The Israel Palestine Project

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Rick Phillips

Rick Phillips is an award-winning architect, planner and urban designer with over 25 years of achievement in the conceptual planning and design of large-scale urban engineering, transportation, and community development projects. Educated in the United States and Canada, he played significant roles in Toronto’s waterfront renaissance and Vancouver’s acclaimed Skytrain rapid transit system, and served as principal architect of the internationally-recognized Eccles 2002 Legacy Bridge, a signature project of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Rick has participated for over 30 years in progressive political work within the Jewish and peace communities in the United States and Canada, with a focus on Palestine and Israel reconciliation. As a highlight of this work in the late 1970’s, he contributed to and served on the editorial staff of The Eye, a journal of political criticism published by Friends of Progressive Israel, a Canadian secular Jewish organization advocating self-determination for the Palestinian people.
 
Rick has participated in the transformational work of Landmark Education, Inc. since 1998. He was a speaker at Landmark's Conference for Global Transformation in 2007. Rick serves on the Board of two organizations dedicated to a sustainable world that works for all: the Global Abundance Alliance and the Israel-Palestine Project.

Rick is the West Coast Director of Urban Design for the HNTB Corporation, a leading U.S. architecture and engineering firm.