Roger K. Lewis

In 2015-16, Lewis served as a consultant to the National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) design competition.

Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. In 2013 the D.C. AIA chapter conferred on him the annual John Weibenson Award for Architecture in the Public Interest.

Since 2009 Lewis has served as the president of the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation (PCCF). In January 2014 Congress authorized the PCCF to create a commemorative work honoring the historic significance of the Peace Corps and the American ideals embodied and expressed by Peace Corps service.(Public Law 113-78) Starting in 2015 the PCCF has received and reviewed many design concepts to be built on a federally owned site in Washington, D.C. which will be managed and maintained by the U.S. National Park Service.

From 2007 until 2018 he was a regular guest discussing "Shaping the City" issues on the Kojo Nnamdi radio show, broadcast by American University's National Public Radio affiliate WAMU-FM.

Since 1993, Lewis has been a member of the government-appointed Design Review Board for "Carlyle/Eisenhower East," growing sectors of the city of Alexandria, Virginia. In 1998 he was appointed by the U.S. General Services Administration to serve as a member of the G.S.A. Design Excellence Peer Review Committee.

Since 1984 The Washington Post has published Lewis award-winning "Shaping the City" column, illustrated with his cartoons. He addresses a broad range of issues: architecture and urban design; land use planning and regulation; affordable housing; historic preservation; smart growth; sustainability; and public policy affecting the built environment.

In 1969, Lewis launched his architecture and planning firm, based in Washington, D.C., authoring guidelines for developments and designing or co-designing a wide range of projects that include plans for new communities; market-rate and affordable multi-unit housing complexes; custom-designed private homes; elementary and middle schools; community centers; recreational facilities; and civic art centers. During his career, Lewis also served as a professional advisor for national and international design competitions.

Lewis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 and Master of Architecture in 1967.

From 1964 to 1966, Lewis served in the Peace Corps as a volunteer architect in Tunisia where he designed over 30 government-financed projects, half of which were built. In 1968, he joined the faculty at the new School of Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, to help start and develop the architecture program.

Roger K. Lewis, FAIA (born 1941 in Houston, Texas) is an architect and urban planner, and a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught architectural design and other courses for 37 years, retiring in 2006. Also an author, journalist and cartoonist, Lewis writes about architecture and urban design, and about how public policy shapes the built environment.