Symposium Agenda

7:30 – 8:30am

Check-in & Breakfast | Methods+Materials Gallery

8:30 – 8:40am

Welcome

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  Diana Darling

  Publisher

  The Architect’s Newspaper

  Diana Darling

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  Darling is CEO and cofounder of The Architect’s Newspaper, celebrating its 12th year. The A|N media company consists of print and digital publications covering architecture and design news, as well as the Facades+ conferences. As A|N’s publisher, Darling won the AIA National Collaboration Award, Grassroots Preservation Award, and ASLA NY’s President’s Award. She began her publishing career as director of print production for The Gap’s European markets. She holds a BS from The University of Texas at Austin.

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  Elba Morales

  Associate Principal

  Hickok Cole

  CO-CHAIR

  Elba Morales

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  Elba is an Associate Principal at Hickok Cole where she leads the design of architecture projects in the DC/MD/VA Metro region. She is the co-founder of iLAB, a program that awards micro-grants to employees to develop original work.

  Her career is guided by the belief that great architecture is crafted by talented individuals who successfully collaborate as a team. A designer at heart, she is rigorous and passionate about the design process: from hand sketches and physical models, to parametric iterations of the building envelope, and VR walkthroughs with her team. She sets each project’s vision to realize the client’s goals, recognize a site’s potential, and transform each property into a place. In her 17 years with Hickok Cole, Elba has designed some of the firm’s most important and visible office buildings.

  Elba holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where she was the recipient of The Paul Phillippe Cret Prize, the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Gold Medal, the Mario J. Romanach Fellowship, and the E. Lewis Dales Travelling Fellowship. She will be part of ULI’s Regional Land Use Leadership Institute, class of 2019-2020.

8:40 – 9:40am

Curved and Pleated: Advanced Applications of Glass

The Spy Museum and 2050 M Street are two recent interventions within the center of Washington D.C. demonstrating advanced fabrication and applications of glass facades. This panel will bring together Hickok Cole, Front Inc., and Tishman Speyer in a presentation and discussion of the projects’ designs and technical intricacies.

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  Bryan Chun

  Senior Associate

  Hickok Cole

  Bryan Chun

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  Bryan is a Senior Associate at Hickok Cole with over two decades of experience in commercial architecture. During his tenure with the firm, he has led the transition from traditional 2D CAD to fully integrated 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) and continues to spearhead the firm’s integration of Virtual Reality and Artificial Reality into design workflows. His work building a flexible and intelligent component library has defined office wide standards and increased design efficiency and consistency across projects. Bryan earned his LEED accreditation (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the US Green Building Council in 2006.

  Bryan’s passion for technical excellence and ability to lead complex, high-profile projects has led to his role as Senior Project Architect on NPR, International Spy Museum, and most recently the revitalization and expansion of National Geographic’s downtown DC campus. Bryan was an Andrew Carnegie Scholar throughout his academic career and graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree.

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  Marc Simmons

  Founding Principal

  Front Inc.

  Marc Simmons

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  Marc Simmons is a founding principal at Front Inc based in New York, Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, Cambridge and the past Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Design, Atlanta. He is a licensed architect in New York State and holds Bachelor degrees in Architecture and Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo. With 25 years of experience his specialist facade knowledge is built upon previous work at Foster + Partners, Meinhardt Facade Technology and Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners. Marc is a recognized global leader in the design, analysis, procurement and implementation of innovative and high performance building facades. Select examples of Front's work include China Central Televison HQ by OMA, the Canadian House of Commons at West Block, Ottawa by EVOQ and Architecture 49, Grace Farms by SANAA, the Perez Art Museum by Herzog de Meuron, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Shenzhen Energy Building by BIG, Brookfield Place Calgary by AFK and Dialog, Guardian Art Center by Buro Ole Scheeren, and 205 M Street by REX and Kendall Heaton Associates.

