Prestigious Charter Awards jury for ‘14
Jury chair Jeff Speck revealed an impressive list of urbanists that have agreed to judge the 2014 CNU Charter Awards, the global award for excellence in urban design. Speck handpicked an especially prominent jury to convene in January and review hundreds of entries from architecture, planning and design firms around the world (as well as student submissions).
The full list of jurors is as follows (in alphabetical order):
• Ronald E. Bogle, President & CEO of the American Architectural Foundation
• Will Bruder, FAIA, President and Lead Design Architect at Will Bruder Architects
• Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President & CEO of the American Academy in Rome
• Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami 2001-2009, Partner at Lydecker Diaz, LLP
• Rob Krier, Architect and Sculptor, KK Urbanism
• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company
• Michaele Pride, Professor of Architecture at the University of New Mexico
• Brent Toderian, city planner and urbanist, Toderian UrbanWORKS
Plater-Zyberk, one of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Dean Emeritus of the Department of Architecture at the University of Miami and Principal at DPZ Associates, was a no-brainer: Speck worked under her at DPZ for a decade, and calls her a mentor. Air-lifting Rob Krier in from his home base in Berlin was a coup, as was securing the participation of Chatfield-Taylor, who is much more accustomed to running juries than serving on them. Perhaps the wild card of the bunch is Will Bruder, an iconoclastic Arizona-based architect who is known for his modernist masterpieces, but who has impressed Speck with his “commitment to the city-making principles put forth in the Charter of the New Urbanism.”
The 2014 Charter Awards began accepting submissions on November 8th, 2013 and will close January 8th, 2014.
