AIA - Key Persons
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- Principal Bruner / Cott & Associates
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- Founding Partner, President Spagnolo Gisness & Associates
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- President Resilient Design Institute
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- Development Associate, Pier 70 Forest City Enterprises
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- Assistant Professor of Building Construction Virginia Tech
Allison Anderson is recognized for civic projects which are carefully crafted and inherently defensible against climate challenges. After Hurricane Katrina devastated her community, designs for recovery focused attention on sustainability, adaptation, and resilience. Her firm, unabridged Architecture, has designed nine shelters for the community and first responders, meeting FEMA 361 guidelines for wind- and impact-resistance, and self-sufficiency during an emergency; and was selected as one of ten teams for Rebuild by Design to create resilient urban planning solutions in Hurricane Sandy-affected areas.
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- Principal, Communications Strategist Walter Communications
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- Outreach Coordinator, Clean Rivers Program DC Water
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- Vice President of VDC & Technology Windover Construction
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- Vice President of Corporate Responsibility Thornton Tomasetti
Ms. Murdock joined CCI in 1998 and is a Principal of the code consultation division. Primary responsibilities for fire protection, life safety, and accessibility consultation services include: Evaluations of performance-based design alternatives; Documenting building code requirements and fire protections concepts for presentation to building and fire officials, and for use by the project design team; Performing plan reviews; Participating in testing and commissioning of fire protection and life safety systems.
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- Principal and Director of Building Science Payette
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- Founder and CEO Doors Unhinged
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- Engineering Services Director Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections
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- Assistant Commissioner, Office of Project Delivery U.S. General Services Administration
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- Founder Earth 's Next Chapter
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- Director Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design
Arno joined COOKFOX Architects in 2010. His early projects include the renovation of a historical home in Garrison, New York and the design of 301 East 50th Street, a luxury residential building in Manhattan. Arno is currently the project architect for 512. W 22nd Street, a ground up commercial office building along the Highline, 39 W 23rd Street, a luxury residential building in Manhattan and 260 Kent, a mixed-use tower at the northern end of the Domino Sugar masterplan on the Williamsburg waterfront. While earning his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, class of 2003, Arno spent a summer abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark attending DIS and interned in London, Boston, and New York City.
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- President Walt Disney Imagineering
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- Associate, Senior Design Architect & Director of Senior Living Environments Zimmerman Architectural Studios
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- Roofing & Building Science Architect
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- Associate
- Structural Engineer at Silman
Ben Rosenberg has been a structural engineer at Silman since 2006 and was named an Associate in 2015. He has worked on renovation, new construction, and historic preservation projects ranging from private residences to new buildings for higher education institutions. Among these are the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University and the restoration of the Donald Judd Museum and Studio in New York City. He is the project manager for NMAAHC.
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- Managing Member Fabu - WALL - Ous Solutions, PLLC
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- Executive Vice President of Architecture Parkhill
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- Project Manager Threshold Acoustics
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- Senior Fellow and Director, Community Economic Development Hub the Urban Institute
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- Founder Bellwether Craftsmen
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- Principal, Director of Healthcare Design DSGW Architects
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- President Mills Technologies
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- Sustainability and Green Buildings Program Advisor
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- Dean of Facilities and Facilities Planning College of the Sequoias
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- Consultant
- Principal SK Collaborative
Carl Seville is a consultant, educator, and speaker on sustainability for the residential construction industry. His firm SK Collaborative consults on and provides green certification for single and multifamily buildings. Previously he owned and operated SawHorse, Inc., one of the largest design/build renovation firms in Atlanta for over 25 years. At SawHorse, he was instrumental in the development of the EarthCraft House renovation program and personally supervised the pilot projects. He has won more than 100 industry awards and held numerous leadership positions in the building and remodeling industries including the board of the Atlanta branch of the USGBC. In addition to his duties at SK Collaborative, he blogs as the Green Curmudgeon at GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, and serves as half of the Green Police in Hanley Wood's video product reviews. He is the co-author of the Green Building, Principles and Practices in Residential Construction, the first college textbook on green building, and the LEED for Homes Version 4 Reference Guide. Carl is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied architecture, fine arts, and design.
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- Senior Program Officer, U.S. Program Team Institute for Sustainable Communities
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- Design Principal and Founder
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- President & CEO Electro - Federation Canada
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- Director of Capacity Building Groundwork USA
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- Partner
- Partner at Landon Bone Baker Architects
Catherine Baker is a partner at Landon Bone Baker Architects, a 25 year old Chicago firm focused on affordable housing and community-based design. Catherine manages various projects including; master planning of neighborhoods, new and renovated single-family housing, and multi-family housing. Catherine is active in Chicago's architectural educational community - focused mainly on CPS high school students and she recently coordinated AIA Chicago's Tiny Homes Competition.
