Stanford Report, May 24, 2006

Associate architect leaving post to join San Francisco firm

H. Ruth Todd, Stanford's associate university architect, has announced that she has accepted a senior leadership position at the San Francisco architecture firm Page & Turnbull. Todd has brought her preservation expertise to more than 85 historic projects totaling more than $250 million—including the restoration of Encina Hall, the interior reinvention of Building 160 into Wallenberg Hall and the seismic retrofitting and expansion of the Cantor Arts Center.

Todd works out of the University Architect/Planning Office, where she started as an assistant university architect in 1995. Todd said she has had to ensure the execution of the university's objective to preserve the character of historic buildings on campus while also seismically strengthening or otherwise improving them. "Being respectful of history gives us a sense of continuity," Todd once said. "Improvements help us to enter the next century."

Todd's last day will be Friday, June 2.