James Rossant, AIA, was an artist, architect, and town planner. He is best known for his design of Reston, Virginia, a new town near Washington, DC; the design f Dodoma, the new capital of Tanzania; Myriad Gardens Crystal Bridge in Oklahoma City; and the Lower Manhattan Plan in his native New York City. He won numerous awards for his designs and had many of his architecture and artistic work published and exhibited in the US, Europe, and Japan.