Desk Crits
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Each month, a Guild Fellow will host 30-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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Desk Crits are organized by month.
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Upcoming
December Desk Crit
1/13/2025 • 2:00 PM or 2:30 PM ET
Steve Mouzon
Mouzon Design
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Steve has led or contributed to many advances in sustainable place-making and building design. He co-founded the Urban Guild, which is a group of architects, designers, and other New Urbanists dedicated to sustainable buildings and places native to and inspired by the regions in which they are built. The Guild was instrumental in the creation of the Katrina Cottages concept. Steve’s Katrina Cottage VIII, which opened the second generation of Katrina Cottages, was awarded a Charter Award by the Congress for the New Urbanism. The Project:SmartDwelling initiative sets out to redefine the American home much smaller, smarter, and more sustainable. Steve’s SmartDwelling I was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Green House of the Future story alongside designs by three other notable green architects.
Steve is also a principal of Mouzon Design, which produces a number of town-building tools and services. His house plans have been featured repeatedly as Home of the Month in Southern Living and Coastal Living. Steve is Town Architect at several new hamlets, villages and neighborhoods around the country, using a unique face-to-face method of design review he developed that many agree is the most effective in use today. Several of his projects are award-winners.
Past Desk Crits
December Desk Crit
12/2/2025 • 2-3pm 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.
November Desk Crit
11/4/2025 • 1-2pm ET
Geoffrey Mouen
Geoffrey Mouen Architects
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Geoffrey Mouen, AIA, NCARB, is the founder of Geoffrey Mouen Architect, LLC, providing architecture and urban design services worldwide. With over 25 years of experience, his award-winning work includes residences, civic buildings, and new urban communities such as Celebration, FL, where he served as Town Architect for the Walt Disney Corporation.
A former designer with Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Geoffrey has led major projects including the Aspen Highlands Ski Village and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. His firm has earned multiple SEBC Aurora, BALA, and Palladio awards.
He also founded the Architecture Charrette Team (ACT), a collaborative design group known for efficient, high-quality development processes. Geoffrey teaches and lectures nationally on sustainable architecture and New Urbanism, and serves as an elder and community leader in Celebration, Florida.
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.
August Desk Crit
8/3/2025 • 12-1pm ET
