Edward Shriver

Principal
Strada
Biography:
Edward A. Shriver, Jr. FAIA, CSS Principal Ed Shriver has been planning and managing architectural and strategic planning projects for corporations, developers, universities and institutional clients throughout the United States for over thirty years. He believes planning is an effort to see opportunities in problems, to collect the facts and understand the issues in order to create not just solutions, but value. He applies these strategic skills as a founding principal of Strada. Ed has worked with major developers and corporations, helping countless clients advance their strategies through well-executed architectural and urban design. Projects include retail and urban mixed-use developments, entertainment, multi-family housing, and hospitality functions in urban and campus environs. Corporate projects have included headquarters and interiors, data centers, warehouses and service facilities. Ed is heavily involved with in several professional organizations. His involvement with the Pittsburgh District Council as a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Program Committee has spanned the last 10 years. As an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), he founded the National AIA’s Retail and Entertainment Knowledge Community, a professional practice area within AIA dedicated to fostering the creation, discussion, and dissemination of knowledge about the retail and entertainment environments. His initiative and leadership with this organization helped earn him election to the AIA’s College of Fellows. Ed also pursues research into urban ecosystems, seeking to understand the underlying drivers of urban form. His exploration of urban ecology?–?applying landscape ecology models to urban design?–?resulted in a 2011 Upjohn Research Initiative Grant from the AIA College of Fellows to study, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University’s Urban Lab, the critical factors in developing cohesive urban commercial districts. That r Member Directory  Arrow

Biography: Edward A. Shriver, Jr. FAIA, CSS Principal Ed Shriver has been planning and managing architectural and strategic planning projects for corporations, developers, universities and institutional clients throughout the United States for over thirty years. He believes planning is an effort to see opportunities in problems, to collect the facts and understand the issues in order to create not just solutions, but value. He applies these strategic skills as a founding principal of Strada. Ed has worked with major developers and corporations, helping countless clients advance their strategies through well-executed architectural and urban design. Projects include retail and urban mixed-use developments, entertainment, multi-family housing, and hospitality functions in urban and campus environs. Corporate projects have included headquarters and interiors, data centers, warehouses and service facilities. Ed is heavily involved with in several professional organizations. His involvement with the Pittsburgh District Council as a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Program Committee has spanned the last 10 years. As an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), he founded the National AIA’s Retail and Entertainment Knowledge Community, a professional practice area within AIA dedicated to fostering the creation, discussion, and dissemination of knowledge about the retail and entertainment environments. His initiative and leadership with this organization helped earn him election to the AIA’s College of Fellows. Ed also pursues research into urban ecosystems, seeking to understand the underlying drivers of urban form. His exploration of urban ecology?–?applying landscape ecology models to urban design?–?resulted in a 2011 Upjohn Research Initiative Grant from the AIA College of Fellows to study, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University’s Urban Lab, the critical factors in developing cohesive urban commercial districts. That r

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