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APPENDIK D BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS DAVID P. BILLINGTON is Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton Univer- sity, where he is also a member of the faculty of the School of Archi- tecture. He has been teaching at Princeton since 1958. Prior to beginning his teaching career, Mr. Billington studied postwar innova- tions in construction, structural design theory, and research on a Fulbright Fellowship, and worked as a structural designer for the Roberts and Schaefer Company, Consulting Engineers. In 1958 he was a member of a six-man delegation to the Soviet Union to observe concrete construction. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Concrete Institute and has been named a member of the National Academy of Engineering. During 1984 and 1985 he served as Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. He received his B.S.E. from Princeton University. GEORGE M. NOTTER, JR., 1984 President of the American Institute of Archi- tects, is a founding principal of the architecture firm, Notter Finegold & Alexander, Inc. The firm has been a leader in planning for urban areas, the design of new structures in urban areas, and the adaptive use and preservation of historic buildings and districts. Mr. Notter was principal in charge of design for projects that included the restoration of the Main Immigration Building at Ellis Island, New York City; Old City Hall, Boston; and Intelsat World Headquarters, Washington, D.C. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Archi- tects, the historic preservation consultant to the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, and the architectural member of the Advisory Committee on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. TOM LEWIS PEYTON, JR., is currently Assistant to the President of Leo A. Daly, an international architect engineering firm. From 1979 to 1986 he was Director of Facilities Services at the Smithsonian Institution, with responsibilities in facilities planning, programming, design and construction, operations and maintenance, and a host of other areas. Before that he was at the Public Buildings Service of the General 45
Services Administration, where he served as Deputy Commissioner from 1975-1978. From 1947 to 1965 he was a career officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is a registered professional engineer in Maryland and Kansas and served as the U.S. Chairman of the U.S.-USSR Working Group on Building Design and Construction under the Nixon- Kosygin Agreement, 1975-1979. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute and a Masters in Industrial Engineering from New York University. WOLFGANG F.E. PREISER is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for Research and Development at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico. He is a partner and director of research with Architectural Research Consultants, Inc., and founding President of Planning Research Institute, Inc., in Albuquerque. Dr. Preiser's wide-ranging research interests include programming to meet occupant needs, especially facilities for the elderly, children, and low-cost housing; and evaluation methodology and design applications of behavior research. He holds a Ph.D. in Man-Environment Relations from Pennsylvania State University, as well as Masters in Architecture from Virginia Tech and the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. His bachelor's degree in architecture is from the Technical University in Vienna, Austria. BELINDA C. REEDER is principal architect and partner in ARCHETYPE, a Wash- ington, D.C. architecture firm that specializes in commercial, housing, and community design with emphasis on historic restoration and appro- priate infill construction. From 1976 to 1978 Ms. Reeder was a research associate at the American Institute of Architects Research Corporation; at the same time, she served as educational consultant to the National Architectural Accreditation Board. Prior to that, she worked at Arthur Cotton Moore Associates and at Doxiadis Associates. Between 1972 and 1977 she was lecturer with the design faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Tech, George Washington University, and Northern Virginia Community College. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at the Catholic University of America. Ms. Reeder received her B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (now Virginia Tech). JAMES RICH is currently Assistant Vice President at Sigal/Zuckerman Company, a development firm in Washington, D.C. From 1983 to 1987 he was Director of Development at the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corpora- tion, where he was responsible for all development, planning, design, and real estate activities. He directed a $1.4 billion mixed-use private-sector development program and coordinated it with a $100 million public-improvement program of parks and landscaping funded directly by the Corporation. Prior to that, he was Director of Planning and Urban Design of the Washington office of Skidmore, Swings and Merrill. He holds a B.Arch. from the University of Florida, an M.S. 46
in Architecture from Columbia University, and a Master of Urban Planning degree from New York University. JAMES A SCHEMNER is a registered civil engineer in 26 states and has over 28 years of experience in the fields of architecture and engineering. He founded the Schemmer Associates, Inc., in 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska. The firm currently has offices in Belle w e, Washington; Moline, Illi- nois; Davenport, Iowa; and Tampa and Orlando, Florida, in addition to the Omaha office. Mr. Schemmer has been involved in both private and public sector work and has served on the boards of directors of a number of professional and community organizations. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Marquette University. PETER N. STEIGERWALD is Director for Facilities and Administrative Services for TRW, Inc., where since 1982 he has been responsible for all corpo- rate facilities, including operations, security, purchasing, office services, and real estate activities for company headquarters. He is also deputy project manager for the design and construction of TRW's World headquarters in Cleveland. Prior to that, he was corporate architect for the Harris Corporation, and from 1970 to 1974 he was corporate director of architecture and construction at Addressograph Multigraph Corporation. Other experience includes full partnership in Steigerwald and Steigerwald; project architect at Osborn Engineering; and city architect and advisor to the planning commission for the city of Fairview Park, Ohio. Mr. Steigerwald is a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the Business Roundtable of Northern Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from the University of Detroit. CLIFTON D. WRIGHT, JR., retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Major General and is currently Board Chairman and CEO of 3DI, a subsidiary of 3D/International. Before his retirement, he was Director of Engi- neering and Services, responsible for the entire multibillion-dollar USAF construction and maintenance program. Before that, he served in a variety of positions around the world, such as Commander of the Air Force Engineering and Services Center and Deputy Chief of Staff for Engineering and Services for both the Strategic Air Command and U.S. Air Forces in Europe. He was recognized in 1984 by the American Insti- tute of Architects for his advocacy of quality design for Air Force and Department of Defense projects. He received a B.S. in Architectural Engineering from Clemson University and an M.S. in Public Administration from the George Washington University. 47
