Preconference Seminars: In order to be enrolled you must be registered for one other full day.

TH0115
Conquering the Energy Code; Energy Code Training for Architects and Engineers
Program Developed and Presented by Urban Green Council, Underwritten by the New York State: Energy Research & Development Authority
10:00 PM – 6:00 PM
6.5 LU/HSW Hours
$75.00
Fee includes breaks and materials.

Designers struggle to comply with energy code requirements due to confusion about documentation, misunderstood code language, and the challenge of keeping up to date on a code that changes every three years.

Compliance brings many benefits such as faster approvals, more efficient and resilient buildings, the ability to stay competitive in a changing industry, and happy clients. Not only are designers required to meet new energy code obligations, but learning how to comply with today’s code will prepare design firms for coming changes.

Using the upcoming IECC 2015 as the source, Conquering the Code teaches architects to understand the structure and rationale behind the energy code. Participants will learn how to differentiate the various compliance pathways and understand the requirements for compliance.
Often, it is not a lack of knowledge that leads to failure to comply but a lack of coordination and communication among the design team, their client, the code officials and the construction team. The course focuses on communication practices that will improve these barriers to compliance.

A fundamental theme of the course is to explain specific code provision by describing the interdependence of the building envelope, mechanical and lighting systems and their impacts on energy consumption.

Peter J. Arsenault, FAIA, NCARB, LEED-AP  
Peter J. Arsenault Architect
Greensboro, NC

TH0215
Design Opportunities with New Lighting Technologies and Daylighting Techniques 
1:00 PM – 4:15 PM
3 LU/HSW Hours
$110
Fee includes breaks and materials

New lighting technologies, such as inorganic and organic light emitting diodes (LEDs and OLEDs), advanced control systems, and new techniques and research on daylighting design open up unprecedented opportunities for architects to rethink the lighting and daylighting of buildings. These new technologies not only represent a paradigm shift in the way lighting can be meshed with other architectural elements in both interior and exterior environments, but also can make buildings more sustainable, energy efficient, and responsive to the needs, health, and wellbeing of building occupants.

This presentation will provide an overview of the latest developments in lighting technologies as well as research into effective daylighting techniques for buildings.  The presenter will also review case studies and field demonstrations of the technologies and design techniques presented.

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the world’s leading center for lighting research and education. Established in 1988 by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the LRC has been pioneering research in energy and the environment, light and health, transportation lighting and safety, and solid-state lighting for more than 25 years.

Daniel Frering, LC
Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

TH0315
Reducing Carbon Emissions From Our Buildings
1:00 PM – 4:15 PM
3 LU Hours
$110
Fee includes breaks and materials

The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for approximately 40% of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) gases annually, a considerably substantial amount which few practitioners take into account in their design decisions. The building design and construction community has increased its awareness of the need to reduce buildings’ energy usage, but that does not completely equate to a reduction of CO2e gases.

This workshop presents a simple methodology to quantify CO2e from the construction of the structure and envelope of a building (“bloomage”), including a look at the effect of design decisions on this carbon footprint. The session will provide a simple method to calculate the CO2e emissions from one year of heating the building (“leakage), making reasonable assumptions about envelope performance.

Participants will learn the effect design changes can make to the total carbon footprint, including air barrier effectiveness and the amount of thermal bridging present through the insulated envelope, providing attendees with a quantitative sense of their buildings’ carbon footprint, and learn practical ways to reduce carbon emissions from both the construction and the operation of buildings.

James A. D’Aloisio, P.E. SECB, LEED AP BD+C
Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt
East Syracuse, NY

FR0115
Green on All Sides. Expectations and Reality of Green Building
9:30 AM -11:00 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

Green on All Sides presents a method of building design and construction intended to help attendees design to meet net zero energy building design. The presenter will discuss the Journey of Green Building, as experienced from all sides of the new 5,400 square foot, near net zero energy, office building in New Paltz, NY owned, designed, developed, financed, constructed, managed and occupied by the architect. Specific topics of interest will include: the Design and Build process and benefits; Architect as owner/developer/builder, and the principles of Net Zero Design and Construction.

Additional topics explored in the discussion will include cost-benefit and “payback” analyses, decision to pursue a high level LEED certification (Platinum pending as of 6.17.2015), community planning, land acquisition and location, ultra-low water use, and specific details involved in creating a healthy indoor environment, workplace and site.

Through the case study, participants will focus on unexpected positives and negatives of the overall process, a comparison of initial goals to actual results, and ultimately what is the experience of inhabiting a high performance green building. The goal of a healthy indoor environment and workspace developed in a real case study will provide attendees with the framework for exploring similar processes in their own firms and projects.

Rick Alfandre, AIA
Alfandre Architecture, PC
Managing Member 231 Main Street In Balance, LLC
New Paltz, NY

FR0215
How We Use Evidence to Better Our Performance
9:30 AM -11:00 AM 
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

This session will help participants demonstrate evidence of their designs’ positive impacts on past clients to future clients.  Through an overview of Evidence Based Design (EBD), the interactive discussion will describe how EBD has evolved from a technique used mainly for healthcare to a tool that can be used on all project types.

Topics include: how to turn key design issues into researchable questions; how to answer those questions; and what measures to use to evaluate outcomes and interpret findings.  Examples will be presented to allow attendees to define their own post occupancy approach. After our initial presentation of the process and techniques, we will break up into groups to discuss two main topics and report on how they could use EBD techniques in their current work.

Katherine Roden, AIA, LEED BD+C
Centerbrook Architects and Planners, LLC
Centerbrook, CT

FR0315
After the Disaster—An Overview of the State CEDAR Program and Rebuilding Using NYS Code
9:30 AM -11:00 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

The Department of State Division of Code Enforcement and Administration’s Code Enforcement Disaster Assistance Response (CEDAR) Program provides requesting communities with timely, appropriate post-disaster assistance as part of the statewide coordinated effort under the leadership of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Office of Emergency Management.  The program’s initial disaster response focuses on performing rapid Post-disaster Building Assessments (PBDAs) of damaged structures in affected communities for use as part of the application process to request assistance through FEMA.

Attendees will learn how to apply, train and become involved in CEDAR, while also learning the principles of the Applied Technology Council (ATC) 45 Field Manual: Safety Evaluation of Buildings After Wind Storms and Floods.  Attendees will also be introduced to emerging building codes, which are tailored to enhance the resiliency of buildings.

Eric C. Bradshaw
NYS Department of State Division of Building Standards and Codes
Albany, NY

Ronald Piester AIA
NYS Department of State Division of Building Standards and Codes
Albany, NY

Illya Azaroff AIA 
+LAB architects
Brooklyn, NY

AIANYS Expo 2015 
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Attend the Design Conference Expo for many opportunities to network, learn and win.  Our vendors will not only be exhibiting, but will be available to one-on-one demonstration and informational exploratory sessions.  If you do not have time for a one-on-one, vendors will be hosting short programs for new products where you can get more information quickly in an informal session.

Included in the trade show registration is a lunch to meet and mingle with fellow AIANYS members and the vendors.  This provides an informal setting to get to know members and industry professionals.

Let’s not forget our “selfie” promotion where if you take and submit your selfie, by yourself or with friends, you will be entered to win a fantastic hi-tech prize.  We will also be holding raffles and giveaways for other great prizes throughout the expo.

The early bird catches the worm….and cup of coffee!  Register now before the early bird period is up!  The first 50 to register by September 14th will receive a special AIA gift on arrival at the Hilton.  So register soon!

LU0115
Lunch on the Expo Floor 
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM

GS0115
General Session
RURAL STUDIO: Twenty Years of Designing and Building in Hale County West Alabama
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
1 LU/HSW Hours

Andrew Freear will present a series of case studies of Auburn University’s Rural Studio, the design-build projects and pedagogy which has created innovative and affordable structures for underserved communities in Western Alabama.  By exploring the “living where we work” concept that operates through observing the existing context, learning from it, and allowing the information to inform design, architects can be actively involved in more aspects of the community.  These community based designs are shaped by the needs, concerns, and aspirations of the local residents to promote social wellbeing and healthy communities.

When designing in underserved communities, it is important navigate socioeconomic changes and anticipate need for social / environmental sustainability, managing local resources, how to use design to address preservation, adaptive reuse, ethics, and issues of social justice.

These issues are used to promote programs which support safe and healthy domiciles and promote sustainable micro economies in underutilized communities with limited resources, yet maintain a focus on health, safety, welfare, and education of the community in the construction of large scale community projects.

Presented will be case studies entitled “The 20K House Program” describing creation of affordable housing for $20,000, “The “Thinnings” Project” to repurpose underutilized local lumber bi-products and small scale sustainable farming and agriculture.

Andrew Freear, Director 
Rural Studio, Auburn University
Auburn, AL

Coffee break on the Expo Floor
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

FR0415
Resilient Design and the Adaptability of Architectural Practice
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy made clear that traditional approaches to natural disasters – after-the-fact evacuation, relief, and rebuilding – are insufficient. Conversely, “Resilient Design” pre-emptively approaches our environment as a complex adaptive system – one constructed of multiple independently behaving agents, containing both physical and social components. Planning and designing resilient buildings, cities, and regions means engaging this complexity and developing integrative strategies.

As governments and private developers begin attempting to deliver Resilient projects, it is critical for the design industry itself to also adapt. The Architect’s role in Resilient Design should not be limited to beautifying engineering solutions, but to be an integral part of a comprehensive team; incorporating problem analysis, community collaboration, and multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approaches.

In this seminar we will explore critical questions raised by this new paradigm, such as:

• Can we develop a role for design at the risk management table?
• How do we bring together communities and decision makers with designers, scientists and engineers?
• How do we link short and medium term resilience to long-term adaptation?
• Can we link design intelligence to the economic models that make resilience possible?

Travis J. M. Bunt, AIA
One Architecture & Urbanism
New York, NY

Matthijs Bouw BNA 
One Architecture & Urbanism
New York, NY

FR0515
Using Video to Explain Design
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours 

Video as a design and analysis too is often underutilized by architects, even though the technology and results are more readily accessible and  can be created and viewed more creatively now than ever before. Videos have the capacity to explain architecture in ways that still photographs, drawings and words cannot. This seminar intends to explore the role of video in various forms within the architectural education and professional environments.  Through a hands-on approach, the workshop will cover the process of planning and producing a video in an interactive setting.  The use of new media as a design tool will allow attendees to conceptualize new ways of exploring and presenting their designs

Michael Woods, AIA
Perkins+Will
New York, NY

FR0615
NCARB & New York State: A Joint Venture Towards Licensure 
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

The architecture profession is presently undergoing major changes.  NCARB has recently announced a streamline which will change how professional experience is logged and how the ARE’s will change for version 5.0.  What do interns need to know about transitioning, and how do these changes affect New York States present policies?  This seminar will update on the topics of experience, testing, titling, and requirements for international architects.  You will hear from NCARB and New York States IDP coordinator.

Harry Falconer, AIA
NCARB
Washington DC

Thom Penn, AIA
NYS IDP Coordinator
Islip, NY

FR0715
Valuing a Professional Design Firm – How Does Your Firm Measure Up?
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

What happens when new practice methodologies and innovative design propel firms into great success?  The answer for most includes a plan for expansion or merger and acquisitions.  For design companies who need to think about shareholder expansion or transition or M&A, a valuation of their business and innovative design becomes essential. This program will help owners, business managers and shareholders gain a better understanding of how to value their firms for ownership transition and poise their firm for sale or transition.

Deborah E. Finch, CPA, CVA, CDA
Dannible/McKee and Associates, Ltd.
Syracuse, NY

FR0815
From Design to Academic Research: Deep Investigation of Building Performance at RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

The Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), completed in 2013, is at the vanguard of education and research in sustainability across disciplines such as manufacturing, energy, mobility, and information technology. Certified LEED Platinum, the institute is an advanced laboratory for scientific discovery and experiential learning with flexible research labs, student work areas, classrooms and conference rooms, auditorium spaces and offices.

The building also serves as a living laboratory for high performance buildings where students, faculty and visitors investigate how the building functions in response to climate and occupancy variations. The interrelationship between the sustainable systems of the building and the institute’s research is fundamental to the building’s program and is manifest in the design approach for the project. A wide array of technologies has been integrated, coupled with extensive monitoring and sub-metering equipment, with the goal of evaluating the long-term performance of the overall building and the specific systems within.

This session will present the current research and recent findings of GIS students on both overall building performance and on specific high performance systems. The panel will present these findings in the context of the original project’s design and predicted performance, focusing on lessons learned and unexpected results.

Thomas A. Trabold, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Mobility
Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

Mark Maddalina, Senior Associate / Sustainable Design Director AIA, LEED AP BD+C
SWBR Architects
Rochester, NY

Dennis A. Andrejko, FAIA, Head of the Department of Sustainability 
Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

John Schuyler, Partner AIA, LEED AP
FXFOWLE
New York, NY

AIANYS Board of Directors and Annual Meeting to follow
7:30 AM – 11:30 AM

SA0115
Preparing for the A.R.E. – Programming, Planning, and Practice Short Course
8:30 AM -12:30 PM
4 LU/HSW Hours
$65
Cost includes breaks and materials

This program is only available to Associated who are preparing for the NYS Licensing Exam.

Prepare candidates for the Architect Registration Exam (A.R.E.) Programming, Planning, and Practice Exam by using the instructor’s professional experience and education in architecture.

• The PP&P short course will cover the following:
• A brief overview of the Programming, Planning, and Practice Exam.
• Review of the NCARB Programming, Planning, and Practice Division Statement.
• Review of the NCARB tested competency areas over which ARE candidates will be evaluated.
• Problem solving with the instructor. The attendants will learn how to categorize the problem, identify what is being asked to solve, start the problem, identify why incorrect answers are incorrect and why correct answers are correct.
• Review of Site Zoning Vignette

Diane Steinbronn, NCARB, LEED AP, Asst. Professor
PREPARE, Inc.
Savoy, IL

SA0215
Using AIA Tools to Manage Legal Issues on Sustainable Projects
9:00 AM -10:30 AM
1.5 LU Hours

Sustainable design and construction provides exciting opportunities to reduce negative impacts on the planet, improve energy efficiency and building performance, and enhance the health and comfort of building occupants.

New and updated green building codes, rating systems and standards continually impact sustainable design and construction practices (including the 2015 IgCC, LEED v4 and ASHRAE 189.1-2014). As sustainable design and construction continues to evolve, Owners, Architects and Contractors are faced with an increasingly complex array of green codes, rating systems and standards to apply to their projects.

Through an exploration of the design-bid-build and construction management deliver models, participants in this course will understand the unique roles, responsibilities, risks and opportunities unique to sustainable design and construction projects and discover how to reduce, or better allocate, contractual risks using the AIA’s Sustainable Projects Contract Documents and the revised AIA Sustainability Guide.

This program will provide those attending with contract provisions, including the language required to mitigate risk and get a green building constructed.

Michael Cremonese, Esquire
Burke Cromer Cremonese, LLC
Pittsburgh, PA

Eric O. Pempus, Esquire, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA
Oswald Companies
Cleveland, OH

SA0315
A Higher Calling: New Technology & Conserving St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC
9:00 AM -10:30 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

Designed by James Renwick and completed in 1879, St. Patrick’s Cathedral embodies Catholicism in the United States. But by 2005, the building fabric had reached a state of disrepair, including stone, plaster, and stained glass windows failures: the entire physical plant was outmoded and well beyond its useful life.  In responding to the conditions found at the Cathedral, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects, along with their primary collaborators, restoration consultants, and Building Conservation Associates, employed a full range of best practice and conservation measures.

This workshop will present the exterior and interior fabric conservation, describe the approach to stained glass restoration, the new water mist fire suppression system and the nine well geothermal system that reduces energy consumption at the Cathedral by 40%. It will explore methods that solved major technical challenges, including schedule, budget, and quality control; present research leading to innovative conservation strategies; and describe cutting-edge solutions for energy efficiency and fire suppression. The use of cutting-edge mobile technology incorporating speedier and more precise document management by processing hundreds of drawings, field changes, and over 30,000 conditions and treatments during construction, with information distributed in real time to the project team, will be presented within the workshop.

Jeffrey Murphy, AIA, LEED AP
Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects
New York, NY

Jean Phifer, FAIA
Thomas Phifer & Partners
New York, NY

Rolando Kraeher, AIA
Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects
New York, NY

Raymond Pepi
Building Conservation Associates
New York, NY

SA0415
Reconstruction Best Practices and Workshop
9:00 AM -10:30 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

Architects throughout the entire northeast region are retrofitting, elevating and building new homes in the affected flood zones, and zones at potential future risk. This seminar will introduces three case studies in the State of New York of projects designed and implemented using new regulations, codes and methods that are considered best practices. The seminar not only presents these case studies, the attendee will be taken through a step by step process for successful coastal construction.

This seminar will also provide technical and regulatory knowledge in understanding what can be applied to the design and detail of existing and new buildings in the flood zones. Information will be provided to educate professionals, and homeowners alike of programs that are available on the Federal and State levels to assist and incentivize financing resilient measure.

Illya Azaroff, AIA
+Lab Architect PLLC
Brooklyn, NY

Erik Jester Associate, AIA
+Lab Architect PLLC
Brooklyn, NY

Brian Baer, RA, LEED AP, NCARB
The Elevated Studio
New York, NY

SA0515
Integrating Informed Design to Reduce the Risk of Crime
9:00 AM -10:30 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

Crime is an unfortunate reality in the built environment. While crime can never be eliminated completely, decades of research shows that design can have a noticeable impact on reducing both the risk and fear of crime. A key consideration for architects is identifying how architectural design can be integrated with established crime reduction through design principles to create aesthetically pleasing, highly functional, and beautiful built environments that also consider the mitigation of criminal activity, while avoiding overt and, at times, unattractive elements.

During this session, a panel of crime reduction through design specialists, representing both academia and practice, will discuss how informed design can assist in reducing the risk and fear of crime, while at the same time promoting the development of environments that are highly desirable places in which to live, learn, work, and play.

Dr. Kelly W. Sundberg 
SAFE Design Council / Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Douglas Olson, CSLA
O2 Planning + Design
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Tanya Trussler
SAFE Design Council / Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ralph Snell, AIA
RADIUS
Cooperstown, NY

GS0215
General Session
Title TBD
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
1 LU/HSW Hour

Anna Dyson
CASE Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
New York, NY

LU0215
Networking Lunch
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

SA0615
Hybrid Practice: Directed Design Internship for New Concepts in Patient-Oriented Spaces
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

Hybrid Practice” will describe and showcase methods developed during an innovative collaborative project integrating academic and professional problem solving, ultimately benefitting the clients for whom innovation is a mandate. Profs. Aki Ishida and Lynnette Widder, then of Rhode Island School of Design and both practitioners, were asked by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Strategic Planning and Innovation Lab to deliver blue-sky approaches to the “Clinic Room of the Future” and the “Short Stay Recovery Floor,” both new patient-oriented concepts for the hospital.

Developed with four architectural interns, the outcomes were derived through a series of techniques rooted in observation and analytical drawing. Bringing together the assets of a design studio with the rigor of client-focused work, the outcomes were used to engage hospital staff and to influence the design of future facilities.

This seminar will present the research, design, and engagement tools deployed, including the observational sketches of patient-doctor interaction and the use of full-scale mockup’s that were built to promote engagement with hospital staff. In addition to a presentation on the MSK project, the seminar will engage participants in hands-on observation, drawing, analysis and group discussion of outcomes, allowing them to model and test the methods used for MSK.

Aki Ishida, AIA, LEED AP
Assistant Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design, Principal of Aki Ishida Architect PLLC
Blacksburg, VA

Lynnette Widder
Lecturer in Discipline, Masters of Sustainability Management at Columbia University, aardvarchitecture
New York, NY

SA0715
Town+Gown: Applied Research in the Built Environment
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

Town+Gown, a systemic action research program, facilitates projects between academics and practitioners aimed at changing practices and policies in the built environment. It connects interested academics and students with public and private sector practitioners on applied research, using the physical setting as a laboratory. Its research agenda reflects the disciplines within the Built Environment interdisciplinary field: design, technology, geography, economics, law and management. Town+Gown addresses questions relating to government as purchaser of design services balancing function, quality and delight within a predetermined cost envelope. It focuses on government as regulator of built environment participants, processes and products, with impacts on private projects and those in the public domain.

Terri Matthews, Esq., Director, Town+Gown ABA
NYC Department of Design and Construction
Long Island City, NY

Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, AIA, Chief Architect 
NYC Department of Design and Construction
Long Island City, NY

Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, Design and Construction Excellence
NYC Department of Design and Construction
Long Island City, NY

SA0815
Material and Immaterial Based Design Approaches
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
1.5 LU Hours

The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) is the first research center co-hosted by an architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and an Architecture School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to promote the commitment of applied research on the themes of ecology and sustainability. At CASE/SOM an experienced team of designers, scientists, and industry partners study the next generation of net-zero design based on customization and variation of building-enclosure behaviors, material and fabrication selection, devices and integrated building systems with the primary intent of promoting, maintaining, or restoring the health of people, buildings and the environment.

This seminar focuses specifically on design approaches that account for changing and changeable datasets: environmental, material, energetic, biometric, and public health variables, among other, to simulate and design for patterns of discrete and collective behaviors and preferences. At the core of this workflow lies our motivation that data and material-based design approaches not only contributes to achieve a higher overlap between the virtual and the physical design process, but generates formal vocabularies that are driven by an environmental material logic. This methodology correlates material experimentation coupled with digital tools to prompt new techniques of fabrication alongside informed decisions on choice of materials through its properties and potential for assemblage.

Anna Dyson
CASE Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
New York, NY

Mark Regulinski
SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
New York, NY

Nancy Diniz
CASE Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
New York, NY

Josh Draper
CASE Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
New York, NY

SA0915
Designing for Risk- Integrating Research & Analysis for Resilience Planning in the Dominican Republic
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours 

The impacts of climate change along with highlighted threats to natural disasters are impacting the functionality of cities & nations. This workshop aims to discuss and explore the two year research initiative conducted at Columbia University with the Government of the Dominican Republic, engaging the research division of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the School of Architecture’s Urban Design Lab along with Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. This initiative has also engaged the academic participation of the Graduate School of Architecture Preservation & Planning (GSAPP) with the Fu Foundation of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Richard Gonzalez Architect, PLLC participates as the design professional in practice. The outcome has identified several opportunities of focus to include policy integration, risk response, preparedness measures & reliance planning. These aspects were conducted with supporters from government, the private sector and the design & engineering community within the Dominican Republic. This project demonstrates a cross disciplinary research mission comprised of scientist, engineers, planners & architects that have assisted in the integration of an advisory panel to review and reinforce development sectors undertaken by the Dominican Republic. Such a template can be utilized for other countries and design entities.

Richard Gonzalez,  AIA
Richard Gonzalez Architect, PLLC
New York, NY

Arthur Lerner-Lam
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Palisades, NY

SA1015
Building the Brand of You
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
1.5 LU Hours

Have you ever thought of yourself as a brand? Whether you realize it or not, you have a brand. Come learn how to develop or modify your personal brand to reflect what is unique and different about you. Topics to be covered include how to maximize social media to work for you, how to share your expertise in blogs and industry publications and how to identify speaking opportunities to extend your brand offline.  You will leave the sessions with tools to rebuild or build your brand to help you advance your career and attract clients.

Sandra Coyle, Founder
Coyle Communications
Washington DC

SA1115
Architecture + Education: Why Architecture Matters to Kids
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

The award winning Architecture + Education (A+E) Program in Buffalo, New York has been educating our local youth in Buffalo Public Schools about architecture and design since 2007.  To date, over 100 volunteer architects have served over 2,500 students. The program is unique due to the structure of the teams – volunteer architects and University at Buffalo architecture students are paired with Buffalo Public School classroom teachers; together they develop a unique curriculum that combines the Common Core with architecture and design concepts. Architects and UB students then visit the classroom over a two month period implementing project-based learning; this hands-on, interactive approach is affective in many struggling inner-city schools. Students learn that architecture is a multidisciplinary vehicle that relates to many subject areas–math, science, history, fine arts, technology, etc.  In addition, the partnership between local practitioners and university students creates a sense of community among architects in Buffalo, and gives opportunity for networking and collaboration.

For the majority of the session, we will be replicating the Buffalo A+E Program daylong Symposium, which trains teachers and architects how to communicate architecture and design concepts to children.  This program will be interactive and include fun exercises that are appropriate for kids, but fun for adults too!  This session is for anyone who is interested in working with young students and the general public to educate about the power of architecture and design.

Linsey Graff, Assoc. AIA
University at Buffalo, Capital Planning
Buffalo, NY

Paul McDonnell, AIA
Buffalo Public Schools, Facilities
Buffalo, NY

SA1215
Pop-Up Impact! Emerging Professionals Seek New Ways to Affect Change
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

Pop-ups and temporary design installations have the power to attract attention, display experimentation and new possibilities in the field of architecture, and raise professional profiles for emerging firms. This session will focus on how young architects and emerging professionals – both within and outside of academia – are using small-scale temporary design and pop-up installations to achieve personal design goals while promoting public awareness of the power of design. Leading designers and professors will highlight a variety of installations, and introduce strategies for creating small-scale, temporary projects.

