NYC

THE PREMIER CONFERENCE ON
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING ENCLOSURES

September 23-24

Metropolitan West

Facades+ bring together some of the world’s most productive building professionals

Be inspired and learn how to innovate all steps of facade implementation, from systems and materials to designs and delivery strategies.

Earn up to 16 AIA CEUs

Remain registered to practice with continuing education credits

September 23

Symposium

Attend a full day of stimulating presentations and panels that examines the fast-paced evolution of facade technology, addresses new perspectives on building skins, and explores innovative, sustainable design practices. Includes access to Methods+Materials Sponsor Gallery.

September 23

Exhibitors

Visit the Methods + Materials gallery to meet with industry-leading manufactures of every possible product from cladding, glazing, framing + facade systems to advanced materials and services. Over sixty companies on hand to field questions and demo products for all of your project needs.

September 24

Workshops

Engage in in-depth conversations with the industry’s leading design professionals in an intimate, seminar-style setting. Customize your schedule by selecting one morning and one afternoon sessions which match your level of expertise and interest.

Featured Presenters

Gary Handel
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Gary Handel

Gary Handel FAIA is the founder and Managing Partner of Handel Architects. Since starting the practice in 1994, Handel has overseen its growth to over 200 architects, designers, and planners around the world. He leads the firm’s direction by placing an emphasis on enriching the urban environment. Handel is a leader in sustainable building strategies, and recent work includes some of the largest and tallest Passive House buildings in the world.
CO-CHAIR John Cetra
Founding Principal
CetraRuddy
CO-CHAIR John Cetra

John Cetra co-founded CetraRuddy in 1987 on the principle that architecture should engage the urban fabric while enriching the human spirit. With a passion for innovative, inspiring designs and a commitment to real world solutions, Cetra has led the firm to international recognition. Through his practice, Cetra has experienced the interrelationship of architecture, urban design and planning. He has a sophisticated understanding of program, zoning, and complex problem solving which inform his approach on projects ranging from new construction to conversions of Landmark buildings. He is a recognized industry leader in tall building technology, historic buildings and analytic site development. Cetra holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Spitzer School of Architecture of the City College of New York.
Joshua Ramus
Founding Principal
REX
Shohei Shigematsu
Partner / Director
OMA
Shohei Shigematsu

Shohei Shigematsu has been a driving force behind many of OMA’s projects, leading the firm’s diverse portfolio in the Americas for the past decade. With an emphasis on maximum specificity and process-oriented design, Shigematsu provides design leadership and direction across the company for projects from their conceptual onset to completed construction.He is responsible for delivering a number of cultural projects across North America, including Milstein Hall, an extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University; a new museum for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Faena Forum in Miami Beach and the renovation and reimagination of Sotheby’s New York Headquarters. His cultural projects currently in progress include an expansion for the New Museum in New York City; an extension to the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York and an event space for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Shigematsu has also designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, Dior’s first US retrospective at Denver Art Museum and at the Dallas Museum of Art. He has collaborated with multiple artists – including Cai Guo-Qiang, Marina Abramović, Kanye West and Taryn Simon.Shigematsu's urban and public space designs around the world include the Willow Campus masterplan, an integrated mixed-use village for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; a mixed-use development in Santa Monica; a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia; a post-Hurricane Sandy urban water strategy for New Jersey; and in Toronto, the largest transit-oriented development currently underway in North America.He has built a number of innovative workspaces including–the China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing (2012), and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters (2013). He is currently designing a new business center in Fukuoka (2020) and OMA’s first tower in Tokyo for Mori Building Co, Ltd. (2022). Shigematsu’s designs for three residential projects are under construction across the country–from New York to San Francisco and Miami.A design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Shigematsu has lectured at TED and Wired Japan conference, and at universities throughout the world.
Claire Weisz
Principal-in-Charge
WXY
Claire Weisz

Claire Weisz FAIA is a founding partner with Mark Yoes FAIA of WXY, whose work as an architect and urbanist focuses on innovative approaches to public space, structures, and cities. The firm, globally recognized for its place-based approach to architecture, urban design, and planning, has played a vital role in design thinking around resiliency. Weisz was awarded the Medal of Honor from AIANY in 2018 and was honored with the Women in Architecture Award by Architectural Record in 2019.