and is currently supervising a portfolio of new residential projects valued at over $400 million. Prior to joining Waterford, he was a vice president of the JBG Companies and Charles E. Smith Residential Realty. Mr. Gutowski worked in Europe for many years, where he established and managed Central Europe’s first real estate investment trust fund. He has his Bachelors in Architecture from the University of Virginia, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Masters in Real Estate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Russell Katz
Architect and Developer Silver Spring, MD
Throughout school and work, Katz has focused on the issues of environment and design. A native Washingtonian, he returned to the city in 1998 to pursue a belief that environmentally-conscious, beautifully designed projects could be financially successful. Having grown up working in construction and in building management before practicing architecture, Katz decided to become his own client. His move into real estate ownership came when he bought and renovated two derelict apartment buildings near Metro stations. He continues to own and manage both buildings. Encouraged by his experience, Katz proceeded to create his latest project. Combining high quality design, green building and good business.

William R. Morrish
E. R. Quesada Professor UVA School of Architecture
Professor Morrish holds the first endowed interdisciplinary professorship at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia. Previous to his arrival at UVA, he was founding director of the Design Center for American Urban Landscape at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota. Under his direction, DCAUL became a nationally recognized “think tank” for professionals, academics and civic leaders on the issues of metropolitan urban design. He carries on this work through interdisciplinary teaching and research. His design and policy research focuses on the future of American’s aging metropolitan first ring suburban communities and city working class aging small home neighborhood.

Richard Price
The Folsom Group Reston, VA
A nationally known expert in sustainable design and planning, Mr. Price works with institutions, designers and owners to develop and implement appropriate techniques for improving environmental performance in buildings, campuses and communities. He lectures widely on green building and planning, and teaches sustainable design and planning at the UVA School of Architecture. His town planning work includes Innovation Green in Florida, a mixed-use community designed to foster collaboration between education, the arts and the environment. As a complement to his sustainable design and planning experience, Mr. Price has taken on the development of two sustainable communities in the Woolen Mills neighborhood of Charlottesville.

Lawrence Scarpa
Pugh+Scarpa Architecture Santa Monica, CA
Mr. Scarpa is the principal-in-charge of design at Pugh + Scarpa and has been practicing architecture since 1989. While pursuing his personal practice, he is also an educator in design and construction technology with a special emphasis on sustainability. Complementing his professional activities, Mr. Scarpa has taught and lectured at a broad range of institutions nationally and internationally. He is a co-founder and current board member of Livable Places, Inc., a non-profit development company. Livable Places mission is to provide more livable and sustainable affordable housing on problematic urban sites and to influence and change the vision of urban policy makers and voters.

Susanne Schindler and Chris Genter
Genter & Schindler, Cambridge, MA
The work of Genter & Schindler emerged from a shared interest in projects that are both architecturally and socially innovative: architecturally, in that they rethink processes as basic as how to get from the car to the front door; socially, in that they question whether you might need a car at all. In this sense, innovation is not driven by a formal goal. Rather, it is an approach made necessary by constantly changing economic and social conditions. It is these conditions that bear the potential for architectural change. Urban Habitats was an opportunity to investigate these premises.

Katie Swenson
Executive Director Charlottesville Community Design Center
Ms. Swenson co-founded the Charlottesville Community Design Center in September 2004. She was responsible for approaching Habitat for Humanity to co-sponsor the Urban Habitats Competition. The competition succeeded in bringing in over 150 international entries for the highly complex housing program. Prior to founding CCDC, Ms. Swenson worked as a Rose Fellow with Piedmont Housing Alliance on projects to enhance community development and affordable housing in Charlottesville’s in low-income neighborhoods. Ms. Swenson has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to leverage relationships to connect the regional and local architectural, business, and academic communities.

William Williams
Associate Professor UVA School of Architecture
Newly appointed Associate Professor of Architecture, William Williams comes to the School of Architecture from six years teaching architecture design at Rice University in Houston, and a prior combined eight years teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley. While in Houston, Williams founded and directed the Civic Arts Program, which allocated an annual budget of $21 million toward refurbishing existing public art and funding the creation of new art. Williams also maintains a private architecture practice in Houston, Williams Pizzini Architects (WPA), which specializes in the design of affordable, single-family dwellings.

Aaron Young
Metropolitan Planning Collaborative New York, NY
The Metropolitan Planning Collaborative is an initiative of four practicing professionals: Aaron Young, an architect and urban designer based in New York; Catherine Lynch, an urban planner/developer in Washington, DC; Georgia Borden, an urban planner in San Francisco; and Richard Ramsey, a landscape architect in New York. The collaborative was formed in 2004 with the fundamental understanding that contemporary urban planning and design necessitates an interdisciplinary approach. Mr. Young has worked with Venturi Scott Brown and Associates and Rogers Marvel Architects. He holds a B. Arch. from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a M. Arch. in Urban Design from the Harvard GSD.