Discussions will surround the formation of programs that link emerging professionals to practice and industry through applied research, design, and construction.  By working on small-scale projects, including areas not traditionally part of the architectural study, such as procurement, assembly, inventory, shipping, fund raising, and other construction concerns, emerging professionals engage and enhance cultural environments, as well as expose new work to potential clients.

Jessica Sheridan, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Gensler
New York, NY

Phillip Anzalone, AIA
Atelier Architecture 64 PLLC
Brooklyn, NY

Henry Grosman
BanG studio
Long Island City, NY

SA1315
Becoming a Fellow of The American Institute of Architects
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

Elevation to Fellowship in the AIA is an honor bestowed on a small percentage within the Institute. Have you considered fellowship as part of your career? Ever have questions about becoming a Fellow? How about that one question on the application that you are wondering about? What exactly does the College of Fellows do to mentor interns and YAF Members? This is your chance to ask all the questions you like and do it in an informal setting.

Heidi L. Blau, FAIA
FXFOWLE
New York, NY

Barbara A. Campagna, FAIA
Barbara A. Campagna/Architecture + Planning
Buffalo, NY

Frank. J. Green, FAIA
RicciGreene Associates
New York, NY

SA1415
Residential Design, Building Science, and Cost Effective Practices
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

The building systems we cover include performance options for Panelized, Insulated, Foundation Systems (an alternative to poured concrete foundations) and Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS for perimeter wall framing. The program will reveal how to include the attic in the conditioned space using Structural Insulated Panels for roof/ceiling framing and high performance insulation. We will look closely at Passive Solar Principals using illustrations and photographs to show sun angles and passive technologies and translucent panels for daylighting.

The discussion will also explain how to use modern materials to reduce labor, how we applied LED lighting for interior and exterior use, and how we apply these principals to SIPS walls. Last but not least, we will cover all 6 of the energy ratings this house has achieved and why we chose those programs.

Richard F. Stott, AIA, LEED AP
Stott Architecture, P.C.
Southampton, NY

John Barrows
Performance Path Solutions
Wainscott, NY

SA1515
Re-imagining Aged Housing: Prefabricated Apartment Remodeling Type
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1.5 LU Hours

While the Western world has changed the discourse in housing design and policy to investigate alternative ways of urbanization, residential towers in many Asian cities have been blooming vigorously in recent decades. For example, in South Korea 60% of total population lives in the residential towers and in Singapore, more than 80% of population lives in the public residential towers. Already half of them are old enough for the residents to consider reconstruction or remodeling in Korea. Similarly, out of 1 million public housing units in Singapore, 667,000 units are already 25 years old. Without pursuing a sustainable method to innovate the residential culture, it ends up being total demolishment and reconstruction under the market force. In this mission of seeking bigger sustainability, the conventional role of architect, client, developer and engineer is extremely limited. The seminar argues that Practice/Academic partnership is one of the most effective way to face this task. Using Modular Prefabrication as a useful tool, a faculty of University at Buffalo, a global contractor (Hyundai, South Korea) and an engineer (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, NY) have collaborated to suggest Prefabricated Apartment Remodeling Type.

Jin Young Song, AIA
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Bonghwan Kim, AIA, PE
Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP
New York, NY

GS0315
Rise and Shine Breakfast & Program
The New East River: the Cornell Tech Campus & Transformative Waterfront Design
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

The New East River is the center for a collection of transformative designs that are shaping this former barrier in the heart of the New York City into a twenty-first century network of connectivity and innovation. The catalyst of this emerging center is the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island which is rapidly being surrounded by new models of sustainable neighborhoods, innovative architecture, radical experiments in zoning and green infrastructure, and dramatic examples of academic partnership for the 21st century city.

This session will examine case studies and innovative designs that are creating the new East River. The session will detail coordination between private institutions, government partners, and private developers to accomplish larger urban goals and public benefits. This includes public parks, transportation infrastructure, rezoning tools, tech incubators, public amenities, and innovative sustainable and resiliency models. It will study how to address the overlap between conflicting ideals and interests to create successful, inclusive solutions.

