Leadership

Marilyn W. Moedinger, LEED AP, M. Arch, Assoc. AIA
Director of the Gateway Initiative
Director of Instruction and Assessment in Practice
Boston Architectural College

Marilyn is the director of the Huxtable Fellowship, and directs all aspects of the Gateway Initiative at the BAC. Marilyn teaches in Gateway projects each semester, as well as comprehensive studios, construction detailing, and a course called Community Practice. Her professional background includes practicing architecture at Utile, Inc in Boston, and as a freelancer in Charlottesville, VA. She holds a BS Arch, a BA in History, and an M. Arch from the University of Virginia. Marilyn traces her interest in community design build to her work as a student on the ecoMOD project at UVA, and her work in communities in the mountains of West Virginia.

She also has several years of professional contracting and construction experience, and was the 2010 SOM Prize winner, with which she traveled the world researching vernacular climate mediation strategies. Marilyn previously taught at Northeastern University, and has lectured at Cincinnati, UC Berkeley, Harvard GSD, UVA, and BAC.




Len Charney, Assoc. AIA
Head of Practice
Boston Architectural College

As the founder of the Gateway Initiative, Len helped conceive and start the Initiative in 2008 as the Head of Practice at the BAC. Through his unstinting championing of project-based learning and community engagement, the Gateway Initiative grew from an experiment with a few students to a robust, meaningful, and unique program among design schools. Len was instrumental in getting the grant funding to start the Huxtable Fellowship in 2012.

Len holds a M.Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Masters in Teaching from Antioch College, and a BS from Cornell University. His diverse career has focused on three professional areas: education and career development training, design and construction management, and community planning and real estate development. In 2008, he was part of the BAC’s successful application for and implementation of the 2008 NCARB Prize for the Integration of Education and Practice.