Speaker Information

Keynote Speaker
David Baker, FAIA, LEED AP
David Baker + Partners, Architects
Known for award-winning affordable and market-rate residential design in San Francisco, Baker has blazed the trail for all architects seeking to deliver cutting-edge, vibrant, earth-friendly design to a wider audience of city dwellers. Baker was recently recognized by the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition as a “Housing Hero.”

F. Cecil Baker, AIA
Cecil Baker & Associates
For more than 40 years, Cecil Baker has designed imaginative, sensitive, lovely infill architecture in the historic city of Philadelphia. A graduate of Louis Kahn’s studio at the University of Pennsylvania, Baker and his quietly graceful work have made a significant contribution to his city’s revitalization.

Edward M. Binkley, AIA
BSB Design
In his 30 years behind the drafting table, Binkley has designed everything from mansions for sports stars to an award-winning house for Habitat for Humanity. His firm designed The New American Home for the International Builders' Show in 2005 and 2007, created the 2006 Boomer Concept house for Hanley Wood, and devised a low-income housing prototype called Aböd.

Randy Brown, FAIA, LEED AP
Randy Brown Architects
Brown’s 15-year-old firm keeps adding milestones to its résumé. In its evolution from interiors firm, to architecture firm, to design/build company, and now to real estate developer, the common threads are unchanged: high design, environmentally minded, modern. Brown is currently developing a sustainable subdivision in his home state of Nebraska. His own recently completed experimental house has won a number of national design awards.

Luis Ibarra and Teresa Rosano, RA, LEED AP
Ibarra Rosano Design Architects
Accomplished in designing sophisticated, modern custom residences in Tucson, Ariz., this almost 10-year-old firm has branched out into speculative development. In doing so, its principals are taking on restrictive zoning regulations and championing better, denser, and more affordable houses for their native city.

Michelle Kaufmann, AIA, LEED AP
Michelle Kaufmann Designs
Fortified by her experience designing a highly successful idea house for Sunset magazine and her time as an associate with innovative master Frank Gehry, FAIA, Kaufmann launched her own modern modular housing company. In just six years, her company has finished 30 lovely, light-filled houses and is poised for accelerated expansion in the near future. While many architects are still experimenting with prefab prototypes, Kaufmann is out on the front lines perfecting them for the masses.

Chris Krager
KRDB
Krager’s seven-year-old design/build company, based in Austin, Texas, seeks to make high-quality, high-design housing more financially accessible. His company is currently developing a 38-lot sustainable community called SOL.

Charles Lazor
Lazor Office
After graduating from Yale with his M.Arch degree, Lazor bumped up against a number of problems—chief among them, a lack of well-designed, affordable furniture and a reasonably priced modern house for his growing family. He solved the first by cofounding the Blu Dot furniture company. And he took on the second problem by starting the FlatPak house company, based on his own prototype house.

Heather H. McKinney, FAIA, LEED AP
McKinney Architects
For 25 years, McKinney and her award-winning firm have dedicated themselves to client service and realistic, sustainable design based on real-world budgets and time constraints.

Eric Naslund, FAIA
Studio E Architects
As design partner of this 13-person collaborative firm, Naslund has spearheaded a diverse portfolio of admirable achievements in affordable, mixed-use, urban planning, and custom residential projects.

Peter L. Pfeiffer, FAIA
Barley & Pfeiffer Architects
Pfeiffer has spent nearly 30 years developing, implementing, and leading the battle cry for more rigorous green methods and materials in residential construction. His practice focuses on real-world sustainable design based on science and good common sense.

Russell Versaci, AIA
Russell Versaci Architecture
Irritated and motivated by the lack of architectural rigor in mass-market traditional house design, Versaci has embarked on a mission to provide builders and would-be buyers with a better “new old house.” He has also authored two books on the subject: Creating a New Old House and Roots of Home, both from Taunton Press.