Earl Patrick

Director of Design

Enclos

Earl Patrick is Director of Design and oversees Enclos’ design efforts in new and prospective work.

With over 22 years of experience in the facades industry, including 9 with Enclos, he has worked on monumental projects across the United States. Throughout his career, he has assisted clients with refining design alternatives and worked diligently to help architects achieve their vision while helping project teams meet their budgets.

Notable projects with which he’s been involved at Enclos include The Golden State Warriors Arena Complex, Raiders Stadium, The Australian Embassy, 415 Natoma, San Diego Terminal 1, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, and the Sherwin Willams Headquarters.

Before facade work, his background included carpentry, cabinetry, welding, and residential construction. He’s also a musician and graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a degree in Classical Composition.

Jack Becker

Principal & Founder

BLDUS

Jack Becker is a principal and founder of BLDUS, a DC-based architecture and development practice that operates throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, making architecture that connects past with future, modernity with tradition, and humanity with nature. Jack is a fourth-generation licensed architect, with a B.Arch from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard GSD. He has been honored with a 2023 AR Vanguard Award, a 2021 AIA Young Architect Award, and a 2019 Young Architect Award from The Architect’s Newspaper.

Alex Terzich

Associate Vice President

HGA

Alex Terzich is a registered architect specializing in custom facade design and detailing, and the development of high-performance technical solutions for complex projects. Alex is an Associate Vice President at HGA in Minneapolis, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Aïda Ayuk

Sustainable Design Coordinator

Eskew Dumez Ripple

Aida Ayuk is the Sustainable Design Coordinator at EskewDumezRipple, where she leads sustainability efforts firmwide. Specializing in the integration of sustainable, healthy, and equitable design strategies, Aida coordinates pledge commitments, facilitates design charrettes, and identifies opportunities for impactful solutions. She collaborates closely with project teams to build internal capacity and ensure a shared foundation in sustainability, health, and equity across all design decisions. Building on her 2023-2024 Just|Change Fellowship and published Equity Guide and Mapping Equity book, Aida is dedicated to advancing equity practices within the firm. A native of the D.C. area, she holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has diverse design and research experience in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Copenhagen, and New Orleans.

Jeffrey Kenoff

Principal

KPF

With 30 years of experience, Jeff is a guiding figure in the practice of blending architecture with urban design. His portfolio includes a wide range of program types, informing his expertise in large-scale, mixed-use developments. In his role as a Design Principal, Jeff’s dedicated approach to his projects has furthered the firm’s and the industry’s understanding of the importance of urban connectivity and vertical urbanism.

Jeff views each project as an opportunity to better connect the city, as he believes the integration of buildings with their surrounding urban fabric is pivotal to success. Driven by his commitment to creating spaces that positively contribute to the greater community, Jeff led the designs of Huamu Lot 10 – The Summit in Shanghai, which features cultural programming activated by a central plaza; T. Rowe Price Headquarters in Baltimore, which reimagines a brownfield site into a pedestrian haven on the waterfront; and Sequis Centre Tower in Jakarta, one of the first LEED-certified buildings in the city.

With a portfolio of urban planning, supertalls, and multi-building developments, Jeff maintains humanized designs through thoughtful materiality and massing scale. He was one of the Design Principals of One Vanderbilt, which draws inspiration from the neighboring Grand Central Terminal in the material selection for the building’s façade and lobby. Westlake 66, Riverside 66, and Spring City 66, three collaborations with one client, all explore a scale motif in varied forms.

Jeff is a recipient of the AIA Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture. He is an active advocate for urban architecture in communities such as AIA, ULI, and CTBUH. He has served as a visiting critic at Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, and Columbia University, and his design research has been published globally.

John W. Chapman

President | Principal

KCCT

A founding principal of KCCT, John Chapman is a leading authority on US diplomatic design worldwide, borne out through an extensive portfolio of secure, sustainable facilities for government, institutional, and private clients and diplomatic, military, intelligence, and transportation market sectors. He guides the firm’s overarching business strategy, planning, and development initiatives, while maintaining a lead design role on multiple national and international projects each year. Under his leadership, KCCT delivers three key components: thoughtful and innovative design, specialized experience founded in exploration and research into building types, and a rock-solid reputation of integrity and reliability.

