Jay Turnbull Email & Phone Number

Jay Turnbull has been an architect and urban designer in San Francisco and New York, where he worked at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill—gaining early experience on an urban scale—and the New York City Office of Midtown Planning & Development. He was Architect of San Francisco Architectural Heritage for five years while maintaining a practice in historic architecture. In 1981, he joined Page & Turnbull to direct architectural work. His thoughtful and deliberate approach to the restoration of historic buildings has been applied to projects throughout California, touching nearly every important historical renovation project in San Francisco. Former president of San Francisco Architectural Heritage and a Peer Reviewer for the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence program, he has published and lectured widely on preservation related matters. He has been preservation architect for numerous National Register and locally recognized landmarks and has consulted extensively on the seismic retrofit of historic buildings. His work has been honored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Institute of Architects, California Preservation Foundation and other national, regional and local organizations.Jay meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Architecture and Historic Architecture.

Listed skills include Adaptive Reuse, Entitlements, Historic Preservation, Restoration, and 17 others.