
DAY 1 – 8 CEUs
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St.
SYMPOSIUM + Methods+Materials Sponsor Gallery
Attend a full day of stimulating presentations and panels that examines the fast-paced evolution of facade technology.
Address new perspectives on building skins, and explores innovative, sustainable design practices.
Symposium Agenda
- 7:45-8:25am
Check-in & Breakfast | Methods+Materials Gallery
- 8:35-8:40am
Welcome
Diana Darling
Publisher
John Cetra
Founding Principal
CO-CHAIR
- 8:40-8:50am
Civic Perspective
Suri Kasirer
President
- 8:50-9:45am
Opening Keynote
Moderator: Matt Shaw
Ben van Berkel
Founder
Matt Shaw
Executive Editor
- 9:45-10:35am
Materiality & Fabrication: Bespoke Facade Solutions
These three panelists literally think out of the box, collaborating to meet challenging design problems with bespoke and streamlined solutions, using digital fabrication and unique materials ranging from metal mesh systems, composites like GFRC and lightweight FRP cladding, to aluminum and concrete panels.
- 10:35-10:45am
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Travis Conrad
Architectural Consultant
- 10:45-11:15am
Networking Break | Methods+Materials Gallery
- 11:15-11:45am
Firm Spotlight: Reiser + Umemoto
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto
Founding, Principals
- 11:45am-12:35pm
Scaling up Passive House | For the Greater Good
Architects and consultants create large-scale affordable housing in NYC, hewing to Passive House standards. Dattner's Grand Concourse project of 277 units and Handel's Sendero Verde mixed-use, multi building projects will be detailed. Passive House consultants Steven Winter Assoc. joins the discussion.
Gary Handel
Managing Partner
Lois Arena
Director
John Woelfling
Principal
- 12:35-12:45pm
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- 12:45-1:30pm
Complimentary Networking Lunch | Methods+Materials Gallery
- 1:30-1:35pm
Remarks by Diana Darling
- 1:35-2:30pm
Afternoon Keynote
Claire Weisz
Principal-in-Charge
- 2:30-3:25pm
Optimizing the Form
Zoning and site constraints provide opportunities for creative optimizations of massing and geometry, increasing views, reining in sunlight, and having a positive impact on the site. Case studies include Studio Gang's Solar Carve and Cetra Ruddy's ARO.
Weston Walker
Design Principal, Partner
John Cetra
Founding Principal
Markus Schulte
Principal
Manan Raval
Principal I Technical Director- Building Envelope/ Facade Engineering
- 3:25-3:35pm
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- 3:35-3:40pm
Remarks | YKK
- 3:40-4:10pm
Networking Break | Methods+Materials Gallery
- 4:10-5:05pm
Adaptive Reuse Challenges in NYC Historic Icons
Meeting technical challenges in preserving Landmarked facades, two firms create respectful but purposefully non-contextual, glittering glass updates to an 1898 sugar factory and 1929's historic Tammany Hall.
Eran Chen
Founder & Executive Director
Russ Newbold
Partner
Todd Poisson
Partner
John Ivanoff
Associate Principal
- 5:05-5:15pm
Closing Remarks - John Cetra, Diana Darling
- 5:15-7:00pm
Cocktail Reception | Methods+Materials Gallery