STEVEN BINGLER

In August 2021, Steven Bingler (Arch ’72) AIA will celebrate the 38th anniversary of Concordia, an Architecture, Planning, and Community Engagement Firm headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, that he founded in 1983.  Bingler is a leading advocate for innovative, equitable, and community-centered architectural, urban design, and stakeholder engagement solutions. His work has received support from Ford, Rockefeller, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other foundations. His research papers have been widely published and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Most recently, he was the principal investigator for the Global Transformation Roundtable, a Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative that produced “Sea Changes,” a document outlining planning principles for communities to address climate change.  Bingler is included in Wikipedia’s roster of internationally acclaimed urban planners.  A native of Charlottesville, he is a member of The Raven Society.