Robert Hammond (born 1969) is a co-founder and the executive director of Friends of the High Line.

Background

Originally from

San Antonio San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...

, Texas, Hammond graduated with honors in history from

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. Before working on the

High Line The High Line is a elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Op ...

, Hammond was a consultant for the Times Square Alliance, for the Alliance for the Arts and National Cooperative Bank (NCB), and an ex-officio trustee of the

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Honors and awards

He won the

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from the American Academy in Rome in 2009. In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from

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. In 2013, the

National Building Museum The National Building Museum is a museum of architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning in Northwest Washington, D.C., U.S. It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution. Located at ...

awarded Hammond and his business partner Joshua David the Vincent Scully Prize for "excellence in ... historic preservation".

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