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Speaker Bios Mr. Chan also co-founded the Morningside Group. In the past two decades, Morningside and its associates owned and managed companies focusing on manufacturing, public transport operations, advertising, media and healthcare in mainland China, developmental capital investments in Southeast Asia, manufacturing and distribution in Europe, and service industries and high tech investments in North America. Mr. Chan is Chairman of the Executive Committees of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute and of the Better Hong Kong Foundation, Convenor of the Hong Kong Development Forum, an Advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the China Heritage Fund which restores cultural relics in China. Internationally, Mr. Chan is a Vice Chairman of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and also serves or has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks and universities, including the University of Southern California, East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He is the founding Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Business Council, and a former Chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council. Mr. Chan holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has published numerous articles in the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Newsweek, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and Japan Times. Their work has both collaborated with and housed the arts. Their built work, bordering on minimalism, pays careful attention to context, to detail and to the subtleties of a subdued but rich materiality. The Neurosciences Institute, completed in 1995, incorporates laboratories, a theoretical studies building and a chamber music auditorium, all aspects of this project including furniture and landscape were designed by the studio. This project was termed a “magnificent piece of work” by New York Times Architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, and was cited by Time magazine as one of the best designs of ’96. The Neurosciences Institute has been widely published, and has received a number of awards, including an AIA National Honor Award. A new 35,000 square foot building for the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City was completed in December 2001. Critically acclaimed, its attendance has exceeded all expectations. Newsweek magazine called it “elegant, intricate and memorable” saying that it was a “jewel, a brilliant emblem for this historical moment.” It was awarded the Arup World Architecture award for Best Building in 2002. Construction has begun on a new center for the Asia Society Hong Kong which will be located in Central at Magazine Gap. This project covers about 45,000 square feet in area and is a combination of restoration and renovation of the existing British munition storage compound and a new building which will house public lectures and programs, as well as a shop and café. Billie Tsien is on the boards of the Architectural League, the Public Art Fund, the American Academy in Rome and the Advisory Council of the Yale School of Architecture. Tod Williams is on the advisory board of the School of Architecture at Princeton. Award-winning architect Bernard Lim, FHKIA, RIBA, RAIA, graduated with top honors from the University of Hong Kong and is a recognized community leader through his many roles on town planning boards, government committees and other community service organizations. Mr. Lim is the current President of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA), Professor of Architecture at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Principal of Architecture Design and Research Group Ltd. (AD+RG). Before joining AD+RG, Bernard was a Director of the P&T Group, formerly Palmer and Turner, one of the oldest international architectural and engineering practices in Southeast Asia. He has been widely published and has established professional specialization / research in areas of sustainable / energy efficient design, educational and institutional building typologies, and large-scale master planning / urban design. Paul Zimmerman has a Masters in Business Administration from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1987, he founded Bridge Design in Hong Kong, an identity and corporate literature design company, which he sold in 1997 to the American events and corporate communications firm, Caribiner International. He built the combined entity into a leading corporate communications group in Asia. In 2000, Paul founded The Experience Group, a consultancy advising on strategy and policy development. In 2003, he was appointed Executive Director of MF Jebsen International, an investment holding company. He has direct responsibility for Jebsen Travel, Pacific Aviation Marketing, and MF Jebsen Automotive, the distributor of Aston Martin Sports Cars and Triumph Motorcycles. Paul Zimmerman is Convenor of Designing Hong Kong Harbour District, a community project aimed at developing consensus on sustainable planning. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Coalition on Sustainable Tourism and a Member of the Advisory Committee of Ocean Park Academy. Vincent Ng graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1985, when he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies and Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction. He received the degree of Master of Urban Design in 1994. He is a Registered Architect and member of The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA), The Royal Institute of British Architects and The Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Ng was awarded the Young Architect Award by the HKIA in 1994. He founded the architectural and urban design practice AGC Design Limited in 1999, after having worked in another architectural firm for 14 years. Ng is currently Vice-President of HKIA, Vice-Chairman of the Architects Registration Board, Member of the Harbourfront Enhancement Committee, Chairman of the Harbour Plan Review Sub-committee and a Member of the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings). He was the Convenor of the Hong Kong Urban Design Alliance in 2004. Albert Lai has played an active role in the environmental movement for over thirty years. Having led the Hong Kong NGO delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, he has continued to take a leading role in advocating for the implementation of sustainable development strategies in Hong Kong. He is a prime mover in a range of civil society initiatives in the fields of environmental protection, urban planning, heritage conservation, poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility. Mr Lai is the current chairman of Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development, a director of the Conservancy Association, an Executive Committee member of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, and a member of the government Commission on Strategic Development. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Civic Party. Professional Feng Shui Consultant Dominique Levack utilizes the ancient Chinese art of placement to help bring balance and harmony to homes and offices. She works directly with clients to achieve specific goals, utilizing the traditional Flying Stars school of Feng Shui. Dominique studied Feng Shui and Destiny at the School of Professional and Continual Education in the University of Hong Kong (1995). She continued her training with renowned teacher and author Master Raymond Lo in Hong Kong before setting up her own practice. Born in Belgium in 1961, Dominique was a Lawyer at the Brussels Bar before moving to Asia with her family in 1990. Nicholas Brooke, JP, BBS, FRICS, CRE, FHKIS, RPS is the Chairman of Professional Property Services Limited which is a specialist real estate consultancy, based in Hong Kong, providing to clients a selected range of advisory services across the Asia Pacific Region. Mr. Brooke is a former President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and was the first overseas surveyor to be accorded that honour. Mr. Brooke is a recognised authority on land administration and planning matters and has provided advice in these areas to several Asian Governments as well as the US State Department. He is also a Justice of the Peace, a former Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Town Planning Board and a former member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. He also sits on the Boards of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and is a member of the Hong Kong Harbour-front Enhancement Committee as well as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries, which is the voice of the service sector in Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Election Committee responsible for the selection of the future Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR. Mr. Brooke also sits as a Non-executive Director on the Boards of a number of companies including Shanghai Forte Land Company Limited, one of China’s largest residential developers, Majid Al Futtaim Properties, one of the Middle East’s leading shopping centre developers and of VinaLand, the first Vietnam property fund to be listed on the AIM Board of the London Stock Exchange and, most recently, he has become the Chairman of Heritage Hong Kong. Margaret (Maggie) Brooke, BSC, FRICS, FHKIS, RPS is the Chief Executive Officer of Professional Property Services Limited which is a specialist real estate consultancy based in Hong Kong and providing a selected range of advisory services across the Asia Pacific Region. Maggie has over 20 years experience of working in the region undertaking a wide range of consultancy, valuation and marketing projects with current assignments in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Vietnam. She is also actively involved in the on-line marketing of serviced office accommodation across Asia. She writes a regular column for a Hong Kong property magazine, is Chairman of the Best Practice Committee of the Harbour Business Forum in Hong Kong and takes an active role in the promotion of sustainable development and heritage conservation, particularly the adaptive re-use of heritage buildings. Maggie Brooke is also the Convenor of Heritage Hong Kong. Alberto Goetzl is the founder and president of Seneca Creek Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in resource economics and policy. He is also a consulting economist to the American Forest & Paper Association. He previously served as Vice President for Economics and Information Services at the National Forest Products Association (NFPA) and is involved with a broad range of environmental, forest management, market and trade issues affecting the forest products and home building industries. Mr. Goetzl has written and testified on subjects including trends in world forest products supply/demand, wood products markets, the economics of public timber supply, hazardous waste rules on treated wood products, trade policy and economic impacts of environmental regulations. He co-authored a Resources for the Future Publication entitled: Sustainability of Temperate Forests. Most recently, he has been working with companies on competitive fiber supply issues. In 2004, he collaborated with Wood Resources International to author a major study of the illegal logging issue and its impacts of on U.S. industry competitiveness. Mr. Goetzl has a Master of Forestry (M.F.) degree in Natural Resources Economics & Policy from Duke University and holds a B.A. in Government from Bates College. When he’s not “working” professionally, Mr. Goetzl manages a horse farm that his family owns in the Frederick, Maryland area. The farm has a small woodlot of mixed upland hardwoods that he is trying to bring into a productive condition. Michael Chiang is a distinguished scholar in Chinese Architecture and Garden Design. He is especially accomplished in the Ancient Science of Feng Shui and its application in Architectural Designs. He writes widely on this particular subject. Michael practices what the preaches as is evident in the designs of the Min Fat Buddhist Temple in Tuen Mun, the Oscar by the sea development in Tseung Kwan O, South Bay, Tung Tau Wan residential development and Kwun Tong millennium city plaza. Michael received his Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) Degree from the University of Hong Kong. He is a registered architect and Authorized Person, a member of the HKIA, the RAIA and the RIBA. He is also a class one registered architect in the PRC and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. Dr Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner and urban designer. He is the founding director of Urbis Limited – one of the first planning, environmental and landscape consultancies in Hong Kong. Over the past 30 years the firm has won more than 60 local and international awards. He has directed more than 100 planning and urban design studies for both public and private bodies in Hong Kong, China and other parts of Southeast Asia, and writes regularly on the subject of urban design. He is an Honorary Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting lecturer at the Centre for Urban Planning and Environmental Management. His drawings and sketches of Hong Kong urban places have previously been exhibited at the Goethe Institute Gallery. Jason Wordie is a local historian and writer. He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, and worked for several years as a civilian teacher with the Brigade of Gurkhas, based at Sek Kong in the New Territories. He is the author, with Ko Tim Keung, of Ruins of War: A Guide to Hong Kong’s Battlefields and Wartime Sites, published in 1996. He has also prepared for publication Sir Lindsay and Lady Ride’s illustrated history of Macao, The Voices of Macao Stones, published by Hong Kong University Press in July 1999. His most recent publications are Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island and Streets: Exploring Kowloon, which was published by HKUP in late 2005. For some years Jason had two regular columns in the South China Morning Post which explored numerous aspects of local history, culture and society. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre of Asian Studies at Hong Kong University, and a Council Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch. Hs research interests include the history of the Hong Kong Portuguese community and their contributions to the development of Hong Kong since 1841, the Nursing Detachment of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and various long-standing connections between Hong Kong and South East Asia. In recent years Jason has conducted numerous walking tours within Hong Kong and Macao for various cultural and community groups such as the YWCA, the American Women’s Association, the Helena May, the Asia Society, the Canadian Club, the Australian Association and the Royal Geographical Society. Jason lives in Kam Tin in the north-western New Territories. Tunney Lee was born in Guangdong, China and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated with a B. Architecture from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Rome. He has worked for Buckminster Fuller, I.M. Pei and others. In the public sector, he was Chief of Planning Design for the Boston Development Authority and head of the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations, the agency responsible for state-owned buildings and land. He founded the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He teaches a course in ethnic neighborhoods and a studio on sustainable housing in China. Dr. Jack Sidener is Campus Planner for the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii, as well as a Professor of Architecture. In this dual role, he is responsible for updating the Long Range Development Plan with an emphasis on sustainability and readiness for new forms of teaching. At the School of Architecture he has taught several Asia Pacific focus architecture and urban design studios and a popular course in freehand drawing. Prior to coming to UH he served as professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in the Department of Architecture. While at CUHK, he was director of the upper level design studios, conducted seminars in urban design, activities and behavior, and supervised M.Phil. and Ph.D. research. Dr. Sidener helped establish the CUHK Ph.D. program and began the tradition of integrating student involvement and public participation in design issues for the city of Hong Kong as one of the founders of Designing Hong Kong. Prior to his appointment at CUHK, he was a chief architect for Bechtel Corporation and was responsible for various large projects, including the West Rail Project in Hong, Amagasaki waterfront renewal in Japan, the urban renewal of a former Soviet city (Tengiz, Kazakhstan) and plans for new communities in Thailand, China, and Micronesia. He conducted research on livability studies in HK housing estates, initiated elderly housing workshops for the senior citizens of Hong Kong, and provided campus planning studies for CUHK. Dr. Sidener writes a periodic column on urban design issues for the Honolulu Advertiser, and articles in US and Asian journals. He was co-chair of the Fourth and Fifth International Symposiums on Asia Pacific Architecture, beginning planning for the Seventh, and is past President of the AIA Hong Kong Chapter. Thomas Chan Chun-yuen, JP, is the Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (Housing) for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Born in 1950, he received his B.A. (Hons.) from the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in 1972. Mr. Chan joined the Government in June 1973 as an Assistant Trade Officer. He joined the Administrative Service of the civil service in October in the same year and rose to his present rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A in January 2000. During his service with the Hong Kong Government, Mr. Chan has served in various administrative positions in hospital management and new town development. He served as Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco from August 1994 to March 1997, as Director of Information Services from March 1997 to January 2002 and as Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation from January 2002 to January 2006. He has been Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands since January 2006. A talented architect, urban planner and designer, Greg Yager joined RTKL in 1980 and has more than twenty years of experience in the urban design and master planning of mixed use, new community, urban and suburban development projects as well as in the design of large-scale retail, office, medical, and conference centers. Mr. Yager was promoted to Vice President of RTKL in 1994, has served as Director of Urban Design in the London office and is now the the director of the Urban Design and Master Planning studio at RTKL Shanghai. Peter Gorer is an architect practicing in both Hong Kong and the United States. His focus is to apply process management skills to improve buildings’ environmental performance. Mr. Gorer graduated from the Architectural Association School in London, where he experienced both architectural optimism and gloom caused by the 1973 oil crisis. After earning his registration as an architect in England, Peter went to Corsica to work on the restoration of several historical monuments, notably the Musee Fesch in Ajaccio. He subsequently took up a position as an architect with the Hong Kong Government Housing Authority, where he learned practice methods developed in response to the demands of fast track, high-rise housing estate projects in Kowloon. Mr Gorer also volunteered as a grading specialist with Hong Kong’s Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO), which enabled him to examine study halls and other New Territories buildings, and thereby learn something about traditional Cantonese building methods. Peter moved to the USA in 1984, initially to Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the firm Jova, Daniels, Busby and gained experience with healthcare and other institutional projects. This led him to Boston, where he continued to work on technically complex medical projects requiring a high level of architectural – engineering collaboration. In 1991, Peter returned to Hong Kong with his wife, a Singaporean architect, who had accepted a founding faculty position in the architecture department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined Nelson Chen Architects as a project manager for the T.T. Tsui Building and Fung Ping Shan Museum extension at Hong Kong University and the Suzhou Garden Villas Residential Development, Jiangsu Province, China. After returning to Boston in 1997, Peter joined Hanscomb Associates, an international firm specializing in cost consulting and owner’s representative project management. Initially engaged on the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and then on various projects for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Peter rose within the firm to become the Higher Education Sector Leader. He was also able to develop the company’s Green Building and LEED Process Management Services capability. After the firm was acquired by a British conglomerate, Peter formed his own company concentrating on Facility Asset Strategies. Although still based in Boston, Peter Gorer’s business plan includes creating a ‘bridge’ to link Green Building technical resources in the United States with projects needing such areas of expertise in Hong Kong and China. Peter Gorer is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional. David Lung, Professor of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong is vice chairman of ICOMOS/China. He has served as a member of the UNESCO Asian Heritage award judging panel as a, consultant to the World Bank on heritage conservation projects, and headed research teams in drafting applications for World Heritage Listings for Macau and Kaiping, China. Lung was one of the four AIA National Intern Scholars in 1974 and recipient of an AIA Northwest Chapter Scholarship. Prior to joining the University he was George Dutton ‘27 Professor of Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University (1989-2002). His professional practice, Ralph Lerner Architect PC, is located in Princeton, New Jersey USA. Professor Lerner has received numerous international design commendations, most notably five Progressive Architecture (PA) Awards, including a First Award for the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1987) and a PA Citation (2004) for the plan of Lower Manhattan's Financial District. Lerner's work has been published in numerous architectural journals and has been