The Academy Of Neuroscience For Architecture

AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Six Sigma Green Belt, is currently a Visiting Scholar and Research Collaborator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. Mr. Marks has been a licensed architect for over thirty years and has a planning & design specialty in healthcare and laboratory science facilities. He holds degrees in architecture and urban land economics. Mr. Marks is a founding Board member and President of ANFA. He is an advisor to the national American Institute of Architects (AIA) on research and mental health, and provides technical assistance to the National Institute of Building Sciences, Delos WELL Living Laboratory, ASHRAE Standing Guideline Project Committee, and Johns Hopkins University Medical Center Mind/Brain Institute.

Alison obtained her architectural degree from Edinburgh University, Scotland. During her thirty five years in architectural practice, she has focused on designing buildings that sustain their users, the community and the natural environment. One of her designs earned the nation's first Energy Star label for a building and was used as a model for the creation of the LEED rating system. Alison has taught Sustainable Design at college level and has lectured nationwide on the subject. Alison's work has focused on public and community projects for private, governmental and institutional clients and includes facilities that accommodate the workplace, education, community service, recreation, arts and worship.

After graduating from the University of Illinois in Architecture and serving two years in the Marine Corps, John Paul returned to Champaign-Urbana and formed Creative Buildings, Inc. to design and build. Having completed more then one hundred chapels he returned to school as a Sloan Fellow in the Management School of MIT. He then managed research programs for the Sheraton Hotel Corporation and later the American Institute of Architects. He has served as Dean of Architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and at Carnegie Mellon University.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and, in addition to teaching, has worked as an architect, translator, editor, and award-winning scholar. Architecture is the medium in which the human organism and its culture is nurtured. I believe we are at the stage where the newer models of the humanities and biological sciences, together with the technologies at our disposal, allow us to explore in depth the nature of the architectural experience: its emotional and multimodal dimensions.