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Cuningham Group • Team Member VICTOR CALIANDRO, AIA Associate Director of Urban Design EDUCATION w Master of Science,Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University, 1975 Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969 Fellow, Institute for Urban Design PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS Victor Caliandro has demonstrated design leadership in an international setting, with designs for buildings, public spaces and urban plans in Japan, Mexico and the United States. He leads a team of architects, urban designers and landscape architects in preparing integrative solutions to urban problems. Seeking and obtaining public approvals and bringing design issues into the public forum is a key part of this integrative approach, as are managing and coordinating consultants. In his designs, Victor seeks to create buildings which are responsive to their settings,and provide public spaces which connect the buildings and the cities of which they are to be a part. Some projects Victor has been involved with are:a retail,commercial and housing complex for Santa Fe and an Ecumenical Center outside of Mexico City, The Tenjin Galleria in the commercial heart of Fukuoka City;a district preservation and development plan for Ohimachi,Tokyo which included the design for a major department and rail station; a twenty-six story residential tower and reuse plan for the landmark Towers complex on Central Park West; and a family-oriented apartment building set within the historic fabric of Brooklyn's Park Slope. Victor also helped create the master plan and design guidelines for Battery Park City and was responsible for the design of the esplanade along the Hudson River. Victor helped orchestrate the "Mississippi Riverfront.- Vision and Implementa- tion"program and served as the lead urban designer in preparing its analyses and recommendations. He was also instrumental in bringing together the Urban Design Advisory Group and in promoting the values of design for the public realm to numerous government, civic and private groups. He continues to prepare design criteria and advises government officials on issues pertain- ing to riverfront development.Although Cuningham Group funded this initiative, its real clients have been the city's elected officials, its agencies and concerned citizens. •