Advisory Board

Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.
DONALD AITKEN ASSOCIATES
Consulting Scientist

Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor / Environmental Advocate

Steve Bornstein
Consultant

Christopher Flavin, President
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE

Jean A. Gardner, Director
EARTH GROUP

Sara Nichols
Environmental Attorney

Walter Scott Perry, Architect
S E ARCH

William Roley, Ph.D., Director
PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Michael Rotondi FAIA
ROTO ARCHITECTS, INC.

Steven J Strong, President
SOLAR DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Mary Tucker
Environmental Services Specialist
CITY OF SAN JOSE

Robert Wilkinson
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
UC SANTA BARBARA
DONALD BREN SCHOOL

Michael Rotondi
FAIA
ROTO ARCHITECTS, INC.

Michael Rotondi has been an architect and educator for over twenty-five years. He founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and was its Director from 1987 to 1997. He currently teaches and serves as a Board Member. He is also a Professor at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Projects over twenty years range from educational to institutional, cultural, commercial and residential. A cross section of current projects include an experimental theatre complex in La Jolla, a School of Architecture in Texas, a large regional park in Los Angeles, a memorial for the Los Angeles Fire department, a large Stupa in Santa Cruz, California, the transformation of a seventy acre industrial site in Louisville, Kentucky into a central part of the city, and the development and planning of the Tempe Center site.

His primary interest now is exploring how the concepts and methods of educational and professional practice can find common ground in the discipline of architecture. Other recent teaching positions include the Saarinen Visiting Professor at University of Michigan, the Brown-Forman Visiting Chair in Urban Design at the University of Kentucky, and the Harry Shure Professor at the University of Virginia.

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