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  Rustom Cowasjee

  Managing Director

  Tishman Speyer

  Rustom Cowasjee

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  Mr. Cowasjee is currently responsible for the development, design and construction of the Washington, DC, Chicago and Boston portfolios. Since joining Tishman Speyer in 1999, he has been responsible for the design and construction of the company’s projects in Northern Virginia, District of Columbia, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston. He has also been responsible for setting up Tishman Speyer’s design and construction departments and projects in India. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Mr. Cowasjee worked for London & Leeds Development Corporation and was responsible for the design and construction of the commercial office building portfolio and hotels in the Americas, including in Canada, the Caribbean and South America. He has also worked as an architect for I.M. Pei & Partners in New York. Mr. Cowasjee graduated from Cornell University with a B.Arch. and earned an MAUD in architecture and urban design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

9:40 – 10:00am

Networking Break | Methods and Materials Gallery

10:00 – 11:00am

Placemaking and Monumentality: Opaque Facade Strategies

The capital region is no stranger to monuments and museums; two projects, the Kennedy Center’s REACH expansion and the Glenstone Museum, exemplify the power of place facades can achieve. Both case studies are demonstrations in opacity and volume and the ability of surfaces to register and heighten their surroundings.

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  Garrick Ambrose

  Senior Associate

  Steven Holl Architects

  Garrick Ambrose

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  Garrick Ambrose has been with Steven Holl Architects since 2003. He received his Masters of Architecture from Harvard University and his Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Cornell University. He is currently in charge of The Expansion to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and The Winter Visual Arts Center at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He has served as project architect for several projects including 'T' Space in Dutchess County, NY, Horizontal Skyscraper-Vanke Center in Shenzhen China, and the New Doctorate's Building for the National University of Colombia in Bogota.

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  Michael Trudeau

  Director

  Thomas Phifer and Partners

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  Michael Trudeau joined the office in 2011 and became a director in 2018. His experience at the firm has primarily been focused on the design, detailing, team coordination, and construction administration of the Glenstone Museum, a private, 150,000 square-foot museum complex outside of Washington D.C. He is currently working on cultural and residential projects in Dallas, Texas, Maine, and Long Island's East End.Michael has extensive experience at both Thomas Phifer and Partners and previous firms, including Richard Meier & Partners, Rafael Viñoly Architects, and others on a broad array of different programmatic typologies ranging from master planning and urban design to museums, laboratories, and residential houses to buildings for all levels of primary and secondary education.He received a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Detroit-Mercy, and also studied in Florence, Italy, and in Warsaw, Poland. He is a registered architect in the state of New York and a LEED Accredited Professional for Building, Design & Construction.

11:00 – 11:20am

Networking Break | Methods and Materials Gallery

11:20am – 12:20pm

High Performance Facades and Materials Research

In January 2019 Washington D.C.’s city council passed the ambitious Clean Energy Act DC, an ambitious piece of legislation enacting strict building performance energy standards by 2021. Complying with the new standard will require innovative facade solutions as well as the application of high-performing materials. Join Transsolar and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment in a discussion-led panel focused on their sustainability process and materials research.

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  Erik Olsen

  Managing Partner

  Transsolar

  Erik Olsen

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  Erik is a managing partner at Transsolar KlimaEngineering, an international climate engineering firm determined to create exceptional, highly comfortable indoor and outdoor spaces with a positive environmental impact. He leads the New York office in working collaboratively with architects worldwide to develop and validate low-energy, architecturally integrated climate and energy concepts.The result is celebrated projects around the world that simultaneously enhance human comfort and minimize resource use. Passionate and highly-skilled, Erik is a firm believer in innovation adding value to the human experience wherever possible.Erik has been a lecturer and guest critic at universities including Harvard University, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. In addition to his specialist work at Transsolar, he has worked as a consulting mechanical engineer on a wide variety of building types and launched and directed the City of Chicago’s Green Permit Program. Erik is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Purdue University.

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  David Lehrer

  Communications Director

  Center for the Built Environment

  David Lehrer

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  David Lehrer is the director of communication at the Center for the Built Environment, a research center at UC Berkeley. David works with the center's industry partners to catalyze industry/university collaborations, and has been a key contributor to research on workplace surveys, high performance facades and visualizing information in commercial buildings. He holds an MArch from UC Berkeley and a BFA from the University of Arizona. David previously acquired over 10 years of experience as a designer and architect. He is a frequent speaker and an organizer of events related to building performance and technology.

12:20 – 12:30pm

Closing Remarks

By Diana Darling