2012 Charter Awards

Every year, the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) facilitates an awards program to recognize the very best in New Urbanist design. Winning projects are recognized for their excellence in fulfilling and advancing the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism, which defines the essential qualities of walkable, sustainable places from the scale of the region down to the block and building.

CNU’s Charter Awards recognize excellence in architectural, landscape, and urban designs built in harmony with their physical and social contexts. CNU convenes a jury of distinguished designers, architects, planners, and scholars who choose the winners of the awards after the entries are fully vetted, and educates practitioners on the design techniques employed in the award-winning work. Chairing this year's jury was CNU Board member Doug Kelbaugh, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Taubman College of the University of Michigan.

This year, the Charter Awards will offer a prize of $3,500 to the best professional project and $3,500 for the best academic project, courtesy of The Oram Foundation/Fund for the Environment & Urban Life. Grand prize winners were chosen by the jury for their outstanding fulfillment of the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism.

Thank you to our 2012 CNU Charter Awards Partners:

THE CEREMONY

Thursday, May 10, 2012
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Doug Kelbaugh will honor the best of New Urbanism in the 2012 Charter Awards ceremony. Winning projects are recognized for their excellence in fulfilling and advancing the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism, which defines the essential qualities of walkable, sustainable places from the scale of the region down to the block and building.


As jury chair, Kelbaugh will describe the lessons and trends learned from this year's award winners and frame how New Urbanism is reshaping and redeeming our cities and towns.

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THE JURY

• Douglas Kelbaugh, CNU Board Member, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Former Dean of the Taubman College of the University of Michigan
• June Williamson, Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York, Co-Author of Retrofitting Suburbia
• Kit McCullough, Professor at Taubman College of the University of Michigan
• Marcy McInnelly, President of Urbsworks in Portland, OR, CNU Board Member
• Bonnie Fisher, Landscape Architect and Principal of ROMA Design Group
• Boris Dramov, President of ROMA Design Group
• M. David Lee, Partner of Stull and Lee, Adjunct Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
• John Knott, President and Co-Founder of the Noisette Company, LLC
• Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, and director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania