Jeffrey Heller, FAIA is president and founder of Heller Manus Architects. Since itsbeginning in 1984, the firm has established a reputation for influencingarchitecture and urban design in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally.He is a leader in the profession and green movement with some of the firstsustainable architecture and large scale urban planning projects in the US andChina, including the first LEED Gold office towers in the sister cities of SanFrancisco and Shanghai, the first LEED Platinum neighborhood developmentmaster plan, a sustainable/livable master plan for Guangzhou’s North and SouthAxes, a sustainable urban plan proposal for Shanghai’s Yangpu Waterfront, and asustainable urban plan for the city expansion area of Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia. Hiswork in China often now involves high speed rail land use implications.