JAN HIRD POKORNY ASSOCIATES - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Bookkeeper

Amrit Kharas attended Delhi University in India where she obtained a degree in computer science. Amrit has been a bookkeeper with JHPA since 2008.

Job Titles:

• Designer
• Architectural Designer

EXPERIENCE Jimena Bruguera is an architectural designer focused on historic preservation and adaptive reuse. She is skilled in research, design, computer-aided drafting, construction administration and project management. Since joining the firm she has worked on the restoration of a variety of projects including the North Loggia Elevation at the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan. Ms. Bruguera has varied architectural experiences ranging from urban design to working on the staging and construction of theatrical sets. After graduating as an Architect, Ms. Bruguera worked for the Architectural Department in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she focused on the restoration and adaptive reuse of landmark city-owned buildings. Before relocating to New York, Ms. Bruguera was invited to work on an adaptive reuse project in Madrid, Spain converting an 1881 landmark train terminal, Principe Pio, into a theatre for musical shows. Since Ms. Bruguera moved to New York she has focused on finding the balance between incorporating new design layouts while preserving original architectural features into mostly single family residential projects. She enjoys converting multifamily brownstones and townhouses back to their original family use and she has established close working relationships with clients to help them achieve their needs and priorities. While studying architecture, Ms. Bruguera completed an internship with the Urban Planning Department of the City of Buenos Aires surveying and documenting institutional and cultural buildings within the City Historic Neighborhoods. Ms. Bruguera wrote her final thesis on La Candelaria neighborhood in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, focusing on the interaction of Colonial Architecture with modern structures. While studying scenic design and construction at the Teatro Colon, she had the opportunity to work on the construction of several different Opera and Ballet sets for visiting Regisseurs. In New York Ms. Bruguera held an internship at Hudson Scenic Studio assisting in the construction of theatrical sets in the carpentry department, and acted as a facilitator for the Sherman Creek Area Planning Workshop. EDUCATION 1998 Colon National Opera Theatre, Buenos Aires Argentina. 1997 M.A. in Architecture, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Job Titles:

• Designer
• Architectural Designer

EXPERIENCE Kurt Hirschberg serves as an architectural designer with knowledge in architectural research, computer-aided design, preparation of construction documents, HABS/HAER documentation, materials conservation, preservation planning, photo documentation, and project management. Mr. Hirschberg is an avid local preservationist in northern New Jersey. He is active with several local historical societies, dealing with museum preservation and management of historic facilities. He has organized several local history programs, workshops, and exhibits at the local level. In addition, Mr. Hirschberg serves on the Board of Trustees of Historic Speedwell in Morristown NJ, the birthplace of the electromagnetic telegraph. He has also served as commissioner with the Hanover Township Landmark Commission. Since joining JHPA, Mr. Hirschberg has worked on several projects for the firm, producing schematic, design development, and construction documents for the Brooklyn Historical Society, The National Lighthouse Center and Museum, The Plainfield Railroad Station, The Merchant's House Museum, and Church of the Ascension. While at Drew University in 1999, Mr. Hirschberg worked on the Historic Structure Report and preservation plan for Seminary Hall, a turn-of-the-century collegiate gothic building on campus that had fallen into disrepair. In 1998 Mr. Hirschberg prepared NJ State and National Register Nominations as well as HABS/HAER documentation for the Illumination Gas Plant at the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains, NJ. This was a rare abandoned illumination coal gas plant of stone construction and unusual octagon shape constructed in 1876 from a design by Samuel Sloan. EDUCATION 1999 Certificate in Historic Preservation, Drew University 1998 B. Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Job Titles:

• Director of Conservation

EXPERIENCE Michael Devonshire is an architectural conservator with forty years experience in the field of historic preservation. He is skilled in materials analysis, conditions assessment, materials specification, and project management. His knowledge of building documentation and technology is comprehensive, with a particular emphasis on pre-Colonial Dutch and English wood frame buildings. Mr. Devonshire began his career as a restoration coordinator for the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites' office at the Schermerhorn Row Block in New York City. From 1981 to 1985 Mr. Devonshire served as senior conservator for the Center for Building Conservation (CBC), performing construction history documentation and materials investigation. For CBC he directed several restoration projects, including the Hunterfly Road Houses in Brooklyn, New York, and the Lord & Burnham Palmhouse at Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island. He also directed window restoration and energy conservation retrofit upgrades at the Tweed Courthouse in New York City, and performed the restoration of interior decorative plaster at Carnegie Hall. From 1985 to 1987 Mr. Devonshire was a restoration foreman at the National Trust Restoration Workshop in Tarrytown, New York. In that position, he supervised restoration work at Wards Castle in Rye, New York, a structure that pioneered the use of reinforced concrete in the United States. As Senior Architectural Conservator with JHPA, Mr. Devonshire supervised investigation of the copper cladding at the Erie-Lackawanna Rail and Ferry Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, and conducted a condition assessment at Mills Mansion State Historic Site in Staatsburg, New York. In addition, he was responsible for restoration work at both the Church of the Incarnation (1864), which received a Victorian Society Award, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion (1765), which received a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Award, and Walnford House, in Walnford, New Jersey which received a NJHT award. He also directed the compilation of a historic structure report for the Merchant's House Museum (1832) in New York City. Mr. Devonshire recently directed field restoration of the Guilin Building (1920) in Shanghai, PRC, and Manitoga, the Russel Wright Studio, in Garrison, New York. As a principal at JHPA, he has supervised the restoration of several churches in New York and New Jersey. He provided technical assistance for the restoration of the US capitol dome in Washington, DC, and recently supervised the compilation of a Master Plan for Sylvester Manor historic site on Shelter Island, NY. EDUCATION 1997 Attingham School for the Study of the English Country House 1979 BA Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University