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Principal bios Arthur J. Lidsky | George G. Mathey | Richard P. Dober
Arthur J. Lidsky has been a planning consultant for colleges and universities since 1971, and became president of DLC+A (now Dober Lidsky Mathey) in 1988. During his tenure, he has participated in several hundred assignments for projects including Clemson University, Carleton College, Columbia University, Cyprus International University,Dartmouth College, Middle Tennessee State University, Spelman College, St. Lawrence University, The College of Wooster, , The College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, and the University of Chicago. Programs for new campuses include the Aga Khan University in Pakistan, The American University in Cairo, Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, University of Botswana in Maun, Botswana and the NYU Abu Dhabi Campus. Space needs assessment include Cornell University and Ohio State. Lidsky has served on facility review panels for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been a Principal Investigator for an award winning NSF study which identified an ideal planning process and developed facility standards for secondary school science, math, and technology education programs (http://www.LabPlan.org). He has given lectures, presentations, and invited papers on campus planning at such organizations as SCUP, the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR), and the International Association for College Unions, and has been a faculty member of Project Kaleidoscope since 1992. In 2006, he received the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Founder's Award for exceptional achievement in Higher Education Planning. He is a member of the American Planning Association and a charter member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. For a downloadable PDF of Arthur Lidsky’s bio, please click here.
George G. Mathey, a key member of Dober Lidsky Mathey since 1986, became a principal at the firm in 2002. Mathey has successfully completed more than 120 college and university planning assignments, including campus planning studies and facility planning studies. He brings a particular strength in space utilization, space needs projection (the translation of strategic goals into space requirements), and facility programming. While much of his work has been with liberal arts institutions, he has also been involved in numerous international projects over the past decade and collaborated with the firm’s largest research university clients, gaining a broad perspective of a wide range of campus planning and space needs issues. Mathey’s recent projects include campus planning for Carroll College, Lesley University, and Cyprus International University; space utilization studies for Cornell University; existing space analysis and space needs projection for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the Connecticut State University system, the Ohio State University, and the University of Hong Kong; and facility programming for the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, the College for Women at Kuwait University, the new campus of the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and the sciences at Trinity College and Marist College. He is a member of the American Planning Association, the American Institute of Certified Planners, and the Society for College and University Planning. For a downloadable PDF of George Mathey’s bio, please click here.
Described by his peers as the “Dean of American campus planning,” Richard Dober now serves as a senior consultant to Dober Lidsky Mathey. Dober has been a planning and design advisor to more than 400 colleges and universities, cultural and scientific institutions, and foundations and government agencies worldwide. His remarkably diverse client list includes seven Ivy League schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and top-rated liberal arts colleges and public and private schools in some 39 states. He has prepared campus and facility plans for new and expanding universities and schools in Africa, Canada, Central America, Mexico, Lithuania, Malaysia, Micronesia, the Middle East, South Korea, Pakistan, Turkey and Spain. In 1986, the People's Republic of China commissioned him to conduct workshops and training sessions on campus development and to advise on expansion plans for universities in Beijing and Shanghai. He returned in 2003 to conduct planning reviews for fifteen additional campuses throughout China. A founder of the Society for College and University Planning, Dober has held short-term academic, administrative and research appointments at Harvard University, Iowa State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois as well lecturing at numerous other institutions and professional societies. Dober's six books Campus Planning, Campus Design, Campus Architecture, Campus Landscape, Campus Heritage, and Old Main are considered benchmark references. In addition, he has edited forty-one books on planning, environmental and community design, and written numerous journal articles and reviews. For a downloadable PDF of Richard Dober’s bio, please click here.
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