Rodney Mims Cook, Jr.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr.
Born	Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Residence	Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Washington and Lee University (BA)
Parent(s)	Rodney Mims Cook Sr.
Website	Rodney Mims Cook Jr.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr., an authority on classical architecture, urban planning and education, served as both an early board member of New York’s Institute of Classical Architecture and Art as well as a founding trustee of the Prince of Wales’s American Foundation, a 501(c)(3) in the US. He established the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture in the United States, accredited by the University of Virginia and coordinated the design and construction of the Prince of Wales’s World Athletes Monument to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, during which time Cook developed close ties to fellow classicist Prince Charles. He is a charter signer of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Cook is currently orchestrating the design for a memorial library in Washington, D.C. to Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and their wives Abigail and Louisa Johnson Adams. Cook’s design proposal with co-designer Michael Franck won the 2011 commendation prize for the National Civic Art Society Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, also for Washington, D.C. Cook is the founder and president of the National Monuments Foundation, an organization that choreographed the design and construction of the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta.

Cook’s interest in and involvement with activism began at an early age. His father, the Honorable Rodney Mims Cook Sr., was a supporter of the Civil Rights movement and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Cook Sr.'s eulogy in the House Chamber was delivered by The Honorable Joe Wilkinson. His mother, Bettijo, moved and then restored the antebellum historic plantation plain-style Tullie-Smith House to the grounds of the Atlanta History Center. As a result of such influence, at the age of 14 Cook initiated a campaign to successfully save the 5000+ seat Fox Theatre, the nation’s second largest, and was subsequently awarded the National Trust for Historic Preservation Prize by trust President James Biddle. Cook served as a White House intern in 1974 under President Richard Nixon. He was influenced by architect Philip Shutze, acclaimed in 1978 by architecture classicist Henry Hope Reed as America's greatest living classical architect. Shutze designed three homes of various members of Cook's family and guided him in his architecture education and critiqued his early work. A graduate of The Lovett School and Washington and Lee University, Cook obtained a BA degree focused on architecture, history and politics.

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