SAT-B2 Design Competitions: Why We Bother (to do them)

Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA is widely recognized for her teaching and her writings in landscape modernity and contemporary landscape design. She has participated in ten national design competition juries in the past twenty years, most recently serving on the Rethink. Restore. Rebuild. Trust for the National Mall's design competition in DC. Meyer was also a member of the the MVVA-led design team that won the City+Arch+River Competition that focused on revitalizing the context of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Grounds.

Donald J. Stastny, FAIA FAICP FICP has been a practicing architect, urban designer and process facilitator for over forty years. Don is recognized as one of the preeminent design competition advisors and managers in North America. He has directed such recent prominent competitions as the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, City+Arch+River in St. Louis, the new U.S. Embassy in London, the African American Museum and the Trust for the National Mall in Washington DC, and Waller Creek in Austin, Texas.

Warren has led the firm in public and private landscape projects throughout the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Brazil, Baja Mexico, Antigua, Russia, and China. He received his B.S. in Horticulture from Virginia Tech and his Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia in. He is also a Fellow of the ASLA. In addition to his 30+ years of practice, Warren taught for 26 years at the University of Virginia, serving as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture for 7 years.