John Gourlay is tapped to be executive publisher of Metropolis magazine. Gourlay’s previous magazine publishing creds include Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Utne Reader, Audubon, and American Craft.

 SB Architects appoints Emilio Perez as head of its Miami office. Specializing in hospitality and mixed-use projects, Perez worked with Gensler, Portman Associates, Cap Cana Resorts, and Royal Caribbean before joining SB.

Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, has been elected to the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 Jennifer Guthrie of the Seattle-based landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol will represent the American Society of Landscape Architects on the Department of State’s Industry Advisory Panel, where she’ll serve as a member of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.

And  AN‘s own shift to announce: AN‘s Midwest editor Alan G. Brake steps into the role of managing editor, previously held by Molly Heintz, who stays on board at AN as contributing editor while becoming managing director of the editorial consultancy Superscript.

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