exhibited at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is also the recipient of First Awards for many international architectural and urban design competitions, including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (New Delhi). Most recently he participated in the design of an Olympic Village as part of New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. Lerner’s public service includes: directing a consortium of schools of architecture in North America and Europe under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education; organization of the Northeast Mayor's Institute on City Design sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Conference of Mayors; and Directing the CCA Prize for the Design of Cities sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. His research and professional work encompasses architecture, urban design, historic preservation, exhibition and furniture design, and the organization of national and international design competitions. He received his BFA in interior design from Pratt Institute in 1971 and worked in New York City for eleven years. In 1982 he moved to Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii School of Architecture. He co-founded Ferraro Choi and Associates with Gerald Choi in 1988 and specializes in Sustainable “Green” Architecture and Interior Architecture. He currently holds architectural registrations in Hawaii and New York and is a LEED AP(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional). Joe has been a board member of the Honolulu Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and is currently serving on the board of the AIA’s Hawaii State Council and the Hawaii Architectural Foundation. He currently serves as an architectural advisor to the board of Malama O Manoa, a neighborhood community organization. He is author and co-author of several research papers on sustainable design, planning, and design for research facilities in the Antarctic and has been a panelist and speaker at the EPA’s Laboratories for the 21st Century on three occasions. Since 1984, Joe has worked on the design of projects for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica. He was project architect for the 45,000 square foot Crary Science and Technology Laboratory at McMurdo Station. In 1992 his firm was selected to head the design for the replacement of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a $200,000,000 project at the bottom of the earth. Ferraro Choi is currently working on research projects for the USDA’s Forestry Service Laboratory in Hilo, and the Hawaii Natural Energy Laboratory (NELHA) Gateway Distributive Energy Center in Kailua Kona. The NELHA project is designed to be a LEEDTM Platinum building. Ferraro Choi is also the designer of the AIA Honolulu office, a LEEDTM for Commercial Interiors pilot program project. The project was the recipient of AIA design and sustainable design awards and the Mayor’s Choice award for its sustainable design. Paul Katz, of KPF, focuses on the planning, design, and development of office, mixed-use, and high rise buildings. He has senior responsibilities for all aspects of commercial architecture, including business development, management, and design. In addition, he has established KPF’s strong presence in Japan and Hong Kong and has been instrumental in setting up the firm’s China operations in Shanghai. Presently, Mr Katz is advising clients in North America, Europe and Asia with recent projects including 505 Fifty Avenue in Manhattan, the Clifford Chance head office at Canary Wharf in London and Roppongi Hills in Tokyo. He is the Managing Principal on the high-profile and award-winning Shanghai World Financial Center, due to be completed in 2008, in addition to the International Commerce Center and the Landmark, both in Hong Kong, and has projects in construction in Las Vegas, London, Singapore and Shanghai. Paul has an expertise in the design of hotels and has led the firm's growing activities in this sector in the United States and overseas. Following the completion of the Tokyo Grand Hyatt at Roppongi Hills, Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, and the Nagoya Marriott at JR Central Towers - all of which have won awards under Paul's direction - the firm now has ten hotels in design and construction in Europe, the United States and Asia. Until recently, Mr. Katz taught a summer course on office building design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and continues to serve as a guest critic and lecturer at various universities. He also co-authored a book, Building Type Basics for Office Buildings, published by Wiley in 2002, and has lectured at numerous events and conferences around the world. Paul began his architectural study in his native Capetown, South America, and has degrees in architecture from the Israel Institute of Technology and Princeton University. He is a registered architect in the states of New York, Delaware, Nevada and Connecticut and is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Urban Land Institute, the National Council of Architectural Registration Board and the Hong Kong Institute of Architects.
Paul Collins, RIBA, is HOK Vice President and Head of Architecture Studio in Asia. With more than 20 years of professional experience, much of this time in Asia, Paul has an impressive portfolio of work spanning over 15 cities and covering not only Grade A commercial office developments but also 5 star hotels, prestigious housing projects, convention centers, resort hotels, landscaping, multi-purpose event arenas, and corporate campuses. Examples of some of these high profile projects include; the 350 room Hyatt Regency in Shanghai, the 65,000 SM Motorola Campus Beijing, the Novotel Gurgaon Hotel in New Delhi, the 400,000 SM Zhongynag retail center in Suzhou and the Vikas Telecom Campus in Bangalore. Paul’s work has received international recognition and acclaim. He has won many design awards including the HKIA Presidents Prize for Architecture in both 1998 and in 2004 and two HKIA Certificates of Merit; the first for the Cathay Pacific Headquarters ‘Cathay City’ at Hong Kong International Airport and the second as part of the team for the Hong Kong Jockey Club Clubhouse in Happy Valley. As head of HOK’s Architecture Studio in Asia, Paul leads a team responsible for a multitude of projects, from inception to completion. He ensures design quality thoughout the process whilst maintaining a close working relationship with the client to make sure each design truly reflects the client's needs and aspirations. Stanley Yip is an experienced town planner, land economist and urban designer with in-depth professional expertise in economic planning, travel and tourism, urban planning and urban design. With more than 20 years of professional and senior management experience around the world, he has led, studied and implemented many major tourism, urban development and infrastructure projects for public and private clients in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Southeast Asia, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Mr. Yip is currently the Director, Planning & Development, with ARUP China and is responsible for the development and implementation of the planning practices in East Asia. He was previously Managing Director, China, with the JERDE Partnership. Prior to that, he was appointed Vice President, Global Business, with PCCW Ltd responsible for strategic development and consulting services in Mainland China. He once worked as General Manager, Research & Development for the Hong Kong Tourist Association (now renamed Hong Kong