Morey Bean

Biografía: Morey Bean Partner Colorado Architecture Partnership, LLP Colorado Springs, CO Founding partner of the Colorado Springs based Colorado Architecture Partnership, Morey is an architect, urban designer and city planner with experience ranging from the design and execution of public art to new urbanist community design. Colorado's Architect of the Year for 1999, and past President of the Colorado South Chapter of the AIA, Bean was instrumental in producing the nationally recognized Great Streets / Great Skyline urban design charrette sponsored by AIA150, the American Institute of Architects Sesquicentennial project, the catalyst for the AIA's America's Favorite Architecture Featured Content Layer on Google Earth in Cooperation with Google. He is town architect for the Lowell Neighborhood, a new urban traditional neighborhood development in Downtown Colorado Springs designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk. He serves on the Business and Community Alliance for Colorado College and on the College of Education Advisory Board at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Morey is also featured on the inagural webisode of the "Shape of America," an AIA Blog discussing America's Favorite architecture starting with the Empire State Building (www.ShapeofAmerica.org). Some of Bean's notable architecture and urban design projects include the Poet Lofts Building at the Lowell Neighborhood, the Visitor Center expansion at the Great Sand Dunes National Park, Prestwick Neighborhood Plan, Springboro, Ohio and the Monument Village Community Plan, Monument, Colorado. He has served on ULI Advisory Service Panels from Anchorage, Alaska to Daytona Beach, Florida, and as a ULI Mayors Forum panelist dealing with public art as a catalyst for urban redevelopment. April 2008