1501dhoglundbPresident & COO, Perkins Eastman

An international leader in senior care design, David Hoglund brings extensive knowledge and skills in programming, planning, and design for aging adults. He is a frequent contributor to industry publications and presents on issues of changing demographics, facility repositioning, Culture Change and trends impacting design of continuing care retirement communities, residential and assisted living, short-term rehabilitation, long-term and memory care environments. David is the author of Housing for the Elderly: Privacy and Independence in Environments for the Aging and co-author of Building Type Basics for Senior Living Design (2013 second edition). He taught a course on planning and design for a new generations of seniors at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (15 years) and currently teaches this program at the University of Southern California. David received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his graduate studies, David received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a university fellowship in order to visit group homes in Scandinavia and England—an instrumental source of his approach to senior living design.