Participant(s) Bio
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
Brian Girard is a Senior Associate Principal with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, an international practice of 400 people with studios in New York and London. His projects include the Park Fifth residential high rise in Los Angeles, a residential district in Incheon, Korea, and the proposed redevelopment of the 26 acre West Side Rail Yards in New York.
Christopher Hawthorne is architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Slate, and Metropolis. With Alanna Stang, he is the author of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). A graduate of Yale University, he has taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley.
Dan Rosenfeld is a Principal, with Paul Keller, Matt Burton, John Horvat and the late Ira Yellin, in Urban Partners, LLC, an entrepreneurial real estate firm focusing on development opportunities of unusual social, economic or aesthetic value in urban and high-growth areas of the Western United States. Among the firm's projects are Del Mar Station in Pasadena, Wilshire Vermont Station and the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Los Angeles.
Dan worked previously with The Cadillac Fairview Corporation, Tishman/Speyer Properties and Jones Lang LaSalle. He served as an appointee of Governor Pete Wilson and Mayor Richard Riordan, directing the real estate operations of the State of California and City of Los Angeles. Dan holds BA and BS degrees in architecture and engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Martha Welborne is the Managing Director of the Grand Avenue Committee, a public/private partnership focused on revitalizing downtown Los Angeles through the creation of a $2.0 billion project that includes six high-rise buildings and a 16-acre civic park. Recently, she was also the Project Director of an initiative that led to the creation of Los Angeles County's Metro Rapid bus, one of the most successful new transit systems in the County. She holds two Masters degrees from MIT, was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is also currently the President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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