The Loeb Fellowship Class of 2012
Maine Retreat

Jim Stockard, Curator; Sally Young, Program Coordinator;
Chris Calott, Aaron Naparstek, Jean Brownhill Lauer, Andres Lepik;
Anna Heringer, Peter Park, Ian Lockwood, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Inga Saffron.

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Chris Calott is an architect and a developer from Albuquerque, New Mexico.  For the last decade he has been working to combine urban densities, mixed uses and modern forms with design ideas drawn from the Hispanic and Native American traditions of the southwest where he works.  In the last few years, he has particularly focused on affordable housing.  He will study development strategies and urban design at the GSD.

Anna Heringer is trained as an architect and is from Linz, Austria. She has developed a design practice that focuses on the use of local materials, skills and knowledge to create buildings that are distinct and undeniably from their place. Her school in Bangladesh, built from mud and bamboo was featured in the recent Small Scale, Big Change exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Anna will study construction techniques and materials during her Fellowship year.

Jean Brownhill Lauer is trained as an architect and is based in New York City.  While maintaining an active practice, she has created two web sites with the intent of facilitating easier and more transparent relationships between architects, clients and contractors.  With her Swee10 site, she hopes to convince a wide range of the public they can have access to good design skills, even for their small projects.  She will work on other techniques for extending design excellence more broadly across the built world. 

Andres Lepik has been a curator in his home city of Berlin as well as New York.  He most recently created the Small Scale, Big Change exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  An expert in museum projects which tell the story of architecture and those who create it, he oversaw two ground breaking projects in Berlin which looked closely at the work of Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas.  He will examine the social engagement movement within architecture.

Ian Lockwood is a traffic engineer from Orlando, Florida.  He believes the entire paradigm of traffic engineering needs to change, especially with relation to urban conditions.  He is interested in creating more walkable neighborhoods, shared streets, and transportation alternatives to the private automobile.  He has worked on projects aimed at these goals across the country.  Ian will spend his time at the GSD studying urban planning and urban design.

Anne-Marie Lubenau is a registered architect whose work focuses on educating and engaging people in design of the built environment. In private practice she's developed plans for award-winning affordable and supportive housing projects and educational curricula for nonprofit clients. As President and CEO of the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh and Chair of the Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition she advocated for better design and planning in Pittsburgh, created new educational programs and services to help people access design, and led community-based planning initiatives throughout Western Pennsylvania. Anne-Marie will study urban design, planning and public policy while at Harvard.

Aaron Naparstek is the Founder of Streetsblog, a blog that advocates for a more balanced transportation matrix for New York City.  Highly successful, it has now spun off similar blogs in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.  His advocacy journalism has resulted in more bike lanes, more pedestrian plazas and more attention to public transit in New York.  Trained as a journalist, he will study planning and urban design at the GSD.   

Peter Park was until recently the Planning Director in Denver, Colorado.  He previously served in a similar role in Milwaukee.  He has presided over the development of a brand-new form based zoning ordinance for Denver and has also led extensive efforts to engage citizens in planning activities. He is interested in the new visualization technologies as planning tools.  An architect and urban designer, Peter will research new methods for engaging citizens in the planning process.

Inga Saffron is the architectural critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  She writes not only about new buildings, but about development activities, urban planning and neighborhood revitalization. She is particularly interested in the reshaping of Philadelphia’s critical urban spaces in positive ways, emphasizing good design over commercial goals.  Inga will explore urban planning, architecture and urban design, topics she has learned about through involvement, but not formal study.