About
Leadership
Duo Dickinson, AIA, has a residential practice based in Madison, Connecticut (www.duodickinson.com). He has received numerous design awards and is the author of six books about residential design, including Small Houses for the Next Century and The House You Build. Dickinson has taught at Yale University and Roger Williams University and is a frequent lecturer on the subject of residential architecture.
Founding Counsellors
CORA relies on and is grateful to an advisory board of architects and design professionals from around the country. CORA's founding counselors include:
CORA Subcommittees
CORA has set up subcommittees to address six pressing topics in the field today. They are: Alternative Practices, Media, Production Housing, Sustainable Design, Image, and Education.
Each of these subcommittees will be a topic for discussion at the December meeting. A brief description of each follows, along with the professionals who form each committee:
I. Alternative Practices
CORA is committed to demonstrating that there are ways of practicing architecture that can prove to be more influential in advancing residential design.
Committee Members:
- Jonathan Segal (Chair)
- Ross Chapin
- Alfredo De Vido
- Dale Mulfinger
- Russell Versaci
- Lucia Howard
- Richard Hayes
II. Media
CORA will explore opportunities in the media to allow residential architects to share their ideas on how to improve the state of the single family home and the larger community.
Committee Members:
- Mark McInturff (Chair)
- Duo Dickinson
- Michael Imber
- Russell Versaci
- Robert Gurney
- Jean Rehkamp Larson
III. Production Housing
CORA will explore this most controversial topic for residential architects in the hope of establishing a more effective way of influencing the speculative built single family home.
Committee Members:
- Alfredo De Vido (Chair)
- Lucia Howard
- Jeremiah Eck
- Jonathan Segal
IV. Sustainable Design
CORA will report on the progress and on the pressing concerns that residential architects have encountered in producing sustainable— environmentally friendly—solutions for the single family home.
Committee Members:
- Allan Shope (Chair)
- Jean Rehkamp Larson
- John Klockeman
V. Image
CORA will discuss both the progress and the pitfalls that residential architects have faced within the profession as they try to highlight how essential the role of the architect is in the improvement of the single family home and the communities they make up.
Committee Members:
- Michael Imber (Chair)
- Duo Dickinson
- John Klockeman
- Robert Gurney
- John Senhauser
- Dennis Wedlick
VI. Education
CORA will make the case that more work needs to be done within educational institutions to prepare professionals for the field of residential architects.
Committee Members:
- Dale Mulfinger (Chair)
- Mark McInturff
- John Senhauser
VII. CORAgroups
- David Andreozzi (Chair)
- John Henry
- Brian Myers