Attend a full day of stimulating presentations and panels that examines the fast-paced evolution of facade technology.

Diana Darling

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.

Patreese Martin

Patreese has a strong editorial design intuition demonstrated by a remarkably varied range of award-winning and nationally recognized projects. She finds the strategic differential for each project, while staying true to the humane values that guide Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s design culture: environmental sensitivity, the specifics of place and people, and intellectual rigor. Her passion to advance design excellence through collaboration and mentorship has made her a sought-after adviser. She has held numerous leadership roles including terms with the Seattle Design Review Board and the AIA Professional Practice Steering Committee, and has served on numerous AIA Awards juries. Patreese is a LEED BD+C Accredited Professional and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Miller

Robert has championed both sustainable design and regional sensitivity in his work, which ranges broadly in scale from private residences including the modest Lightbox cabin in Washington to complex commercial projects such as the Mengwu Town Center in China, Soma and Brio Towers in Bellevue, Washington, Ae’o Tower in Honolulu, and the Yesler Terrace Towers in Seattle. The most widely recognized is the Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center in Seattle, which was awarded a National Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects and an AIA COTE Award for integrated environmental strategies.

Robert’s lifelong interests in social issues, alternative construction, renewable energy, and industrial design are reflected in his holistic approach to architecture. He believes that thoughtful innovation and integration are the future of successful sustainable design.

Patreese Martin

Patreese has a strong editorial design intuition demonstrated by a remarkably varied range of award-winning and nationally recognized projects. She finds the strategic differential for each project, while staying true to the humane values that guide Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s design culture: environmental sensitivity, the specifics of place and people, and intellectual rigor. Her passion to advance design excellence through collaboration and mentorship has made her a sought-after adviser. She has held numerous leadership roles including terms with the Seattle Design Review Board and the AIA Professional Practice Steering Committee, and has served on numerous AIA Awards juries. Patreese is a LEED BD+C Accredited Professional and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ted Hall

Ted Hall, founding partner of Spearhead, has 25 years of experience in mass timber construction and is widely regarded as an industry leader in advanced wood design and manufacturing. Under Ted’s guidance, Spearhead has helped re-think the construction process through the application of integrated project delivery practices, coupled with state-of-the-art digital fabrication. Through early engagement in design-assist Spearhead develops project-specific build strategies which optimize manufacturing resources, reduce overall construction times, and bring cost certainty to a broad spectrum of work. This integrated approach facilitates finite coordination of interface details between traditionally isolated scopes of work and in turn enables the potential for cross-platform component-based manufacturing on complex projects.

Henry Zimmerman

Henry is a Project Manager and Project Architect with six years of experience on a wide variety of projects in the public and private sectors, including mixed-use, office, academic, and healthcare. He works closely with design partners and project team members to develop design and phasing strategies for both large and small projects. Henry’s expertise is exemplified in his work with schematic design and development, client and consultant coordination, site administration, detailing, construction documents, material and color selection, and publication materials.

J-F Robert

J-F Robert is a Professional Engineer and owner of Blackcomb Façade Technology. Blackcomb Façade Technology is the exclusive fabrication and installation partner for RAICO Bautechnik in the Pacific Northwest. RAICO is a Façade system house with headquarters in Bavaria and offer Passive House Certified curtainwalls, skylights, windows and doors. J-F was VP of Operations for a commercial curtainwall contractor from 2006 to 2009 with over 200 employees. He founded Blackcomb in 2010 with the vision of surrounding himself with a team of professionals that are the best in the industry.

Bryce Tanner

Over the course of 22 years in the practice of structural engineering, Bryce Tanner has maintained a focus on the improvement of earthquake resilience in buildings – both new and old. One avenue of this pursuit has led to the design and peer review of tall buildings in high-seismic areas of the US and Latin America. He was particularly excited by the opportunity to collaborate with ZGF on the complex and unique geometry of the Mark in Seattle.

Robert Miller

Robert has championed both sustainable design and regional sensitivity in his work, which ranges broadly in scale from private residences including the modest Lightbox cabin in Washington to complex commercial projects such as the Mengwu Town Center in China, Soma and Brio Towers in Bellevue, Washington, Ae’o Tower in Honolulu, and the Yesler Terrace Towers in Seattle. The most widely recognized is the Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center in Seattle, which was awarded a National Honor Award by the American Institute of Architects and an AIA COTE Award for integrated environmental strategies.

Robert’s lifelong interests in social issues, alternative construction, renewable energy, and industrial design are reflected in his holistic approach to architecture. He believes that thoughtful innovation and integration are the future of successful sustainable design.

Dana Reed

Dana Reed has devoted most of her career to planning, design, and construction of buildings for leading university and independent school clients. In the BCJ tradition, her collaborations integrate people, ideas, architecture and landscape into vibrant communities. Dana has led the design teams for the two most recent and modern college houses at the University of Pennsylvania which honor Penn’s distinguished brick architectural legacy. Lauder College House features custom designed bricks configured to produce undulating staggered walls that enliven the campus and the city. Lightweight terracotta shingle panelized walls will clad New College House West. Through her work with the Corning Museum of Glass and Apple Stores for Philadelphia and Georgetown, Dana has also developed a fascination and expertise in structural glass.A graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale, Dana’s enthusiasm and rigor produce sustainable, beautiful buildings.

Patricia Chen

Chen Graduated from Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, Master’s degree in Science major in Fine Arts.

Chen has been a Professional Facade Design Engineer since 1991, and has worked in the area of Curtain Wall Design & Management for the last 28+ Years, and joined the Su Development Company 2013. Her first project with Su Deveopment was SoMa Towers Phase I – a 65’ tall Elevator Cone in 2013 winter.

Her scope as the Senior Facade Engineer in Su Development involves participating the early Facade system conceptual design, responsibility for full-size mock-up for air andwater leakage testing and architectural visual review, system costing & VE, fabrication shop drawing, coordinatation of different manufacture for system fabrication and assembly, shipping and exporting to the US. Chen also leads on-site construction administration for exterior cladding.

John Su

John Su immigrated to the United States in 1976, and graduated from the University of Washington with a M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1979. He started Su Development, a real estate company in the Puget Sound area, in 1981.
In the last 38+ years, Su Development has developed and built more than 50 apartment buildings in the Seattle area. In particular, the last 20 years have delivered 6 high-rise apartment towers in Downtown Bellvue
The company business model is totally vertical integrated, by using our own equity to purchase and develop the land, with their own in-house construction documentation team, self-performing GC, and property management team. Su Development tackles one tower project a time with 70+ dedicated team members.

Stephane Hoffman

Since joining the firm in 1994, Hoffman has worked on projects throughout North America and led the expansion of Morrison Hershfield’s Building Science practice in the U.S. He now leads the Facade Engineering Group, focusing on conceptual design of cladding and glazing systems. The breadth of his knowledge and experience is often called upon to troubleshoot and help resolve issues on both new and existing buildings. With a Master’s in historic restoration that combines structural engineering, building science, and architecture, he brings a well-balanced consulting approach to the conservation of the building envelope, blending scientific analysis with an understanding of aesthetic considerations.

Lisa Rammig

Lisa is an Senior Associate at engineering practice Eckersley O’Callaghan, having joined in 2013 to support the emerging facade engineering service which complements the practice’s work in structural engineering and envelope design.

She leads many of the facade group’s most challenging projects including a large corporate campus in California and facade specific work to a number of high profile retail stores. Through her education and relationships within the European Facade Network, she remains heavily involved in academia and has built strong links between research and industry. This unique position enables her to identify and integrate innovative products and approaches for the practical application on cutting-edge building envelopes.

Lisa has the responsibility of directing EOC’s R&D efforts globally, focusing on innovative glass designs and technology which maintain EOC’s position as leaders in the field, but also identifying new fields of research including a variety of materials and novel analysis approaches. Whilst remaining heavily involved in her own research projects, she focuses the team in developing their own areas of technical inquiry. In addition to the industry driven R&D efforts at EOC, Lisa is part of the Facade Research Group at TU Delft, where she pursues her doctoral research on transparent glass connections.

Since mid-2017 Lisa is responsible for EOC’s San Francisco office, growing the studio and presence on the West Coast and the local team after having spent significant amount of project-related time in the Bay-Area over the past years.

Sanjeev Tankha

Sanjeev leads Walter P Moore’s Enclosure Engineering practice. His expertise lies in developing elegant façade design solutions that balance structure, sustainability, and comfort for the users. Sanjeev’s experience is on a wide variety of projects including aviation, sports, civic, commercial, transportation, and hospitality. He has instructed at SciARC, a center of innovation and education, on integrated facades and at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture on designing with glass. He is a registered architect in California as well as a LEED Accredited Professional. His Master of Building Sciences is from the University of Southern California, School of Architecture and his Bachelor of Architecture is from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi.

Michael Maiese

Michael interest in building envelope technologies, and in particular glass and glazing systems, has spurred him to lead Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s internal research group focused on Glass and Glazing technologies. He has presented papers internationally on Decorative Glazing technologies, discussing how advances in glazing technologies can aid in achieving functional goals while simultaneously expanding opportunities for aesthetic expression. Michael’s experience with construction technologies, building systems, and construction delivery methods comes from a diverse range of projects ranging from adaptive reuse to high end retail, and is particularly experienced with technically sophisticated buildings that integrate the client’s program into facilities that speak of the character of the institution.