Featured Speakers

Eric Lloyd Wright “The Prairie Starts in Buffalo”

Eric Lloyd Wright is an architect and founder of Wright Way Organic Resource Center in Malibu, CA. During Eric's early years in architecture, he was an apprentice to his grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright and his father, Lloyd Wright. His portfolio includes the restoration and renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright and Lloyd Wright works as well as residences and institutional buildings of his own design.

Eric's current focus is on the evolution of Organic Architecture and Green Building design. His design philosophy is rooted in the integration of ecology, social responsibility and beauty. Through Eric's years of design experience, he has developed an understanding that it is not the physical walls and roof, but the space within a building that forms its character - its soul. He gives careful thought to a project's physical, social and spiritual environment, with a focus on appropriate materials, quality, craftsmanship, and careful detailing. Eric believes that one of the most important aspects of the design process is the relationship between the client, the site and the architect. It is the client and site, together with the architect, that shape the design of a project

Kitty Turgeon, Founder, Roycroft Renaissance

Kitty has been an integral part to the success of the Roycroft Renaissance for the past 34 years. As past innkeeper of the Roycroft Inn, owner of the Roycroft Shops and a career as talented.interior designer.she has always kept the philosophy, history and ideals of the Roycroft and the International Arts & Crafts Movement alive. 

Doug is President of the Roycroft Campus Corporation. The RCC plans to restore the Roycroft Campus and bring more working artisans and demonstrations to the Campus. Doug is no stranger to restoration as he is also President and Director of Design for Cityview Properties, a company that has developed over seventy million dollars worth of commercial and residential property in downtown Buffalo, NY.

One of these properties is the Larkin at Exchange Building, former warehouse for the Larkin Soap Company. His history in the Arts & Crafts Movement also runs deep as he is the Grandson of David and Mary Gamble for whom designers Greene and Greene designed the Gamble House in Pasadena. A Graduate of San Francisco State University Doug earned a BA in Drama, Scene Design and Technical Direction. He then attended the University of Buffalo where he received his Masters degree in Architecture and receiving the AIA Medal of Honor and a Certificate of Merit for graduating first in his class. He lives in Buffalo with his charming wife Beth and two sons.

Paul Duchscherer, Author, TV Personality

Paul has been a San Fransisco resident for over three decades, where he graduated from the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in 1975. With wide professional experience in both commercial and residential interiors coupled with an extensive working knowledge of the history of architecture, interior design and decorative arts, Paul specializes in period-style projects for historic buildings. Examples of his work, especially projects featuring ornamental ceiling designs, have been widely published. An avid proponent of historic preservation, his professional activities include lecturing, writing, and teaching about historic design. Paul's expertise has led to frequent appearances on various television programs, and he is often featured as a guest designer on HGTV's popular "Curb Appeal" program. In collaboration with noted architectural photographer Douglas Keister, Paul has written several books, including The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Home (1995), Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior (1997), Outside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Garden (1999), and Victorian Glory in San Francisco and the Bay Area (2001), His newest books “Beyond the Bungalow” feature many homes from the Western New York region.

Chuck LaChiusa creator of the Buffalo as an Architectural Museum website is a tireless devotee to all that is happening in the Buffalo architecture scene. He chronicles the details, history and style of every important ( and not so important) building in Western New York. He lectures on the people and places in the region and provides tours for the area both privately and for the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier.

Joan attended high school in Pelham, New York then went to Dean Junior College in Massachusetts. After earning her degree there she came to Buffalo where she would later earn a BA degree in history and government at SUNY’s Empire State College. With Walter Simpson of SUNY, she founded and co-chairs the Western New York Sustainable Energy Association. Joan was president of the League of Women Voters, president of the Junior League of Buffalo, and Chair of what was then known as the National Conference of Christians and Jews. In these positions she became interested in elective office and ran for a seat on the Buffalo City Council in 1975. Most important of these, perhaps, was her fight to save the Old Post Office and convert it to the downtown campus of Erie Community College.Joan married Dr. John Bozer and has four children.

Dard Hunter III lives in Chillicothe, Ohio and runs a successful online and retail business of items based on the designs of his grandfather, Roycroft designer Dard Hunter and other noted crafts persons of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Items he represents include books, framed artwork, greeting cards, decorative household accessories, china, clocks and jewelry.