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 Franciscos
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 Franciscos 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 Governors 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. |
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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 Masters Degree in Community Organization
and Planning from the University of Connecticut and a
Masters 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 Masters
Program in Cambridge, MA prior to full time studies at
Cornell University. |