Thank you to our Jury for the 2022 Preservation Design Awards!

Design Awards Co-Chair

Cathy Garrett, Principal, PGAdesign. Cathy is president of the PGAdesign Landscape Architects a landscape studio based in Oakland celebrating more than 40 years in business. During her career, she has worked on projects that include Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, as well as projects in France, Italy, England, Canada and her native Australia. Award winning projects in California include the Lopez Adobe in San Fernando and the Lovelace Garden in Montecito, also Casa Amesti in Monterey, the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park and the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento. She has made presentations at annual conferences for the American Institute of Architects, California Council for the Promotion of History, California State Parks, and California Preservation Foundation. Cathy has been welcomed as visiting critic for the University of California, Berkeley schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Planning, Cornell University, and the University of New South Wales in Australia. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the Consulting Campus Landscape Architect for UC Berkeley. Cathy was a founding co-chair of the Northern California HALS (Historic American Landscape Survey) Group. She is a past-president of the California Preservation Foundation and until 2018 served on the Historic State Capitol Commission.

Design Awards Co-Chair

Bill Schaeffer, Partner, Cello & Maudru Construction and CPF Vice President of Development. Bill Schaeffer is a partner at Cello & Maudru Construction Company.  Based in Napa, Cello & Maudru specializes in winery, estate home, & hospitality construction building projects throughout the Bay Area.  With the firm since 1996, he has been lucky enough to work on a few notable historic buildings, most recently the Buena Vista Winery Cellar & Caves (CPF 2013 Preservation Technology Award) & the adaptive reuse of the Mackintosh House in Sonoma for Scribe Winery.  With a focus on history, architecture, and historic preservation, he received a bachelor of science in Environmental Design from UC Davis in 1993.  Bill served on the board of Napa County Landmarks from 2002 to 2007.  

Daniel Paul is a 36 CFR pet 61 Federally Qualified architectural historian with over 25 years’ experience in the historic preservation field. After 15 years’ environmental consulting work at Jones & Stokes, and later ICF, he is now in independent practice. Daniel has presented and written often on the subject on 1970s era Late-Modern architecture, and his 2004 art history master’s thesis from California State University Northridge was one of the first histories of the mirror glass skin, a once ubiquitous office park design element. Recent work has included successfully listed National landmark applications for a ufology building named the Integratron, the New City of Mentalphysics: which is largest collection of Lloyd Wright works on one property, and Pioneertown, all located in Southern California’s Mojave Desert.

Nancy Goldenberg, , LEED AP, Assoc. DBIA, Principal, TreanorHL, San Francisco. Both an architect and architectural historian, Nancy has focused her career on the preservation of historic buildings. She guides historic building owners through their projects honoring both the place and the people represented within.  

Over her 40+ year career, Nancy has worked on many notable projects, including gems such as Oakland City Hall, San Francisco City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, the Palace of Fine Arts, Stanley Mosk Library & Courts, and the California State Capitol. Nancy has also led rehabilitations on smaller, yet equally important historic structures that were built for the community. These include the Bing Kong Tong, a Chinese American community center in Isleton, and the Forest Hill Clubhouse and the Noe Valley Library in San Francisco. As an architectural historian, she prepared National Register Nominations for the Union Iron Works Shipyard at Pier 70 and the South San Francisco Sign and documented many structures at the Nevada Test Site – a prolific Cold War nuclear testing site.

Nancy began her career with the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites, returning to her native San Francisco in 1987.  She is currently a principal at TreanorHL and was a principal at Carey & Co. before it joined TreanorHL. She holds a Master of Arts in Architectural History from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley.  She is also a past board member of San Francisco Heritage.

Eric Fuller, SE, Principal, Buehler. Eric is passionate about taking something old and making it new, whether that be through renovating existing buildings, or providing elegant solutions to complex problems. He is often complimented on how his finished products are complete and thorough, focused on providing the most efficient answers to client questions. In his spare time, he enjoys being outdoors, hiking, restoring old homes, and repurposing old wood into something beautiful. He aims to leave an impression on others as someone who is passionate about the art of engineering, and someone who never forgets to take a moment to enjoy life.

Ravi GuneWardena, AIA, Escher GuneWardena Associates. Architect Ravi GuneWardena has been in partnership with Frank Escher at Escher GuneWardena Architecture since 1995.  The firm’s award-winning work ranges from residential to commercial and institutional projects.  Residential projects include numerous custom homes in the Los Angeles region and a recently completed 50-unit affordable housing project in Riverside, CA.  Institutional work includes collaborations with artists, art galleries, and exhibition design projects internationally. Preservation-related projects encompass works by Schindler, Neutra, Ain, A.Q. Jones, Lautner, Eames and the Church of the Epiphany National Register site. Their monograph, Clocks and Clouds: The Architecture of Escher GuneWardena, was published in 2017..

The California Preservation Design Awards is an annual event that recognizes innovators from across the state in architecture, engineering, planning, documentation, and design. 

Our Sponsors are invited to join us for our special, four-year retrospective of Award Winning projects since 2020 at Fort Mason Center for the Arts & Culture, San Francisco, April 20th, 2023.

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Press Kits and Press Releases

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• 40th Annual Preservation Design Awards Announcement and Press Release