2014 AIA SAN DIEGO Design Awards Jury

Brian Dougherty, FAIA, LEED AP

Brian Dougherty, FAIA, LEED AP is a Senior Partner at Dougherty + Dougherty, specializing in the planning and design of contemporary educational, institutional, commercial, military, and health care facilities. Mr. Dougherty contributes over 40 years of experience in providing architectural services to projects. He brings a career-long emphasis in energy conservation and sustainable design to each project, including a focus on holistic resource conservation that is shared with clients, community members, and other professionals through his lectures and presentations.  He recently completed 12 years of service as a practicing architect member of the Board of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS). His Credentials in this area have led to his role as a spokesperson for the architectural profession in State and National dialogue on the subject.  His service to the AIA over the years at the Local, State and National levels has included Regional Director to the National Board and National Secretary from 1996 to 1998.  Mr. Dougherty served as the 1986 Orange County Chapter President, AIACC Secretary in 1991-92, a Trustee of the AIACC Benefit Insurance Trust, a member of the AIA Regional/Urban Design Committee, and Chair of the AIA National Ethics Council. He now serves as a member of the AIA College of Fellows Jury, and is currently the AIACC President.

Ted Hyman, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP

A Partner at ZGF Architects LLP, Ted Hyman has been responsible for guiding the design and implementation of a broad range of research facilities, hospitals, courthouses, and other civic buildings nationally. He has a particular passion for high-performance buildings and his work includes the design of one of the greenest laboratories in the United States, the J. Craig Venter Institute, which will have a LEED-Platinum rating and net-zero energy footprint. Additionally, he has guided the design of the new LEED-Platinum certified, net-zero energy Headquarters for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

Edward Lifson

Edward Lifson is an architecture and culture writer and lecturer whose work has appeared for many years on National Public Radio, and in A+U, Metropolis, Dwell, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architect, Nylon magazine, Chinese media, the BBC, CNN and other multimedia outlets. Lifson spent two years as a Fellow at the GSD – the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He researched architecture and urbanism as a Getty/University of Southern California (USC) Fellow in Los Angeles and subsequently as an Annenberg Fellow. He created and hosted a public radio show on architecture and culture called "Hello Beautiful!" and has received the highest national journalism awards. Lifson teaches Critical Thinking and Writing at the USC School of Architecture and has worked in architecture in China; he lived and worked for many years each in Paris, Berlin, Florence, London, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago and Los Angeles. He studied architecture at Boston Architectural Center and in Europe, has worked with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and is a past chairman of the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is Director of Communications for The Pritzker Architecture Prize.