JEAN MARIE GATH, LEED AP

In addition to heading the firm's New York office, Jean Gath oversees Pfeiffer Partners campus, cultural, and community master planning and programming assignments as well as urban design and strategic development efforts. Her strengths include an ability to implement visionary solutions in ways that are cost effective and allow for future flexibility. She is a skilled workshop facilitator and effectively builds consensus among diverse groups, a priority for many clients that must answer to multiple constituencies. A key leader of the firm since 1992, both as HHPA and as Pfeiffer Partners, Jean brings over 25 years of wide-ranging project and firm management experience, including years as principal of her own firm and a partner of a national landscape architectural/planning firm. Her project experience ranges from master plans for existing campuses, such as Barnard College in New York City, to the creation of a new 104-acre campus-Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. She has also been responsible for feasibility studies and programming of educational facilities, including the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago and Compton Student Union at Washington State University; to cultural plans for the cities of Nashville, New Haven and Salt Lake City. Other notable projects include the master planning for the future of the Brooklyn Public Librarys Central Library; the master plan amendment for Brooklyn College; and the planning and implementation of over 3500 student beds and dining facilities on the UCLA Northwest Campus. Current projects in the arts include the Brooklyn College Performing Arts Center and the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Potsdam. Jean received her Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her Masters in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, Associate Member of the AIA, and a member of the American Planning Association and the Society for College and University Planning. Her publications include a chapter on the planning and design of Cultural Centers in the John Wiley & Sons book Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, as well as numerous articles on cultural facilities and their role in community revitalization efforts. She is a frequent lecturer on this and other planning topics at national and regional conferences.