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- Founder Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Celeste Allen Novak FAIA, LEED AP, principal of Celeste Allen Novak Architect is a nationally recognized leader, author and teacher of sustainablity and green building systems and materials. An international and national speaker she is an advocate for sustainable design, with a focus on rainwater collection systems. She presents current research and case studies on rainwater collection system design from "Designing Rainwater Harvesting Systems - Integrating Rainwater into Building Systems"by Novak, VanGeisen and Debusk, published by Wiley in 2014. Her Architectural Record article on this topic was awarded the most read 2012 Continuing Education Article on rainwater which has over 204,000 readers, providing over 5,000 AIA CEU credits.
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- Acting Chief Architect, Public Buildings Service and Director, Center for Workplace Strategy U.S. General Services Administration
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- Architect, Creative Problem Solver Cheryl Morgan Design
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- President Architecture for the Blind
Since losing sight in 2008, Chris has infused his 20 years of sighted architectural practice with his blind experience now specializing in projects for the visually impaired including rehabilitation centers, eye clinics and transit projects. He teaches Universal Design at UCB, serves on the California commission on disability Access, is president of Architecture for the Blind, is the board president for the SF LightHouse for the Blind and has been featured in numerous media stories including AIA's 2015 documentary, "An Architect's Story".
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- Product Manager for Windows, Balcony Entrances, and Sustainability Kawneer / Dean Givas
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- Director the Endeavour Centre
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- Architecture / Director of the Center for Integrated Design, College of Built Environments University of Washington
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- Executive Director, Construction Review Services Washington State Department of Health
Chris Ambridge has more than two decades of architectural project experience. This experience results in innovative, solutions-oriented approaches to planning, programming, and design through all project phases. He holds a Diploma and Master's in Architecture from Cambridge University. Ambridge is professionally registered in the United Kingdom and in the District of Columbia and is an active member of AIA.
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- Managing Director
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- Managing Director, Principal Perkins Will Washington, DC
- Member of the U.S. Green Building Council
Chris Morrison, FAIA, Managing Director, Principal in the Perkins+Will Washington, DC office, has more than 25 years of experience in architecture, historic preservation, sustain¬ability, adaptive reuse and planning. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry at St. Louis University and a master of architecture degree at the University of Maryland.
Deeply committed to environmental sustainability in design practice, he served as the principal in charge in the design and approval of the first LEED-certified condominium in Washington, DC. He collaborated on the AIA's An Architect's Guide to Integrating Energy Modeling in the Design Process (2012). Morrison spoke on this topic at the 2012 AIA National Convention and on the IgCC in Practice, at the 2013 AIA National Convention.
Morrison is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Lambda Alpha International and the DC Preservation League. He also serves as a lecturer and guest architectural critic for the University of Maryland, a guest architectural critic for the Catholic University of America, and as a supervisor and mentor for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Intern Development Program. A Fellow and very active member of the American Institute of Architects, Morrison has served on the National Board, on numerous committees and has represented the group in several capacities over the years.
His projects have received numerous design awards, including, most recently, The Catalyst Award and The Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects Washington Chapter, the D.C. Mayor's Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation, a Merit Award from the General Services Administration's Design Excellence Program, and the Custom Home Award from Custom Home Magazine.
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- Principal Continuum Advisory Group
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- Principal Historical Concepts
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- Director of Strategy Placetailor
- the Strategic Director of Placetailor
Colin Booth is the Strategic Director of Placetailor, a Boston-based design-build-develop cooperative focused exclusively on Passive House and Zero Emissions workforce housing. With 20 years in design, Colin's expertise is in the integrated design process and integrated delivery models necessary for the rapid adoption of more sustainable solutions.
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- Associate Dean for Research / Associate Professor of Architecture Penn State Altoona
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- Assistant City Manager Dubuque, Iowa
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- Senior Building Science Engineer Lutron Electronics Co., Inc
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- Founding Partner Snøhetta
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- Vice President of Operations GCS - SIGAL
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- Design Technology Specialist ZGF Architects
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- Marketing Manager Mitchelle Giurgola
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- Construction Consultant Darren J. Duzyk, PLLC
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- Founder of the Valuegraphics Database
David Allison is the founder of The Valuegraphics Database, the world's first database that can predict and influence behavior for anything on earth. He is a pioneer of ‘Values Thinking' as the new best practice for organizational decision-making.
He spent his career working on campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world, building an award-winning marketing creative firm, and writing three influential books on communications strategy. All this left him questioning a fundamental concept of marketing: in a post-demographic era when age, gender, income, and education no longer restrict how we choose to live, he wondered, why are we still using demographics to understand how target audiences behave?
