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An honors graduate of the University of Colorado College of Environmental Design, John Davis has over thirty years of architecture experience, including significant contributions to academic, hospitality, and historic rehabilitation projects. His expertise in programming and in relating the scale of interior architecture to the surrounding site results in the successful integration of inside and outside environments.

Mr. Davis has enjoyed over thirty five years of practice with Hornberger + Worstell. As Managing Principal and CFO, Mr. Davis oversees the management of studio, the organization of project teams, and the oversight of project schedules and budgets. A registered architect in California since 1983, John Davis is an active member of the AIA.

As Principal-in-Charge of Design, Mark Hornberger is responsible for the coordination and management of Hornberger + Worstell’s planning and design effort for all major projects, focusing on mixed-use, hospitality, multi-family residential, corporate office and higher education projects. In addition, he leads the permit approval processing and public review efforts of the firm.

Over the last two decades, Mr. Hornberger and his design team have completed over forty major projects. These designs are focused on sites across North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim/Asia.

Mr. Hornberger’s architecture consistently employs regional materials and geographically inspired forms to provide work environments, recreational amenities, lodging, dining, and meeting/gathering spaces. His gracious projects, with their focus on the relationship of the buildings to the landscape and cityscape, provide inviting access to scenic and city resources in a variety of urban and resort locales.

He combines his expert knowledge of mixed-use requirements with the firm’s regionalist sensitivity to context and materials. The projects derive their distinct identities from the thoughtful and innovative use of building materials and skilled local labor brought together with a considered use of advanced construction techniques.

The sense of place in his projects is heightened by an ability to achieve a seamless interplay between inside and out—his trademark “livable landscape.” He pioneered the design of outdoor function spaces and water features as integrated extensions of the architecture, allowing users and visitors to enjoy fully the unique climate, light and vistas of a particular region throughout the individual properties.

The success of his projects has won Mr. Hornberger the respect of his peers in the development and hospitality communities, where he speaks on design related issues for organizations such as the Urban Land Institute, Resort Forum. He has chaired the Design Awards Committee of the AIA California Council, and, from 1992 to 1994, he was Chair of the Architecture and Design Forum of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was Chair of the AIA Capital Forum, is a past Director of both AIA San Francisco Chapter and the AIA California Council and is current Chair of the AIACC Task Force on CEQA reform.

A graduate of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning and Design Principal / Design Director – Asia Pacific, Burton Miller has over thirty years of experience in the design and implementation of complex, mixed-use developments involving a broad spectrum of building types. He has specialized expertise in the architectural master planning and urban design of large-scale multi-building projects in both urban and natural environments integrating hospitality, living, working, entertainment and the public realm.

Burton Miller has served on the Site Plan and Architectural Review (SPAR) Committee for the City of Mountain View, and the City of Mill Valley Planning Commission, the Miller Avenue Precise Plan Citizens Advisory Committee, Mill Valley 2040 General Plan Advisory Committee and Zoning and Design Guidelines Advisory Committee. His extensive public process, regulatory and jurisdictional agency experience as both applicant and city commissioner / committee member serves to effectively inform project entitlement processes.

He has taught architectural design, urban design, drawing and visual communication at Cornell University, Drexel University and Philadelphia College of Art.

Overseas experience includes buildings and projects in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, New Zealand, Ukraine and Russian Federation.