Desk Crits
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Each month, a Guild Fellow will host 20-minute office hour sessions where participants can ask questions and receive expert feedback. Come prepared with up to three questions to make the most of your time. All information is confidential and will not be shared in any way.
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Step 1: Make sure you’re a member!
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Step 2: Click the link(s) below.
Complete the form for the Fellow you’d like to receive feedback from.
Desk Crits are organized by month.
Step 3: Receive a video conference link.
We review each request and if your request is confirmed, you’ll receive additional details via the email address provided.
Upcoming
September Desk Crit
9/2/2025 • 12-1pm ET
Lew Oliver
Lew Oliver Inc.
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Lew is a Georgia-based urbanist, master planner, and designer with more than three decades of experience in advancing New Urbanism and residential design. He envisions, designs, and implements whole towns using methodical land planning techniques and global expertise in building design.
Master plans by Oliver are designed with each community’s values, local vernacular, and climate in mind. He focuses on the pedestrian experience in each of his site plans, ensuring that physiological and psychological wellness of residents is paramount. Each of his plans considers how to enrich the landscape, how to accommodate many lifestyles, and multi-modal transportation.
Oliver is a preferred design consultant of renowned Duany Plater-Zyberk, having undertaken over 40 charrettes internationally, including the Scottish Sustainable Community Initiative, where he helped plan the first extension of Edinburgh since 1805.
When he is not master planning and designing housing product for places like Trilith in Atlanta, he is advancing the systems-built housing collections that combine his proficiency in making flourishing places with innovative construction methods.
December Desk Crit
12/2/2025 • 12-1pm ET
Jennifer Griffin
J Griffin Design, LLC
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Jennifer Griffin is the founding principal of J Griffin Design, LLC, a woman-owned architecture and urban design practice based in Tulsa, OK, that focuses on creating spaces and places for communities to flourish. Jennifer has worked throughout the US, Europe, and Central America on a variety of projects, from small-scale urban infill projects, to city-wide form-based codes, to master plans at both the neighborhood and regional scales. In recent years, Jennifer has collaborated with a number of cities to develop their pre-approved building programs. Her work has received both national and international accolades, including multiple Congress for the New Urbanism Charter and Merit Awards, a Driehaus Form-Based Code Award, and an INTBAU Excellence in Urban Design Award. Within her local community, Jennifer serves as a trustee of the Tulsa Authority for Economic Opportunity as well as a commissioner of the Tulsa Development Authority.
Master plans by Oliver are designed with each community’s values, local vernacular, and climate in mind. He focuses on the pedestrian experience in each of his site plans, ensuring that physiological and psychological wellness of residents is paramount. Each of his plans considers how to enrich the landscape, how to accommodate many lifestyles, and multi-modal transportation.
Oliver is a preferred design consultant of renowned Duany Plater-Zyberk, having undertaken over 40 charrettes internationally, including the Scottish Sustainable Community Initiative, where he helped plan the first extension of Edinburgh since 1805.
When he is not master planning and designing housing product for places like Trilith in Atlanta, he is advancing the systems-built housing collections that combine his proficiency in making flourishing places with innovative construction methods.
Past Desk Crits
Aug. Desk Crit Fellow
8/3/2025 • 12-1pm ET