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Stanley Tigerman, Principal, Tigerman McCurry Architects (Jury Chair)
A principal in the Chicago architectural and design firm Tigerman McCurry and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Stanley Tigerman received both his architectural degrees from Yale University in 1960 and 1961. He has designed numerous buildings and installations throughout the United States and abroad, and he has given over 950 lectures. He has been a visiting chaired professor at numerous universities, including Yale and Harvard, and he was the resident architect at the American Academy in Rome in 1980. He has served on advisory committees of the Yale and Princeton Schools of Architecture and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Architecture and Design, and he was director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago for eight years. In 1993, in association with Eva Maddox, he cofounded Archeworks, a socially oriented design laboratory and school, where he remained director until 2008, when they were selected as a Civic Ventures Purpose Prize Fellow.
He is the author of five books: The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition and Late Entries; Versus: An American Architect’s Alternatives; The Architecture of Exile; Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966–1989; and The California Condition: A Pregnant Architecture. Current literary works include an autobiography published by ORO Editions in fall 2011, an essay on ethics for POINT journal published by Princeton University Press, and a compilation of his previously unpublished essays, in conjunction with a retrospective of his work, published by Yale University Press in 2011.
Currently he is designing the University of Chicago’s Seminary Co-Op Bookstore relocation, scheduled to be completed in 2012. Of the 400-plus projects defining his career, 185 built works embrace virtually every building type.
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Steven G.M. Stein, Senior Partner, Stein Ray LLP (Honorary Co-Chair)
Steven Stein is a leading authority in construction law and specializes in the trial and arbitration of complex design and construction matters. He has tried or arbitrated scores of complex disputes. He also works extensively in the drafting and negotiation of design and construction related agreements. Mr. Stein is past President of the Chicago Building Congress, and former Board member of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and a former Board member of the Builders Association of Greater Chicago and the Construction Specifications Institute - Chicago Chapter. He is currently a board member and formerly President and Treasurer of the Design Build Institute of America Great Lakes Chapter and a Trustee of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Mr. Stein is a member of the Board of Overseers for the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture and on the Advisory Board of Roosevelt University’s School of Real Estate.
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Joseph Burns, Managing Principal, Thornton Tomasetti
Joseph Burns is Practice Leader, Managing Principal and board of directors member for Thornton Tomasetti. His 30 years of experience and his contributions to the field of structural engineering have been recognized with his advancement to fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Architects and the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.
A recipient of the American Institute of Steel Construction's Special Achievement Award and named to ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers list, Joe is well-known for his innovative structural design work for new structures as well as investigating and renovating existing buildings. His credits span a wide spectrum of building types and include commercial, residential, retail, healthcare, education, performing arts, museums, aviation, and sports. Among his portfolio of notable, award-winning projects are One North Wacker (formerly UBS Tower); Erie on the Park; The University of Chicago, Charles M. Harper Center; Indianapolis International Airport, Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal, and the Adaptive Reuse of Soldier Field.
Active in the design and construction community, Joe serves as a peer reviewer for the GSA Design and Construction Excellence Programs, is a member of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Advisory Group, is a member of the External Advisory Committee for Northwestern University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and is a member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Design Council. Joe's expertise has been shared through publications and lectures, with presentations at the 2011 USC Symposium on BIM, 2010 AIA National Convention, 2009 Autodesk AEC Executive Summit, and 2008 IABSE Congress, to name several.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame and master’s degrees in architecture and civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Roberta Feldman, Ph.D., Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture
Roberta Feldman is an architectural activist, researcher and educator committed to democratic design. She has worked with community leaders in Chicago's public housing and over fifty community organizations and development corporations in Chicago’s low income neighborhoods to address their visions for shaping, revitalizing and preserving their designed environments. Her research has focused on affordable and public housing design including: author with Susan Stall, of The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents Activism in Chicago Public Housing, 2004; editor of Design Matters: Best Practices in Affordable Housing; and editor with Jim Wheaton of The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale, 2007, a guide to community revitalization though historic preservation.
