Therese Baron Gurney began her career as an Interior Design Librarian, where she was exposed to countless products. Those resources continue to be an inspiration for the unexpected and rich material pallet, which is an integral part of her work. Ms Baron Gurney went on to work as a project designer in prominent Washington, DC Interior Design Firms. In 1989, Ms. Baron Gurney joined internationally acclaimed Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA as Project Interior Designer. Therese Baron Gurney was responsible for providing interior design, selection of finishes and furnishings in numerous, modern residential and commercial projects worldwide.

In addition, collaborations with her husband, Robert M. Gurney, FAIA have been continuous throughout her career. The natural integration of interior design and architecture from conceptual design has become the focus of her current work.

Therese Baron Gurney has been both solely responsible and part of design teams for numerous award winning projects from the American Society of Interior Designers and The American Institute of Architects. Her work has been widely published in national, regional and local publications, including Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Washingtonian Magazine, Home and Design, Infrom Architecture + Design and the Washington Post.

Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
The office of Robert M. Gurney, FAIA is dedicated to the design of modern, meticulously detailed, thoughtfully ordered residentail and commercial projects senstive to site, program, and budget. Materials are employed with honesty, integrity, and ecological awareness.

The office of Robert M. Gurney, FAIA has created a body of work that has won local, regional, and national design awards, including an AIA National Honor Award. In addition, the firm's work has been published in numerous local, national, and international magazines, books, and periodicals. Robert Gurney was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2002.

Judith H. Lanius
Judith Lanius is an independent Architectural Historian and Preservationist with a particular interest in turn-of-the century Washington architecture in the context of cultural and social history. She publishes and lectures on the subject. She has a B.A. and M.A. in Art History from Boston University. For many years she worked in museum settings: she was the first curator for the National Building Museum. She started the curatorial office of the Treasury Department Building and served as Chief Curator and Preservation Officer. She was responsible for the restoration of large portions of the Landmark building including the historic Cash Room. She was the Director of Historic Interiors for the consulting firm of Traceries, at which time she was involved in the interior restoration of the Warner Theatre and the City Post Office.

She is active in community affairs. She served for eight years on the Board of DC Preservation League and chaired the Education Committee. She is a founder of Cultural Tourism DC. She was Chair of the Chain Bridge Road/University Preservation Committee and continues to serve on its board.

Victor A. Lundy, FAIA

Abad Ramirez, AIA

Judith H. Robinson
Judith Helm Robinson is principal of a firm which holds a key position as one of the oldest and most respected in the field of architectural and landscape history in the mid-Atlantic region. She has served as principal of her own firm for over 28 years. The firm has been on the nation's leading edge in evaluating buildings that have achieved significance within the last 50 years, and a large volume of the firm's work currently consists of buildings constructed in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Works and/or landscape plans by modern masters evaluated by the firm also include Paul Philippe Cret's monumental National Naval Medical Center, Louis I. Kahn's modern masterpiece the Salk Institute, Victor A. Lundy's handsome geometric U.S. Tax Court Building and Plaza, and Marcel Breuer's brutalistic Hubert H. Humphrey Building and Plaza. Ms. Robinson is accepted as an expert witness before local and federal historic preservation agencies. She is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous professional organizations, and her work has been extensively published.

Dan Snyder and Tom Breit

Kellogg Wong, FAIA