AIA, LEED® AP, Principal James Kolker joined Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in 1986. His experience encompasses planning and design for a great variety of academic projects, with scales ranging from individual buildings to complexes, precincts, and entire regions. He has developed particular expertise planning and designing educational and medical research facilities. He is leading master planning and design projects for Lehigh Valley Hospital's clinical, medical office, and parking facilities and recently oversaw construction administration for the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Kolker was recently Principal-in-Charge for Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg's master planning and new hospital in Bethlehem, project manager for Berry/Baker Library and Carson Hall and the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, project manager for master planning of a new campus precinct at the University of Kentucky, and principal-in-charge for the design of UK's new Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Laboratory. Mr. Kolker was previously Project Manager for the Trabant University Center at the University of Delaware and project architect for facilities programming for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. He led master planning for the University of Michigan's Health System, consulted to the South African Department of Trade and Industry on planning for their new consolidated headquarters in Pretoria, and consulted for a regional plan in the Kingdom of Morocco. He was also a member of the team that designed the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, for which he coordinated and managed the computer drawings. In 1991 Mr. Kolker worked at Arkkitehtitoimisto Pekka Salminen in Helsinki, Finland, where he was Project Designer for a new parking facility at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport. EDUCATION Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Master of Architecture, 1986 Columbia College, Bachelor of Arts, Architecture Major, 1984 ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION Pennsylvania, 1992 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certified, 2003 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Accredited Professional, U.S. Green Building Council, 2006 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Member, American Institute of Architects Member, Pennsylvania Society of Architects Member, Society for College and University Planners Member, Society for Environmental Graphic Design Speaker, Allentown Chapter Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), 2005 Speaker, Pennsylvania Planning Association Annual Conference, 2004 Speaker, The American Institute of Architects National Convention, 2002 Lecturer, Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA), 2002 Juror, International Masonry Institute Mid-Atlantic Golden Trowel Awards, 2002 Presenter, Society for College and University Planning, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 2000 Lecturer, Dartmouth Club of Philadelphia, 2000 Juror, The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, International Illumination Design Awards, 1997, 1999, 2005 Lecturer and Panel Member, A/E/C Systems, Architectural Information Technology Conference, 1994 Lecturer, Finnish-American Society of the Delaware Valley, 1993 TEACHING Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Architecture, Lecturer, 1991, 2003 University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, Guest Critic, 2003 Lehigh University, Department of Art and Architecture, Lecturer and Guest Critic, 2002 Temple University, Guest Critic, 1998-1999 Dartmouth College, Guest Critic, 1997 Drexel University, Guest Critic, 1991-present Philadelphia University, Guest Critic, 1991-present Tampere Technical University, Tampere, Finland, Lecturer, 1991, 1992 University of Pennsylvania, Guest Juror and Lecturer, 1988, 2005 Columbia University, Guest Critic, 1986 LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Lecture and Tour on the University of Kentucky’s New Research Building, AIA East Kentucky Chapter, 2005 Lecture on VSBA’s Recent Work, New Zealand Institute of Architects Lecture Series, Wellington, New Zealand, 2005 AWARDS Kinne Traveling Fellowship, France, Columbia University, 1985 Who's Who in America, 2004, 2005 Download resume in pdf ( .pdf 44KB)