Speaker Bios: Traditional Building Conference Series
Denver Athletic Club, Denver, Colorado June 19-20, 2012
Biographies are listed in alphabetical order.
Ron Anthony
Specifying the Repair of Historic Timber
Wood Scientist
Anthony & Associates, Inc.
P.O. Box 271400
Fort Collins, CO 80527
P: 970-377-2453
F: 970-377-2469
E: woodguy@anthony-associates.com
 Ron Anthony received an M.S. in Wood Science from Colorado State University. Since 1985, Mr. Anthony has applied innovative inspection technologies to the assessment of wood in historic structures. He has worked on Benjamin Latrobe’s Basilica of the Assumption, Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms, James Madison’s Montpelier, and the Hanging Flume in Colorado. He has also conducted forensic investigations on wood related failures such as the Texas A & M bonfire collapse.
Robert Baird
Bronze, Cast Iron, and Cast Aluminum: Properties, Preservation, and Performance
Vice-President
Historical Arts and Casting, Inc.
5580 West Bagley Park Road
West Jordan UT 84088
P: 800-244-1414
F: 801-280-2493
E: Robert@historicalarts.com
W: www.historicalarts.com
 Robert A. Baird is one of the original founders of Historical Arts and Casting, Inc. and is currently acting as the Senior Vice President of Operations. Historical Arts & Casting is one of the premier ornamental metal manufacturers in the United States and provides the highest quality metalwork for clients worldwide. For most of his professional life, Robert has been involved in metal work. He spent several years in Washington D.C. working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation before returning to the private sector. At present he resides in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife and four children. When he is not designing and creating custom metal light fixtures or surveying and inspecting cast iron buildings he enjoys sailing in Maine and is in the process of restoring a classic wooden boat.
Dr. Mark Gelernter
Addressing the Modernists Objections to Traditional Design
Dean and Professor of Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado Denver
Campus Box 126
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
P: 303-556-5938
E: mark.gelernter@ucdenver.edu
W: http://cap.ucdenver.edu
 Dr. Gelernter received a Bachelor of Architecture from Montana State University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of London in 1981. He was a Lecturer in Architecture in the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, from 1979 to 1987. While there, he drew all of the new illustrations for the 18th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture, the standard architectural history book in the English speaking world throughout most of the 20th century.
Dr. Gelernter joined the University of Colorado in 1987. Over the years, he has served as a Director of Undergraduate Studies on the Boulder campus, and as an Associate Dean, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School on the Denver campus. He won a number of CU teaching and research awards in this period.
Dr. Gelernter was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning in 2003. He led the faculty in a re-visioning process that focused the College on four emerging areas of prominence and distinction: historic preservation; sustainable urbanism, healthy environments, and emerging practices in design including green design and digital modeling. He established research centers in the first three areas that helped increase funded research in the College ten-fold since he became Dean.
Dr. Gelernter has published numerous articles on architectural history, theory, and design education, both here and in the United Kingdom. His papers on design education explore how the design skill is acquired, and how design education might be changed to teach the design skill more effectively. He has written two books: Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory, and A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context. Dr. Gelernter periodically teaches a course on principles of sustainable design and urbanism for the graduate level students.
Brent Hull
Classical Use of Moldings: Changing Interior Spaces Using Classical Design
Founder/President
Brent Hull Companies
Architectural Millwork
Custom Building Restoration and Consulting
201 Lipscomb Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76104
P: 817 332 1495 #202
E:brent@brenthull.com
W: www.brenthull.com
 Brent Hull is the owner and founder of The Brent Hull Companies, a company that specializes in the beautification of homes through construction, millwork and consulting. Brent is the author of two books, Historic Millwork- studies of millwork from 1870 to 1940 and Traditional American Rooms, coauthored with Christine G.H. Franck, a study of 35 rooms at the Winterthur Museum where Brent has the exclusive license to reproduce the architectural interiors. Brent is a frequent speaker and teacher to architects and designers and runs a successful design and construction business in Fort Worth Texas. Brent is also the designer of two molding lines and frequently consults on millwork and molding design.
Thomas P. Matthews, Jr.
What Makes a House Beautiful?
 Architect
5782 Mesa Drive
Castle Rock, Colorado 80108
P: 303-688-8898
E: matthewsarch@msn.com
W: www.matthewsarch.com
Michael McPhee
The Architecture of Jacques Benedict (1879-1948)
Stephen Mouzon, AIA, LEED-AP, CNU
Methods for Sustainability and Strategies for Building Durability
Mouzon Design
1253 Washington Avenue Suite 222
Miami Beach, FL 33139
P: 786-276-2000
E:steve@mouzon.com
W: see links below
 Steve has led or contributed to many advances in sustainable place-making and building design. He runs a veritable “skunk works” of sustainability, place-making, and building-making ideas and tools from his office in Miami Beach. He founded the New Urban Guild, which is a group of architects, designers, and other New Urbanists dedicated to sustainable buildings and places native to and inspired by the regions in which they are built. The Guild was instrumental in the creation of the Katrina Cottages concept. Steve’s Katrina Cottage VIII, which opened the second generation of Katrina Cottages, was awarded a Charter Award by the Congress for the New Urbanism. The Guild’s Project:SmartDwelling initiative sets out to redefine the American home much smaller, smarter, and more sustainable. Steve’s SmartDwelling I was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Green House of the Future story alongside designs by three other notable green architects, including William McDonough.
Steve is also a principal of Mouzon Design, which produces a number of town-building tools and services. His house plans have been featured repeatedly as Home of the Month in Southern Living and Coastal Living. Steve is Town Architect at several new hamlets, villages and neighborhoods around the country, using a unique face-to-face method of design review he developed that many agree is the most effective in use today. Several of his projects are award-winners.
Steve’s newest book, the Original Green, frames sustainability in common-sense, plain-spoken terms. Bobby Kennedy, Jr. wrote the Foreword. Years ago, Bobby’s wife Mary attended the very first Original Green Workshop in New York. Since then, Bobby and Mary have rebuilt their flood-damaged house according to Original Green principles. They have also engaged Steve to design a Katrina Cottage to replace their guest cottage that was destroyed by a falling tree. Steve has also collaborated repeatedly with other notables, including Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk of DPZ and the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, which is Prince Charles’ organization.
Steve’s award-winning book A Living Tradition [Architecture of the Bahamas] sets the standard for a new type of pattern book that is principle-based instead of taste-based, and therefore contributes to the creation of new living traditions. Steve has authored or contributed to a number of publications and articles in recent years, and much has been written about him. He is a noted photographer of great places and buildings. Steve lectures frequently across the country and abroad on a wide range of topics. He is a board member of the Guild Foundation and INTBAU-USA, and is the author of the Original Green Blog and the Useful Stuff blog. His Original Green Twitter stream is @stevemouzon. Steve has made significant contributions as a team leader or team member on a number of significant New Urbanist projects, and is involved in a number of organizations devoted to the building of better and more sustainable places.
Michael Still
Windows of Opportunity: Using New Technologies in Large-Scale Projects
Director, Distributor Sales
Marvin Windows and Doors
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