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.