Join us for the first webinar highlighting innovative strategies and exemplary case studies aligned with the Nature Positive Buildings, Cities, and Infrastructure Alliance Pledge. Industry leaders Dave Goldberg, Christian Runge, and Jared Gilbert will present featured projects—including Chatham University’s Eden Hall Campus, and key adaptive reuse developments in Manhattan’s West Side Eco-District.
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Speaker Info:
Dave Goldberg, President, Mithun.
Other affiliations: FAIA, LEED AP
Dave is skilled at helping clients express their values and support their mission through integrated design. He has focused his career on the creation of immersive places for work and learning with organizations that care deeply about user experience, collaboration and conservation. Dave is a strong facilitator and design team leader for projects with complex stakeholder groups, and believes that an engaging design process has the ability to bring clients and communities together around a shared vision for the future.
As Mithun’s president, Dave has served on the firm’s board of directors since 2003, and has been instrumental in helping grow the practice to national prominence. Under his leadership, Mithun has been recognized with the 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award and his projects have received diverse industry and peer design recognition, including two AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Awards. He lectures nationally on integrated design process and sustainability. Dave has served on the boards of Woodland Park Zoo and IslandWood, where he currently serves as board chair.
Christian Runge, Principal, Mithun.
Other affiliations: American Society of Landscape Architects
Christian Runge is a landscape architect passionate about designing at the intersection of nature, culture and human health in the public realm. A keen listener, designer and collaborator, he has extensive experience with parks, education and ecological design projects across the country, from the national ASLA and AIA award-winning Louisiana Children’s Museum at New Orleans City Park, to the University of Washington Haring Center for Inclusive Education and the first universal design playground and sensory garden for Shoreline, WA.
He has presented on the topics of healthy built environments and ecological design at numerous conferences, and his project designs and photography have been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine. In addition to his project-based efforts, Christian works to support a resilient future for our public parks and natural systems through community service.
Jared Gilbert, Associate Partner and Director of Communications, COOKFOX
Jared is Associate Partner and Director of Communications and manages the studio’s strategic communications and business development activities. With an architecture degree from Ball State University and a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, his research, writing and speaking interests are at the intersections of sustainability, architecture and urbanism, and spirituality and social justice. His writing for COOKFOX includes “The Fifth Façade: Designing Nature in the City” and “Toward the Future City: An Ethical Design Philosophy for Urban Habitats.” His recent speaking engagements include sessions at Greenbuild and at NESEA’s BuildingEnergy conferences on the topics of social equity, supply chains transparency and architectural practice. Jared recently appeared in “Nature of Design,” a documentary TV series, to discuss how biophilic design improves cities. He is a member of the Design for Freedom Working Group convened by Grace Farms Foundation, and is Chair of USGBC’s LEED Equity Working Group. Prior to joining the studio, Jared served as Director of Communications and Media at Yale Divinity School.