Résumé

Partner, Sasaki Associates, Watertown, MA.

Associate Partner / Manager, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects, Los Angeles Branch, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1996-1997.

Chief Planning Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA),

Managing Director, Grand Avenue Committee, Los Angeles, CA, c. 2001.

Senior Vice President for Corporate Real Estate and Global Facilities, The Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles, CA, -2017.

Senior Advisor, HRA Advisors, (economic development and real estate advisory firm), Los Angeles, CA, 2018- . Just after Welborne started with HRA Advisors, her alma mater magazine from the University of Notre Dame wrote: "Martha Lampkin Welborne ’75 FAIA spearheaded some of most innovative transportation and revitalization projects in Los Angeles in the past two decades. She has joined HR&A Advisors, Los Angeles. The firm is a leading national and real estate economic development consulting firm." (See Notre Dame Magazine.edu, "Class Notes: Graduate Schools," Winter 2018-2019, published 2018, accessed 10/28/2024.)

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Lecture, Boston Society of Architects (BSA), "Simplifying transit: what are we learning from Brazil?" Boston, MA, 10/25/2000. The BSA Chapter Letter from 10/2000 said of this lecture: "Welborne, well-known for her national urban design leadership, is a former principal of Sasaki Associates in Watertown and, until a few years ago, was the principal in charge of the SOM office in Los Angeles. Her focus on design of transportation systems has included leading American designers and public officials on several explorations of innovative transit design in Brazil. [Her lecture] images...offer a glimpse of transit innovations in Curitaba, and a drawing fo a Los Angeles adaptation of Curitaba's system. ...Welborne explains why the Brazilian approaches to transit design are sweeping the US and are helping to shape livable communities in this country." (See Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter.org (vol. 87 no. 2), "Simplifying transit: what are we learning from Brazil?" published 10/2000, accessed 10/28/2024.)

Member, Joint AIA New York/BSA Awards Program, Urban Design Jury, Center for Architecture, New York, NY, 03/15/2008.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

Recipient, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Loeb Fellowship, Cambridge, MA, 1992.

Recipient, University of Notre Dame, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, South Bend, IN, 2017.

High School / College

Graduate, Saint Theresa High School, Decatur, IL, 1970. Martha Lampkin enjoyed athletics in high school, belonging to the Girls Athletic Association (GAA) and the archery team at Saint Theresa. In 1969, she was a member of the National Honor Society and the sports editor of the Teresian, the school newspaper. A year later, she was vice-president of her senior class.

BS, Architecture, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1975.

MA, Arch and M City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.

Relocation

At the time of her birth, her parents resided at 145 Linden Place in Decatur, IL. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The Decatur Herald; Publication Date: 26/ Sep/ 1952; Publication Place: Decatur, Illinois, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/88395251/?article=7ea9cecc-e6c5-4a72-9628-76ca4f1a5f38&xid=5905&terms=Mary_Martha_Lampkin, accessed 10/28/2024.) The date of her birth has been listed variously as 09/15/1952 and 09/25/1952.

She resided at 221 Mount Auburn Street, Apartment #103, Cambridge, MA, c. 1985.

Parents

Her father was L. William Lampkin.

Spouse

She wed John Howard Welborne, a lawyer, (born 07/24/1947 in Los Angeles County, CA) on 10/08/1994 in Los Angeles, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Herald and Review; Publication Date: 4/ Dec/ 1994; Publication Place: Decatur, Illinois, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/77414229/?article=4f8a855c-4f1d-4fa1-afb8-ba301e05ec77&focus=0.33346295,0.07924785,0.49095273,0.26128864&xid=3398, accessed 10/28/2024.)