Tourism Board). During this period, he was responsible for the development of a tourism development strategy for Hong Kong. Mr. Yip is very active professionally in Mainland China. He is currently the Urban Planning Advisor to the Department of Construction of Jiangsu Province, Senior Advisor to the Planning Committee of the City of Harbin, and also Special Honorary Professor of the Zhejiang Tourism College. Mr. Yip is also the current President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP). Toby Bath has more than twenty years experience in Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, the last fifteen of which have been in Asia. His portfolio includes a broad spectrum of commercial developments, retail centers, corporate offices, housing, hotels and resorts, aviation and transportation projects, convention centers, auditoriums, urban design and master planning. As the Managing Director and Senior Vice President of HOK International (Asia/Pacific) Limited, Mr. Bath leads the firm from its Hong Kong base and oversees design throughout Asia Pacific region, with a focus on sustainability and service excellence. Benjamin Wood, AIA, received his Master’s degree in Architecture from MIT in 1984. His first commission in China was Xintiandi, a cultural entertainment district in Shanghai. The project received a 2003 Award of Excellence from the Urban Land Institute. His most significant contribution on a major project outside of China was as the Chief Architect of New Soldier Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Bears. Completed in September of 2003 at a cost of US$620M, this 64,000 seat stadium was built in a record 19 months. Co-designed with his former partner, Carlos Zapata, New Soldier Field was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best buildings of 2003. Other buildings done in collaboration with Carlos Zapata include the Bethesda Academy for the Performing Arts, the Publix Store in Miami Beach, and the Chicago Bears Football Club Practice Facility. Ben’s experience in large projects involving multi-disciplinary teams began in the late 1980s when he was a partner at Ben Thompson’s office in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was the Design Director when Ben Thompson was awarded the Gold Medal by the AIA in 1988. Ben was the Partner-in-Charge for the redevelopment of Spitalfields Market, City of London (3 million SF) and the Chief Architect for the Minato Murai complex, a 3.5 million SF mixed-use project in Yokohoma Japan (in association with Nikken Seikkei). In the 1990s, first as a principal of Thompson and Wood, then later with Wood and Zapata, Ben authored master plans for the Revitalization of New York’s Times Square (1993), Lincoln Road and the Art Deco District in Miami Beach (1992), Playhouse Square in Cleveland Ohio (ULI Award of Excellence), and developed growth management strategies for the Rocky Mountain resort towns of Snowmass, Aspen, and Telluride, Colorado, and for Park City, Utah. Following the completion of the New Soldiers Field, Ben set up a full time design studio in Shanghai. Working with a group of multi-lingual designers from all over the world the benwoodSTUDIO SHANGHAI has helped transform the urban landscape of modern China. Current projects include the Shanghai Waitanyuan project, major mixed-use complexes in Chongching, Wuhan, and Hangzhou and three large residential communities: Cambridge Watertown, Cambridge Forest, and Westwood Green (totaling over 2,500 homes). Over the past three years the Studio has been working with the Shanghai American School to complete their Puxi Campus. New buildings include a Black Box Theatre, Central Administration Complex, an Aquatic Center, and the Center for the Performing Arts. The Studio recently completed master plans for resort communities in Lijiang and Shangrila, both in Yunnan Province. A high-rise complex in Danang, Vietnam is the Studio’s most recent commission. In the Autumn of 2005 Delphine Yip, a long time associate, became Ben’s partner. Delphine is a graduate of the Harvard School of Design and is responsible for many of the Studio’s most notable projects. Delphine Yip, Director of Ben Wood Studio Shanghai, received her Master of
Architecture degree from Harvard University. She had previously worked in the Boston
office of Wood and Zapata, and subsequently moved to Shanghai to oversee
Shanghai Xintiandi and to set up the firm's China office in 2000. In the
fall of 2005, Delphine became partner at Ben Wood Studio Shanghai. She is
responsible for many of the Studio's most notable projects, namely Shanghai
Xintiandi, Hangzhou Xihutiandi, Cambridge Watertown and Waitanyuan.
Tess Johnston is uniquely qualified to research and write on the Western presence in old China. She first came to Shanghai in 1981 to work at the American Consulate General and, in 1996, after over thirty years in the diplomatic service, she retired and stayed on to research, write, and lecture. She and her co-author, Shanghai photographer Deke Erh (Erh Dongqiang), have published fifteen books, including eight volumes on Western architecture and the expatriate experience in old China. Miss Johnston is a native of Virginia and her academic back- ground includes an M.A. from the University of Virginia, where she subsequently taught. She has lived abroad for over 45 years, including seven in Germany (both east and west), 24 in Shanghai, and over 30 in Asia, seven of which were in Vietnam (1967-74). Thanks to her extensive library of old books and historical
documents, Miss Johnston also serves as a consultant on
matters pertaining to the Western presence in old Shanghai.
She is an extremely a valuable research resource for visiting scholars
and former residents seeking to trace their Shanghai roots. Chang Yung Ho is a Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT. He was previously with Peking University where he was Head and Professor of the Graduate Center of Architecture, having first received his M. Arch from the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation he taught in the United Staets for 15 years before returning to Beijing, where he also established China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. He has exhibited internationally as an artist as well as architect and is widely published, including the monograph Yung Ho Chang/Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the city, materiality, and tradition. He often combines his research activities with design commissions. Albert Chan is presently the Director of Planning and Development at Shui On Development Ltd. in Shanghai. He has 20 years of experience in planning, design and real estate development, including 9 years of experience in China. He is currently responsible for the conceptualization and planning of developments by Shui On Land Limited. From 1997 to 2001, he led the overall planning and design effort for the Shanghai Xintiandi development. His previous responsibilities also include the overall management of The Lakeville at Xintiandi, a signature residential development in Shanghai. He has previously worked at Cooper, Robertson + Partners, NY as well as at the New York City Department of Design and Construction. His education includes an M.S. in Urban Design from Columbia University, an M. Arch. from U.C. Berkeley, an MBA from the Stern School at New York University, and a B. Arch. from the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute. He is a Registered Architect in New York State. Albert has previously given talks on development, planning and design to various institutions including the Urban Land