He sold his firm in 2015, and began work with a team of university researchers to launch, collect and analyze a half-million surveys about why groups of people behave the way they do. The data was immediately clear on two points. First, demographics were a shockingly ineffective way to understand how groups behaved. More importantly, leveraging shared values turned out to be the most powerful way he'd ever seen to trigger behavior for anything. Now, for the first time, there was accessible, customizable, empirical data that proved what we value determines what we do.
Further data analysis revealed that we waste 90% of our time and money trying to engage target audiences using demographics. What could we do with 90% of our financial and human resources re-deployed elsewhere? What if we only did things that people cared about? Wouldn't the world be better off if everything was based on the values we share? Since then, David has coined the term, and become a champion of, Values Thinking, the new best practice for organizational decision-making in a post-demographic world. His background consulting, writing, speaking, and creating simple stories from complex ideas has helped amplify the global shift away from outdated demographic stereotypes towards a more inclusive values-based society. His company provides clients with data-driven personas that pinpoint precisely which values most powerfully trigger behavior for anything on earth. His mission is to change the way we look at the world.
His latest book, We Are All the Same Age Now: Valuegraphics and the End of Demographic Stereotypes, was a number one global marketing bestseller within 48 hours of its release. Kirkus Reviews called it "A genuinely original contribution to marketing literature," and INC Magazine named it one of the top ten leadership books of the year.
David is one of the founders and current Director of the California Straw Building Association (CASBA). He is past-President of Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADSPR) and served for twelve years as a board member of the Solar Living Institute (SLI). He has taught and lectured on the subject of sustainable design for over twenty years. David is a native of Wisconsin and earned his B.Arch from the University of Minnesota. A licensed architect since 1991, he spent four years as project architect and planner with Van der Ryn Architects - most notably on the Real Goods Solar Living Center - and apprenticed with Obie Bowman at The Sea Ranch. While in graduate school at UC Berkeley he also worked with Peter Calthorpe and Dan Solomon, focusing on mixed-use, city and regional planning issues. David and Anni are married and live in a 100-year-old solar and wind-powered home in Albany, CA, where David served as a planning and zoning commissioner for over 10 years.
Arkin Tilt Architects, founded by principals David Arkin and Anni Tilt in 1997, is an ecological planning and design firm in Berkeley, CA. Winner of the Acterra Business Award for the Sustainable Built Environment in 2002 and 2016, the 2011 Cool California Small Business Award, and numerous design awards, their work has been published nationally and internationally for excellence in design and sustainability. The firm has a particular focus on "alternative" construction methods, such as straw bale and earth. Both principals lecture on the subject of sustainable design and have been on the boards of the Ecological Building Network and Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). They are among the founding members of the California Straw Building Association (CASBA); David is the current director.
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- COO and Principal ROSSETTI
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- Program Director, CNS National Science Foundation
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- Executive Director and Lead Strategy Catalyst Forward through Ferguson
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- Founder and CEO IMPACT Management Systems, Inc
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- Associate
- Product Manager for Windows, Balcony Entrances, and Sustainability Kawneer / Dean Givas
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- Low Vision Optometrist, Division of Optometry Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic
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- Chief of Engineering BlocPower
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- Architect and Design Manager Turner Construction Company
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- Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel HOK
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- Professor Pennsylvania College of Technology
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- Managing Director, Principal Gensler
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- Director of Research Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law
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- Assistant Vice - President and University Architect Arizona State University
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- Chief, Planning Branch, Installation Readiness Division HQ US Army Corps of Engineers
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- Senior Associate and Strategy Director at Gensler
- Senior Associate, Strategy Director Gensler
Elaine is a senior associate and strategy director at Gensler. A connector, catalyst, instigator and communicator, Elaine believes solutions to the wickedest problems come in many forms and often from the most unexpected places. Positive impact comes from thoughtful, informed and tangible solutions, achieved when passionate people come together around a shared narrative and common goals. Trained as an architect, Elaine's approach to problem solving balances visionary ideals with realistic measures. As a visual communicator, she excels at organizational development and innovation process. Elaine has worked across the private, public and non-profit sectors with a current focus on supporting mission driven organizations. In addition to leading a regional initiative to drive more community-engaged practices into design projects, she also helped launch gServe, Gensler's CSR program, and serves on the firmwide steering committee. Active in the local social enterprise community, she fosters connection and collaboration across organizations.
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- Founding Principal Supernormal
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- Owner Avanza Business Group
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- Senior Associate / Project Architect OMNIPLAN
Harvard-educated Eric Fisher (AIA, LEED AP) puts the experience he has gained working for renowned architects around the world to use in his hometown: He runs Fisher ARCHitecture, an innovative, green Pittsburgh architecture/design firm. FISHER ARCHitecture creates "experiential" buildings that are sustainable and affordable. Since starting his firm in 2004, Mr. Fisher has taught at CMU and has designed homes, businesses, restaurants, churches, museums, parks, community centers, furniture, and even bridges in Western Pennsylvania.