Feldman’s expertise and commitment to democratic design and action research are recognized nationally and internationally including such awards as the 2008 AIA Chapter Distinguished Service Award, and for projects she directed at the City Design Center, the 2008 EDRA/Places/Metropolis Award for Research, 2008 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, 2005 EDRA/Places Research Award, and 2001 Association for Community Design Award for Excellence. Currently, she is one of a team of four that has been awarded the 2011 AIA Latrobe Prize to research public interest practices in architecture.
Feldman is Professor Emerita at the UIC School of Architecture and Director Emerita of the City Design Center. Feldman received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Environmental Psychology Program) in 1986 from the City University of New York, and her M. Arch. in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Reed Kroloff, Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum
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Reed Kroloff is the Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, and a nationally known commentator in the world of architecture and urban design. Kroloff served as Dean of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans where he shepherded the school through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and co-chaired the commission charged with developing the initial master plan for rebuilding the city in the wake of the storm and subsequent flooding. Kroloff also served as Editor-in-Chief of Architecture magazine, which, under his direction, received more awards for editorial and design excellence than any magazine of its type, and quickly became the country's leading design publication.
He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Yale University, and was a recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 2003. He serves on numerous boards and advisory councils, ranging from the United States General Services Administration Register of Peer Professionals to the Public Architecture Foundation.
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Cathleen McGuigan, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record
Cathleen McGuigan is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, the nation’s leading architecture publication for more than a century. McGuigan is the second female to serve as editor in chief of Architectural Record. The first was Mildred Schmertz, who led the magazine from 1985 to 1990. In addition to guiding Architectural Record, McGuigan also serves as editorial director of GreenSource, a sustainable design magazine launched in 2006, and SNAP, a products publication that debuted in 2009.
McGuigan is a former longtime Newsweek architecture critic and arts editor. A Michigan native, she possesses more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. After earning an English degree, with a minor in art history, from Brown University, she joined Newsweek in 1977 as a researcher and reporter for the magazine’s art critic. She rose up through the ranks, becoming a senior editor in 1992, a demanding position that entailed overseeing a weekly arts section and managing a staff of a dozen writers and reporters. That same year, she earned a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In 2008, McGuigan left the full-time staff of Newsweek and became a contributor to the magazine.
McGuigan has worked as a consultant for various clients, including the U.S. Institute of Peace (while it was building a new headquarters designed by Moshe Safdie) and the Syracuse University School of Architecture. She also served as an executive editor of HQ: Good Design Is Good Business, a McGraw-Hill pilot project. Her articles have appeared in venerable publications, such as The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Harper’s Bazaar. Presently, she is conducting research for a biography of the critic Aline Saarinen. In addition to her editorial work, McGuigan is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She also serves on various design juries and sits on the board of trustees for the Skyscraper Museum in New York.
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John Ronan, Founding Principal, John Ronan Architects
John Ronan is founding principal of John Ronan Architects in Chicago, founded in 1999. He holds a Master of Architecture degree with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan. In 1999, he was a winner in the Townhouse Revisited Competition staged by the Graham Foundation and his firm was the winner of the prestigious Perth Amboy High School Design Competition in 2004, a two-stage international design competition to design a 472,000 square foot high school in New Jersey. In December 2000, he was named as a member of the Design Vanguard by Architectural Record magazine, and in January 2005 he was selected to The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices program. In 2006 he was featured in the Young Chicago exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S., including the Graham Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago and The Architectural League of New York’s Urban Center, and his work has been featured in numerous international publications. His firm has been the recipient of two AIA Institute National Honor Awards (for the Poetry Foundation and The Gary Comer Youth Center, both in Chicago). A monograph on his work, entitled Explorations, published by Princeton Architectural Press was released in 2010. John is currently Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, where he has taught since 1992.
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