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NORTH HAWAII NEWS
April 25, 2005

Developer Named to Board

The Kohala Center recently announced the appointment of Ian F. Robertson, principal of the Robertson Company, founder and sole owner of Sundance Homes of California, to its board of directors. Robertson, a successful developer, is nationally known for his work in connecting development with conservation.

"It is more profitable to work with nature than against it," said Robertson at a fall 2004 Kohala Center conservation development seminar for Hawai'i Island planners, architects, and landowners.

Robertson is internationally recognized for his dynamic leadership of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), whose faculty, board and graduates include such world famous architects as Ray Kappe, Michael Rotondi, Thomas Mayne, Eric Moss, and Frank Gehry. As chairman of the board of SCI-ARC, Robertson led the school's relocation to downtown Los Angeles and is widely credited as being among the visionary civic leaders who led the way to the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles.

Ian Robertson was born and raised in Pa'auilo and was educated at Pa'auilo School, Punahou School, Yale University and UCLA School of Law. He resides in Kona, Hawai'i and Santa Monica, California.

The Kohala Center is a privately funded, not-for-profit academic institute, based in Waimea.

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