Ray Gindroz, is a co-founder (1964) and Principal Emeritus of Urban Design Associates, an international practice of Urban Design and Architecture. He pioneered the use of community engagement in planning processes and led the revival of Pattern Books as a means of implementing urbanism. He was principal-in-charge of dozens of projects that transformed distressed, low-income housing projects into mixed-income communities.
Ray taught urban design at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, and Hampton Universities. He was a Senior Fellow of the Prince’s Foundation in London, Chairman of the Board of the Congress for the New Urbanism, The Seaside Institute, and the National AIA Committee on Design, as well as a member of several boards including the Institute for Classical Art and Architecture.
He was the principal author of The Urban Design Handbook (Norton), The Architectural Pattern Book (Norton), The Place of Dwelling (The Princes Foundation, London), and Taking a Pen for a Walk (Tailwater Press).
Throughout his career, he was constantly sketching the cities and places he visited. In 2003, his wife, Marilyn, established a Foundation to support university-level Study Abroad Programs by exhibiting these drawings and publishing illustrated books and notecards. It established an endowment at Carnegie Mellon University for the Gindroz Prize which provides two grants per year, one for architects and one for musicians
Solo exhibits of drawings include: Libreria Bocca, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy: 2003; Galerie Christian Siret, Palais Royal, Paris: France 2004, 2007; Palazzo Piccolomini, Pienza, Italy 2008; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia 2010; Palm Beach Preservation Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida 2008;. Reproductions of his drawing have been appearing in storefronts in Palm Beach since 2009.
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