Alan Mountjoy

Biography: Alan Mountjoy Principal NBBJ Boston, MA Alan Mountjoy, AIA is an architect, urban designer and Principal at NBBJ. Mr. Mountjoy has over 25 years of national and international experience in the fields of architecture, master planning and urban design. He has managed large-scale urban design projects locally, regionally and internationally. In his role as urban design manager, he has led diverse teams of professionals in landscape architecture, real estate economics, transportation planning, and environmental and civil engineering. Before joining NBBJ in 1997, he served as a project manager for the Metropolitan District Commission’s New Charles River Basin project in Boston, a parks expansion project to reconnect Boston’s historic Charles River Esplanade to the Boston Harbor. Mr. Mountjoy’s interests lie in community planning, transportation design, transit, and environmental sustainability. In addition to planning efforts for large cities, he has completed community-based planning projects for Newport News, Virginia, Greensboro, North Carolina, Akron and Kent, OH and smaller towns and cities in New England. He has designed a new campus for the University of Botswana and a new waterfront park in the historic Bund in Shanghai. Three of his waterfront projects have received national AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design. Mr. Mountjoy earned a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard University in 1996 and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He has served as a studio instructor at the Harvard Design School and visiting critic and lecturer at Tufts University, Northeastern University and the Boston Architectural Center. He is a Registered Architect in California and a member of the American Institute of Architects. (November 2011)