Architect, Principal of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO

Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 to integrate social values, collaboration, and sensitive design approaches to architectural work. The office's work intersects with research, allowing it to design for diverse circumstances and reconstruction or crisis scenarios.

Before founding her firm, Bilbao was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Government of the Federal District of Mexico City; during this period, she was part of the General Development Directorate of the Advisory Council for Urban Development in the City.

Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, AA Association in London, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Dusseldorf in Germany.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, A + U, Domus, among others. Before receiving the 2022–23 Miller Prize, Bilbao was recognized with the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2012, was named in 2010 as an Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize by the LOCUS Foundation in 2014, as well as the Impact Award 2017 Honorees for Architzier A + Awards, the Marcus Prize Award 2019, Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal of 2020, the Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) in 2021, the Richard Neutra Award in 2022 and lastly the AW Architect of the Year 2022.

Founder & Creative Director of PAU

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of PAU , where he leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects.

Chakrabarti’s past roles—including Principal at architecture firms SHoP Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, President of the Moynihan Station Venture at the Related Companies, Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning in the Bloomberg administration, and the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley—have given him a uniquely well-rounded perspective on how cities and their architecture function and what they need to flourish. While serving under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chakrabarti successfully collaborated on the now-realized efforts to save the High Line, extend the #7 subway line, rebuild the East River Waterfront, expand the Columbia University campus, and reincorporate the street grid at the World Trade Center site after the events of 9/11.

In addition to their Miller Prize installation InterOculus, other projects of note include the expansion of the I.M. Pei-designed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the planning and redevelopment of downtown Niagara Falls, and the conversion of the historic Domino Sugar Factory on Brooklyn’s waterfront into a contemporary office complex, to open this summer.

Chakrabarti is the author of the highly acclaimed book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), and The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing Cities for Pluralism and Planet (2024, Princeton University Press).

He taught at Columbia for more than a decade and serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York, the Regional Planning Association, the Norman Foster Foundation, The World Around and Prometheus Materials. Chakrabarti has degrees in architecture, urban planning, art history, and engineering.

Founding Partner of PORT

Christopher Marcinkoski is a founding principal of PORT—a Philadelphia and Chicago-based public realm and urban design practice. Since its establishment in 2013, PORT’s work has been widely published and repeatedly recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Institute of Architects, garnering no fewer than eighteen chapter awards of honor or merit since 2018. Before receiving the Miller Prize in 2022–23, in 2020, PORT was recognized by the Architectural League of New York with their Emerging Voices Award­—an honor given to North American design practices with a significant body of realized work and the potential to meaningfully influence their field in the coming years.

PORT’s work has an established national and growing international presence with recent work in Philadelphia, Chicago, Knoxville, New York, Cleveland, Kansas City, Louisville, Denver, and Los Angeles, as well as in Mexico and Germany. PORT is leading the landscape and architectural design of a new 110-acre central park in Bentonville, Arkansas, as part of the Walton Family Foundation Design Excellence Program.

Christopher is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Trained and licensed as an architect, Christopher’s teaching, research, and professional practice are oriented around issues of contemporary physical urbanization, with an explicit focus on the public realm as a space of design intervention, inquiry, and agency.

In 2015, the American Academy in Rome awarded Christopher the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. He holds a B.Arch from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was awarded the Faculty Prize for undergraduate thesis, and an M.Arch from the Yale University School of Architecture, where he was awarded the H.I. Feldman Prize for design excellence, the Christopher Tunnard Fellowship for excellence in urban planning, and the national Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill Foundation Fellowship for urban design.

Founding Partner of PORT

Andrew Moddrell is a founding partner of PORT where he serves as a creative director of the office’s public realm, planning and urban design projects, including the Lakeview Low-Line in Chicago, IL; The Knoxville Battlefield Loop, Augusta Quarry Lake and Urban Wilderness Gateway Park projects in Knoxville, TN; the Library Lane Master Plan in Louisville, KY; the River Frames installation for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial; the Armourdale Area Master Plan for the Armourdale District in Kansas City, Kansas; and the design of a new 110-acre Gateway Park for the City of Bentonville, Arkansas as part of the Walton Family Foundation Design Excellence program.