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- Principal Oliner Consulting LLC
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- Founder Eric Owen Moss Architects
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- Senior Associate and Architect DLR Group
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- Senior Experience Designer
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- Principal Raymond - Cox Consulting, LLC
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- Sustainable Structures & Materials Specialist
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- Director of Marketing and Communications Valerio Dewalt Train
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- VP of Development, Design and Construction the DESCO Group, Inc
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- Vice President GCS - SIGAL
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- Architect - Project Manager KCCT
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- Chief Development Officer
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- Architect and Co - Founding Principal Schemata Workshop
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- Sustainability / High Performance Building Leader Organization Spagnolo Gisness & Associates
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- Principal and Building Sustainability Practice Leader Thornton Tomasetti
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- Senior Specialist, Environment Carbon International Living Future Institute
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- Principal / Director of LINE HKS
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- Research Associate Professor University of Washington Integrated Design Lab ( IDL )
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- Executive Vice President Engineered Tax Services ( ETS )
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- Principal Architect / Educator / Planner
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- Commercial Training Manager
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- Instructor DesignBuildBLUFF, the University of Utah
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- Vice President and Architect HKS
With more than 20 years of experience, Holly Egan Arnold, AIA, LEED AP is an architect and a vice president with HKS in San Francisco. Specializing in multi-family housing and mixed-use development, Holly is a project manager for several projects in the Bay Area and Northern California. As the recipient of HKS' 2017/18 Ideas Fellowship, Holly led a team that studied and researched the optimization of multi-family housing, to understand how architects can impact multi-family development through design and exercise influence throughout the development process.
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- Director of Sustainable Design Hickok Cole Architects
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- Principal I Design Access, LLC
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- Data Dissemination Specialist
Illya Azaroff, FAIA is the founding principal of +LAB architect whose mission is to build resilient capacity and advance goals for a sustainable, regenerative future while giving underserved communities greater voice and visibility. He is an internationally recognized leader in disaster mitigation, resilient planning, and design strategies. An Associate professor at New York City of Technology (CUNY). He serves as a technical expert for the New York Climate Impact Assessment appointed by Governor Hochul. As AIA New York state disaster coordinator, he founded the AIA Unified Task Force City and State addressing impacts of COVID19. Illya is advising HUD, the federal government, as part of the Resilient Housing Task force. While with ICC/ANCR- the Alliance for National Community Resilience helped create community resilience benchmarking system. He is a founding director of KIGRR - Kalinago Institute for Global Resilience and Regeneration on the island of Dominica. His office is advancing culturally significant community resilience hubs and regenerative cluster housing in several communities across the world. He served as the 2021 AIA New York State president and founding co-chair DfRR Design for Risk and Reconstruction at AIA New York (2011-21). Prior to coming to New York, he worked in Germany, Italy and Holland. He has worked in the field for over 25 years
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- Co - Founder and Managing Partner New Frameworks Natural Design / Build
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- Research Fellow EskewDumezRipple
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- Associate Principal and Director of Sustainable Design BR a Consulting Engineers
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- Senior Director NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program
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- Vice President World Deaf Architecture
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- Design Manager / Architect US Army Corps of Engineers
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- Founder Historical Concepts
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- Principal ADEPT Project Delivery LLC
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- Architect / Project Manager University of Wisconsin Madison
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- Director of Research and Development MasterGraphics.Aec
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- Director of Program Management WMG Development, LLC
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- Director of Organizing Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
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- Managing Principal a / E / C / Revenue Path Group
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- Global Director of Design, Principal Gensler
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- Associate Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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- Principal Architect / Owner J Kretschmer Architect
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- Principal Brininstool Lynch
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- Architect and Associate VLK Architects
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- Principal Boulder Associates Architects
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- Executive Director MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
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- President Eutectics Consulting
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- President Interstate Electrical Services Corporation
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- Chairman / CEO Greenway Group
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- Executive Vice President Dellbrook JKS
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- Professor University of Miami School of Architecture / Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine
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- Professor Columbia College Chicago
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- Founding Principal Valerio Dewalt Train
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- Adjunct Professor of Architecture Barnard / Columbia Undergraduate Architecture Department
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- Executive Director International Sea Level Institute
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- Co - Owner the Modern Reel
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- Retired Healthcare Architect / Construction Executive
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- Steering Committee Member, FGI 2022 Edition
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- Partner WSDIA ( WeShouldDoItAll )
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- Associate AIA, CNU - a / Project Director, Urban Designer / Town Planner Dover, Kohl & Partners
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- Integrated Construction Manager Mortenson
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- Chairman the Sound Agency
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- Partner Bjarke Ingels Group
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- Founder, Managing Principal Studio Pacifica
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- Chief, Green Building and Climate Branch, Urban Sustainability Administration District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment
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- Vice President of Design Enterprise Community Partners
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- Principal Consultant Cameron MacAllister Group
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- Development Manager, Pier 70 Forest City Enterprises
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- Research Fellow EskewDumezRipple
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- Director Sasaki Strategies
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- Research Knowledge Manager Perkins & Will
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- Senior Project Manager Hester Street
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- Sustainability Services Director Miller Hull Partnership
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- Facilities Manager City of Portland
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- Assistant Director of Building Permitting and Sustainability City of Winter Park
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- Director of Design Phase Management Mortenson
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- Associate Professor of Architecture University of Southern California
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- Associate Professor, School of Architecture UNC Charlotte
Laura Heim has over 30 years of experience in architecture and historic preservation. Her award-winning firm, Laura Heim Architect, PLLC has completed 25 projects in the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, including the Skillman Avenue Residence,which received a 2010 AIANYS Award of Merit. She has taught architectural design/history at the University of Virginia, University of Florida and NYIT. She served as the Chair of the Architecture Committee of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance and as president of AIA Queens 2009-2010.
