James Carr, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, is an architect with over 20 years of experience dedicated to developing beautiful and effective design solutions for a wide range of project types, including educational facilities, residential and green buildings. A LEED accredited professional since 2002, Mr. Carr works to design projects that are environmentally responsive in every aspect. Prior to starting his own firm in 2004, James Carr, architecture + design, he co-chaired the Greening Committee at Flansburgh Associates in Boston, where he was project architect and led the sustainability initiative for the 90,000 SF William F. Stanley Elementary School in Waltham – at the time the only LEED-certified public school building in Massachusetts – among other projects. Mr. Carr is a co-author of the Coalition for High Performance Schools Best Practices Manual and Design Guide, Massachusetts Version, 2002. This comprehensive guide to designing a green school includes an extensive technical manual and covers every aspect of high performance school construction. During the 1990s in San Francisco, Mr. Carr worked on the design of both rural and urban schools, co-founded an organization, 218Trees, to preserve urban open space, and served on the Parks and Open Space Circle of Sustainable San Francisco. He has been a guest speaker at Brandeis University in the Environmental Studies department, is a registered architect in Massachusetts, New York and California; and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University.Recent projects include: school gymnasium renovations, space-planning and preliminary design studies for the Town of Dedham; a renovation of a 4,000SF office space in a historic loft space in Cambridge; a residential renovation in Brookline including a new home-office, patio and solar hot-water system; and renovations of single-family homes to serve as multi-resident independent-living homes for severely handicapped individuals.