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Professor Charles Bohl is the founding director of the graduate program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where he previously directed the interdisciplinary Knight Program in Community Building from 2000-2008.
Dr. Bohl is an expert on place making, mixed-use development and the public process for planing and community design. He is the author of Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages, a best-selling book published by the Urban Land Institute. He co-edited (w/ Jean-Francois Lejuene) the book Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis: Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges (Routledge).
Research and academic programs carried out by Dr. Bohl have been supported by more than $4.2 million provided by major foundations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute.
Dr. Bohl serves on the Governance Committee of the 1000-member ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council, where he previously served as Chair (2015-17). He also served as Chair of the Florida Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism from 2010-2012 and currently serves on the board. Dr. Bohl was elected by the faculty to serve as Speaker of the School of Architecture Council for three successive terms (2017-2020) and currently serves as Deputy Speaker.
Prior to joining the University of Miami Professor Bohl was a Senior Research Associate at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, where he established the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program and served as the Senior Fellow for the Weiss Urban Livability Program. Dr. Bohl holds a doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He lectures and consults widely on mixed-use development, place making and community building in the U.S. and abroad.

Reverend Theodore R. Gibson devoted his life toward the advancement of civil rights in Miami. He was born to Bahamian immigrant parents. Thanks to the efforts of his mother who worked as a maid, Gibson attended St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Bishop Payne Divinity School. He returned to Miami to become pastor of the 800 member congregation of Christ Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove.

He spoke strongly about the need for improvements of conditions for Black residents in the community, and fought for desegregation of Miami. As early as 1945 he led a group of blacks to swim at the all-white Baker’s Haulover Beach. The action served as an impetuous for the creation of the Virginia Key Beach for colored people by the Dade County Commission.

In the 1960s he joined forces with Grove activist Elizabeth Verrick and the Coconut Grove Slum Clearance Committee to ameliorate the standard of living of residents in the Black Grove. These efforts led to the establishment of indoor plumbing and improvements in the sewage disposal system.

Gibson’s mission for equality led him to posts of importance; he served as president of the Miami NAACP in the 1950s and 60s. The 1963 Gibson Case centered on his refusal to reveal the membership of the local chapter of the NAACP. His stance resulted in a prison sentence in 1960, but in 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gibson’s favor and dismissed the charges.

Reverend Gibson was later elected to the Miami City Commission, a job he held from 1972 and for nearly the rest of his life, until 1981. As a commissioner Gibson pushed for the inclusion of African Americans and Hispanics to civil service jobs and to the promotion of blacks to higher level administrative positions.Thelma Vernel Anderson Gibson (1926- ) is a native of Coconut Grove, who along with her husband Reverend Gibson, promoted the civil rights of black residents in Miami. Mrs. Gibson has more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of nursing with degrees from Saint Agnes School of Nursing in North Carolina and Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.

Mrs. Gibson’s work in the community has focused on health and education projects such as the Gibson Health Initiative and the Theodore and Thelma School of the Performing Arts in Coconut Grove. In addition she is a board member of the Coconut Grove Mental Health Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a trustee of the University of Miami.

Gilda Santana joined the faculty of the University of Miami Libraries in 2007 as Head of Architecture Information and Resources to direct the Paul Buisson Architecture Library. She led the expansion and redesign of the library now called the Architecture Research Center (ARC) in 2018. Her research interests include facilitating the culture of design research through studio embedded-librarianship and the evolution of digital humanities in architecture and the arts. In 2013 she became the Librarian for Art & Art History. Santana has a Master of Science in Architecture from the School of Architecture, University of Miami, a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a Bachelor of Art from Bard College where she majored in Art History. She actively serves in the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) and the Art Libraries Association of North America (ARLIS).

Luis and Jorge Trelles, along with Mari Tere Cabarrocas Trelles, Jorge’s wife, started Trelles Cabarrocas Architects in 1986 after graduating from Cornell University.

As Lecturer of Architecture at the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture, Oscar Machado has shared at his alma mater, uninterruptedly since 2000, his appreciable skills in the specialized fields of architecture and urban design. From 28 years of professional practice and a background in architecture, art, art history and philosophy of art, his areas of expertise range from Architectural Design and Drawing, Urban Design, Urban Design of New Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Rome Program and Travel Programs. A central theme of his teaching philosophy is to understand architecture in proportionality to principles that represent its purpose: to serve the public.
At the University of Miami from 2009-2016, Mr. Machado coordinated new curricula for the undergraduate, freshman and sophomore Architecture Design and Drawing studios. Under his direction, the students were taught traditional architecture parallel to traditional urban design. In keeping with the School’s mission of designing sustainably and resiliently, the aim was to prepare students in engaging with the discipline of architecture and its related fields towards providing a service to municipalities, neighborhood associations and county officials; and as importantly, keeping up with architectural drawing traditions and up-to-date technologies. This work corresponds with the University of Miami’s mission of teaching, service and research.
In architectural practice, Mr. Machado has worked on a diversity of architectural projects from residential additions, new homes, housing developments and civic complexes—including acting Town Architect for a new development, Amelia Park, Amelia Island, FL. He has managed all phases of architectural projects from client contact and contract negotiations to permitting and construction administration. In urban projects, similarly, his role as project manager included schematic design, design development and project administration towards implementation. For the City of Miami, FL, he presented urban projects to the Planning Board, Home Owners Associations and City Commissions that were implemented into its Zoning Code. Specializing in building and zoning codes, construction documents and construction administration is a portion of his areas of professional expertise.
As project manager of architectural projects, he won several AIA Award of Excellence for the firms he worked with, ranging from public to private buildings such as the Civic Center of Florida City, FL, Misión San Juan Bautista, Catholic Church, Miami, FL, Saint. Hugh Oaks Housing Development: 26 homes for the City of Miami, FL. In 2000 he founded a design firm specialization on urban, architectural, and interior design, recognized with a Charter Award from the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU) for the design of a new neighborhood in Managua, Nicaragua. He has served as a consultant to the national and international firm of Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) Planning Group, municipalities, institutions and housing developers. CNU Charter Awards were presented to urban projects he worked on in affiliation with HOK 2005 and M & P Architects and Urbanist. He received an honorable mention from the CNU for advising thesis student Jared D. Sedam, Charter Award.
Mr. Machado has participated in numerous workshops across the globe promoting principles that guide public policy, housing development practice, urban planning and architectural design.

Veruska Vasconez is an architectural and urban designer practicing nationally and internationally. She is a full time professor and the Visual Studies Coordinator for M.Arch at the University of Miami. She has been teaching at the University of Miami since 2005 and has created two new courses in Visual Representation in Architecture, and Mapping & Visualization. She is well known for her expertise in computer graphics and representation; she has worked in collaboration students, professionals, and advocacy groups on urban historic documentation and analysis projects. She has been a curator and assistant curator on numerous exhibitions, and is co-founder and curator for Meetinghouse, a not-for-profit art gallery located in the Penthouse of the historic Huntington Building in downtown Miami. Veruska has a fellowship in the department of Planning and Design Excellence at Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation. She has been developing Data Mapping of demographics, geography, topography, climate, health status, socio-economic status, and urban infrastructure in relation to MDPROS properties, programs, and strategic planning. Also developing visual representations of OSMP implementation strategies, market research, and analysis, Veruska assists in identification of health and well-being disparities, including the categorization and representation of community design elements— buildings, streets, blocks, neighborhoods, materials, vernacular architecture, native and exotic landscape materials- relevant to MDPROS strategies.