Evening with Jaquelin T. Robertson
On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, community members joined Columbia General Manager Greg Hamm and the General Growth Properties team for an Evening with Jaquelin T. Robertson, the last in a series of four community forums featuring GGPs world-class design and planning team working on the master plan for Columbia Town Center.
He featured the many successful projects for which he and his firm are responsible, including Daniel Island, SC, New Albany, OH; Celebration and WaterColor, FL; Val d'Europe, France; among many others.
In describing the elements of planning a community, Jaque spoke about working around existing assets to create better, more interesting places. "Symphony Woods...is one of the great assets of the place [Columbia] and it needs to be enriched and fed and used, and people from everywhere, not just here, will want to come there. So it's a huge existing asset."
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About Jaquelin T. Robertson, F.A.I.A., F.A.I.C.P.
Jaque Robertson, founding partner of the architecture and urban design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners, has led the firm's design work on many award-winning architectural and planning projects. These include new communities at Daniel Island, South Carolina; New Albany, Ohio; Celebration and WaterColor, Florida; and Val d'Europe, France; a waterfront park, county courthouse, and the Visitor Reception and Transportation Center in Charleston, South Carolina; the Henry Moore Sculpture Garden in Kansas City; the Institute for the Arts & Humanities at the University of North Carolina; and Sony's Imageworks offices in Culver City, California. He also prepared master plans for Monticello, Virginia and the Battlefield Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg and has designed many award-winning private houses.
Mr. Robertson was a founder of the New York City Urban Design Group, the first Director of the Mayor's Office of Midtown Planning and Development, and a City Planning Commissioner. Beginning in 1975, he spent three years in Iran, directing the planning and design of the country's new capitol center Shahestan Pahlavi. Throughout his career he has lectured widely and taught at many respected institutions including Yale. He received the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture in 1998, the Seaside Institute Prize in 2002, and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2007. He has a Bachelor of Arts (1954) and a Master of Architecture (1961) degree from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.
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