PORT’s work has an established national profile with recent work in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Knoxville, Columbia, MD, New York, Cleveland, Kansas City, Louisville, Denver, and Los Angeles, as well as in Irapuato, Mexico. PORT’s work has been repeatedly recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Institute of Architects, garnering nineteen awards of honor or merit since 2018. Before receiving the Miller Prize in 2022–23, in 2020, PORT was recognized with an Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, given to a North American design practice with a significant body of realized work on a trajectory to meaningfully influence the future of their field.

Andrew is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at The University of Kansas. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; a Clinical Assistant Professor at The University of Illinois-Chicago School of Architecture; and a Research Associate at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Andrew received his B.Arch from the University of Kansas and M.Arch from Yale University.

Founding Principal of Studio Zewde

Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde. Recent and ongoing projects of the firm include the Mander Recreation Center Campus (Philadelphia, PA), the Midtown Activation Project (Seattle, WA), and Graffiti Pier (Philadelphia, PA). Zewde’s practice and research start from her contention that the discipline of landscape architecture is tightly bound by precedents and typologies rooted in specific traditions that must be challenged. Without rigorous investigation, these cultural assumptions will silently continue to constrict the practice of design and reinforce a quiet, cultural hegemony in the built form of cities and landscapes. Her projects exemplify how sensitivities to culture, ecology, and craft can serve as creative departures for expanding design traditions.

Zewde previously held faculty appointments at GSAPP, Columbia University and at the University of Texas School of Architecture. She holds the Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a master in city planning from MIT, and a BA in sociology and statistics from Boston University. She regularly writes, lectures, and exhibits her work and is the recipient of numerous awards, which in addition to the 2022-23 Miller Prize, include the Silberberg Memorial Award for Urban Design and the Hebbert Award for Contribution to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. While a student in the program at GSD, Zewde was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation; she also was recognized with a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; and in 2018, was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s inaugural “40 Under 40: People Saving Places.” In 2020, she was named a United States Artists Fellow. In addition to Exhibit Columbus, her work has been exhibited at the 2016 and 2018 Venice Biennale, in the Brazilian and U.S. national pavilions.

Executive Director of Bartholomew County Public Library

Jason Hatton is the Executive Director of Bartholomew County Public Library, where he has worked for the past sixteen years. Jason previously worked at the LaPorte County Public Library. In addition to his current role, Jason has also served on the Board of Directors for the Bartholomew County Historical Society, the United Way of Bartholomew County, and the Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives. Jason is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and Bethel College.

Former Executive Director of Public Works and City Engineer at City of Columbus

Dave Hayward is the Executive Director of Public Works for the City of Columbus as well as the City Engineer. He is a professional civil engineer with over 40 years of experience and has served as Columbus City Engineer under four different mayors. He has also served as Bartholomew County Highway Engineer and held consulting roles. Dave was a long-time member of the Columbus Parks Foundation, serving as president for eight years. He was integral in the creation of Columbus' bicycle and pedestrian vision. He is a graduate of Iowa State University.

Director of Columbus Parks and Recreation Department

Mark Jones is the Director of Parks and Recreation Department for the City of Columbus. He has been with the Department for twenty-five years where he leads an inspired team whose vision is to build a community where everyone belongs. In 2019, he was awarded the American Council of Engineering Companies of Indiana Engineering Excellence Award for the restoration and relocation of a 107 year-old steel truss bridge onto a key part of the Columbus People Trail. He is a graduate of Franklin College.

Executive Director of Mill Race Center

Dan Mustard is the Executive Director of Mill Race Center, a community center for active adults located in the downtown Mill Race Park. He has worked for a guitar manufacturer, and was a professional musician for many years. Dan transitioned from the music industry into disabilities services, where he served as an Employment Specialist for Stone Belt and later Director of Operations for Gateway Services. He serves as the Secretary of the Indiana Commission on Aging. Dan is a graduate of Asbury University.

Architecture Critic, Chicago Sun-Times; photographer, writer, lecturer, and consultant

Lee Bey documents and interprets the built environment—and the often complex political, social, and racial forces that shape spaces and places. His writing on architecture and urban design has been featured in Architect, Chicago magazine, Architectural Record, and many news outlets. His photography has appeared in Chicago Architect, Old-House Journal, CITE, and in international design publications, including Bauwelt and Modulør. He is the Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and member of the Editorial Board. Bey is also a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His latest exhibition, "Chicago: a Southern Exposure," was featured in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He served as deputy chief of staff for urban planning under former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley.

Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design at SFMOMA

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher is a senior curator; recent curatorial projects include a Claudy Jongstra commission (2016); Lebbeus Woods, Architect (co-curator) (2013); A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living (2013) for the UCLA Hammer Museum; a Mike Mills commission for Project Los Altos (2013); and The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area (2012). She has published essays on the practice of A. Quincy Jones, Ewan Gibbs, Tobias Wong, and Lebbeus Woods.

In 2016, she served as a jury member for the inaugural Miller Prize Competition, and from 2018-19 served as an Exhibit Columbus Curatorial Advisor. At SFMOMA, she curated the exhibition Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, Architecture from Outside In, which was on view from July 2021 to March 2022.

Since 2010, she has been building SFMOMA’s architecture and design collection with an emphasis on transformative works of design from 1980 to the present. Recent acquisitions include seminal works by Ant Farm, Ron Arad, Nacho Carbonell, Neil Denari, Neri Oxman, and Nathalie du Pasquier. Dunlop Fletcher earned a BA in art history from New York University. She received an MA in curatorial studies of contemporary art from Bard College and an MA in architecture history and theory from Harvard University.

President of the Wallace Foundation and a former resident of Columbus

Will Miller is president of The Wallace Foundation, an independent national nonprofit. He is also chairman of Irwin Management Company, a family investment management office in Columbus, Ind. From 1990 to 2009, he was chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation, a group of specialized financial services companies.

Miller currently serves on the boards of Cummins Inc., New Perspective Fund/ EuroPacific Growth Fund/New World Fund, Irwin Management Company, Tipton Lakes Company, Cummins Foundation, and the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation. He is an emeritus member and past co-chair of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, an economic development partnership of research universities and major corporations. He is a former trustee of Yale University and of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Miller earned a B.A. in English cum laude from Yale University. He earned an MBA degree from Stanford University, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Creative Director of MVVA

Michael Van Valkenburgh is the Creative Director of MVVA, the landscape architecture firm he founded in 1982. Michael serves on projects as a Lead Designer and guides creative teams composed of the firm’s 100 employees. Raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

For his leadership in design at MVVA, Michael was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor customarily bestowed on architects. Brooklyn Bridge Park, an ongoing project of MVVA’s since 1999, earned the 2021 Rosa Barba International Prize of Landscape Architecture as well as the 2010 Brendan Gill Prize, which recognizes the work of art that “best captures the spirit and energy of New York City.” In 1989, Michael was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. His book Designing a Garden (The Monacelli Press, 2019) traces the creation of the Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 2012.

Michael lives near Brooklyn Bridge Park and spends his summers in Chilmark, Massachusetts, where he has tended to and remade his one-acre garden for more than 30 years. Michael is the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Emeritus at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1982 and served as Department Chairman from 1991 to 1996. His election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences recognized his exceptional work as an educator.

Director of Garden and Landscape Studies (GLS) at Dumbarton Oaks and Professor Emerita, Landscape Architecture/College of Built Environments, University of Washington

Thaïsa Way is responsible for leading the programming for GLS including the residential fellowship program, scholarly visitors and events, and senior fellow meetings. Way holds a PhD from Cornell University, a Master of Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as an urban landscape historian teaching and researching history, theory, and design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to coming to Dumbarton Oaks, Way served as founding director of Urban@UW, a coalition of urban researchers and teachers collaboratively addressing complex urban challenges, and as Chair of Faculty Senate at the University of Washington.

Way has published and lectured on feminist histories of landscape architecture and public space in cities. Her book, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design (University of Virginia Press, 2009) was awarded the J. B. Jackson Book Award in 2012. A second book, From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (University of Washington Press, 2015) explores the narrative of post-industrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture. She has edited two books in urban environmental history and practice including Now Urbanism (Routledge, 2013) with Jeff Hou, Ken Yocom, and Ben Spencer, and an edited collection titled River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Most recently her book GGN: 1999–2018 (Timber Press, 2018) was published as a monograph on the important work of the landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, who served as the landscape architects for the National Museum of African American History and Culture among other important public projects. Dr. Way lately completed the monograph, Landscape Architect A.E. Bye: Sculpting the Earth, Modern Landscape Design Series (Norton Publishing, forthcoming).