Elaine Molinar

Partner, Managing Director

Snøhetta

Elaine Molinar NCARB, AIA, LEED AP

Elaine Molinar began her career as a designer of the Alexandria Library in Egypt after participating in the initial conception for Snøhetta’s winning competition entry. She currently leads general management, strategic planning and business development at Snøhetta

Marlon Blackwell

Principal

Marlon Blackwell Architects

Marlon Blackwell, FAIA

Marlon Blackwell is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as the E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Blackwell is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Gold Medal, the Institute’s highest honor, which recognizes those whose work has had an enduring impact on the theory and practice of architecture

Pat Arnett

Principal

Silman

Pat Arnett, PE

Pat Arnett joined Silman in 1999 and has been a Principal of the firm since 2017. As a studio leader, he has actively designed and managed a diverse range of adaptive reuse, renovation, and new construction projects. Since 2011, Pat has been a studio consultant for the Rice School of Architecture, and he has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University since 2013. He is currently a professional mentor for the Engineers without Borders Manhattan College chapter.

Vishwadeep Deo

Vice President

Thornton Tomasetti

Vishwadeep Deo joined Thornton Tomasetti as a Vice President in 2022, bringing over 20 years of global experience. He leads the design of façades across various sectors, including cultural, institutional, commercial, sports, aviation, transit, and residential. As a Façade Consultant, he investigates façade system designs that intersect analysis, fabrication, assembly, optimization, materiality, and computation—driving designs to achieve more with less. Vish holds a Master of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India.

His project experience includes Princeton University Hobson College, Princeton; Columbus Airport, Columbus; Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center, Cleveland; Air Traffic Control Towers, across continental US; Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, New York City; Seaport L5, Boston; MIT Metropolitan Warehouse, Cambridge; ERC Hotel, Allston; Google campus in Mountain View; Tianjin Juilliard School, Tianjin, China; Qatar Education City Light Rail Stations, Doha, Qatar; the Canadian House of Common Glass Roof and Entrance, Ottawa, Canada; and, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, among others.

Andrew Brown

Senior Architect

Marvel

Andrew Brown, AIA

Andrew Brown is a senior architect at Marvel with a special focus on adaptive reuse and urban redevelopment projects. Andrew leads Marvel’s high school education outreach and university student internship programs. He joined the firm in 2018 following several years of work on public spaces around the United States at James Corner Field Operations.

Sara Gonzalez

Senior Building Envelope Consultant

GMS

Sara Gonzalez joined Gilsanz Murray Steficek’s Building Envelope Consulting Group in 2017. She has an architectural background and specializes in wall panels, curtain wall and window consulting, including involvement in all phases of design and construction. Sara has worked on a wide range of projects, both new construction and renovation with emphasis in the energy code compliance.
Her recent projects include the panelized precast facades for 130 William Street in the Financial District and 11 Hoyt Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the window wall at 355 Exterior Street in the Bronx and the curtain wall facade at Riu Hotel in Times Square. Sara’s recladding and restoration projects include 11 Penn Plaza, 550 Washington Street, 498 Seventh Avenue and 875 Fifth Avenue, each in Manhattan.

Steve Cohen

National Architectural Manager

Kevin Lamyuktseung

Senior Associate

SO – IL

Kevin Lamyuktseung is Senior Associate at SO–IL. His work at the practice focuses on institutional work and culture spaces. His project experience ranges from large-scale work such as the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and K11 Arts and Culture Center in Hong Kong, to private artist studios in Brooklyn New York. He was project leader of the recently completed Amant Foundation, a new 22,000 SF arts and artist residency campus in New York.

He received his Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2013 and continues to engage in academia, having taught at the Pratt Institute GAUD and Columbia GSAPP. Kevin is a frequent guest critic and has lectured at the University of Florida SOA, Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts NYC.