Jay Valgora, AIA, AICP, LEED AP 
Studio V Architecture
New York, NY

SU0115
Preservation Problem Solving through Academia & Architectural Practice
9:15 AM -10:45 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

Many industrial cities, often referred to as “Rust Belt” cities consisted of a large immigrant population who came looking for work in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These immigrant groups settled neighborhoods and constructed large, often ornate parish churches. As economies changed and people left the city many of these churches faced a dwindling congregation who could no longer afford to maintain these iconographic buildings. Adaptive re-use of these properties utilizing historic tax incentives is hindered by existing requirements of the National Park Service and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards to retain character defining spaces, essentially the nave and alter.  Rehabilitation tax credits often make the difference in the economic viability of a redevelopment project. Without a viable re-use these churches will sit vacant and deteriorate.

This program discusses the issues and challenges associated with compliance, looks at the economic strengths of historic tax credits in adaptive re-use projects and suggests strategies arrived at through academic, research-based analysis in combination with professional practice, to navigate the difficulty associated with adaptively re-using historic churches.

Paul Lang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Carmina Wood Morris D.P.C.
Buffalo, NY

Kerry Traynor
Kta preservation specialists / SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

SU0215
Architectural Theory in Practice and Education
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
1.5 LU/HSW Hours

An important intersection between practice and academia is the desire to theorize.  Theory is defined as, “the branch of science or art that deals with principles or methods as distinguished from its practice”.  There is a dense history of theories at least from Vitruvius in 2nd c. Rome.  Since the later part of the 20th c. there have been theories by architects such as Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas, etc. and by educators such as Colin Rowe, Manfredo Tafuri and Kenneth Frampton, etc.  Both tend to be reinforcing rather than contradicting, forming a significant interrelationship that creates an important and constructive
partnership. Sometimes practitioners propositions lean towards propaganda while academicians venture towards utopian propositions, but there exists a strong middle ground that has maintained an important discourse between the two.

This presentation will probe and speculate on why there seems to be a need to not only design buildings to be built, but also that are ideas about what should be built.  It will discuss how making theory has influenced bot the practice and education.

Michael Schwarting, AIA         
Campani and Schwarting Architects
Port Jefferson, NY

SU0315
How to Design a Thirty-Five Story Hotel in Four Days
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
1.5 LU Hours

This program will teach architects how to most efficiently and effectively put together a concept, create and run a team of architects, and win a commission in a very short time frame. You will want to attend this session because it will provide very practical knowledge and skillsets about how a small to medium firm can design a building and win commissions in record time. This course will teach those who want to open their own firm practical knowledge about professional practice as well as teaching those who would like to join a small or medium firm how to better understand the process of winning a commission and how to better contribute to their teams.

Michel Abboud
SOMA
New York, NY

Steven Townsend
SOMA
New York, NY

Lito Karatsoli-Chanikian
SOMA
New York, NY

SU0415
Mentorship in Architecture
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM

Which professional development question tops your list?  Is there something you are dying to ask about the profession, but you haven’t found the right person?  Maybe this is a question you have considered asking your friends, co-workers, or boss, but you don’t feel they can give you an objective answer and offer you sincere advice.

AIANYS is holding an opportunity for you to ask these tough questions and share your experiences as a mentor or mentee to other architecture professionals whilst exploring the role of mentorship in architecture.  The session will include a brief presentation about mentorship and discuss the growing popularity of mentorship programs within the profession.  It will explore the benefits of mentorship as practices expand and adapt to our ever-changing society.  Attendees will then discuss the role mentorship can play within their practice, the AIA, between Universities and practice, and other career experiences. Seasoned professionals who have experience with some of the issues that may be brought to the table during the discussion are welcome and encouraged to attend.  Some topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Resume / Portfolio Development
• The Path to Licensure
• Graduate Schools / Volunteering
• Career Moves / Alternative Career Paths
• Starting your own Firm
• Creating your own Mentorship Program

Attendees are encouraged to come prepared with questions, ideas, or resumes to make the most of this event.  This program builds on the presenter’s knowledge of mentoring programs which have been conducted by AIA New York State and the AIA NY and AIA San Francisco Chapters.

Nicolette Havrish, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Ashley McGraw Architects, DPC
Syracuse, NY