Principals
TEMPLE WASHINGTON, AIA, NCARB founded the firm in 1986. Mr. Washington has forty-two years experience over a wide range of residential, commercial, institutional, education and judicial/correctional projects, as well as master planning. His experience includes building types ranging from the pedestrian scale 1-4 story up to 30-story high-rise. An active member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the AIA, he was featured with Chris Hubbard in Inform Magazine (VA AIA) 1991 Young Architects issue. He holds an NCARB certificate and is licensed in multiple jurisdictions. He earned a Master of Architecture from VPI&SU. He is a visiting lecturer/instructor and teacher at Catholic University School of Architecture and Planning, including Assistant Professor of Practice 2007-2009. He also brings experience in construction and general contracting. In addition to his architectural disciplines, Mr. Washington’s art has been featured in The Washington Times. Each design is specific to its context-site, program and region, fulfilling the owner’s private program for each project with insight while also enriching the public realm–making a place of culture and urban qualities. This has gained the respect of local jurisdictions. Mr. Washington has successfully guided controversial and complex projects to approval.
CHRIS HUBBARD, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CNU-A, CAM has been a principal of WHA Architecture and Planning, P.C. since 1990. He has over 34 years experience in all phases of residential, commercial, government, interior and master planning projects .
“Because I studied Biochemistry before entering architecture school, I was always looking at how Architecture could positively influence our Biochemistry.
In my Masters Architecture thesis in 1983: “One view into the House,” I looked at the phenomenology of “House” or dwelling space: to nurture one’s lives: Social, Spiritual and Physical: toward healthy living spaces which are seamless between interior spaces and nature and walkable tree lined communities .
I entered the Masters program in physiology and Biophysics with an emphasis in complementary and alternative medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center in 2016 to gather research tools to advance my healthy living space design and healthy building surveys (www.whapc.com). I have been an associate researcher at Georgetown, sponsored by Hakima Amri PhD Director, Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences Graduate Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, since 2018 and research the impact of Architecture and planning on Health as well as exposure to endogenous vs exogenous EMF frequencies and inflammation. Through this research I authored two CE courses for Architects – approved by the AIA - “Designing Healthy and productive workspaces and buildings” and “Healthy Communities and how to plan them.”
Working as a designer on a number of award winning projects, Mr. Hubbard specializes in healthy pedestrian centered architecture and planning and began practicing this in 1984 when the public and most municipalities were unaware of it. Mr. Hubbard also leads Healthy Building surveys testing and reporting about a building or workspace air quality, lighting quality, views, noise levels, biophilic quality, microbe transmission status, and EMF pollution and their potential impact on the health of the inhabitants.
He has earned a Masters in Architecture from VPI & SU, is a licensed Architect and NCARB certified, LEED-AP and a CNU Accredited Member. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry from Va Tech and a Graduate Biochemistry Fellowship from Medical College of Virginia as well as a Masters Degree in Physiology and Biophysics with an emphasis in Complementary and Alternative Medicine from Georgetown University Medical Center. He was awarded a fellowship for research on the impact of EMF on health from the (CHD) Children's Health Defense in 2021.
He is a New Urbanist architect and planner since 1994 and Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)Charter Member and was the first CNU accredited professional in the Northern Virginia area listed on the CNU website, one of a very few. He was an associate producer of an 18 video lecture series on the Techniques of Traditional Neighborhood Development with Andres Duany for the ULI. He also produced a 90 minute documentary on the shift from walkable neighborhoods to the automobile dependent development and the reshaping of the way we live for a Washington DC area community television
He has organized CNU panels and has been a lecturer on CNU panels, Virginia AIA panels and university venues as well as at the National Building Museum. He helped organize the Seaside debates in Seaside, Florida for the critique of New Urbanism by academia. Currently he has designed a variety of residential mixed use buildings from custom single-family attached/detached houses to mid rise condominiums in the Arlington Metro corridor and the walkable community Embrey Mill in Stafford County, VA.
Senior Project Manager
BRUCE KEITH has brought more than forty-two years of professional experience. While working at architectural, architectural-engineering and design/build firms in the Boston and Washington D.C. metropolitan regions Mr. Keith has managed the design, production and construction of projects that have included single and multi-family residences, retail and business facilities, light manufacturing facilities, public educational institutions, long-term healthcare facilities, office buildings, postal facilities as well as mixed use projects. The projects that Mr. Keith has managed have been located on both urban and rural sites and have ranged from single-story to multi-story to high-rise construction. Many of the projects he has worked on have been publicly funded or insured and so he is well qualified to address the specialized concerns related to local, state and federally financed design and construction. He is familiar with designing and preparing documents to the standards and requirements of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Army and the United State Postal Service. Mr. Keith brings a very high standard of service and commitment to every project and always strives to meet or exceed the expectations of the clients that he serves