Professional Awards

  • Performance Award, Build Massachusetts Awards Program IX, Sava Associates with Allen Moore Associates, the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA. 1997.

  • Boston Society of Architects, Urban Design Citation for Parcel 8, Merrimack Landing as part of the Newburyport downtown revitalization project, 1985.

Professional Activities

  • The American Institute of Architects

  • The Boston Society of Architects

  • The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) 

  • Registration in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York

  • A member of the M.I.T. Club

  • The Mayor’s Housing Partnership Committee, Newburyport, MA

  • Board of Directors, Newburyport YMCA, 1992-present

  • Past Chairman, Planning Board, Waterville Valley, NH, 1974-1978

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graduate Studies, 1970

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.A.D., 1969

  • Boston Architectural Center, 1963-1967

  • Wentworth Institute of Technology, 1962-1963

Teaching Experience 

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Design Studio Critic

  • Assistant Associate Professor – University of New Hampshire, 2006 - 2007

  • Sava Associates Inc., Architects and Planners

    •  1996 - Present (Principal)           

  • CDJ Design Group Inc., Architects and Planners

    •  1991 - 1996 (Principal)

  • Sava Daly Associates, Architectural, Urban Design, and Construction Management.

    •  1981-199 (Principal)                

  • The Architects Collaborative, Inc. 

    •  1978-1981 (Project Architect & Senior Designer)    

  • John S. Sava & Associates

    •  1970-1778  (President & Treasurer)          

  • The Architects Collaborative, Inc. 

    •  1964-1968 (Project Architect & Job Captain)         

 

Professional Experience