Jana McCann
Jana McCann is an architect/urban designer and partner of McCann Adams Studio. She brings strong experience in transit facility design and transit-oriented development planning, streetscape and public space design, historic preservation and adaptive re-use, as well as in management of large-scale civic projects. A Texas native and a 1980 graduate of The University of Texas School of
Architecture with High Honors, Ms. McCann has also studied, traveled and practiced abroad. She spent 1987 - 1990 in London, where she earned a Graduate Diploma at the Architectural Association. There, she worked on several, large mixed-use projects in historic Covent Garden and St. Katherine’s Dock. Ms. McCann moved to Paris in 1990, where she spent six years as a project architect and manager with Bernard Kohn et Associés on the design of the public spaces for Paris’ newest subway line that opened in 1998.
In 1997 Ms. McCann moved back to Austin to teach urban design at The University of Texas and to open an urban design practice. She collaborated with Emily Little Architects and Robert Jackson Architects in the design of the San Marcos Intermodal Station, co-locating Greyhound, Amtrak and city buses around a new passenger terminal located in downtown San Marcos, Texas. Between 1999 and 2005, Ms. McCann served as the Urban Design Officer for the City of Austin, where she managed the City’s Great Streets Program, developed design standards for downtown, neighborhoods and the TODs. For the City of Austin, she led the Second Street Retail District Streetscape, the Seaholm District Master Plan and the Saltillo District Redevelopment, for which ROMA provided professional services. Ms. McCann also oversaw the City’s Historic Preservation Program. In 2005, Ms. McCann joined ROMA Design Group, to assist the San Francisco-based urban design firm with the implementation of the Mueller Redevelopment project in Austin.
Today, at McCann Adams Studio, she continues this work on Mueller planning and implementation, as well as facilitates the design review process for all proposed projects there. She is also working with private developers to develop master plans for mixed-use, central city projects. Most recently, and along with Jim Adams, Ms. McCann is managing the Downtown Austin Plan and the Waller Creek District Master Plan. She will soon begin Construction Observation services on the extensions of the Pfluger Bridge for HDR Engineering. Ms. McCann is a licensed architect in Texas, a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Heritage Society of Austin and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildfl ower Center. She is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, including the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute, the Texas Transit Association, the International Downtown Association and the Mayors Institute of City Design. She is often a guest lecturer and studio critic at UT’s School of Architecture and Community and Regional Planning.