Lance Jay Brown Profile Page | World Architecture Community

Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, is an architect, urban designer, author and ACSA Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture, CCNY where he was two-term Chair and Director. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design and three–term Board member of the AIA/NYC. He was 2005 Chair of the AIA national Regional and Urban Design Committee. From 1979 –1983 he served as Special Consultant to the Design Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he was awarded the AIA / ACSA Topaz Medallion, the highest honor given to an architectural educator in the United States. He recently co-authored Urban Design For An Urban Century (Wiley, January 2009). Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1943, Brown previously taught at Princeton, was educated at the Cooper Union and holds two masters degrees from the GSD at Harvard University.