Ben’s experience in large projects involving multi-disciplinary teams began in the late 80’s when he was a partner at Ben Thompson’s office in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was the Design Director when Ben Thompson was awarded the Gold Medal by the AIA in 1988. Ben was the Partner-in-Charge for the redevelopment of Spitalfields Market, City of London (3 million sq. ft.) and the Chief Architect for the Minato Murai complex, a 3.5 million sq. ft. mixed-use project in Yokohoma Japan (in association with Nikken Seikkei).

In the 90’s, first as a principal of Thompson and Wood, then later with Wood and Zapata, Ben authored master plans for the Revitalization of New York’s Times Square (1993), Lincoln Road and the Art Deco District in Miami Beach (1992), Playhouse Square in Cleveland Ohio (ULI Award of Excellence), and developed growth management strategies for the Rocky Mountain resort towns of Snowmass, Aspen, and Telluride Colorado and for Park City Utah.