LARRY SPECK, FAIA, Chair of the 2012 Harnar Jury, has been a faculty member at the University of Texas - Austin since 1975, and served as Dean of the School of Architecture from1992 to 2001. His professional work as a principal designer with Page Southerland Page includes noteworthy Texas landmarks such as Austin Bergstrom International Airport, the Austin Convention Center and the architecture for Discovery Green, a twelve-acre park in downtown Houston. Over the last 25 years his design work has won 40 national design awards, 23 state or regional design awards and 51 local design awards. Mr. Speck has also served on the Architectural Advisory Board for the US State Department Overseas Building Operations, as a National Peer Reviewer for the US General Services Administration Design Excellence Program, and on the boards of national environmental groups such as Greenguard Environmental Institute and Air Quality Sciences. A Fellow in the American Institute of Architects, in 2005 Larry served as chair of the Jury to select members to the College of Fellows. Prof. Speck is the 2011 recipient of the ACSA/AIA Topaz Medallion, the highest recognition bestowed in architecture education and given to a single individual in North America each year in recognition of his/her contribution to excellence in architectural education.

KIHEI MAYER is a graduate student in the Master of Architecture program at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning. He worked as a landscape design/builder in Taos, where his family has owned and operated an alpine ski lodge for the last 50 years. After completing a BA in Environmental Planning and Design from UNM, Kihei traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America, studying landscape, architecture, and urbanism. He is a founding partner of Wide Angle Curve, an innovative design studio focused on creating quality affordable housing, sustainable infrastructure, and improved public places in northern New Mexico's towns and communities.

CHRISTINE TEN EYCK, FASLA, founded of Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc. (TELA) in 1997, with offices now in Phoenix and Austin. Her professional degree in landscape architecture is from Texas Tech University. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, she is know nationally for collaborations with clients and other design disciplines to create exterior environments that connect the urban dweller with nature. TELA’s strengths lie in creating memorable outdoor places with an authentic sense of place – whether they are residential, public or hospitality environments. Christine is recognized as a leader in the field of sustainable design and has been responsible for the site design of numerous LEED certified projects, including Arizona’s first LEED Platinum certified project – the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, as well as the Lance Armstrong Foundation Headquarters (LEED Gold certified) in Austin, Texas. Recently two of the firm’s campus projects have won national ASLA awards.

MARK C CHILDS AIA, is a Professor of Architecture at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. He is the author of the forthcoming, Urban Composition (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), Squares: A Public Place Design Guide, and Parking Spaces, as well as numerous chapters, papers, and popular press articles. Prof. Childs is founding director of the Town Design Graduate Certificate Program at UNM, and has served as interim director of architecture and acting director of landscape architecture at the School. He holds a B.S. Architecture from MIT, an M. Architecture from the University of Oregon, and the Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington. He is a past Fulbright Scholar (Cyprus 2005), and has won awards for teaching, community outreach, public art, and heritage preservation. His students have received awards from the Congress of New Urbanism, AIA New Mexico, and the American Planning Association of New Mexico. Mark works across disciplines, roles, and administrative structures to shape the emergence of districts, cities, and other landscapes of settlement to create soul-enlivening and environmentally sound communities.

MARILYS NEPOMECHIE, FAIA, practices architecture in Coconut Grove, Florida. Her projects, included in the archives of the US National Building Museum, have been honored with over 30 professional design awards and national and international exhibitions. An Associate Professor of Architecture at Florida International University, Marilys has received research grants from the Graham Foundation, the American Institute of Architects, the Wolfsonian – FIU, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cuban Research Institute, the Cejas Family Foundation, and the US Department of Energy. She was an invited curator and exhibitor on the subject of urban development in Miami, Florida and Havana, Cuba for the 2nd International Architecture Biennale - Rotterdam. Marilys is co-curator of La Habana Moderna at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum, author of the AIA Guide to MIAMI | Building Paradise: An Architectural Guide to the Magic City and of the forthcoming Miami Modern / La Habana Moderna. She is editor of the bilingual, Biennial Miami + Beach 2001-2005: A Retrospective. Prof. Nepomechie received her Master of Architecture degree from MIT. She has previously served twice as a visiting professor and guest critic at the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM.