Philadelphia

Scott Erdy

Erdy McHenry Architecture

Scott’s work pursues a methodology where form embodies purpose, and sense of place is revealed through the careful intersection of program, site and culture. Since establishing Erdy McHenry Architecture with David McHenry, Scott’s design work has received many accolades from the local and national press as well as his peers and has received more than 30 state, local and national awards. In 2016 his firm was named Firm of the Year by AIA Pennsylvania.

His design for St. Aloysius Church was recognized by ArchDaily as one of the Top 100 Architectural Projects in the US and as one the Five Best Churches of the World by WorldBuild365. Beginning with the September 2001 cover story of Architecture Magazine featuring Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama and most recently the 2013 July Cover of Architectural Record highlighting the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn in Ithaca New York. Scott’s work has been recognized for the embodiment of both its cultural significance and utilitarian beauty.

Scott received his undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University and his master’s degree from Syracuse, where he studied under the stalwart modernist Werner Seligmann. He currently teaches a Graduate Housing Studio at the University of Pennsylvania lectures widely on his work.

Brian Phillips

ISA

Brian Phillips, FAIA is Founding Principal of ISA, and serves as Creative Director across all aspects of the firm’s work. He earned his MArch from the University of Pennsylvania and BS from the University of Oklahoma. He has lectured widely on urbanism, housing, and the work of ISA. Brian was awarded a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York in 2015. He is a Lecturer at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and has taught visiting studios at the University of Miami and Parsons the New School for Design. Most recently Brian founded a non-profit called Meantime that works to activate vacant storefronts with short-term creative entrepreneurship residencies.

Inga Saffron

Philadelphia Inquirer

Inga Saffron is the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. For more than 20 years, she has been a forceful advocate for meaningful design, accessible public spaces and transit, affordable housing, historic preservation and policies that make our cities more liveable and climate resilient.  Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum,  a 2012  Loeb Fellowship from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Inga began her career as a municipal reporter in New Jersey,  and went on to become a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the 1990s, she covered wars in Yugoslavia and Russia, where she witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. She has published two books: Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American city made itself new again, a selection of her Inquirer columns, and Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy, a cultural history of the sturgeon. She is currently working on a social and architectural history of the American newspaper building, tentatively titled Hold the Presses: How Newspaper Buildings Shaped the American City.

Charles Norman

National Real Estate Development

Mr. Norman supports the day-to-day development activities of the East Market project in Center City Philadelphia, PA, working closely with senior development professionals to expedite and assure project completion according to specifications.

Mr. Norman participates in the selection of financial sources, structuring deals, negotiating legal documents, and architectural and construction planning activities. He was the development manager responsible for the development of the million square foot initial phases of East Market, including 1100 Market Street, 1100 Ludlow, and 1199 Ludlow and is now focused on the final phase of East Market and the delivery of 1101 Chestnut Street.

Mr. Norman brings over 20 years development experience delivering large mixed-use projects in major urban markets. Prior to joining National in 2015, he worked in the Capital Projects and Infrastructure Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, advising major private and public sector clients on real estate investment decisions, transactions and projects. Previously, he worked for AtSite, Inc. as the Senior Director, Integrated Buildings Practice Lead where he advised clients on real estate projects including the redevelopment process for a $127 million Washington, D.C. office building. He also worked for Deloitte Consulting, LLP in the Capital Real Estate Transformation Practice, and was a project manager for Millennium Partners working on projects in Boston, New York, Miami, San Francisco, and the District of Columbia. His early career also includes a position with Handel Architects, LLP, managing a purchasing program and a design and construction program for a developer client. He was awarded the Aphrodisias Archaeological Fellowship by the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Mr. Norman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Urban Studies from Lehigh University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jarrett Pelletier

Ennead Architects

Jarrett Pelletier, AIA, is a Principal at Ennead Architects, where for the past 20 years he has developed bespoke, high-performance designs for preeminent academic and cultural institutions. Jarrett’s design process is one of inclusion and on-the-ground engagement, believing that architecture must reach beyond aesthetics to create spaces that enhance human interaction and wellness, build communities, and embody sustainable thinking. Some of his notable projects include: the Biological Science Building and Natural History Museum at the University of Michigan; the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon, and the Alta Community Center in Alta, Utah.

Jill Burgess

RWDI

As the Practice Area Leader for the Enclosure Group, Jill has contributed to the design and delivery of high-performance building enclosures for buildings around the world. Our clients benefit from the depth of her technical knowledge – especially in building performance modeling – as well as the breadth of her project experience in envelope thermal performance. Jill’s work has focused in particular on balancing daylight and heat gain in glass facades, and on maintaining air and vapor control across various building- enclosure assembly types. A BEC Chapter Chair and NFRC voting member, Jill believes in the power of rigorous scientific analysis to drive outstanding building performance.

Jon McCandlish

KieranTimberlake

In each of his projects, Jon balances ambitious design aspirations with sustainable systems, site opportunities, and program needs to create environments that responsibly serve and enhance the lives of their inhabitants. Currently, Jon is leading several architectural and masterplanning projects, including 2300 Market, a LEED Gold life-sciences adaptive reuse project in Philadelphia and a mass timber net-zero energy Pavilion at the center of the new Penn’s Landing Park on the Delaware River Waterfront. Previously, Jon was the Principal-in-Charge of the recently completed John A. Paulson Center, a 735,000-square-foot multi-use building for New York University in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. At KieranTimberlake, Jon has worked on a wide range of project types and scales, including Henley Hall at the University of California Santa Barbara, Pound Ridge House in Upstate New York, the US Embassy in London, the Edgar N. Putman Pavilion at the James A. Michener Art Museum, and the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) in Virginia.

Jeremy Avellino

Bright Common

Jeremy founded Bright Common in 2010 to make work. The current iteration provides an outlet to provoke conversations and conceptualize playful responses within an increasingly anxious atmosphere.
As a pragmatically sustainable practitioner, Jeremy’s neurodivergent bearing [ADHD-architect- builder-educator-surfer] has helped him uncover architectural offerings that optimistically reidrect neuronormative assumptions towards a carbon-conscious near future.
As a Registered Architect (RA), Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), and recipent of both the AIA Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize and Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, his work has fortified a communal conversation around the future of the profession in this New Age of Adaptation we’re practicing in.

Matthew Naugle

New Hudson Facades

Matthew Naugle is a Senior Conceptual Designer at New Hudson Facades. Joining not long after the founding of the company 10 years ago, he is part of the technical leadership group and has since helped to develop and implement digital processes guiding design, engineering, and data driven solutions through projects and daily business operations.  His current role focuses on the design of bespoke façade systems and leading the technical development during pre-construction activities.

Ryan Wall

KieranTimberlake

In over ten years at KieranTimberlake, Ryan has contributed to numerous institutional and university projects spanning many scales, locations, and program types – bringing a rigorous and collaborative approach to each to deliver aspirational, context-driven design solutions.
Ryan is currently the project architect on 2300 Market, a LEED Gold-targeting life-sciences adaptive reuse project in Philadelphia, where she balances a tight schedule with existing conditions and a complex site. Previously, she was a project architect on Pennsylvania State University’s Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub. Other projects include the US Embassy in London, New York University’s John A. Paulson Center, and the East End Transformation at Washington University in St. Louis.

Eliah Cappi

Erdy McHenry Architecture

As a registered architect with 7 years of professional experience, Eliah has a strong track record of delivering programmatically and technically complex projects on an international level across various building typologies.

Eliah served as the project manager for the 60,000 sqft expansion and renovation of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. Along with his experience and passion for project management and delivery, he has a proven record in business development and delivering award-winning competition proposals. Notable projects include the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the 16Tech Pedestrian Bridge, the FAA National Air Traffic Control Tower Prototype, and the Beijing Sub-Center Library. His diverse experience encompasses commercial, residential, and hospitality work, with a particular focus on cultural, institutional, and infrastructure projects.

Eliah’s diverse portfolio is marked by a commitment to design excellence throughout all project phases and excels in planning, documentation, and execution, meeting client expectations. His focus on sustainable design and advanced construction technology adds long-term value to his projects.

Andrew Kudless

Matsys

Andrew Kudless is a designer based in Houston, Texas where he is the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture Design as well as the Director of the Advanced Media Technology Lab. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. His work on Confluence Park has won a number of awards including a 2019 AIA National Honor Award. In 2019, he became the first American designer to contribute to Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection. He holds a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University.