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- Senior Production Designer Bellwether Corp
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- Chief Collaboration Archictect ALLL / Leapfrog Project
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- Brand Strategist & Creative Consultant
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- Senior Sustainability Analyst Integrated Eco Strategy
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- Principal Owner Transition Advisory
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- President Wainger Group, LLC
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- Vice President of Industry Marketing Houzz
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- Director of Sustainability and Climate Action Goody Clancy
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- Executive Director Institute for Market Transformation ( IMT )
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- Vice President, Research FM Global
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- Low Vision Optometrist, Division of Optometry Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic
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- International Associate AIA, CCM / Director for the Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs at Massport Massachusetts Port Authority
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- Senior Vice President for University Relations and Public Affairs New York University
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- Professor of Architecture University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign
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- Consulting Team Lead, Americas, and Senior Consultant Sphera
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- Distinguished Professor of Architecture University of Miami
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- Associate Professor, Urban Planning Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation ( GSAPP )
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- Principal
- Principal of Appleton & Associates Inc
Marc Appleton is Principal of Appleton & Associates Inc. Architects with offices in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. He worked for several architectural firms, including Benjamin Thompson & Associates, MacAllister, Rinehart & Ring, and Frank O. Gehry & Associates, before opening Appleton & Associates Inc. in 1976.
His design work has received many awards and been widely published in Architectural Digest, Town and Country, and other periodicals. He has consistently been named one of AD's top 100 Designers. In 1999, he wrote a new introduction and bibliography for Acanthus Press' reprint of Rexford Newcomb's Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States, Followed by this publication of George Washington Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook, and is currently working on several forthcoming books.
Marc is a founding member of the Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch Foundation in Arizona and the Mingei International Museum of World Folks Art in San Diego. He has served on the Board of Trustees for Prescott College in Arizona, and currently serves on a number of committees and boards, including the Board of Trustees for Cooper Union, New York, The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, and the Dean's Council of the Yale School of Architecture.
His travels have included Belgium, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, England, France, Guatemala, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama and Switzerland.
Marc is a graduate of Harvard College (1968), and has a Masters of Architecture degree from the Yale School of Architecture (1972).
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- Principal / Assistant Professor SILO AR D Llc
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- Professor, Lighting Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Principal Office of the Town Architect
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- Founding Principal / Lead Designer Mark Cavagnero Associates
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- Director of Building Data Solutions TRC Worldwide Engineering
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- Historic Preservation Specialist
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- Vice President / High Performance Buildings Practice Leader, Americas / Architecture Practice and Technical Director, Northeast Region AECOM
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- Vice President Tnemec Company
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- Executive Director PCI Foundation
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- Architect, Principal EYP Architecture and Engineering
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- Senior Director of Facilities Planning, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
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- Managing Director, Sustainable Housing Services Steven Winter Associates
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- Sustainable Building Advisor
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- Senior Director and Counsel AIA Contract Documents
Michael E. Potter, AIA, Owner Potter Architecture, LLC, is a member of AIA Wyoming. He is a former member of AIA Wyoming Board of Directors for thirteen years. He is an AIA Wyoming SGN Representative and WMR SFx Representative. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1972 with a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering with an Architectural Option, licensed in 1996. He served in the United States Air Force from 1972 to 1976. He worked for several firms from 1976 to 2002 before starting POTTER ARCHITECTURE, a single man office. Active in Government Affairs and advocacy for the profession.
