About the Fellowship
Accomplishments
Since 2000, the 29 Rose Fellows have contributed to designing and building over 100 exemplary projects:
- More than 4,400 affordable homes, of which over half historically (and nearly all being designed currently) have integrated Green Building standards, such as Enterprise’s Green Communities Criteria, LEED®, Energy Star®, Earthcraft, and local, city and statewide programs in Seattle, WA; Austin, TX, and California.
- Forty-three community facilities, including neighborhood and child care centers, community gardens, health clinics and mixed-use space for nonprofits and small businesses.
- Nine community master plans that have leveraged tens of millions of dollars in public and private financing.
- Five books and manuals communicating design solutions to a broad audience.
The breadth of the fellows’ work ranges from a strawbale housing development in Montana to a center for troubled teens that won the Virginia Governor’s Award for Best Housing Project.
The fellowship is fulfilling its promise to produce leaders in public interest architecture and community development. Here are examples of the many Rose Fellowship alumni who hold leadership positions:
- Jess Zimbabwe (Rose Fellow, 2003-2006) has been named the new Executive Director of The Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, a program of the Urban Land Institute.
- Peter Aeschbacher (Rose Fellow, 2000-2003) is a professor holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University.
- David Flores (Rose Fellow, 2001-2004) brings design and policy expertise to his leading role in San Diego’s affordable housing movement.