Marguerite Lefevre

Associate

COOKFOX

Marguerite joined COOKFOX in 2015 and has worked on a wide range of projects including large commercial offices, multi-residential and high-end residential projects, as well as various competitions. For the last three years she has worked on St. John’s Terminal. The project team has re-imagined this historic infrastructure as part of the next generation of high-performance and biophilic workplaces. Her role has focused on developing both the massing and the facades of the building.

Sean O’Brien

Principal

SGH

Sean specializes in building science and building enclosure performance, including analysis and simulation of heat/air/moisture migration and energy efficiency issues. He has a particular interest in iconic New York City cultural buildings, helping to make them more sustainable with high-performing enclosures. Sean has investigated and designed repairs for a wide variety of building types and has published papers on topics including mechanical system impacts on building enclosure performance and condensation resistance of windows and curtain walls. He is an active member of several professional organizations in New York and nationally. In addition to his extensive experience in building enclosure design, Sean brings to each project his genuine desires to improve the built environment, meet the client’s specific needs, and help to educate both clients and team members along the way.

Stephen Dayton

Partner

Thomas Phifer and Partners

Stephen Dayton is a founding member of Thomas Phifer and Partners, having joined at its inception in 1997. He has been a partner since 2004. He has been responsible for the design and management of such diverse projects as the United States Courthouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, office tower designs in Washington, DC and Boston, a prototype modular office building for Steelcase Furniture, the renovation of courtrooms for the United States Bankruptcy Court in Phoenix, Arizona, and a 6,000-square-foot residence in the Hudson River Valley.

Jill Lerner

Principal

KPF

Jill Lerner, FAIA

With over 35 years of design and management experience, Jill Lerner has led the design of numerous award-winning academic and institutional research facilities projects for public and private clients throughout the United States. In 2019, Jill was appointed to the New York City Climate Advisory Board enacted by Local Law 97, one of the most ambitious plans for reducing emissions in New York City. She was President of the AIA NY Chapter in 2013, and is currently a Board Member of the Urban Green Council.

Marc McQuade

Associate Principal

Adjaye Associates

Marc McQuade is Associate Principal and co-heads the New York studio overseeing projects in North & South America and the Caribbean. Since joining the firm in 2010, he has been crucial to the growth of the US office having led numerous cultural, civic, and commercial projects. Marc was responsible for the Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Development in Harlem, and led the design of the interior spaces of the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture.

Lisa Rammig

Director

Eckersley O’Callaghan

Lisa leads Eckersley O’Callaghan’s West Coast offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She joined EOC in 2013 to support the practice’s emerging facade engineering group in London and after playing a significant role in the group’s exceptional growth, Lisa has been responsible for the expansion of EOC’s West Coast presence.

Lisa directs EOC’s R&D efforts, focusing on innovative glass designs and technology.

She remains heavily involved in academia particularly with the Facade Research Group at TU Delft where she pursued her doctoral research and has built strong links between research and industry.

Joshua Ramus

Founding Principal

REX

REX’s founding principal, Joshua leads the firm’s team of diverse professionals and remains intimately involved in all the office’s work. Joshua was the first American recipient of the Marcus Prize, the biennial international architecture award conferred by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and the University of Wisconsin, and has been honored by the experimental performance company STREB with their Action Maverick Award. He has also been credited as one of the “5 greatest architects under 50” by HuffPost; the world’s most influential young architects by Wallpaper*; the twenty most influential players in design by Fast Company; “The 20 Essential Young Architects” by ICON magazine; and the “Best and Brightest” by Esquire.

An early member of the TED Advisory Board, Joshua has shared REX’s design methodologies at the TED2006 and TEDxSMU conferences, and lectures frequently at universities, cultural institutions, and symposiums around the world. He has been Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University, among others.

Joshua holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he earned the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship and the SOM Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, magna cum laude with distinction in the major, from Yale University. He is NCARB Certified and a registered architect in states throughout the U.S. and Australia, as well as in The Netherlands.

