Amy K. Coburn

Amy Coburn is a highly accomplished design professional with 24 years of broad-spectrum experience creating and implementing design solutions for residential and mixed-use projects. Amy’s experience with some of the country’s most distinguished development and architectural practices provides an excellent foundation for her own consulting work, which ranges from large-scale developments to specialty projects, including the HGTV Dream Home 2010. Amy K. Coburn Planning & Design provides a wide range of design and planning services. Before designing this year’s HGTV Dream Home, Amy served as the Vice President of Planning and Design for Forest City Enterprises in Albuquerque, N.M., where she developed a new district, Mesa del Sol, for Albuquerque. Prior to Forest City, she served as Vice President of Production Development for Pulte Homes in Las Vegas, Nev., and earlier as Associate Vice President for Catellus Development Corporation in San Francisco, Calif., where she developed a 500-acre community coined Mission Bay. Over her career, Amy has served in the role of designer or architect for several distinguished firms, including SOM and Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects in San Francisco and Boston, respectively. She is a licensed Architect in the State of California. Amy enjoys sharing her expertise with young designers. She teaches architectural design studio at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning, and in previous years has instructed design courses at both Syracuse University’s School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Design and Environmental Analysis. Amy earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Go back to Building the HGTV Dream Home 2010 Main Page