BIO
Dr. Glenn Robert Erikson was the 2025 President of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Institutes of Architects (AIA), and was the 2024 President of the Santa Fe Chapter of the AIA. He is the founder and CEO of Integral Studios and Integral Design and Development, and a former Adjunct Professor at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, CUNY where he taught graduate level Urban Economics for 17 years. He is an architect, developer, teacher and author. Dr. Erikson was a Partner/Project Director for Acquisitions and Development at Time Equities, Inc., a $6B in assets NYC real estate firm for 17 years, and prior to that Co-Managing Partner at Erikson Leviton & Associates and Partner/Executive Vice President at Los Angeles Land Company in Westwood, CA. He has been involved in projects throughout the US, as well as Canada and Germany. He is currently developing the Blue Mesa Center for the Arts in Midtown, Santa Fe, NM.
A licensed Architect (NM, CA & NCARB), Contractor (Ca Inactive) and Real Estate Broker (NY) with a Bachelor’s in Architecture (Univ. of Arizona), a Master’s in Real Estate and Finance (University of Arizona) and a Ph.D. in Religious and Urban Affairs (Summit University), Dr. Erikson has been a general partner for 35 Commercial, Residential, Artist Loft and Mixed-Use real estate development projects in California, Vermont and New York. He has designed, built and leased more than 2.5MM square feet of development projects, and nine projects for which he has been on the design teams have garnered Design design awards, one of them a National AIA Award.
Dr. Erikson founded the Integral Companies in 2002, and currently owns and manages approximately 300,000 square feet of residential and commercial space. He has taught at the university level at UCLA, UCI, USF, NYU as well as at CUNY Baruch from 2003 until 2020.
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and received a 2024 Design Award from the Santa Fe Chapter of the AIA. He has published a number of articles, including: “Strategizing Urban Policies for the Anthropocene,” “An Urbanist Manifesto,” and “Forging New Urban Policies for the 21st Century.” He is a former member of following Non-Profit Committees and Boards: World Policy Institute, Architecture Omi, Westbeth Center for the Arts, Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, Westside Urban Forum (LA), NY/AIA Planning and Urban Design Committee, 4th Universalist Unitarian Church of NYC, Artopolis, and Fly Fishers International.
Dr. Erikson is married to Karina Naumer, a Drama Educator and Potter. Dr. Erikson is a former marathon runner, has scaled a dozen mountains from 9,000 to 14,500 feet, and sailed both coasts from San Diego to Anchorage plus the Bahamas to Newfoundland. He continues to be an avid flyfisher, annually salmon fishing in Labrador and trout fishing at his camp on the Delaware River.