Deborah Berke

Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, creates buildings that have presence and character — that rely on a discourse between a subtle hand and bold composition to become arresting architecture. Berke is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., 1975; B. Architecture, 1977), The City University of New York (M. Urban Planning in Urban Design, 1984), and in 2005 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater. In an evolution of her "philosophy of the everyday," which earned her international renown, her work over the past decade is decidedly of a larger scale — distinguished by mixed-use, hospitality, retail, and arts-related buildings.

Berke is a professor of architectural design at Yale University, a post held since 1987. She is the co-editor, with Steven Harris, of "The Architecture of the Everyday", published by Princeton Architectural Press in 1997. The work of her firm, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects LLP, has won numerous design awards and has been featured in publications as diverse as Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Architecture Magazine.

Bradley C. Brooks

Bradley C. Brooks is director of historic resources and assistant curator of American decorative arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Previously, he served as director of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas, and as curator, then museum director at the Moody Mansion and Museum in Galveston, Texas. He received a B. A. in communication arts from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and an M. A. in early American culture from the Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware. The Miller House and Garden marks his first foray into modernism.

Brad Dunning

Brad Dunning is a designer known for working on architecturally significant properties, restorations and contemporary design. Besides his own designs he has worked on homes by such architects as Richard Neutra, Wallace Neff, Quincy Jones, Albert Frey, John Lautner, and many others.He has also written about architecture and design for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and was a contributing editor on architecture and design for GQ Magazine.

Laurie D. Olin

Olin, RLA, FASLA, is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today. Olin studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and pursued architecture at the University of Washington, where Richard Haag encouraged him to focus on landscape. His involvement often marks the signature of OLIN’s distinguished portfolio of projects, which spans the history of the studio from Bryant Park in New York City to the Brancusi Ensemble in Romania. Recent projects include Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland and the new Barnes Foundation Art Education Center in Philadelphia. Olin and his fellow partners at OLIN received the 2008 Landscape Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for excellence and innovation in landscape design and dedication to sustainability.

Olin is currently practice professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for thirty years, and is former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Design Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2005.

Suzanne Stephens

Suzanne Stephens, a deputy editor of Architectural Record, has been a writer, editor, and critic in the field of architecture for several decades. She has Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University, and teaches a seminar in the history of architectural criticism in the architecture program of Barnard and Columbia colleges.

Stephens is the architectural advisor to Checkerboard Film Foundation, which recently produced the film series, “Landmarks in 21^st Century American Architecture.” She was the lead author of Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site, published in 2004 by Architectural Record and Rizzoli International. Currently Stephens serves on the board of directors of the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation in New York, and is a Life Trustee of the New York Architectural League.