Regional Directors
 James H. Determan, Jr., AIA
Director, Middle Atlantic Region
James H. Determan, Jr., AIA is a Principal in the Baltimore
office of Cochran Stephenson & Donkervoet, Inc. His recent projects in CSD’s education studio include St. Paul’s School for Girls ( Brooklandville, MD), Park School Athletic
Center (Baltimore), St. Vincent Pallotti High School Chapel and Athletic Center (Laurel), Archbishop Spalding High School Masterplan and Athletic Center (Severn), Garrett
College Learning Resource Center (McHenry) and Jesuit College Preparatory School Masterplan (Dallas, TX). Jim is also an adjunct faculty member at Morgan State University
teaching design studio in the graduate school. He has mentored thesis students at Morgan State for the last thirteen years.
He earned both a BS and MArch from the Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduation he
moved back to his hometown of Baltimore where he has lived and worked for twenty years.
Jim’s activity with AIA Baltimore, began as a member of the Lecture Series Committee in
1987, then the Communications Committee in 1998 and then he was elected Director on the board in 2000. He went on to serve as Secretary, Treasurer, President-elect and finally
President in 2005. In 2004 Jim was a Director on the AIA Maryland Board and for the last two years has worked with this board in negotiations with Maryland Interior Designers regarding their desire for licensure.
Jim has been a strong advocate for the built environment in the community. He has lobbied for
the protection of eighteen square blocks of Baltimore’s historic West Side when they were threatened by demolition. He has testified to the Baltimore City Council in support of the
Commission for Historic Architectural Preservation. He has spoken over 1,000 students in middle schools, high schools and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth on careers in
architecture, the need for sustainable design, and design excellence. He has written letters and addressed the need for diversity in the practice in a speech to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
“It is key for architects to advocate for a well designed built environment, but the most
important contribution an architect can make to the community is design excellence. Design enhances life. This is not a job, or a career. It is a crusade whose goal is achieving design
excellence. Everything we do supports that. Knowledge, Community, Advocacy is focused ultimately on design.”
 John M. Maudlin-Jeronimo, FAIA
Director, Middle Atlantic Region
John M. Maudlin-Jeronimo, FAIA, is an Associate Dean at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Director of the Maryland Study Center
at Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire, England. He established and directs the School’s Graduate Leadership Institute and is working on the development of two master’s degree
programs: one in real estate development and the other in professional studies in practice leadership.
He received a BS in Mathematics with a major in history from Cumberland College and earned a professional degree in architecture and a post professional degree in urban
design from the University of Miami.
He has worked for the planning departments in Miami Beach and Miramar, Florida, and as the city’s architect/urban designer in Annapolis. A Certified Association Executive, he spent
close to two decades in senior management positions. During his sixteen years as Executive Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board he provided technical assistance and
advice and counsel on the development of over thirty new schools and programs in architecture in the United States. He served as a consultant to Canadian Architectural
Certification Board assisting in the development of an architectural accreditation system in Canada. As a United Nations supported consultant to The Peoples Republic of China he
helped establish a national system of quality assurance in higher education. A member of numerous boards, he served as Chairman of the Board of the Center for Quality Assurance in
International Education and was a founding board member of the Global Alliance for Transnational Education. Currently he serves on the board of trustees of the Aman Memorial
Trust and Maryland Foundation for Kiplin Hall.
An admitted AIA junky, he served as American Institute of Architectural Students President, on the boards of directors of AIA Florida, the Chesapeake Bay Chapter, Potomac Valley
Chapter where he served as Chapter President, and AIA Maryland and as the AIA College of Fellows Mid Atlantic Regional Representative.
 Lauren K Bostic, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Associate Director, Middle Atlantic Region
A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lauren Bostic is a fervent proponent of providing public service.
Lauren received a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, and subsequently obtained dual Masters degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan,
where she Co-chaired the University of Michigan’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium on Urban Planning.
Prior to her graduate studies, Lauren worked in Philadelphia at Cecil Baker and Associates and Agoos Lovera Architects. Outside of work she volunteered at the Charter High School for
Architecture and Design, and taught English as a Second Language at the Nationalities Service Center.
Lauren has combined her love of travel, language, and service as she traveled to Italy to study architecture, Spain to study Spanish and architecture, and China to teach English at
Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Lauren has been employed by Design Collective, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland since the summer of 2005, working on residential, commercial, and educational projects including a pro
-bono project for the Baltimore City Public School System. Last year she helped plan the Urban League’s National Day of Service with the Greater Baltimore Leadership Association.
She looks forward to becoming an active member of the AIA National Associates Committee.
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