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- Principal, RTKL Associates
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- Member Manager Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych, LLC
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- Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning New York City Department of City Planning
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- Partner, Director of Virtual Design and Construction Spagnolo Gisness & Associates
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- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman TLC Engineering Solutions, Inc
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- Deputy Chief of Facilities DC Public Schools
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- Founder and Principal Architect Lassel Architects
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- Owner Michele Grace Hottel, Architect
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- Founding Principal Spatializing
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- Senior Engineer of Technical Services Southface Energy Institute
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- Vice President Oyster Development Corp
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- Director, Technical Services Interface
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- Leadership Coach, Certified Master Facilitator TM, Organizational Development Consultant
Nancy Alexander, a long-time partner to architects and the building industry, is a leadership coach, Certified Master FacilitatorTM, and organizational development consultant. Nancy holds a BA (sociology) and MBA from Yale, an MA in women's studies, an executive coaching certificate from Columbia University, and the diploma in systemic team coaching from the Academy of Executive Coaching, U.K. Nancy lectures at the Yale School of Architecture, where she serves on the Dean's Council and facilitated the school's strategic plans, culture and climate survey, and five-year DEIBelonging plan. She has also served ACSA, BIMForum/AGC, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, KPFF, Architecture Lobby, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Autodesk, and several private firms and university departments.
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- Executive Director the Construction Institute, Inc
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- Manager
- Manager at Cosentino
As regional façade manager at Cosentino, Natasha Appel leads, trains, and coordinates façade projects, including ventilated facades and direct adhere facades. Natasha has a thorough knowledge and understanding of ventilated façade systems, porcelain materials, gaged panel, and setting materials, along with codes and regulations associated with building codes. Previously she worked as an architect on projects ranging from 250,000 to over 3 million square feet and has been exposed to a variety of project types in over 20 countries, as well as consultant and client relationships. She was a finalist in National Design and Delineation competitions for five consecutive years, she also received a Women in Architecture scholarship by the Dallas Architectural Foundation.
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- Director of Emerging Technologies
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- Project Development Director Hensel Phelps
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- Associate Dean, Facilities Planning and Management Stanford University School of Medicine
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- Project Architect Quattrocchi Kwok Architects
- Young Architects Representative for California
Olivia has oriented her career path towards advocating for inclusive design. She received her undergraduate degree in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley, then began her professional career at Equity Community Builders helping non-profit organizations with their construction management needs. This includes assisting in the construction management of the Ed Roberts Campus, a universally-designed building in Berkeley, CA. After receiving her Master of Architecture degree from University of Oregon, she served as an architect at Shah Kawasaki Architects in Oakland, CA, working on public safety buildings and office spaces for public sector clients. Currently, Olivia is a Project Architect at Quattrocchi Kwok Architects, working on K-12 educational facilities.
Aside from design, Olivia is passionate about improving architecture through research. Her independent project, "Accessible Evacuation: Improving Fire Safety and Building Evacuation for People with Disabilities," has been presented in various symposia, and won First Place for the Student Best Design Award at the Environmental Design Research Association's 46th Annual Conference. She has also collaborated with University of Oregon professors on the post-occupancy evaluation project, "Building Design for Users with Disabilities: Building Performance Evaluation of Ed Roberts Campus." Her latest research accomplishment is receiving the Fulbright Scholarship, where she plans to travel to the Philippines to assess the accessibility of elementary schools.
Olivia currently serves as the AIA Young Architects Representative for California. She strongly believes that our design decisions have the potential to create physical symbols that tear down social barriers and inequalities.
Raised in Southern Illinois in a family of contractors and farmers, Pamela had an early appreciation of the world of creating, building, and real-life earth stewardship through farming. Completing degrees in interior design, architecture, and business graduate school, she succeeded in the arena of design and architecture. She worked in the Tech sector owner side building out projects for 10 years, owned an A&D practice for 20 years, and joined RS&H, Inc. in 2014 as part of her life goal to live in Colorado. Pamela has three children and is widowed. Pamela supports the western US in business development, architecture, and design for RS&H.
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- Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Executive Vice President Auerbach Pollock Friedlander Auerbach Glasow
Patricia Glasow has designed hundreds of lighting projects. Her strength lies in the blending of design and technical expertise particularly for specialized applications. She has worked in architecture for decades, but was formally trained in theatrical lighting design and worked for Walt Disney Enterprises early in her career. Her lighting has been recognized with awards from numerous industry organizations and she is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.
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- Principal and Studio Head Michael Graves Architecture & Design
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- Vice President / Chief Engineer P2S Engineering, Inc
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- Senior Principal and Global Sector Leader for Culture Performing Arts DLR Group
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- Professor Emerita Yale University School of Architecture
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- Managing Director Carrig Conservation International Limited
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- Principal, Institutional Market Sector Leader JCJ Architecture
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- Design Sales Representative
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- Associate Professor Department of Architectural Science, Toronto Metropolitan University
For more than 20 years, Peter Waller, AIA has been leading the design of large-scale multifamily housing developments for PYATOK. He has particular expertise in the areas of mixed-use, adaptive re-use, and affordable housing, all with an eye toward creating transit-oriented developments that build more livable, sustainable communities. In addition to designing for urban communities, Peter regularly engages in housing issues on a policy level. Peter contributes his insights and perspective to debates over affordable housing and urban development and speaks about the need for equitable transit-oriented development through task forces, speaking engagements, and pro bono projects. Peter is also on the board of EBHO, East Bay Housing Organizations, one of the leading organizations advocating for affordable housing and tenant rights.
