Board of Directors

SPOTLIGHT...

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP, grew up in Gettysburg. He attended high school outside of Philadelphia, at the Westtown School. Peter remembers an eighth grade assignment in guidance class to write one-page papers on ten different occupations. One he chose to write about was architecture. Of the ten, architecture was definitely the most interesting career to him and he pursued it. For his undergraduate degree in architecture, Peter studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He spent his senior year abroad at the Polytechnic of Central London, graduating from RPI in 1975. Upon his return to the United States, he worked for several years with a firm in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on the Mississippi River. He returned to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Master of Architecture in 1980.

RTKL recruited Peter while he was still at Penn, and he arrived in Baltimore just in time to see Harborplace open. Since leaving RTKL, Peter has worked with several firms in the Baltimore area including Schamu Machowski Doo & Associates, Grimm & Parker, and Hord Coplan Macht.

After arriving in Baltimore in the early 1980s, Peter quickly became engaged with the AIA, becoming one of the founding members of the AIABaltimore Urban Design Committee. He co-founded the Architects Bookstore, placing the first stock orders when AIABaltimore’s headquarters was in the Candler Building. He has chaired the Continuing Education Committee and was elected to our Board of Directors in 2004.

In 1993, Peter established his own architectural practice. In 2000, several of his staff brought to his attention the activities of the US Green Building Council. The Council’s message resonated with his small office and by 2003, three of his five staff were LEED Accredited, as was he. In 2004, Peter became the founder and first president of the USGBC Baltimore Regional Chapter. In 2005, the newly- formed USGBC Baltimore Regional Chapter helped pass State legislation in support of green buildings, earning the fledgling organization a USGBC National Chapter Leadership Award for Advocacy that year. For the past two years, Peter has chaired the Regional Council of USGBC Chapters in the Mid-Atlantic.

Peter has recently established a consulting practice assisting owners, organizations and communities to navigate the arenas of LEED, sustainable business practice and government policy. Peter and his wife Lorraine live in Towson. Their three children are in their own various stages of growth and development, out of the house.

As the newly-elected president of AIABaltimore, Peter hopes to share the National AIA’s sustainability goals with the Baltimore Chapter and its membership. “Architecture has continually evolved, and architects have risen to meet changing technological and programmatic challenges. We have a responsibility to design higher performing buildings for our clients and our communities.”