facilitators:
- Ken Pirie
Ken
Pirie is an urban designer and planner with seven years of professional
experience with leading Pacific Northwest architectural firms and a graduate
degree from the University of Washington. Ken focuses his professional
energy on work that aims to carefully mesh the needs of both human and
natural communities across the Pacific Northwest.
Ken has worked on projects that attempted to improve local communities
through sound land-use planning, socially-responsible development, and
the integration of nature into everyday life. He works as an advocate
for planning and design that adheres to New Urbanist principles, while
maintaining a bioregional idiom that is appropriate for the Northwest.
Recently, he worked closely on a plan for the redevelopment of a public
housing community in Seattle according to Federal HOPE VI principles.
Some of Ken's most rewarding professional experience to date includes
working on the plan for the Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center
on Bainbridge Island, Washington and assisting in design Charrettes for
a new affordable neighborhood in Jackson, Wyoming and two new Town Centers
in Anchorage, Alaska. He has also worked to enhance visitor experiences
and foster new understanding and commitment to areas of ecological importance
and natural beauty such as Kenai Fjords National Park, the Middle Fork
Snoqualmie River Watershed, the Mountains to Sound Greenway and the US
101 highway corridor,
- Steve Coyle
Steve
Coyle, founding partner of Lennertz Coyle & Associates, has over 26
years of experience in architecture, urban design, engineering, construction,
and real estate development. His broad public and private sector projects
include Bayside in Miami, historic Quincy Market in Boston, the Boott
Mills in Lowell, MA, the Archdiocese of Boston Choir School, Harvard-Radcliffe
Student Center in Cambridge, MA, Tufts University Administration Building,
Somerville, MA, and student housing for New York University in New York.
In the Northwest, Mr. Coyle has completed publicly-funded Oregon transportation and planning projects in Portland, Astoria, Scappoose, and Raymond, Washington; Town Center Plans for Tanasbourne, Lents neighborhood and Forest Grove; and mixed-use development planning in Springfield and Seaside.
Private projects include: Mill Pond in Astoria, a unique mixed use project on the Columbia River and the first 'brownfield'redevelopment in Oregon; Lookout Ridge, a new hillside neighborhood in Washougal, WA; and a number of innovative infill projects in Portland and beyond.
Steve's expertise ranges from project feasibility to building design for pedestrian-oriented developments that integrate and revitalize housing, retail, office and civic uses.
- Robert Lane
Robert
Lane is the Director of the Design Program at Regional Plan Association.
Mr. Lane is currently the urban designer at RPA for a number of projects
including the Comprehensive Master Plan for Stamford Connecticut and Transit-Friendly
Communities for New Jersey. Mr. Lane has organized several successful
community design workshops for a wide range of urban and suburban environments.
These include the Hastings-on-Hudson Waterfront Plan, and the East Harlem
2nd Avenue Subway Community Visioning Workshop.
Mr. Lane has initiated and completed two major
independent research projects, funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, that focused on industrial
redevelopment strategies in American cities and on the urban design issues
associated with "superstore" development in New York's manufacturing
districts. This work was exhibited at the Municipal Art Society in New
York City and has been published in Places magazine and in the Harvard
Architecture Review. Before coming to RPA, Robert Lane was an Associate
at Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, PC. Mr. Lane received his Bachelor of
Arts from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia
University.