Congratulations John!

John Massengale has been elected to the CNU National Board

A Message from the CNU New York Executive Committee

We are writing to urge you to vote for John Massengale, the Chair of CNU New York, in the first election for the national CNU Board in which the membership will choose the Board members. John is the Founding Chair of the New York chapter, and during his tenure we have been one of the most active CNU chapters.

Under John's leadership, we have reached out to other New York groups and held events with the Museum of the City of New York, the Municipal Art Society, the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, AIA NY, the Regional Plan Association and others. We've had tours and happy hours with our younger members, and we've had events with CNU President John Norquist, CNU founders Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, local planners and architects Brad Perkins and James von Klemperer, and other notable figures like Léon Krier, Jonathan Rose, Shelley Poticha and New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman.

John has worked hard to help build a Board that includes seasoned practitioners, NextGen members and contributors from multiple and diverse professions. He is the only Board candidate from the Northeast, and New York has had only one Board member in the history of the CNU.

Information about the election is online here, and information about John can be found here. The original Board information package included a Personal Information section not put online: we've included it below, followed by the Professional Information and Board Statement sections that are also at the CNU website. You can read a Letter of Recommendation for John from CNU New York Board member Gianni Longo here. John's other letters of recommendation were from Stefanos Polyzoides and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.

Voting will continue through May 11. There will be computers for voting at CNU 20, but you will need your CNU password and ID to vote - both of these you can get online. We urge you to vote for John.

          Eric Alexander

          Larry Gould

          Marc Wouters

          Paddy Steinschneider

 

 

Personal Information

• Chair, CNU New York, 2007-present
• Former Board Member, Institute of Classical Art & Architecture
• Former Board Member, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County
• Co-Chair, CNU IX, New York, New York 2001
• Co-Founder, New Urban Councils, 2001
• Founder, Classical Councils, 2003
• Waveland Team, Mississippi Renewal Forum, 2005
• CNU Representative, New Orleans Emergency Planning Meeting, 2005
• Seaside 20th Anniversary Medal, 2001
• Advisory Board, National Town Builders Association, 1998-2001
• Co-Chair, CNU Delegation, United Nations Habitat II, 1996
• Co-Founder, CNU, pro-urb and Urbanists internet lists
• Taught architecture & urbanism studios at the Universities of Notre Dame and Miami
• Articles and Op-Eds for many magazines and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal
• Co-author with Robert A.M. Stern, The Anglo-American Suburb (London, AD; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1980)
• Co-author with Robert A.M. Stern, New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture & Urbanism, 1890-1915 (Rizzoli, 1983)
• Co-author with Victor Dover, Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (Wiley, 2012, with a grant from the Driehaus Foundation)
• Author, All You Need Is Love, Tales of a Recovering Architect (with a grant from the Graham Foundation)

Professional Information

John Massengale has won awards for architecture, urban design, historic preservation and architectural history. New York 1900 was the first architecture history book nominated for a National Book Award. In 1992, Massengale won the first Progressive Architecture New Public Realm award with his plan for a Subway Suburb in the South Bronx, and a year later a house designed by Massengale won prizes from 3 chapters of the American Institute of Architects and Hudson Valley magazine. After serving as Seaside Town Architect in 1986 (Time: “One of the most influential projects of the decade, and hopefully, for decades to come.”), he was awarded a Seaside 20th Anniversary Medal in 2001.

 

Massengale has collaborated with leading New Urbanists and Classical architects around the country, but his primary focus is on regional architecture and urbanism in New York, New England and New Jersey. He was a joint venture partner on both the first New Urban TND design in Connecticut and the first New Urban infill project in Connecticut. In addition he took part in the first New Urban charrette in New York State, was on the team that made the first form-based code in New York, and was a joint venture partner in the team that wrote the first SmartCode for Maine. A lifelong fan of the New York Yankees, he was also a part of the team that invented the Green Monster seats in Fenway Park.

 

Board Statement by John Massengale

 

The first job of a Board member of any organization is to safeguard the institution’s mission and watch over its fiduciary interests. If I were a CNU Board member, two high priorities would be to keep the memory of the CNU’s early priorities alive and to simultaneously work with later generations to make sure that the CNU speaks to them and their interests.

 

In the near future, most of the original New Urbanists will have left the Board, and many of the architects and urban designers are leaving as well. I would contribute to maintaining the original mission and keeping alive the old focus on design. At the same time, as the founding Chair of CNU New York, I have worked to add seven NextGen members to the chapter Board, and I have reached out to New Yorkers who have not been previously been included in New Urban circles. I would work hard to involve younger generations at the heart of the CNU and to work with young Board members whom I hope will be joining the Board.

 

Some history: The founding Executive Director, Peter Katz, said I was “a New Urbanist before New Urbanism began,” and graciously added that I was “one of the people who taught [him] what New Urbanism was.” With Robert A.M. Stern, I wrote the The Anglo-American Suburb, the first New Urban history book, and the main sourcebook at the first New Urban charrette in Seaside. In 1986, I was Town Architect of Seaside, and ten years ago, I was a co-founder of the New Urban Councils: “The first New Urban Council was the most important CNU event since the first Congress in 1991,” Andrés Duany said. James Howard Kunstler called me “one of the best and strongest voices in New Urbanism.”

 

Two goals of the CNU are to build the chapters and to raise membership through them. These are goals I support. As the founding Chair of a chapter with five years experience as the Chair, I could bring a good deal of experience from a different perspective.

 

I have participated in charrettes across the country, including the Mississippi Renewal Forum. I was instrumental in bringing CNU IX to New York and served as co-chair of the Host Committee (although I have to say that Jonathan Rose was the real Chair). Other ways I have served the CNU over the years are listed in my professional bio. I would be honored to serve the CNU as a Board member.

 

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