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Richard P Dober taught campus-planning courses at Harvard and other schools. He was one of the founders of the American Campus Planning Association.
He has served as a campus planning and design advisor on over 450 projects, which include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Art Institute of Chicago, United States Coast Guard Academy, and forty of the fifty top-rated liberal arts colleges, etc. Besides this, he is engaged in architectural planning and design in thirty-nine states. His four books Campus Planning, Campus Design, Campus Architecture, and Campus Landscape are considered benchmark reference books. In addition he has edited forty-one books on planning and community design
Brooklyn College presented him with its Distinguished Alumni medal in 1992.
Representative Projects:
- Planning for Illinois State Capital Area (Springfield Illinois)
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Saint Bede's Abbey (Illinois)
- Sylvester Cancer Treatment and Research Center (University of Miami Medical School)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Minnesota History Center
Mr. Haag is Founder and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. He has served as the Keynote Speaker on "Preserving Contemporary Landscape Architecture" for the National Park Service, US Department of Interior and spoken at three major architectural and design conferences held in Paris , Chaurmont, France and Barcelona, Spain. Haag continues to teach and lectures internationally. Haag has participated in more than 500 projects. His work is continually displayed and studied over the world.
He is the only person who has twicely won the President's Award for Design Excellence ASLA. His projects reflect the creativity and sensitivity to the natural environment, underscoring his commitment of re-using existing structures and facilities.
Representative Projects:
- Gas Works Park (President's Award for Design Excellence ASLA)
- Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island(President's Award for Design Excellence ASLA)
- Marymoore Park
- Seattle Center (Distinguished Service Award)
Consultant on Landscape and Residential Architecture
Ronald Wood was received his Master degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is Executive Director of ASLA, Boston Architect Society as well as National Association of Home Builders. Wood has 35-years' experience of designing and planning and has taken great responsibility in many projects when he served for SWA organization.
Wood established Guideline Design Co. in MA in 1973, and contracted many large-scale comprehensive projects, which include: design of garden and large recreation ground, comprehensive resort and community, office building and campus, and urban area; design and planning of commercial and industrial park; and feasible analysis of land use development.
Senior Consultant on Landscape Architecture
Charles Morris Anderson graduated as a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is Executive Director of ALSA as well as Registered Landscape Architect. Mr. Anderson has been working in this field for over 30years, leading and taking part in several hundred design projects. He has received ASLA General Design Award and RIBA Urban Design Award for his design of Olympic Sculpture Park，Discovery Park and Arthur Ross projects.
Benjamin G. Abrams AIA
Mr. Abrams is MA State Registered Engineer and Architect. He graduated from Engineering Design Department in MIT. With 5 years working experience in Poley-Abrams Architecture Co., he co-founded Engineering Design Co. with two professors respectively from Harvard University and MIT.