A+D Museum acknowledges its dedicated Board of Directors
that vitally supports the mission of the Museum.
Farooq Ameen, AIA, RIBA
Director of Special Projects is the Founding Director of the International Center for Urban Studies. The Center’s Urban Interventions Program has conducted workshops jointly with SCI-Arc, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Woodbury University and the Technical-University, Brandenburg. Ameen is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations for a diverse array of architecture and urban design projects. These include master planning for cities and housing projects, design of institutional buildings, schools and residential projects and urban design plans for historic districts and inner cities in California, Germany and India.
Ameen is a registered architect in California and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). His works, writings, and exhibitions have been widely published in journals, including Architectural Record and Architecture Week. Ameen has lectured at Columbia University, the Bauhaus, BDA (the German Institute of Architects) and the AIA / Los Angeles Chapter and has several publications on urban design and architecture. Ameen received his bachelor of architecture degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his master of architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also participated as adjunct faculty at SCI-Arc, Woodbury University, and the Bauhaus in Germany.
Frances Anderton
Frances Anderton is host of DnA: Design and Architecture, a radio show aired monthly on 89.9 KCRW and on KCRW.com/dna. The show explores pressing design issues with users, critics and design luminaries. About DnA, architecture critic Guy Horton has written, “amidst all the chatter, Frances stands out for her incisive weaving of social, political and cultural issues that pertain to architecture. . . she reminds us why architecture and design matter in our daily lives.”
Ms. Anderton is also producer of KCRW's national and local current affairs shows, To The Point, and Which Way, LA?. Both shows arehosted by veteran journalist Warren Olney; they are broadcast daily on public radio and both have won numerous press awards.
In 2011 Ms. Anderton taught, with architect Frank Gehry, a research-based design studio at USC Architecture School. The results of this research, about decades of flawed planning efforts on downtown’s Grand Avenue, are to be published in early 2012 in a book named Grand Illusion.
Ms. Anderton is alsoa frequent public speaker and writer on architecture and design. She isthe L.A. Editor for Dwell Magazine, and previously was a design correspondent for the New York Times; her many stories included a report on young architects in Cuba.Other books include L.A. Now, with Thom Mayne, and two books co-written with the late John Chase: Las Vegas: The Success of ExcessandLas Vegas: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture.
In 2010 the USC School of Architecture’s Architectural Guild gave her their sixth Esther McCoy Award for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. In 2009 she was made an honorary member of AIA/LA.
In 2010 she curated the architecture section of the California Design Biennial, Action/Reaction, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. When asked what he liked best about the show, the L.A. Times Magazine’s design critic, Rus Mayer, wrote, “My pick isn't a single thing but a category: architecture. The selections needed to be really good—which they were.” In 2010 she also produced “Fame: Myth Management and Tailored Truths,” an executive education course at USC about design and the media with featured speakers Karim Rashid, Greg Lynn, and others. In 2011 she also curated a “zocalo” of design and architecture-related happenings for the Urban Land Institute’s annual, national conference.
Ms. Anderton has been featured on TV and documentary programs, including, most recently,KCET’s Departures series, about architecture in Venice, CA,and in the documentary films Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman,narrated by Dustin Hoffman, and A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome.
She has also produced radio documentaries for KCRW, including An Icon Is Born, about the making of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, winner of Golden Mike and LA Press awards; and United States of Los Angeles, a yearlong series of radio documentaries that won the John Anson Ford Award for Outstanding Contributions to Human Relations, by L.A. County.
She has hosted many public eventsrelating to architecture and design (for institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vancouver Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design; University of Minnesota Design Institute, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities; Hammer Museum, Art Center College of Art and Design.)
She has held advisory roles with several publications and institutions, including Architects Newspaper, L.A. Forum, LA Design Festival, Urban Land Institute, GOOD Magazine. She is on the boards of the A+D Museum and the LA Center for Architecture & Urban Design; and the advisory board of the Julius Shulman Institute.
Ms. Anderton was raised in Bath, an historic spa town in England. She spent a year in Florence, Italy, rehabilitating a casa colonica. She studied architecture at University College London (Bartlett School), and traveled to Jaipur, India, to study the haveli courtyard house for a Royal Society of Town Planning paper. She then served as associate editor of London-based Architectural Review, one of the oldest architecture publications. While there she traveled widely, reviewing new buildings; but her first, and most life-changing, assignment, was to produce a special issue (Dec, 1987) on emerging new work in Los Angeles.
In 1991, she moved to Los Angeles to take up the post of editor-in-chief of L.A. Architect, a monthly journal published by the L.A. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In her three years there, Ms. Anderton transformed the layout and editorial content, and increased the readership of the publication.
