Steve Brooks is an architect and urban designer with a vision to improve human living conditions and the planet through thoughtful human centered sustainable development.  He has over 40 years of experience through the design management of hundreds of millions of dollars value of institutional building construction in government, healthcare, science, technology and higher education facilities and campuses with complex interdisciplinary teams. With a long-standing passion for cross-cultural exchange, Steve’s professional global experience has prioritized reconstruction and regeneration from war and disaster, including architecture, urban design, and teaching in Afghanistan, Nepal, Lebanon, Myanmar, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. He formed the Urban Planning Constellation with a group of stellar experts and their associated firms with whom he has engaged many years in collaboration and friendship.