
David P. Howerton (Architecture '74)
Chairman, Hart Howerton
As Chairman of Hart Howerton, David P. Howerton provides high-level strategy and is an active member of all planning/design teams and international projects in the firm's San Francisco and New York offices.
Through three decades of real estate cycles, Howerton has helped developers, lenders, equity investors, and landowners in over 35 countries to optimize the value of their real estate assets through innovative development strategies and superior market-driven design.
As a result of his groundbreaking work on many environmentally sound, conservation-based, and highly marketable new communities and resorts, including the nationally acclaimed Santa Lucia Preserve in California and Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, Howerton is consistently relied upon to provide business planning and strategy recommendations to his clients. Howerton has led major assignments in all regions of the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and around the Pacific Rim. This includes planning and design assignments for large landowners such as Pebble Beach and the Parker Ranch; for some of the country’s leading developers such as Vail Resorts and Hines; and for real estate investors, Colony Capital, Westbrook Partners, and Cross Harbor.
Howerton is widely recognized as one of the leading talents in the profession, both in the business and academic fields. He has taken active roles in the Urban Land Institute, and is a regular guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and at Harvard University. He also serves as a Trustee of the Architecture School Foundation at the University of Virginia and a Governor of the Urban Land Institute Foundation.