Institute, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the British Council and to students from Harvard, Columbia, MIT, NYU, the London School of Economics, the University of Hong Kong and Tongji University, among others. Anne Warr is an architect with a masters degree in Heritage Conservation from the University of York, UK. She has lived in Shanghai for four years and has spent two years writing an Architecture Guide to Shanghai for Watermark Press – due out in February 2007. Anne also teaches Western Architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai. Her research into the architecture, history and culture of Shanghai now form the basis for her fascinating and insightful tours. Professor Zheng Shiling, Hon. FAIA, is one of the most highly regarded academics in the field of Urban Planning and Architecture in China. In addition to being the Director of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Space at Tongji University in Shanghai, Professor Zheng also holds various professional memberships and official positions including Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Membere de l'Académie d'Architecture of France, Director of the Committee of Urban Space & Environment of the Shanghai Urban Planning Commission, Director of the Expert Committee for the Preservation of Historical Areas and Heritage Architecture and, most recently, Chief Curator of EXPO 2010 Shanghai. Peter Hibbard has over 20 years of professional experience in the China travel industry, as an academic and practitioner. With a background in urban planning and sociology he is the authority on the history of China tourism. Since moving to Shanghai in 1990, his focused research on the historical development of the city is available in the Odyssey Guide to Shanghai and The Bund Shanghai: China Faces West, to be published in December 2007. Two other books are in progress. Spencer Dodington is a designer and renovator of Shanghai’s concession-era art deco residential properties. He has lived in Shanghai for 8 of the past 11 years and speaks fluent Shanghainese and Mandarin. Spencer’s first published works are sections of the 2004 and 2006 TimeOut Guides to Shanghai, for which he wrote the Shanghai History, Architecture and many of the Sightseeing sections. His Shanghai-related interests include: pre-War decorative arts and furniture design. J. Scott Kilbourn of RTKL has more than 23 years of experience in the design and planning of communities, buildings and interior design projects in Asia, Europe and the United States. He joined the RTKL Hong Kong Office in 1996, the Tokyo office in 1999, and is actively involved in both the design and management of architectural, interior design, environmental graphics and urban design projects within China and Japan. Mr. Kilbourn earned a Masters of Architecture degree from Harvard University in 1983; he was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998 and is an active member of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni/ae Council, the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Currently he manages RTKL’s Shanghai operations and contributes to the development of business and services for RTKL in China, Korea and Japan. Silas Chiow, AIA, serves as Director of Business Development for Greater China at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in Shanghai. He is responsible for spearheading SOM’s business strategies in Greater China and facilitating its architecture and planning projects throughout the mainland and greater Asia. Mr. Chiow began his career at SOM New York in 1987 and discovered his passion for the New York hi-rise by working on several prestigious projects, such as: 180 Allyn Street; 320 Park Avenue; and Wall Street Financial Center. In 1992, Mr. Chiow won first prize at the Yokohama International Urban Design Competition and was invited to Japan by the firm Nikken-Sekkei. During his time in Tokyo, Mr. Chiow worked on major civic projects, such as the Tokyo Government Center at Saitama, in addition to commercial projects in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tokyo and Singapore. In 1995, Mr. Chiow returned to SOM’s San Francisco office with the mission of providing leadership for the firm’s China initiatives. Over the last 21 years, Silas has gained tremendous expertise as an architect, urban planner and project manager throughout the Asia region. His expertise extends to all project types, including hospitality, retail, mixed-use developments, residential complexes, convention centers, institutions, housing and hotels. In 1996, Robert Ivy took on the fulltime editorial leadership of Architectural Record, the world’s most widely read architectural journal. During his tenure, the 114-year-old magazine and its Website have grown in scope and prestige, winning readers and annual awards. In 2003 alone Record received magazine publishing’s highest honor, the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, as well as three Jesse Neal Awards for business writing, McGraw-Hill’s Corporate Achievement Award, and the platinum Ozzie. Mr. Ivy is a frequent speaker and awards jury chairman. He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, appeared on national television, and conducted interviews with leading figures in the architectural world, including the Aga Khan, AIA Gold Medalists and Pritzker Prize winners, as well as moderated panels at US and international events such as World Trade Center Conference at the Library of Congress, the National Building Museum, New York’s Rockefeller Center, and at the American Institute of Architects’ national conference; New York’s Guggenheim Museum; Chicago’s Art Institute; the 92nd St. “Y”; and California’s Monterey Design Conference. In 2002 and 2004, Ivy served as the Commissioner of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for architecture, with Architectural Record as curator of the 2004 event, positions they will assume again in 2006. In his role as Vice-President & Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill Construction Media and Editor in Chief of Architectural Record, Ivy oversees the editorial quality of 15 publications, in print and in digital form, including Architectural Record’s new quarterly publication in China. In addition, he oversaw the development of McGraw-Hill Construction’s new publication for sustainable design, GreenSource, which launched in May 2006, in print and on the Web. Ivy came to McGraw-Hill from a dual career: previously he had been a principal in a successful architectural practice and a critic for national publications. His book on the late architect Fay Jones remains the standard reference on the subject, cited by the Art Library of North America for “highest standards of scholarship, design and production.” Prior to becoming an architect, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. He is a former board member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation, the Center for Southern Culture, and a civic activist in his former hometown. He currently serves on the advisory boards of three architecture schools, including those at Tulane University, Mississippi State University, and Auburn University’s Rural Studio. Ivy and his wife Holly have three children—Virginia, Adam, and Ben—and regularly return to his home state of Mississippi. Mr. Ivy, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, holds a Masters in Architecture from Tulane University, and a BA (cum laude) in English from the University of the South (TN). He is a member of CICA, the International Circle of Architecture Critics. Dr Gibbons is a Director of Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong, and