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Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over six years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Europe territories. Dionne has over 28 years of direct B2B sales, management and business development experience.

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.

Matthew Lella is interested in the way architecture connects people and in so doing excites our senses and communities. He studied both architecture and mathematics at McGill University in Montreal, and received a Masters in Mathematics from York University in 1992. He has been with Diamond Schmitt for twenty years. Matthew has specialized in both the design of performing arts spaces and spaces for learning. For La Maison Symphonique, the concert hall that opened in 2011 in Montreal, Matthew was responsible for the design of the building’s concert hall, facades, and public spaces. He was project architect for Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and has worked on theatre projects in Denver and St. Petersburg, Russia. He led The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Texas and is currently working on the David Geffen Hall renovation at Lincoln Center. For the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary, Matthew advanced the architecture of collaborative learning with highly versatile, technology-rich space designed to inspire new approaches to pedagogy.

Mike McGlone is a founding principal of Alamo Architects and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. In his 42-year career, he has been involved in some of the firm’s most prominent projects, including the move and restoration of the Fairmount Hotel, the design of the firm’s So Flo Office Studios and most recently, the collaboration with Adjaye Associates in the design of Ruby City. He leads the firm’s Adaptive Reuse and Special Projects studio that is currently involved with the preservation of three historic buildings in downtown Temple and the conversion of the St. Cecilia Convent into affordable housing for seniors. Mike has served as AIA San Antonio Chapter President, Texas Society of Architects President and is currently one of three regional representatives from Texas on the AIA Strategic Council. He is married to Ann Benson McGlone, AIA. Together they have two sons, two grandchildren and a rescue dog coincidently named . . . Ruby.

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.

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

Yen Ong, FAIA, is a founding partner of 5G Studio Collaborative. He is instrumental in the development of 5G’s widely published award-winning portfolio, covering projects in the United States, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. He directs 5G’s architectural research, is a contributing writer to design publications, and frequently serves on design award juries. Leading a practice culture that promotes curiosity, celebrates inclusivity, and empowers personal autonomy, Yen enables the discovery and application of the extraordinary into project conditions, entwining matters of context, typology, and craft into emotive works that are lucid, uplifting, and tactile with a nudge towards fantasy. He has twice led 5G, in 2017 and 2018, to be ranked 31st in the Design category among the Top 50 US Firms in the ARCHITECT 50 program run by the official publication of the AIA. In the past nine years, Yen has won 12 AIA Design Awards at national, state, and local levels. In 2023, Yen was elevated as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects honoring his distinguished work that has broad recognition for its design excellence at the national level.

Ron Stelmarski is a multi-faceted designer and client advocate who places importance upon a process of creative collaboration with all project stakeholders. His experience spans all disciplines, including architecture, interiors, brand experience and urban design, and his exposure to a wide variety of aesthetic and cultural influences informs and enriches his design solutions. His management of large, multidisciplinary design teams has solidified his ability to achieve consensus and deliver creative, relevant design solutions. From the scale of a showroom to the scale of a city, Ron instills a fundamental regard for qualitative experience in every project.

Ron is active in the academic and professional arena, lecturing, publishing articles and serving on design juries, as well as editing the Perkins&Will publication, Ideas+Buildings. Sowing the seeds of inspiration from museums and book design to complex mixed-use projects and university designs, Ron’s leadership signals the next step in the evolution of Perkins&Will from an architecture firm to an interdisciplinary design practice.

Mark is a Senior Design Leader and an expert in understanding the design vision and translating it through the visualization, master planning and throughout the life of the project. Mark has worked in many project sectors and excels in public spaces. Mark is especially adept at listening carefully to the needs of the client and transforming their dreams into a reality. In a former career, Mark designed and fabricated custom furniture and architectural pieces, giving him a unique background and perspective on design, from the macro to the micro-level. A few of Marks notable and award-winning projects include The Boardwalk at Granite Park and The Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum. Mark’s favorite architects are Jean Prouve/Charles & Ray Eames. When Mark isn’t designing, he’s welding, making things, and spending time with his young twins.

Ryan Bollom is an architect, builder and maker who leads Low Design Office’s Austin, Texas studio. The studio was recently recognized as an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York (Feb 2021), by DOMUS as one of the 50 best emerging architecture practices in the world (March 2020), featured as “Next Progressives” in Architect Magazine (Sept 2019) finalist for the Museum of Modern Art’s 2019 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, and featured as emerging architect in Architectural Review (January 2018). His current research integrates sustainable construction techniques with novel development and delivery models for adaptive, affordable architecture. He leverages his experience in architecture, construction, and structural engineering to create innovative design solutions that are rigorous in concept and constructable through standard techniques. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Duke University where he was awarded the Aubrey E. Palmer Award for outstanding academic achievement, and a Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Michael Morrow is the founder of Kinneymorrow Architecture, a small design office interested in overlaying a careful analysis of program upon seemingly abstract geometries. This pursuit focuses primarily on residential uses and includes historic renovation, adaptive reuse, and new construction. They have been honored and published for projects in Texas and around the country. Michael is a graduate of Rice School of Architecture.

Mark is a Senior Design Leader and an expert in understanding the design vision and translating it through the visualization, master planning and throughout the life of the project. Mark has worked in many project sectors and excels in public spaces. Mark is especially adept at listening carefully to the needs of the client and transforming their dreams into a reality. In a former career, Mark designed and fabricated custom furniture and architectural pieces, giving him a unique background and perspective on design, from the macro to the micro-level. A few of Marks notable and award-winning projects include The Boardwalk at Granite Park and The Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum. Mark’s favorite architects are Jean Prouve/Charles & Ray Eames. When Mark isn’t designing, he’s welding, making things, and spending time with his young twins.