On hearing Warren Olney’s Which Way, LA?, a discussion program prompted by the Rodney King Riots of 1992, she determined to work on that show. She sidestepped into radio; Which Way, LA?went national, as To The Point, in 2000. She wed her love of design and architecture to the medium of radio when she started hosting DnA: Design and Architecturein April 2002. She believes her knowledge of politics and current affairs gives her a unique vantage point on architecture and design.
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John R. Dale, FAIA, LEED AP, Board President
John Dale has been involved in the master planning, programming and design of public and private projects for over 20 years. In 2007, he was honored with an AIA Fellowship for his work in school design. Mr. Dale has created high performance pre-school through secondary school environments. By defining small learning communities which boost student achievement, promote sustainability, and galvanize community involvement, he has established widely recognized models of regional and national significance.
Mr. Dale has also been a leader in promoting green schools. Building on evidence-based research, he has put in practice the theory that students are healthier and learn more effectively in well-ventilated, acoustically balanced, naturally lit spaces with strong connections to the outdoors—all features of energy-conserving, sustainable design.
Of particular note are his designs for Newport Coast Elementary, the first high performance school to win a Savings by Design Award in Southern California, and Mothers’ Club, the first Gold LEED registered child development center in the country. He is also closely involved in the design of three elementary schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District exceeding the point requirements under California’s Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) program.
Charlene Cady, CFO
Charlene Cady is a Senior Manager, Corporate Finance, at Home Box Office where she oversees financial reporting for HBO Original Programming including Series, Films, and Documentaries. Prior to joining HBO in 2003, Charlene worked as an auditor at Deloitte performing financial statement audits for both public and private entities. Charlene is a CPA and holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
Susan Friedman
A New Yorker who ran the premier advertising search firm, Susan Friedman Ltd. for 17 years, placing creative directors with advertising agencies all over the world. She retired two years ago, moving to Los Angeles where she got to pursue her love of Art, Architecture and Design by becoming a volunteer at MOCA, a Docent at The Stahl House (case study house #22), and a volunteer Docent at A+D where we discovered her.
Cynthia Kanner, Secretary
Cynthia Kanner is vice president, Post Production, for Home Box Office, responsible for overseeing post production on all HBO Films and miniseries. Among the more than 100 films and miniseries she has worked on are the critically acclaimed and award-winning “John Adams,” “The Pacific,” and “Recount,” “American Splendor,” “Maria Full of Grace,” and “Angels in America”. Kanner has always been interested in technologies and has overseen the department as it transitions into a fully digital work flow. Kanner was named to this position in December 2000.
Kanner is also actively involved in several programs which involve HBO and local communities. In 2005 she and her colleagues received the first Heiskell Team Award honoring their public service for the creation of a program called “Digital Dove.” “Digital Dove” received funding from HBO and TimeWarner to teach homeless youth life skills through filmmaking. Since the creation of the project several years ago, alumni have gone on to make films which have screened at various festivals, as well as gain work on TV shows and commercial, plying their new found trade. In addition, Kanner started a program called “Watch it and Learn!” which provided access to films and teaching materials at cost to schools across the country. This program is a collaboration between HBO, Time Warner and Columbia University’s EdLab, Schools in California, New York and New Hampshire are currently using tools created by this program to teach political and civic responsibility through films like “Recount” and “John Adams”. HBO and the EdLab are working on cutting edge interactive teaching materials that will be accessed on line.
Prior to HBO, Kanner freelanced in both production and post production and was Production Executive at Kings Road Entertainment, where her responsibilities ranged from overseeing production of five features, to supervising the budgets and helping develop ad campaigns. She also worked at Coopers & Lybrand while attending graduate school, where she worked on audits and mergers and acquisitions and became a CPA.
Kanner holds a BA in History from Yale University and an MBA from New York University.
Nancy Levens
Nancy Levens brings over 20 years of business development, management and organizational planning experience in the related worlds of architecture and the arts. Her current consultancy includes architectural, engineering and green building clients of long-standing, with a professional emphasis on Business Development and Marketing. Nancy was also the Manager of the Architecture & Interior Design Programs at UCLA Extension (1995-2000), where, working with the Dean at the Division level, she was a member of the UNEX Strategic Planning Steering Committee and Web Site Working Group. Upon completion of her MBA in 1995, Nancy created corporate business plans used to facilitate acquisitions between technology and entertainment companies. She has also worked at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
By emphasizing team building and collaboration, Nancy’s is often called upon to facilitate business development, company best practices and strategic planning efforts - working to establish overarching goals, short- and long-term priorities and action plans. She is also able to comment on administrative requirements with experience that includes program development, budget administration, human resources, facilities and operations. Nancy holds an MBA from the University of Southern California, and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is actively involved in the A/E/C community – in addition to her commitment to A+D, she is currently the Chair of the USGBC LA Westside Branch Steering Committee, in addition to prior committee roles with the AIA Los Angeles and USC Architectural Guild.
