Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., an authority on classical architecture, urban planning and education, served as both an early board member of New York’s Institute of Classical Architecture and Art as well as a founding trustee of the Prince of Wales’s American Foundation, a 501(c)(3) in the US. He established the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture in the United States, accredited by the University of Virginia and coordinated the design and construction of the Prince of Wales’s World Athletes Monument to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, during which time Cook developed close ties to fellow classicist Prince Charles. He is a charter signer of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Cook is currently orchestrating the design for a memorial library in Washington, D.C. to Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and their wives Abigail and Louisa Johnson Adams. Cook’s design proposal with co-designer Michael Franck won the 2011 commendation prize for the National Civic Art Society Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, also for Washington, D.C. Cook is the founder and president of the National Monuments Foundation, an organization that choreographed the design and construction of the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta.
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