City Planner, Architect, Builder, has over twenty years experience in Competition initiation, management, design, funding, promotion and implementation. As a professional advisor, he has developed and managed the following competitions, among others: Tucson Arizona Gateway, Los Angeles West Coast Gateway; The Texas Rangers Baseball Stadium, Arlington TX; West Hollywood Civic Center, Pershing Square Revitalization, LA; Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Olympic West Commercial District Revitalization, LA; Vietnam Woman’s Memorial Competition, Wash D.C.; Future Now, Ideas for the new Millennium Competition, for the Southern California Edison Company; Senior Citizens Housing Colton, CA; Spirit of Collaboration Artist & Architects Park competition, Walnut Creak, CA; Hawai‘i Loa College Master Plan, HI; Children’s Park for the physically challenged, Flushing Meadow, N.; Minnesota State Capital urban design competition, St. Paul

Mr. Pittas played formative role in the following competitions: Advanced Information Cities, International Competition, Kawasaki Japan; Escondido City Hall, CA.; Ocean Side Civic Center, CA; Eugene O’Niel Theatre, Provincetown, MA; Fort Mason Art Center Master Plan, S.F, CA. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Washington, D.C.

He was responsible for the funding and publication of five guidebooks on various aspects of competitions commonly used by clients and competition advisors. He conducted the first national Training Seminars for Competition Advisors in Washington, D.C.
 
Mr. Pittas has a solid record of distinguished achievement in city planning, urban design, the arts and community development. He has served as Director of Comprehensive Planning for the City of New York, overseeing the capital budget and divisional activities related to housing, zoning, economic development, parks, education and social services, planning and budgeting. As Senior Urban Designer for Lower Manhattan Development he authored many of the innovative zoning concepts, which has guided the development of the area for the last three decades .

For over a decade he served on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as a joint appointment of the City and Regional Planning and Urban Design Department. In 1972 he was awarded a Loeb fellowship at Harvard. In 1983, Dean of the Otis Art Institute. In 1985 he was awarded the Urban Scholars Fellowship from the New School University in New York. He received his education at Princeton University, the Cooper Union, Harvard University, and the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts.

In Washington, D.C. during the early ‘80’s, he was Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Architecture and Planning Program for six years. During his tenure at the Arts Endowment he became well known for his work in support of applying sound planning, economic and design principals to the development and management of theaters and museums. A number of Community Planning and Cultural facility resource materials (including books, exhibitions and multi-media training presentations) resulted from this effort.