David Howerton

Biography: David leads Hart Howerton, a global practice of planners, architects and landscape architects based in New York and San Francisco. As Chairman of the firm, he provides high-level strategy and planning and has led major assignments in all regions of the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and around the Pacific Rim. This includes planning and design assignments for large landowners such as Pebble Beach and the Parker Ranch; for some of the country’s leading developers such as Vail Resorts and Hines; and for real estate investors, Colony Capital and Westbrook Partners. As a result of his ground breaking work on many environmentally sound, conservation based, highly marketable new communities, including the nationally acclaimed Santa Lucia Preserve in California and Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, he is consistently relied upon to provide business planning and strategy recommendations to the firm’s clients. David is widely recognized as one of the leading talents in the profession, both in the business and academic fields. He has taken leadership roles in ULI and is a Governor of the ULI Foundation. He is a regular guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and at Harvard. He also serves as a Trustee of the School of Architecture Foundation at the University of Virginia.