Michael E. Shapiro is the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. He spearheaded the Museum’s 177,000-square-foot expansion by Renzo Piano that opened in November 2005, and helped establish the Georgia Art Museum Partnership initiative in 2010.
Judith Kinnard, FAIA, is an architect with a dual commitment to practice and teaching. She received her degree from Cornell University and has taught at Princeton University and Syracuse University.
The Chicago flagship office of Perkins+Will, established in 1935 by Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will, Jr., remains the largest in the firm, with more than 200 architects, interior designers, and planners.