Aaron Betsky — Betsky was appointed director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2006, after having spent five years as the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He holds an M. Arch from Columbia University; worked for architects such as Frank Gehry and Craig Hodgetts and Hsin Ming Fung; and has written on architecture for numerous journals. Betsky served at the director of the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Ellen Dunham-Jones — Currently the director of the architecture program and an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dunham-Jones also is a registered architect and practiced for many years as a partner in Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects. She has taught at the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and served as chair of the Education Task Force of the Congress for New Urbanism from 1998 to 2001.
Carlos Jimenez — After graduating from the University of Houston School of Architecture, Jimenez formed Carlos Jimenez Studio in 1982. In addition to winning honors for his practice such as The Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects award, selection for the league’s Emerging Voices lecture series, and the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Jimenez has served as a visiting professor at universities such as Rice, Harvard, and the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in more than 20 cities around the world.
Marion Weiss — Weiss is a founding partner with Michael Manfredi at New York–based Weiss/Manfredi, which has a focus on cultural and institutional projects that integrate architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Notable recent projects include the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park and a design for Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea. Weiss also serves as the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, and has taught at Yale and Cornell universities.
Ralph Johnson — Johnson is a firm-wide design director based in the Chicago office of Perkins + Will. He also serves on the firm’s board of directors. Notable projects include the Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminal building, the Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, and the 11-story Contemporaine condominium tower in Chicago. Johnson received his B. Arch from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his M. Arch from Harvard, and worked for Stanley Tigerman & Associates, also in Chicago, before joining Perkins + Will in 1976.
