Left to right: Chee Pearlman, Mohsen Mostafavi, Clifford Curry, Cynthia Smith, Alejandro Echeverri, Emiliano GandolfiAlejandro Echeverri is the former Director of Urban Projects for the City of Medellín, Colombia. In 2009 he was co-recipient, with Mayor Sergio Fajardo, of the Curry Stone Design Prize for his work in revitalizing Medellín. Echeverri is currently the director of Ur.bam, Center of Urban and Environmental Studies, at the University of EAFIT research center. He is also the principle of a private architecture practice, AE Arquitectos, based in Medellín.
Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and educator, is Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and its Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. He was formerly Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule). Dean Mostafavi serves on the steering committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has served on the design committee of the London Development Agency and the RIBA Gold Medal. His recent publications include Ecological Urbanism (Lars Müller Publishers/Harvard GSD, 2010), and Implicate & Explicate (Lars Müller Publishers, 2011).
Cynthia E. Smith serves as Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s Curator of Socially Responsible Design. She is the co-author of The Politics of Genocide: U.S. Rhetoric vs. Inaction in Darfur for the Kennedy School Review; co-curated the 2010 National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?; curated the 2007 exhibition Design for the Other 90%; and is working on the next exhibition in the series, Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, which will be on view at the United Nations October 15, 2011 to January 9th, 2012. Named a “20/20 New Pioneer” by Icon magazine and one of Metropolis magazine’s “next generation of young curators,” Smith has served on international design juries and lectured widely on socially responsible design.
Clifford Curry is an Oregon-based architect who worked with developer William Colson to pioneer modern-day retirement facilities as affordable and livable communities. Curry is a 1970 alumnus of the University of Kentucky’s College of Architecture (now the UK College of Design). He is a co-founder of the Curry Stone Foundation, which makes grants to innovators working for public vitality.
Jury Associates:
Emiliano Gandolfi, Curry Stone Design Prize Executive Secretary is co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies based in Rotterdam. Cohabitation Strategies
Chee Pearlman, Curry Stone Design Prize Curator and Principal of Chee Company, based in New York, presided over the deliberations. Chee Company
