Thursday / January 19, 2017 / 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
The Emerging Need for an Integrated Urban Public Realm
Perkins+Will Chicago, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1600
Douglas Smith, AIA, AICP, Managing Principal at Perkins+Will Chicago, will identify global and domestic trends and pressures impacting the urban public realm and what this portends for the future. Using a variety of real world examples of completed, in process and proposed project types, he will classify and compare a number of solutions for consideration here in Chicago, North American, and other global locations. Based on real-world research, the participants will learn the community economic and social benefits of an improved public realm. Doug will conclude with a review of the forces that are resisting the enhancement of our environment.
Bring your lunch; beverages provided by Perkins+Will. Thanks to P+W for hosting this program at their new office in the Wrigley Building.
RegistrATION required by 5pm on Monday, January 16, so that we can meet the building’s security requirement.
Speaker: Douglas Smith, AIA, AICP, Managing Principal at Perkins+Will, has over 30 years of experience in architecture, design and planning. He has managed a wide range of project types from architectural to urban mixed-use development planning in the U.S. and around the world. Many of his projects have won both local and national design awards from the AIA, ASLA, APA, and Congress for the New Urbanism. Doug’s primary experience includes office, hotel, retail, transportation facilities, urban design and strategic redevelopment planning with expertise in complex mixed-use urban design. His extensive portfolio overseas enables him to lead projects with a keen understanding of cultural and geographical context.
Doug received a Master of Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, and Bachelor of Arts in Urban Geography degrees from the University of Michigan.
