PMKC Fall Symposium: GROW - Cultivating the Next Generation of Architectural Leaders

When:  Nov 8, 2015 from 08:00 AM to 06:00 PM (ET)
Associated with  Practice Management


November 8, 2015
8:00am - 5:00pm

Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012

Join us for a symposium geared toward emerging leaders. Whether moving up or starting your own firm, learn critical skills and new ways to think from leaders re-shaping their practices.

Registration Required
by Oct 25: $50 for members, $75 non-members
after Oct 25: $75 for members, $100 non-members
breakfast & lunch included


Visit AIA NY to learn more and register!



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GROW 2015 Speakers


Arielle Assouline-Lichten holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Critical Theory and Visual Media from New York University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, with commendation. She has worked for internationally renowned design firms such as BIG, Toshiko Mori and Associates, Kengo Kuma and Associates, and Snøhetta, from Copenhagen to Paris, Tokyo and New York. Arielle specializes in the intersection of digital and physical space and has created and participated in numerous events and exhibits at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Arielle is a Principal designer and Founder at Slash Projects, a multidisciplinary design firm in Brooklyn.


Carol Loewenson, FAIA is a partner at Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP. Ms. Loewenson has served on the Board of the Center for Architecture Foundation since 2011 and is an active member of the New York City Chapter of the AIA where she has served on both the Nominating Committee and the Committee on Architecture for Justice. She will serve as President of the New York Chapter in 2016. She has participated in numerous local and national professional panels and juries, and has served as a Board Member of the Center for Arts Education, New Yorkers for Parks, and the Broadway Mall Association.


Joel Peterson is Director of Human Resources for a professional design firm in New York City. Joel began his career as an actor before transitioning into Human Resources. His diverse background spans a variety of industries ranging from international education, the pharmaceutical industry, and public television. For the last nine years, Joel has worked at Goshow Architects where he helps build the people who build the buildings. Outside the office, Joel is the Communications Director for the New York State SHRM Council and volunteers for NYC SHRM and the New York State Special Olympics.


Keith Kennedy is always one to challenge the way we do business. As a professional services marketer, he has successfully introduced innovative marketing, public relations, and communications strategies that help put firms in front of both existing and prospective clients. Working in concert with business development teams, these strategies have transformed design monologues into meaningful dialogues to enhance relationships. As director of marketing at STUDIOS Architecture, Keith contributes to the company’s long-term vision and helps communicate its passion for design to clients, teaming partners, and the industry. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Keith stumbled into marketing for an engineering firm and has never looked back.


Pablo Castro is a licensed architect in New York, Connecticut, and Argentina. His design direction at OBRA Architects has garnered six AIA NY Design Awards, two 2004 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards and the 2014 Kim Swoo Geun Preview Prize, Seoul. He has lectured across the globe, at Korea National University of Arts, Tsinghua, RISD, Columbia, Cranbrook, ETSAM, Roma Tre, among others. OBRA Architects was founded by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee in the year 2000 in New York City, now also in Seoul and Beijing. Current projects under construction include a private house and a multi-family apartment complex in San Juan, Argentina, and a 5,550m2 kindergarten for 540 Chinese children in Beijing.

 

Paola Moya is the CEO and Principal of Marshall Moya Design, formed with Michael Marshall in 2010. She manages the firm’s executive responsibilities and strategic planning, and is actively involved in the design, development, and successful completion of each of the firm’s projects. In 2015, Moya was named a "40 Under 40" honoree by the Washington Business Journal and a “Minority Business Leader” of the year in 2014. Her work has been recognized with international, national, and local design excellence awards from: The American Institute of Architects (National and DC Chapters), The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, Graphic Design USA, International Design Awards (IDA), Forrec, and the American Society of Architectural Illustrators.


Rena M. Klein, FAIA is a nationally recognized expert in small firm practice and author of The Architect’s Guide to Small Firm Management (Wiley 2010). With 20 years of experience as the owner of a small architecture firm, and over 10 years as a consultant and educator, Rena brings a special understanding of design firms managed by entrepreneurial architects. Rena served as executive editor of AIA’s The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, 15th edition (Wiley 2013) and is past-chair of the national Advisory Group for the AIA Practice Management Knowledge Community. As principal of RM Klein Consulting, Rena offers a variety of services to design firms, including assessment, strategic planning and management coaching. Specializing in financial management, operations, and organizational design, Rena helps small design firms prosper.


Susan Murphy has been coaching Presentation and Interview Skills for over twenty years. After a career in travel, where her last job was Director of Travel Industry Marketing for Club Med, she created a midlife reinvention and went to work for Communispond, the leading international communication skills firm for Fortune 500 firms. Murphy completed the intense and thorough Communispond faculty training and went on to become one of their top teachers and coaches. A chance encounter with SMPS landed her at a National Conference in Boston. There was no turning back once Susan met the AEC industry and the SMPS membership. Her practice is now dedicated to helping AEC firms hone their communication skills, with an emphasis on Interview Presentations and coaching.


Thomas Gluck is a principal at GLUCK+. Named by Fast Company as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in architecture in 2014, GLUCK+ has been recognized for their unique approach to Architect Led Design Build: single-source responsibility with architects leading the building process. The practice is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design together with real-world expertise to craft bold, innovative and conceptually unique architecture. In 2015, GLUCK+ was included in The Architectural League’s Current Work series with the lecture, “Thinking Making Making Thinking.” Recent and current projects include The Stack, the first prefabricated steel and concrete modular residential building development in New York; and Tower House, which was selected by Architectural Record for their Record Houses issue in 2013.

 

 



Check out the videos from last year's symposium!

AM Session Part I - 11.9.14 from Center for Architecture on Vimeo.

AM Session Part II - 11.9.14 from Center for Architecture on Vimeo.

PM Session Part I - 11.9.14 from Center for Architecture on Vimeo.

PM Session Part II - 11.9.14 from Center for Architecture on Vimeo.



Location

The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012