is a member of Arup’s Global Building Board. He is also the leader of Arups global high rise business. Dr Gibbons received his degree (B.Eng Hons - First Class) at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He subsequently went on to receive his doctorate at Sheffield for pioneering research into high rise steel frame construction. Since joining Arup, he has been involved with a number of major award winning projects, including the Passenger Terminal Building at Hong Kong International Airport. In addition, he has been responsible for some of Arups most significant high rise projects including the Two International Finance Centre (400m), Cheung Kong Centre (290m), Guangzhou West Tower (430m), and the structurally challenging CCTV headquarters in Beijing design by Rem Koolhaus. Dr Gibbons has written over 50 papers and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences around the World – most recently being the Council of Tall Buildings event in New York. He served on the Institution of Structural Engineers Working Group which compiled the recommendations on the safety of buildings in the aftermath of 9/11 as a result of Arups pioneering work on the 2IFC tower. Jun Mitsui, AIA, JIA, is a licensed architect in both Japan and the United States. He has a broad range of work experience, from urban scale projects such as Atago Green Hills (ULI award 2003) and Passenger Terminal 2, Tokyo International Airport (Haneda), to smaller scale work such as interiors for corporate offices and detached houses. Jun previously worked at Cesar Pelli & Associates in the US as a senior associate, and, since returning to Tokyo, has been collaborating with the firm to execute their large-scale developments in Japan. He specializes in large-scale urban development planning, including residential, commercial, and office buildings and also carries out landscape design. His firm, which comprises 40 designers in total, is based on the philosophy that design is a collaborative process and, through constant dialogue with the client, the maximum potential of each project can be achieved for both the client and the people using it. Moira Moser is the founder of M Moser Associates, a global firm specializing in corporate interior architecture. With over 400 staff in offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London and New York, the company is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. M Moser Associates has pioneered the development of design-led design and build projects in Asia and China, integrating strategic planning, interior architecture, interior engineering, project management and construction into a single package to provide a one-stop professional service throughout the region for corporate clients from the US, Europe, Japan, and the Asia Pacific region. Moira is a member of the AIA and is a licensed architect in California, Hong Kong and the UK. She is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects. Her additional professional involvements include membership on the Steering Committee of the International Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as well as being a founding member of Hong Kong’s Council on Asian Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Thomas Kwok is Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited, and has been with the Group for 29 years. He is also Chairman of Route 3 (CPS) Company Limited, Joint Chairman of IFC Development Limited, an Executive Director of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd. and an Independent Non-Executive Director of The Bank of East Asia, Limited. Mr. Kwok holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from The London Business School, University of London, and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, University of London. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong and Executive Vice President of The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong. He also serves as a government appointed Member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Provisional Construction Industry Co-ordination Board, the Council for Sustainable Development and the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee. In the past Mr Kwok served as a Member of the Economic and Employment Council, the Business Advisory Group, the Land & Building Advisory Committee, the Registered Contractors' Disciplinary Board and the General Chamber of Commerce Industrial Affairs Committee. He was also Chairman of the Property Management Committee of the Building Contractors' Association and a Council Member of the Hong Kong Construction Association. He previously served as a Board member of the Community Chest of Hong Kong, as a member of the Social Welfare Policies & Services Committee, and on the Council of The Open University of Hong Kong. Mr Kwok is an Honorary Citizen of Guangzhou and a Standing Committee Member of the Ninth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee. Thomas Kwok is the younger brother of Mr Kwok Ping-sheung, Walter, and the elder brother of Mr Kwok Ping-luen, Raymond. Dr. Raymond K.F. Ch’ien is Chairman of CDC Corporation and its subsidiary, China.com Inc, and Chairman of MTR Corporation Limited. He serves on the boards of HSBC Holdings plc, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and Inchcape plc. In public service, Dr. Ch’ien is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the Independent Commission Against Corruption; Chairman of the Hong Kong/European Union Business Cooperation Committee and is a Hong Kong member of the APEC Business Advisory Council. He is an Honorary President and past Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Ch’ien was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, then under British Administration. He was appointed a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong SAR on July 1, 1997 and served until June 2002. Dr. Ch’ien received a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1993 and a Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1994. In 1999, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star Medal. Hovik Yekiazarian is a senior project manager with Bechtel and has been working in China for five years, managing design, procurement and construction of microelectronics and light industrial manufacturing facilities for multi national clients. He has worked in the engineering and construction industry for over thirty years and has spent the last ten years of his career in Asia Pacific. Mr. Yekiazarian worked in engineering, business development and project management in the oil, gas and chemicals industry in the United States, Europe and the Middle East for twenty years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering and a post graduate diploma in business administration from the University of Bath in England. Thomas Ho Hang-Kwong has been Property Director of the MTR Corporation since he joined the company in 1991. He is responsible for the development and management of properties above and adjacent to MTR Stations and Depots. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of managers involved in the planning, design, construction and management of large-scale property developments, with a portfolio of 68,000 top quality residential units, 9.1 million square feet of premier office space and in excess of 9.7 million square feet of other commercial and retail spaces in Hong Kong. Mr Ho qualified in 1974 as a Chartered Surveyor in Hong Kong. Before he joined the MTR, he worked for the Government, specializing in land administration and was responsible for formulating land policies and procedures. He also serves on The Hong Kong Community Chest for charity affairs. Stephen Wong is the President of Chongbang Group in Shanghai and the MD of Chongbang’s parent company, Edward Wong Development Co. Ltd., in HK. Based in Shanghai, Stephen is responsible for the overall planning, finance and operation of real estate investment and development activities for the group. Since the early 1990’s, Stephen has been the catalyst for the group’s investments into China, the US and Canada. In Shanghai, the group is one of the founding partners of the Chongbang Group and the Forrester Group, and one of the early investors / partners of the Shui On Group. In the US and Canada, the group has been active in both investment and development activities on both the east and west coasts. Stephen is a licensed architect in the State of California and holds a Master’s Degree from the GSB at Stanford University where he was a Sloan Fellow. He also obtained Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Administration and in Architecture, both from the University of Southern California. Carlos Alberto dos Santos Marreiros, GOIH, FCACM, AAM, UIA, ARCASIA, was born in Macau in 1957. He is an architect and town planner and Partner/Director of Marreiros, Arqitectos Associados and East & West Projects & Design, Ltd. He studied in Macau, Portugal, Germany and Sweden and, during the last 25 years, has completed projects in Macau, Hong Kong, China, Portugal and Australia. Since 1983 Marreiros has worked on many architectural conservation projects in Macau, and, with Francisco Figueira, drafted Law-Decrees No. 56/84/M and No. 83/92/M as well as other regulations concerning Urban, Architectural and Cultural Conservation Policies that are still in force. He was President of the Cultural Institute of the Government of Macau (1989-92) and is a University Professor, Writer and Artist. Carlos Marreiros was decorated:
Since 1984 he has been Lecturer and Guest Professor in Graduate and Master Degree Programme at the ETHM, University of East Asia, Macau / University of Macau, International Open University of Asia - Macau, Universidade Tecnica of Lisbon, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau, Universidade Lusofona of Lisbon, The University of Hong Kong, University of California, Berkeley and Politecnico di Milano, as well as Honorary Professor at both the SNAA of the Tong Ji State University of Shanghai and the FAU of the University of Huaqiao, China. Mr Marreiros is also Trustee of the Macau Foundation; member of Macau-SAR Government Consultive Council of Culture; member of the Macau-SAR Government Environment Council and of Macau-SAR Government Consultive Council for the Renewal of Old Districts, President of the GA of The Macau Architects Association (AAM), Delegate of the Council of ARCASIA-Architects Regional Council of Asia (since 1999) and was Deputy Chairman of ARCASIA for Region C (2003-2004). Born in Hong Kong, John Bowden graduated in 3Dimensional Design from Brighton University and is currently Regional Program Manager for the Cisco Systems Asia Pacific Workplace Resources Team in Hong Kong. Concern with the Hong Kong government's plans for extensive harbour reclamation and addition of shoreline highways led John to become actively involved in campaigning for the protection of Victoria Harbour. He has participated in several campaigns to save Hong Kong’s shorelines, which eventually led him to become the Co-founder of Save Our Shorelines (SOS) in 1999. A few years later, the organisation's efforts to protect the shorelines and to allow increased public access to the harbour were recognized by the AIA Hong Kong Chapter in a Citation.
As the current Chair of SOS, John has organized several other campaigns for shoreline protection in Hong Kong, with respect to the proposed Route 7, the Tamar and Victoria Harbour Shoreline, Tseung Kwan O and Hei Ling Chau, to mention a few.
Chris Hooley is a graduate of Birmingham and Strathclyde Universities. He commenced practice as a solicitor in the City of London before moving to Hong Kong in 1987. Chris worked for two large Hong Kong law firms as a Partner and Head of the Corporate Commercial Practice Group of each Firm, before moving to Oldham, Li & Nie in 2001, where he is a Partner and the Head of the Corporate Commercial and China Practice Groups. Chris specializes in mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, debt securities, employment law and China investment. He also conducts regular presentations and seminars for special interest groups on topical corporate commercial issues. Chris was recently nominated as “Labour Lawyer of the Year (Hong Kong)” by the Singapore-based China Staff Magazine. Hitesh Mehta is one of the world’s leading authorities and researchers on ecotourism physical planning and both the landscape architectural and architectural aspects of ecolodges. He is the main editor of the International Ecolodge Guidelines and the author of the chapters on “Site Planning” and “Architectural Design”. Mr. Mehta regularly conducts research on international trends in Ecolodges and is currently writing a new book on Best Practice Ecolodges. He sits on the Executive Board of The International Ecotourism Society, advisory board of BIOSFERA (Brazilian Environmental Society) and is one of the founding members of The Ecotourism Society of Kenya. He is also the International Advisor for the Japan Ecolodge Association. Mr. Mehta was selected to be a judge and on-site inspector for the Tourism for Tomorrow ( WTTC), World Legacy Awards for Heritage Tourism and Ecotourism (National Geographic/Conservation International), Ecotourism Awards (Conde Nast Traveler) and Green Hotelier Awards (Caribbean Hotel Association). Hitesh Mehta has a distinguished history in academia. Apart from being an adjunct professor at several universities in Southern Florida, he was also the Chairman of Landscape Architecture Section, Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi and conducted studios in sustainable planning and design for five years. Currently, Mr. Mehta conducts one-of-a kind Ecoplanning and Design Workshops and Charettes (for George Washington University and The International Ecotourism Society) around the world and which are attended by, amongst others Deans, Professors and Students. Mr. Mehta is also a Professional Photographer and a Cricket Hall of Famer from Kenya and was named by Men’s Journal, a New York based Magazine as one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Adventure" in the world, in July 2005. Paul Pholeros is an award-winning architect from Sydney, Australia. He is recognized internationally for his environmentally sensitive architecture and for developing high quality, low energy consuming buildings. In addition to being the lead architect for Crosswaters, Paul has designed a diverse range of projects, including science labs and accommodation on the Great Barrier Reef, a Buddhist Study Center, prefabricated health-care clinics with medical staff housing for the outback, as well as numerous eco-friendly private residences. Paul is a director of Healthhabitat Pty. Ltd, which aims to improve the health of Australian aboriginal and islander people by providing training to help indigenous people repair their own homes and immediate surrounds. He also lectures at the Universities of Sydney and Canberra, and leads numerous workshops and lectures on environmental health, design and architecture. Paul has also published numerous articles and books on ecotourism, housing for health and other related topics.
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