Visiting Faculty
J. Max Bond, Jr.
FAIA, Principal, Davis Brody Bond, LLP, Architects & Planners
Charles Moore Visiting Professor 2003
J. Max Bond, Jr. is recognized internationally as one of the United States’ leading architects and educators. Mr. Bond won early recognition for the design of the Bolgatanga Library in Ghana, and has followed that with such projects as the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and major research laboratories at Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern Universities. In addition to recognition for award-winning architecture,
Early in his career, Mr. Bond lived and worked in France and Ghana. Upon returning to the United States, he helped establish and became Executive Director of the Architects Renewal Committee of Harlem (ARCH), one of the early community design centers that developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. After two years with ARCH, he co-founded Bond Ryder and Associates which quickly became one of the leading African-American architecture firms in New York and the East Coast. As a Commissioner of the New York City Planning commission from 1980–1986, Mr. Bond was actively involved in the city’s approvals and planning process. Mr. Bond merged his firm with Davis Brody & Associates in 1990 and has since served as Partner-in-Charge of many of the firm’s significant academic and institutional projects which include the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. In 2007 he was award an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.