Sam Lubell
Sam Lubell is the West Coast Editor of the Architect's Newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Record, Architecture Magazine, Angeleno, New York Magazine, and other publications. His fourth book, Julius Shulman and Los Angeles: Birth of a Modern Metropolis (Rizzoli) will be released this spring.
Daniel McIntosh
Daniel McIntosh is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis. He has been a business transactional lawyer for almost forty years with a practice that includes formation, governance and capital transactions for corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies; formation and financing of joint ventures; mergers and acquisitions; finance (including equity and debt financings); representation of start-ups and investors in formation, capitalization and day-to-day business matters; major real estate transactions; and non-profit entities. His recent and current matters include representation of numerous clients conducting business in the entertainment industry as well as investments funds, consumer product distributors, web based companies, institutions and individuals providing financing for new ventures, and real estate transactions and projects.
Dan is a past President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and currently serves on its Board of Governors and as the Association's delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. He is also a past member of the boards of directors of Public Counsel and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is the past Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Museum of Law. Dan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his A.B. from University of California at Berkeley, where he was President of the Associated Students and a recipient of the Robert Gordon Sproul Award.
Stephen Slan, AIA
Stephen Slan is founder and CEO of DesignGuide.com, one of the leading online resources for the building and design industry. Stephen is an award winning architect and director of his firm VIA – Variations In Architecture for over 20 years. Originally from Canada, Stephen is a graduate from the University of Southern California.
Eric Stultz, Vice President
Eric Stultz is a principal with Gensler, and a design director for the firm’s Los Angeles architecture studio. In his 18 years of professional experience, Eric’s work has encompassed a broad range of building types and services including airports, master planning, convention facilities, office buildings, hotels and interiors. He has been recognized consistently for design and technical excellence, having led or been a team member on over a dozen AIA award-winning projects. His 13 years with Gensler, both in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, have presented the opportunity to design of a number of significant large-scale projects, including the new 350,000-square foot Campus at Playa Vista corporate office campus, the Richard B. Russell Federal Building renovation and Louisville Airport renovation. He has also led many large-scale master planning efforts, including the Dubai International Financial Center, Exhibition City in Las Vegas, and the Pacific Gateway in San Diego. He is also the founder of the Gensler’s Digital Design Task Force, which oversees the use of digital tools in the design process.
Joe Addo, EMERITUS
Born in Ghana, West Africa, trained at the Architectural Association (AA) in London between 1980-1986. Joe Addo has worked for architectural firms in Finland, The United Kingdom and the United States. He currently operates his practice in Los Angeles and Ghana. Early influences were with Peter and Alison Smith through their protégé Peter Salter at the AA. The work and interest of the practice has been influences by various investigations of ‘genus-loci’ and how architecture can/should respond to this in creating pieces that are both site specific and meet the needs of the people who will inhabit or interact with it. This has lead to a more public intervention on the Southside of Los Angeles, where several projects are under construction which will hopefully establish a discourse between what is important to communities and how site, climate, materials and their weathering, with design intent, should shape these interventions.
Ann Videriksen, Hon. AIA/LA, EMERITUS
Ann established her own PR and Marketing firm in 1993 after a period of filling that role in-house with architectural firms in Los Angeles and Copenhagen. She has been involved with the AIA/Los Angeles Chapter on several levels since 1968, fulfilling the role of home tour chairman and liaison to the AIA in 1970. She planned two series of lectures on architecture for UCLA’s Department of Arts & Humanities Form-givers and Trend-setters of Modern Architecture in the last Fifty Years in Europe and America and Architecture Plus: A Contemporary Definition. She co-chaired the 9 IN 99-series of lectures at MOCA in 1999 and advises on the Masters of Architecture lecture series at LACMA. She established the contact that led to guest lecturers from SCI-Arc to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Architecture School in Copenhagen and stimulated an exchange between Copenhagen, Berkeley and Los Angeles architecture schools. She was director of public affairs and media relations at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, editor of the monthly newsletter and oversaw all publications. She currently represents architecture firms in Los Angeles as a media and marketing consultant for her own firm Design Communication. She is a contributor to numerous magazines and books on architecture and design and most recently co-editor of a5>Los Angeles, showcasing 22 Los Angeles architects and their work.
Stephen Kanner
Founding Board Member, President In Memoriam
Bernard Zimmerman, FAIA
Founding Board Member, In Memoriam
John Chase
Board Member, In Memoriam
