Judith Kinnard FAIA is an architect with a dual commitment to practice and teaching.  In partnership with Kenneth Schwartz FAIA, she has developed a design approach characterized by sensitive and innovative solutions to issues of site and program. Their work has included numerous small-scale built commissions and more than a dozen national competitions dealing with larger scale issues of urban design, urban institutions, and housing. They have won or placed in six of these national design competitions.

Kinnard has served on a number of Virginia Society AIA committees, as a juror for the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion, as president of the Charlottesville AIA and was elected to represent the Southeast region on the national board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. In addition she has represented ACSA on a number of accreditation visits both in the US and Canada. At the University she has served on the Fine and Performing Arts Commission and the School of Architecture Building Committee. Appointed by the Governor, she served on the Art and Architecture Review Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

She received her professional degree from Cornell University in 1977 and has taught at Princeton University and Syracuse University. She is a Registered Architect in Virginia (#007184) and holds an NCARB Certificate. Currently Kinnard is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia where she served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1998-2003. She was awarded fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 2004.

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Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA, AICP is the founding principal of CP+D. He has twenty-six years of experience in architecture, preservation, urban design and community planning. Between 2001 and 2005 he opened and ran the Charlottesville urban design office of Renaissance Planning Group to focus on community design and the integration of land-use with innovative transportation strategies. In 2003, he led the team that produced the Crozet Master Plan for Albemarle County which involved a unique blend of land use, design, and transportation analysis. In collaboration with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and Renaissance Planning Group, he was awarded a Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism in 2005. He has led a wide variety of projects including design work on corridor studies, redevelopment projects, scenario planning and rural preservation planning. In 2005 he opened the office of CP+D – Community Planning and Design, with Judith Kinnard, FAIA, majority shareholder in the company.

In addition to his professional work experience, Mr. Schwartz has served as a Planning Commissioner and member of the Board of Architectural Review for the City of Charlottesville, focusing on design and preservation issues in the community. He represented the City on the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, the Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO Long Range Plan Citizen Advisory Committee, and the City Downtown Transit Center Advisory Committee. In addition, Mr. Schwartz served on the University of Virginia Master Planning Committee and the Art and Architecture Review Board for Virginia. He is a Past President of the National Architecture Accrediting Board.

Mr. Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture & Urban Design from Cornell University. He is a Registered Architect in Virginia (#006775) and holds an NCARB Certificate. He is a tenured full professor of architecture and planning in the University of Virginia School of Architecture and a former Department Chair and Associate Dean.

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Maurice Cox is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture and a 2004-2005 recipient of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.  He recently completed eight years on the Charlottesville City Council and the last two years as the city’s mayor. His administration has commissioned AIA and CNU Charter Award winning public works of architecture and urban design.  He is responsible for the appointment of numerous architects and other designers to important civic positions in the public life of Charlottesville.

He is a native of New York City, where he received his architectural education at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1983 under the guidance of Dean John Hedjuk. In 2004 he was awarded Cooper Union’s highest alumni honor, the President’s Citation for distinguished civic leadership to the architecture profession.

He began his teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University’s Italian Program in Florence, Italy. His teaching in Florence was accompanied by ten years of professional practice in partnership with Giovanna Galfione, focusing on issues of urban design.  Their practice won several national competitions and public building commissions for the city of Florence in association with architect Aldo Rossi. Since arriving at the University of Virginia in 1993 he has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios at all levels and various graduate seminars focusing on participatory design and leadership.

In 1996 he co-founded the architectural practice of RBGC Architecture, Research and Urbanism with partners Craig Barton, Giovanna Galfione and Marthe Rowen in Charlottesville, Virginia. RBGC seeks to serve clients in communities traditionally underserved by the design profession. They have become renowned for their ability to incorporate active citizen participation into the design process while achieving the highest quality of architectural design. Maurice Cox was recently featured in Fast Company business magazine as one of America’s “20 Masters of Design” in 2004 for his groundbreaking use of design as a catalyst for social change in the rural community of Bayview, Virginia. His community-based process and design work for the new village of Bayview has been featured on CBS’s news magazine “60 Minutes”, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Architecture Magazine. It is also the subject of the award winning documentary film, “This Black Soil”.  

Maurice Cox was first elected to the Charlottesville City Council in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. He served as Vice mayor from 2000-2002 and was elected as Mayor in July 2002. He has chaired the Charlottesville Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the Charlottesville/Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization. During his mayoral term, Frommer’s Cities Ranked and Rated selected Charlottesville as “the Best Place to Live” out of 400 cities in the United States and Canada. As the mayor/architect he acted as the principal urban designer of his city, leading dozens of participatory workshops that have revitalized and are still transforming Charlottesville’s public realm.

He lectures widely on the topics of democratic design, civic engagement and the designer’s role as community leader. He currently holds the Kea Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the University of Maryland, School of Architecture.

Maurice Cox is taking a leave-of-absence while he assumes a major leadership role in Washington, DC.  We will look forward to his return when he completes this public service.