Phil Bernstein is an architect, technologist and educator who is Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture, where he received his B.A (honors) and M.Arch and has taught since 1988. He was formerly a Vice President at Autodesk where he was responsible for setting the company's future vision and strategy for BIM technology as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm's relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to Autodesk Phil was a principal at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects where he managed many of the firm's most complex commissions. He is the author Architecture | Design | Data - Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (2018) and co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture (2010 with Peggy Deamer), and speaks and writes extensively on technology, practice, and project delivery. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and former Chair of the AIA National Contract Documents Committee. His upcoming book on artificial intelligence and design practice will be published by RIBA in 2021.
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- Co - Founder / Principal SITELAB Urban Studio
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- Chief Legal Officer and Principal HKS Architects, Inc
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- Professor of Architecture Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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- Executive Director Groundwork Northeast Revitalization Group ( Groundwork NRG )
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- President Building Bridges across the River
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- Founding Partner Meeting the Challenge, Inc
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- Director, Design Leadership Initiatives Enterprise Community Partners
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- President Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
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- Vice President of Investment Partnerships Charrette Venture Group
Ric Abramson AIA established his firm Workplays studio*architecture in 2003. His firms projects have been credited for their typological innovation and neighborhood-based approach to "situational" citymaking. His studio's architectural solutions reflect a balance of 21st century patterns of living with an environmental responsiveness and community engagement ethos. Ric. Abramson studied architecture as a Fulbright scholar and visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.
He has been a member of the USC School of Architecture and SCI-Arc faculty and has lectured nationally and locally on housing and creative land development issues. Within the Institute, he has been very active in professional advocacy and small firm education and currently serving as the California rep on the Small Firm Round Table and co-Chair of its Small Firm AIA National Convention Committee.
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- Expert, Researcher
- Research Associate, Florida Center for Environmental Studies Florida Atlantic University
Ricardo Alvarez is internationally recognized as an expert, researcher, educator, speaker and panelists, media resource, writer, editor and peer-reviewer, and consultant in the fields of: Hazard Mitigation; Vulnerability Assessment; Climate Change Adaptation focusing on the Built-Environment; Coastal region vulnerability, risk and resilience; Hazard-resistant Design and Construction; Risk assessment and Management; Mitigation Planning, and Benefit-cost analysis applied to mitigation alternatives.
In addition to his private consulting activities, Ricardo is also a Research Associate of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and a member of the Miami-Dade County Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) Steering Committee. Previously he was Deputy Director of the International Hurricane Research Center, member of the Florida State Hazard Mitigation Plan Advisory Committee, and Board member of Hurricane Warning Project. For sixteen years he was a professor of Vulnerability Analysis and Hazard Mitigation for the Master of Construction Management program at Florida International University. He has also taught for the Crisis Management Executive MBA program at FAU.
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- Associate Professor of Architecture University of Washington
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- Supervisor, Building Standards Unit Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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- Executive Director, Design and Construction Excellence City of New York, Department of Design and Construction
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- Interim Director of the Office of Planning and Community Development City of Seattle
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- Senior Associate / Senior Historic Preservation Expert EYP
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- Lead Scientist, Global Cities the Nature Conservancy
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- President / CEO Waterfront Alliance
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- Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice World Bank
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- Buildings & Energy Program Manager City of Seattle, Office of Sustainability and Environment
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- Principal & Founder Form & Flow
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- Vice President Building Bridges across the River / Director 11th Street Bridge Park
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- Design Technologist Sasaki Strategies
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- Certified Planner and Registered Professional Civil Engineer
- Vice President, Director of Planning Nitsch Engineering
Scott Turner is a certified planner and registered professional civil engineer with 19 years of experience. He is responsible for the management and growth of Nitsch Engineering's sustainable site consulting, stormwater master planning, campus planning, GIS, and transportation planning practice areas. In addition, Scott provides planning and site design services for commercial and private sector development.
