Judges

JILL FEHRENBACHER

Jill Fehrenbacher is the founder of Inhabitat.com, as well as a freelance designer and green design consultant. She created Inhabitat in the Spring of 2005 as a way to catalog her ongoing search for new ways to improve the world through forward-thinking, high-tech, and environmentally conscious design. Educated at Brown University, where she received a B.A. in Art Semiotics, and Columbia University, where she studied architecture, she currently resides in New York City, which so far has aligned nicely with her goals to escape the suburbs and live life car-free.

SARAH RICH SCRhighres

Sarah Rich is an editor at Dwell magazine and directs editorial content for Dwell.com. She brings her background in sustainability, food, and new media into her work on Dwell’s Off the Grid and Square Meal sections. Prior to joining the Dwell team in 2007, Sarah was the managing editor of Inhabitat and Worldchanging, where she co-authored the book Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. She is also a founding editor of Civil Eats, an online publication born out of Slow Food Nation.

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FRITZ HAEG

fritzFritz Haeg’s projects include the ongoing Edible Estates initiative, the urban wildlife activities of Animal Estates, the gatherings of Sundown Schoolhouse, the designs, buildings and installations of Fritz Haeg Studio, and other various combinations of building, curating, dancing, designing, exhibiting, gardening, organizing, talking, teaching, and writing. His first book, “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn” was published by Metropolis Books in 2008, and in 2009 Evil Twin Publications presents ”The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive” documenting the series of events held in Haeg’s geodesic dome home base in the hills of Los Angeles.

GEOFF MANAUGH

geoff-manaughGeoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, recently chosen by Amazon.com as one of their “Best Hidden Gems of 2009… So Far.” Geoff is contributing editor at Wired UK, and he lectures widely, including at SCI-Arc, AIA-Baltimore, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Chicago Humanities Festival, New York’s School of Visual Arts, and the Australian National Architecture Conference. Geoff has been described as “the world’s greatest living practitioner of ‘architecture fiction’” by novelist Bruce Sterling and one of the 50 “most influential architects, designers, and thinkers” in the field today by Icon. BLDGBLOG itself was named one of the “100 Best Blogs” in the world according to the Times UK (February 2009). He lives in Los Angeles.

THOMAS ERMACORA

thomas-picFounder and Chairman of the CLEAR Village Foundation, Ermacora is a serial creative entrepreneur with a cause and a focus on sustainable urban design also Founder and Creative Director for Etikstudio. He is currently consultant to Sønderborg Project Zero, heading the Actics Green Cities tool development and serves as Sustainability Expert for the Club of Amsterdam Think Tank. Thomas curates “positive events/exhibits” with the intent of bringing a debate with outcomes. Amongst those he exhibited “dreams on wheels”, about cycling cities, has been selected to prelude the 2009 Copenhagen UN Climate Change Summit. Half Danish, half Italian, grown up in Paris, living in London, 32, he holds a degree in Urbanism from the Sorbonne, a bachelor of International Affairs from Northwestern University and has attended the MIT Start-up program.

PAUL PETRUNIA

Paul Petrunia is the founder/publisher of Archinect.com & Bustler.net, the president/creative director at Extra Medium, Inc., an LA-based web design/development studio; and also acts as a consultant for the design and production of web sites, specializing in those related to architecture and design. Paul studied arts and sciences at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He then moved on to study architecture at the University of Oregon and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

ERIC COREY FREEDeric

With nearly 20 years of green building experience, Eric is Executive Director of Urban Re:Vision, and principal of organicARCHITECT. He is also on the boards of Architects, Designers & Planners for Social Responsibility, Green Home Guide and West Coast Green, and several other organizations. He was the founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum and one of the founders of ecoTECTURE: The Online Journal of Ecological Design. His work has been featured in Dwell, Metropolis, Town & Country, Natural Home, and Newsweek, and he’s made several television appearances including HGTV, The Sundance Channel and PBS. He is the author of “Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies”, and his next book, “Sustainable School Architecture” will be released in 2009, followed by
his fourth “Green$ense for your Home” in 2010.

ALLAN CHOCHINOV

chochinov_headshot_reburbAllan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. He teaches in the graduate departments of Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and writes and lectures widely on the impact of design on contemporary culture.