AIA, Principal Daniel McCoubrey, with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates since 1981, is an architect experienced with organizing and implementing academic and cultural projects and has special expertise in restoration and adaptive reuse of historically significant buildings. Mr. McCoubrey is currently Principal-in-Charge for renovation and restoration of the Main House at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, where he supervised design of a recently-completed research library. His recent work also includes design of the Yale School of Medicine's Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education, a 450,000 GSF research laboratory and teaching facility, Dartmouth's Baker/Berry and Rauner Libraries, programming and conceptual design for the University of Kentucky's Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building, planning and design of the University of Michigan's Life Sciences precinct, and renovation and restoration of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's library and archives. In addition, Mr. McCoubrey managed an urban design study for Independence Mall in Philadelphia and preliminary design and programming for the Gateway Visitor Center, also to be located on the Mall. Mr. McCoubrey was Project Manager for the restoration and renovation of Memorial Hall and Sanders Theater at Harvard University, and coordinated planning and design of the expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. He also managed planning for campus life at Brown University; restoration of the Barnes Foundation, renovation of the Antelope House as a children's zoo at the Philadelphia Zoo, and conversion of Clothier Hall at Swarthmore College to a student center. He has completed feasibility studies for restoration and reuse of the historic Administration Building at Eastern State Penitentiary and for Rockland Mansion, one of the historical houses of Fairmount Park. He was also responsible for the construction documents and specifications for the restoration and adaptation of Princeton University's Collegiate Gothic commons complex for reuse as the social and dining facilities for two new residential colleges. During several trips to Turkey between 1976 and 1981, Mr. McCoubrey served as project architect and restoration consultant for the excavation, survey and restoration of a twelfth-century Byzantine church in Istanbul to be reused as a mosque and museum. He was also Project Architect for the Aegean Dendrochronology Project, a survey and chronological analysis of Byzantine and Islamic monuments in Greece. EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, Master of Architecture, 1981 University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Arts, 1975 ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION Pennsylvania, 1985 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certified, 2003 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Member, Philadelphia Historical Commission; Architectural Review Committee Member, American Institute of Architects Member, Pennsylvania Society of Architects Member, Association for Preservation Technology Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation TEACHING Drexel University College of Architecture; Faculty Member since 1986 Guest Critic; University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania State University LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS “A Modernist Legacy: The Philadelphia School of the 1950s and 1960s,” Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference, 2005 “Non-traditional Learning Spaces: Taking a Campus-Wide Approach,” Tradeline College, University and Medical School Conference, San Diego, 2001 “Guild House, Best Practices,” AIA Regional Conference, Design on the Delaware, Philadelphia, 2005 3rd Annual Law of Historic Preservation Conference, Faculty Member, 2005 “Common Bond: Tradition and Modernity in Philadelphia Brickwork,” The Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, AIA Philadelphia, 2005 EXHIBITION CONTRIBUTIONS “Panorama of a Civilization” Philadelphia Bicentennial Exhibition “Drawing Toward Building,” Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts “Drawings of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown” Traveling Exhibition. PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTIONS The Church of Kalenderhane, by C.L. Striker The Church of the Myrelion, by C.L. Striker Architectura, "The Church of the Holy Apostles" Journal of Field Archaeology, "The Aegean Dendrochronology Project" Cape May, Queen of the Sea, by George Thomas and Carl Doebley The Cape May Handbook, by Hugh McCauley and Carolyn Pitts AWARDS E. Lewis Dales Fellowship for Travel, 1977 Pennwalt Competition Winner, 1983 Download resume in pdf ( .pdf 60KB)