Scott is active in a number of professional organizations including the American Planning Association, NAIOP Massachusetts, Urban Land Institute, and the Massachusetts Association of Consulting Planners. He is a Trustee of the South Shore Economic Development Commission and is a member of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering and Environmental Studies from Tufts University and his M.S. in City Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Nitsch Engineering Leadership)
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- Founder & Lead Principal Calfee Zoning
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- Associate Director MIXdesign
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- Designer of Acoustic and Digital Space Arup
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- Dir. Education, Events, & Communications Softwood Lumber Board
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- Implementation Project Manager New York University Medical Center
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor Department of Urban Planning and Policy / Director of Applied Research and Strategic Partnerships, Social Justice Initiative University of Illinois Chicago
Stacey Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and the Director of Applied Research and Strategic Partnerships at University of Illinois Chicago's Social Justice Initiative. Her scholarship and teaching are in community economic development, with a central focus on racial and economic justice; economic democracy and worker-owned cooperatives; movement building and the solidarity economy; gentrification and dispossession; neighborhood small business dynamics; and disparate effects of punitive policy. Her frameworks for research and community engagement entail advancing "cooperative cities" and the solidarity economy and critiquing "punitive cities."
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- President Stacy Norman Architects, LLC
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- Executive Director Building Transparency / Director of Sustainability SKANSKA USA
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- Senior Researcher Carbon Leadership Forum
Stephanie's work investigates the interaction between the natural and constructed environment, including embodied carbon, life cycle assessment (LCA), urban ecology, landscape performance and supply chains and toxicity of building materials. Combining a background in environmental science and architectural design, she builds bridges between research and practice, bringing data-driven analysis and topical research to complex design problems. This experience will be applied towards improving the EC3 tool as well as other carbon data initiatives at the Carbon Leadership Forum.
She most recently was a Principal at KieranTimberlake Architects where she was an environmental researcher in the firm's interdisciplinary research group. She is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and a Co-Editor-In-Chief of Scenario Journal.
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- Assistant Professor Ryserson School of Interior Design
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- Senior Director, Industry Insights Research Dodge Data & Analytics
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- Writer and Television Producer
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- Director, University of Arkansas Community Design Center ( UACDC )
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- Managing Principal Whitehorn Financial Group
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- Senior Vice President of Engineering Gate Precast Company
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- Mayor Columbia, South Carolina
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- Sustainability Manager Consigli
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- Associate Principal, Senior Mechanical Engineer Interface Engineering
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- Principal - in - Charge and CEO Indigenous Design Studio Architecture
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- Director and Research Associate Professor Florida Center for Community Design and Research, School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida
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- Director of State Construction Codes and Industrialized Buildings Georgia Department of Community Affairs ( DCA )
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- Principal and Building Sustainability Practice Leader Thornton Tomasetti
- Senior Associate, Sustainability
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- Director of Sustainable Design National Community Renaissance
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- Vice President of National Sales SAFTI FIRST
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- Industrial Marketing Manager, Building and Construction Covestro
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- Executive Director San Francisco Housing Action Coalition ( SFHAC )
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- Senior Director, Strategic Building Innovation BimSCORE
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- Chief of Corrections Davidson County Sheriff 's Office
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- Vice President, Chief Engineer and Deputy COO Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
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- Director Civic Impact WXY
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- Executive Editor at Windy City Times
- Publisher, Executive Editor Windy City Times
Tracy Baim is publisher and executive editor at Windy City Times, a weekly LGBTQ newspaper which she co-founded in 1985. Baim is the founder of the Pride Action Tank, which hosted a summit on tiny homes for the homeless in 2016 and co-hosted a tiny homes design competition the same year. Baim received the 2013 Chicago Headline Club Lifetime Achievement Award for her 30 years in journalism. In 2014, she was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame. She has won numerous gay community and journalism honors, including the Community Media Workshop's Studs Terkel Award in 2005 and several Peter Lisagor journalism awards. Baim's most recent book is Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer. Her other books include Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America; Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage; and Out and Proud in Chicago. Baim was executive producer of the lesbian film Hannah Free, starring Sharon Gless, and Scrooge & Marley. She is creator of That's So Gay!, an LGBT trivia game. She was also co-vice chair of Gay Games VII in Chicago, and in 2013 was founder of the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality.
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- Principal / Studio Leader Desmone Architects
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- President, Founding Principal Metrics Mechanical Engineering
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- Director of Research
- Principal
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- Senior Consultant Raymond - Cox Consulting, LLC
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- Director of Research and Operations Architecture 2030
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- Principal and Director of Sustainability
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- Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff the Boldt Company
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- ADA Expert Witness Department of Justice
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- Manager, Document Processing Unit Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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- Architect and Project Manager TreanorHL Architects
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- Chief Sustainability Officer
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- Assistant Professor University of Virginia
Zena has over 25 years of experience as an architect and project leader with a career focused on private and public institutions, museum and cultural facilities, libraries, and higher education facilities. She is Senior Project Manager for the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture through her position at Perkins + Will. As project leader, Zena is the point person executing the Smithsonian's multiple decades of planning and investment and achieving critical schedule, budget and quality performance outcomes.