Terry Shook

Biographie : Charles Terry Shook, AIA, is a founding partner and principal of Shook Kelley. Through its offices located in Charlotte and Los Angeles, the firm specializes in strategic consulting services, including urban planning and design, architecture and branding, communication design and interior design. Shook runs a multi-million-dollar New Urban planning and design group with an emphasis on community and mixed-use development and has been recognized as a vanguard in the movement to return meaning to the urban environment. Shook is an annual lecturer in the Professional Development Program of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, as well as an advisor to the College of Architecture at UNC-Charlotte, from which he graduated cum laude in 1976. He is a past president of the Charlotte Chapter of The American Institute of Architects (AIA), a member of the congress for the New Urbanism and the Urban Land Institute. He has received numerous awards, and is a frequent guest lecturer for national organizations such as the Urban Land Institute, The Seaside Institute, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the International Council of Shopping Centers, among others. Shook has also been very involved in historic preservation activities. He served for many years as president of Berryhill Preservation Society, a non-profit revolving fund that saved and renovated historic houses in Charlotte's Fourth Ward neighborhood. He is a past president of Charlotte Trolley, Inc., dedicated to reviving vintage streetcar service. He has also been an Architect for over ten national registered properties in his career.