Arnie Lerner, AIA, principal of Lerner + Associates Architects, received the degree of Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design and has been a practicing architect within the architectural, preservation, and accessibility communities in San Francisco for the past 23 years. This has included work both in the private and public sectors including four years as Staff Architect for the non-profit San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage and the past 19 years in private practice. In addition, Mr. Lerner has volunteered his time in a variety of ways including serving on the board of directors of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, serving for the last six years on the City of San Francisco’s Code Advisory Committee representing Historic Preservation, and most recently being appointed to the SF Access Appeals Commission where he is serving as its President, as well as being elected to serve on the Board of Directors of San Francisco Architectural Heritage. Past projects, for which Mr. Lerner played a principal role in completing, include the adaptive reuse of the historic Salvation Army Headquarters; the McMullen House restoration; accessibility modifications to the Alameda County Court House; and accessibility and restoration modifications to the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz. The last three projects received Design Awards from the California Preservation Foundation with the Del Mar Theater also receiving the California Governor’s Award. Mr. Lerner also led the efforts in producing seven abbreviated Historic Structure Reports for Alcatraz Island and is in the process of preparing a National Register Nomination for the University of California Extension Laguna Street Campus in association with historic planner, Vincent Marsh. Mr. Lerner is also involved in helping to mediate disputes. Currently he serves as a joint expert to assist in resolving several lawsuits brought against the University of California Berkeley and Davis campuses by disabled students. His current architectural projects include a joint venture project for the renovation and reconstruction of the historic Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito, California; the partial renovation of the historic low income Seneca Hotel in San Francisco; accessibility retrofits to a historic San Francisco church; and residential remodels and additions on Nob Hill and in Noe Valley.   Vincent Marsh is a senior associate with Lerner + Associates Architects, and is responsible for the firm's preservation planning projects. He has worked for a number of public and private sector clients in the Bay Area. Vincent Marsh is registered as a Qualified Architectural Historian with both the Northwest Information Center at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park and with the North Central Information Center at California State University in Sacramento, California. Mr. Marsh meets the Professional Qualifications Standards for the Architectural History classification as found in 36 CFR Part 800 of the Federal regulations. In addition, the State Office of Historic Preservation (SOHP) has previously determined that Mr. Marsh meets the professional qualifications as an Historian and as a Preservation Planner during his tenure staffing two existing Certified Local Government (CLG) programs in San Francisco and in Sacramento, California. Vincent Marsh is listed on the Register of Professional Historians (No. 589) which is maintained by the California Council for the Promotion of History (CCPH). Vincent Marsh currently serves as co-chair of the Board of Directors for the Friends of 1800, which helped to save the historic Carmel Fallon Building in San Francisco. He recently completed an eight-year term on the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. In the recent past, he has served as Treasurer for the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Mr. Marsh also served for a period of eight years as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Preservation Foundation (CPF), a statewide non-profit preservation organization and volunteered for a number of committees and programs of CPF. Vincent Marsh has an undergraduate degree from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo; a Master’s Degree in Community Organization and Planning from the University of Connecticut and a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning with a specialization in Historic Preservation from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His thesis, A Preservation Planning Study for the North End Waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts, won an Urban Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies Master’s Program in Cambridge, MA prior to full time studies at Cornell University.