Utilizing his design expertise to guide highly sensitive global projects in the diplomatic, military, intelligence, and transportation markets, John has overseen the delivery of 11 new embassy campuses, six new diplomatic office buildings, 20 major embassy renovations, and 15 historic building restorations, 10 of which were listed on the Secretary of State’s Register of Culturally Significant Properties. He has managed over 80 stand-alone projects and 200 task orders worldwide; additionally, he has managed design and construction of 35 diplomatic facilities overseas through design-build partnerships.

John has served on the AIA Federal Architecture Task Group and the US Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Industry Advisory Panel, leveraging perspective he gained from design efforts that date back to the early Inman program. An untiring advocate of design innovation, John routinely probes and tests underlying security assumptions that drive current embassy planning and design criteria. He has presented before the National Academy of Sciences, and his case study on the design of rapid transit systems is published in The Encyclopedia of Architecture.

Mike Augustine

Director of Architectural Promotion

SAFTI First

Mike Augustine has over 20 years of experience in the architectural glazing industry. As the Director of Architectural Promotion at SAFTI FIRST®, he brings his extensive knowledge and expertise of fire rated glazing systems and fenestration in general when working closely with architects, specifiers, glazing contractors and code officials. Mike is a dynamic presenter and speaker who has been delivering the company’s AIA-registered presentation to various architecture firms, AIA local chapters, CSI local chapters, and at other architectural and glazing industry events.

Aaron Alterman

Consultant Support Specialist – US & Canada

STI Specified Technologies

Aaron joined STI in 2015 as a Territory Manager in the Gulf South.  In 2018, he was promoted to the Curtain and Facades Specialist role, working with glaziers, fabricators, curtain wall consultants and perimeter fire containments contractors in the Midwest, Gulf Coast, Texas and Central Canada.   In 2024, Aaron became the Curtain Wall and Facades Consultant Support Specialist for North America, working with curtain wall consultants, architects, engineers and code officials.   

With over 30 years in a variety of fields in construction, Aaron has become a critical partner for many of the top CW Consultants in North America.  With his knowledge and expertise of perimeter fire containment systems for all types of construction including Mass Timber, backpan or non-backpan glazing systems, precast, GFRC, and Steel Stud/EIFS assemblies, Aaron can assist from design conception to project close out while meeting critical life safety requirements for a better project outcome.

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Aaron is now a proud resident of the great city of New Orleans.

Nat Madson

Design Principal

HGA

Nat Madson is a design principal at HGA with over 15 years of experience working on a range of arts, civic, and education projects.

Passionate about architecture’s transformative impact on the social life of the city, his recent projects include Capital One Hall in Tysons, VA, Mills Hall and the Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, as well as the Blake Early Learning Center in Hopkins, MN. Nat is the recipient of the Rapson Traveling Fellowship, and holds a Master of Architecture from the university of Minnesota where he frequently teaches both graduate and undergraduate level design studios.

Katie MacDonald

Co-Founder

After Architecture

Katie MacDonald is a licensed architect in Virginia and Cofounder of After Architecture, an award-winning architecture studio which has completed projects for a wide range of clients including Landmark Columbus Foundation, the Washington D.C. Department of General Services, Lycoming College, Cornell University, and Marriott.

MacDonald is  Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia where she is Director of the Before Building Laboratory, leading material research and development. MacDonald pioneers renewable, carbon-sequestering material assemblies. Current projects focus on rapidly renewable biomaterials, including wood, bamboo, grass, various invasive plant species, and hemp. In 2022, she co-curated the Biomaterial Building Exposition.

MacDonald’s accolades include the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Emerging Designer in the Virginia by Design Awards, Educator of the Year in Metropolis Magazine’s Planet Positive Awards, the Small Project Award from the American Institute of Architects National, ten honors from the Society of American Registered Architects, and four placements in The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards.

Andrew Pries

Technical Sales Director

Boston Valley Terra Cotta

Andrew Pries, Technical Sales Director at Boston Valley Terra Cotta, holds a BS in Architecture from the University at Buffalo and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. With a focus on design development and leveraging diverse fabrication methods to expand the applications of terra cotta, he has played a pivotal role in high profile projects such as the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and 120 Stockton. As one of the coordinators of the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop (ACAW), Pries spearheads design development with the workshop teams, as well as the fabrication and construction of successful mockup assemblies.