Meet the 2016 JUDGES
Lucia Athens
Pliny Fisk III
Kira Gould
Anica Landreneau
​LUCIA ATHENS IS THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S FIRST CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER, WORKING AS A CHAMPION FOR MANY GROUND-BREAKING ACHIEVEMENTS THAT SUPPORT AUSTIN'S REPUTATION AS A LEADING GREEN CITY. WITH MORE THAN TWO DECADES OF GREEN BUILDING AND PUBLIC SERVICE EXPERIENCE, AND RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONALLY AS AN AUTHORITY ON SUSTAINABILITY, LUCIA DESCRIBES HERSELF AS A "SPARK PLUG FOR POSITIVE CHANGE" AND A "PRACTICAL IDEALIST." SHE IS ALSO AUTHOR OF THE ISLAND PRESS BOOK BUILDING AN EMERALD CITY: A GUIDE TO CREATING GREEN BUILDING POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.
​Pliny Fisk III, Co-Founder + Co-Director, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems Austin – With a background in architecture, landscape architecture, and system sciences, Pliny has more than four decades of contributions to the sustainability movement developing replicable prototypes, protocols and policy initiatives. His prototypes including the Advanced Green Builder Demonstration in Austin—voted as one of the top 10 green buildings in the U.S.—challenge conventional wisdom about building design, engineering, materials, economic development, and regional planning. Pliny's seminal life-cycle based protocols helped shape the first green building program, developed with the City of Austin, and influenced many more policy initiatives including the AIA's Environmental Resource Guide. He is Emeritus Professor at Texas A&M University, and previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Ball State University, Mississippi State University. He has received the U.S. Green Building Council's Sacred Tree Award, American Solar Energy Society's Passive Solar Pioneer Award, and was recognized by Texas Monthly as one of "35 People Who Will Shape Our Future."
Kira Gould is a communications strategy consultant and freelance writer. She works with Walter Communications with clients such as EHDD and BNIM. She has written about design and sustainability for Metropolis magazine (where she served as Managing Editor for several years and is now a Contributing Editor), Architectural Record, and other publications. She was Director of Communications for William McDonough (2007-2016). She is co-author, with Lance Hosey, of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007). She was the 2007 chair of the AIA Committee on the Environment and co-author of that group's report on ecological literacy and architecture education. Kira has spoken at the USGBC's Greenbuild conference, the national AIA convention, West Coast Green, and other national and regional events. She earned her master's degree in architectural studies at Parsons School of Design in New York, following undergraduate degrees in journalism and English at the University of Kansas.
​Anica Landreneau, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is HOK's global director of sustainable design and a member of the firm's management board. Based in HOK's Washington, D.C., office, she manages the development and implementation of sustainability goals for projects worldwide.
Anica is an expert on sustainable design best practices and the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating systems. She works with public- and private-sector clients on campus and master planning, individual buildings and entire real estate portfolios.
She is a member of the AIA National Energy Curriculum and Green Codes committees and an appointee to the D.C. Green Building Advisory Council, which is responsible for overseeing the Green Building Act and synchronizing green building and development programs across the city. Together with the U.S. General Services Administration, Anica co-authored The New Sustainable Frontier: Principles of Sustainable Development. She authored the Sustainable Urban Planning Guidelines for New Growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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