NCI Training Faculty
NCI training faculty are skilled professionals experienced in planning and managing NCI Charrette System™ projects.Bill Lennertz, AIA, NCI Executive Director
Bill
Lennertz, AIA, is a leading NCI charrette facilitator and educator. First
as Director of the Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) Boston office
in 1986, and from 1993-2002, as a partner with Lennertz Coyle & Associates,
Bill has directed over 150 charrettes. By incorporating the charrette process
in a broad range of challenging projects, Bill has encountered virtually
every type of political, economic, and design problem that challenges the
principles and practice of New Urbanism. Bill has led numerous successful
charrette teams and passes this knowledge and experience to his students.
As lead trainer for NCI, Bill has trained top staff from such organizations
as the Environmental Protection Agency, US General Services Administration,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie Mae Foundation,
Parsons Brinckerhoff, and the Department of Transportation in Oregon, New
York, and Arizona. Bill is also principal author of the NCI Charrette System™
curriculum and The Charrette Handbook, published by the American Planning
Association. He is the co-editor and essayist of Towns and Town-Making
Principles, a monograph on DPZ, and a contributor to the Charter of the
New Urbanism. Bill has taught at various universities including Harvard,
where he received his Masters of Architecture in Urban Design.
David Brain, PhD
David Brain studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati before
an interest in urban issues led him to a BA in sociology at the University
of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University.
He taught at Harvard and Indiana University before joining the faculty
at New College of Florida.
As a part of his research on the connections between place-making, community-building,
and civic engagement, he has observed over two dozen charrettes. His experience
has included consulting on master planning and public process, directing
neighborhood-oriented action research projects that engage students in
collaboration with local community groups, contributing to educational
programs for citizens and practitioners, and lecturing internationally
on urban design and planning. He is on the board of directors of the Seaside
Institute and the Florida House Institute for Sustainable Development.
He is also a partner in High Cove, a village in the mountains of western
North Carolina designed as an experiment in ecologically responsible development
practices.
Steve Coyle, AIA
Steve Coyle, AIA, CNU, founding partner of LCA Town Planning & Architecture,
currently with Town-Green, has over
30 years of experience as an architect, town planner, urban designer, and
public facilitator in a wide range of public and private projects around
the nation. His specialty is planning new communities and neighborhoods,
and redeveloping older public and private cities, districts, corridors,
and blocks. As former partners at Lennertz, Coyle and Associates, Steve
Coyle and Bill Lennertz, along with their associates and consultants, created
the plans for Fairview Village, the Pleasant Hill BART Station, Astoria’s
Mill Pond, Oregon’s first “brownfield” neighborhood redevelopment, and
many other innovative projects.
Sarah A. Lewis, AIA, LEED-AP
Sarah
Lewis joined Ferrell
Madden Lewis (previously Ferrell Madden Associates) in 2007 from Ayers
Saint Gross Architects & Planners. Her expertise includes the design
of projects with open public involvement, design guidelines and form-based
coding, and facilitation of the physical implementation of those projects.
She has worked with jurisdictions across the country developing urban design
master plans for mixed-use developments. These new developments, plus infill
and redevelopment plans for existing communities, have ranged in scale
from walkable historic neighborhoods to entire downtown areas encompassing
hundreds of acres. Sarah received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from
the University of Tennessee. She is President of the Washington DC Chapter
of the Congress for the New Urbanism.Marcy McInelly, AIA
Marcy McInelly, AIA; Founder, Urbsworks; SERA
Architecture and Urban Design. Marcy McInelly has practiced architecture
and urban design for almost 25 years in New York City and Portland, Oregon.
In 1995, she founded Urbsworks, a Portland-based firm, and redirected
her expertise to the often-neglected space between buildings. Urbsworks'
portfolio consists of town plans, infill and redevelopment strategies,
zoning and form-base codes, public involvement, and the integration of
transit and transportation facilities into communities. Marcy served
as an appointed member of the Portland Planning Commission from 1997
until May of 2002 and she is a founding member of the Portland metropolitan
region Coalition for a Livable Future, a network of 60 non-profit and
community-based organizations working together for regional growth management.
She is a graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture
and Allied Arts. Marcy serves as co-chair of CNU's Transportation Task
Force.