Board

Dustin Watson, AIA

Director

With more than 20 years of experience as an architect and designer, Dustin Watson, has overseen projects ranging from master-planned communities to high rises and resort destinations. Watson, however, is best known for creating dense, richly detailed, sustainable, mixed-use environments, streetscapes, and neighborhoods with layers of texture, designed to work together to create a true experience and a memorable sense of place. As a result, his work has been recognized with

some of the industry’s top awards. Tackling some of the largest, most prestigious planning and mixed-use retail assignments worldwide, Watson’s work spans the globe to include projects from the Puri Indah Master Plan in Jakarta, Indonesia to the mixed-use development at Washington, D.C.’s National Harbor. As a global expert who is passionate about designing spaces that are both memorable and sustainable, he is a frequent speaker at top industry conferences and a contributing author for numerous trade publications.

Board members
President

Lori Lessem, AIA

President-Elect

Lee Hyden, AIA

Past-President

Madhuri Subramaniam, AIA

Treasurer

Martin Marren, AIA

Secretary

Wadiah Akbar, AIA

Director

Ariana Parrish, AIA

Director

Kelly Danz, AIA

Director

Brian Helfer, Jr., AIA

Director

Dustin Watson, AIA

Director

Hilary Zoretic, AIA

Allied Member Director

Marian Glebes

Associate Director

Dr. Samia Kirchner, Int’l Assoc. AIA

Bmore NOMA Liaison

Melanie Ray, AIA

Fellows Liaison

Tom Liebel, FAIA

Executive Director

Lauren Bostic Hill