Louis Moreau

Head of Innovation and Technology

AGNORA

Louis has been with AGNORA since its’ early days and has played an instrumental role in the development and success of the company. As Senior Technical Specialist, he brings a unique mix of international experiences in float manufacturing, high performance vacuum coatings, large building glazing, and high-end glass fabrication. Louis consider architecture as the purest form of art and he loves glass. He likes to explore the limits of materials and process to come with innovative solutions that can be build easily. Most ambitious projects include More London Plot 1 and Plot 6; Mid City Place, London UK; Tour Granite, Paris FR; Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York USA, QMA and Onassis Center staircases.

Jamilla Walcott

Director of Marketing and Product Management

YKK AP

Walcott oversees marketing, communications, branding, and product management, for YKK AP America’s commercial facades and residential businesses; she also supports communications for Erie Architectural Products group. Walcott brings nearly 20 years of B2B marketing experience with manufacturing companies over a variety of industries. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Syracuse University and earned her M.B.A. at Wichita State University; she also served in the armed forces as a U.S. Air Force officer.

Bob Zhang

Sales Director | North America

North Glass

Bob is the Sales Director of Tianjin Northglass for North America, the leading fabricator of specialty and oversized architectural glass for the global construction industry.

Bob has many years of experience working with Quality Control department. Bob was the project manager for Apple Park project in Cupertino, supporting the design team on the glass selection for Apple’s new headquarters. In 2015, Bob came to the US to make more connections with architects and support their designs of future projects with the innovation and capabilities that Northglass has to offer.

Aaron Seward

Editor in Chief

The Architect’s Newspaper

Aaron Seward is Editor-in-Chief of The Architect’s Newspaper. Seward is an award-winning editor whose career has centered on interpreting architecture for the profession and the general public. He was editor of Texas Architect magazine for six years and prior to that held several positions at AN, including executive editor. In addition to those publications, Seward’s writing on architecture, culture, and the built environment has appeared in Architect, Curbed, Domus, Metropolis, and other publications. He has a BA in Literature, Writing and the Arts from The New School for Social Research.

Manuel Schnüpke

Regional Sales Manager North East USA

POHL

Manuel Schnüpke is responsible for Pohl sales activites in North America with strong focus on New York City. Manuel joined Pohl in 2016 and he consults architects, developers, and contractors throughout the design development stages regarding suitable facade systems, materials and surface finishes.

Richard Whittington

Sales and Marketing Coordinator

YKK AP

Since joining Erie in 2016, Whittington injects a blend of technical expertise and a passion for design into the firm. After graduating with a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Carleton University, he started as a 3D product designer with Erie where he developed a technical knowledgebase of facade systems. He advanced his career into Sales and Marketing, where he engages high-profile clients and partners to conceptualize and develop effective facade solutions.

Mark Rusitzky

Partner

COOKFOX

Mark is a partner at COOKFOX and has spent his career focused on sustainable architecture. He believes that the best design helps connect people to nature, and that every project should be viewed through that lens.

Mark joined the COOKFOX studio in 2003 and leads the practice in managing the design of large-scale mixed-use urban projects. Among his work is One Bryant Park, the first LEED Platinum Skyscraper. He served as Project Director for City Point in Downtown Brooklyn, which received the Public Design Commission Annual Award for Excellence in Design and the Brooklyn Building Award for Retail (2013). He is currently the Partner-in-Charge for the St. John’s Terminal project spanning two city blocks on the west side of Manhattan.

Erin Regan

Consulting Engineer

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Erin Regan, P.E.

Erin is a Senior Professional Engineer with experience in design, investigation, evaluation, rehabilitation, commissioning, and construction administration of historic and contemporary buildings. She focuses on Building Energy Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Roofing, Waterproofing, Curtain Wall, Glass, Facades, and Below-Grade Waterproofing.

Alborz Razavi

B.Arch / Product Manager

Cladify & Mitrex

Alborz Razavi is the Chief Design Officer of Cladify/Mitrex. He is proud to be part of an organization where the vision is to drive automation and efficiencies and meet the needs of architects, property developers, and building owners with top-quality design, innovative product development, and world-class manufacturing of sustainable construction materials.