Re-use &
Renewal

A 30-year Principal at Bruner/Cott Architects after years of practice in London, Henry specializes in the technical and building history aspects of architecture that inform both delicate restoration and large-scale adaptive reuse projects. His seminal work includes the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). which received the AIA National Honor Award for Design; the Boston University School of Law, which received a DOCOMOMO Modernism in America Award, and Harvard University’s Smith Campus Center. Henry writes about the theory and practice of architecture as it relates to historic properties today and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences on preservation technology. He is a founder of DoCoMoMo/US New England; board member of Historic Boston Incorporated; and on the Preservation Committee of Historic New England.

Adrienne has nationally significant experience managing historic preservation and adaptive reuse projects. Her special expertise is in the application of design talent and project management skills to resolve complex technical problems and programmatic change while protecting original building fabric. Her approach pursues an understanding of historic content to inform restoration while keeping buildings alive for the present and future. Adrienne’s key projects at the firm include the exterior restoration of Harvard Hall, the renovation and expansion of Boston’s historic Huntington Theatre, and the preservation and restoration of the Arlington Street Church. Adrienne has been recognized by Preservation Massachusetts as a Next Generation Leader in Historic Preservation and serves on the board of the Association for Preservation Technology Northeast (APTNE).

Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP is an architect, educator, and the founder of New York-based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners. Deborah leads the firm alongside her ten partners. Among the firm’s most significant works are the Residential Colleges at Princeton University, the Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters, the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia, the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and the 21c Museum Hotels across the South and Midwest. In 2017, Deborah Berke Partners was honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Deborah is the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the first woman to hold the position. She has been a Professor at Yale since 1987. In 2012, she was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at the University of California at Berkeley, which is given to an architect who has advanced the position of women in the profession and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and the community. She is a board member of the James Howell Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of Yaddo, and an advisor to the Norman Foster Foundation. She serves on the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the field. Deborah is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The City University of New York. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Designer and team leader, Vice President Ross Cameron, creates environments for learning, living, and working. Recent work includes Boston University’s Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center and the forthcoming Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.

A member of the Boston Preservation Alliance’s Board of Directors, Ross’ integration of historical buildings with contemporary design is central to much of his work—including the repositioning of Emerson College’s Little Building.

Ross is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and the Society for College and University Planning.

Dirk Denison, Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), is an award-winning architect, longtime educator, and dedicated supporter of the arts. His nationally recognized firm, Dirk Denison Architects, has developed its own modernist vocabulary in multiple scales of built works from New York to California, with a particular expertise in housing, community-based design, and campus planning. Recent work includes Kacek Hall, a 2020 renovation and conversion of a heritage Mies van der Rohe tower on IIT’s campus into a dormitory. As Director of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, he has convened and moderated events, workshops, and publications that feature a global network of collaborating practitioners, clients, writers and theorists, and civic leaders from throughout the Americas. His first monograph, Dirk Denison 10 Houses, was published by Actar in December 2018.

Carl Elefante, FAIA, FAPT is Principal Emeritus with Quinn Evans Architects where he served as design principal on architecture, preservation, and community revitalization projects. Known for coining the phrase: “The greenest building is one that is already built”, Carl writes and lectures nationally on historic preservation, sustainable design, climate change, and urban topics. In 2018, Carl served as the 94 th President of the American Institute of Architects. Carl is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Association for Preservation Technology (APT). Carl attended the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Carl is an Adjunct Professor at The Catholic University of America and University of Maryland.

John Fidler is a British licensed architect with two postgraduate degreesin building conservation and over 40 years specialist experience repairinghistoric buildings and ancient monuments. His international award-winningconsultancy is based in Marina Del Rey.

Formerly the Conservation Director of English Heritage in London, wherehe was responsible for the welfare of over 400 ruined abbeys, castles andWorld Heritage Sites including Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall, Fidler chairedBritish Standard 8221/2: 2000, The Cleaning & Surface Repair of Buildingsand now serves on two ASTM committees. He is currently rewriting SirBernard Feilden’s Conservation of Historic Buildings.

David is a Managing Director overseeing the Diagnostics Group in Walter P Moore’s Kansas City office. He has worked on diversified aspects of forensic engineering by evaluating and designing repairs for distressed structures. He has more than 15 years of experience related to building science, façades, building envelope moisture management, roofing systems, below-grade waterproofing, and parking garages. David is a licensed engineer in seven U.S. states and Canada, and a registered roof consultant and waterproofing consultant, which are certifications that require extensive knowledge of building enclosure systems. David serves as chair of the Building Enclosure Council Kansas City Chapter and is a voting member of the American Society of Testing and Materials. He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University.

Francine Houben is Founding Partner and Creative Director of Mecanoo architecten. Her work ranges from theatres, museums and libraries to neighbourhoods, housing and parks. Each design is founded on observation of people, location, culture and climate. This analysis amounts to designs that respond to current needs, yet are also prepared for (un)predictable change.

With her practice, she has gained international acclaim. She holds Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) was granted lifelong membership to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 2015, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands presented her the prestigious Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Prize for her entire oeuvre.

Lisa Howe is the Director of BCA’s Boston branch located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Lisa received her preservation training at Roger Williams University and has a Masters in Real Estate Development from the University of Maryland. Lisa’s projects have received numerous awards, and she has lectured and published on the subject of preservation. Lisa is a past Board Member of the Association for Preservation Technology and continues her involvement on the Conference Committee. Her projects completed over her career span time periods from the 1798 Bulfinch Massachusetts State House to the 1960’s Smith Center at Harvard University and range in scale from a Historic Structures Report for the Charlestown, MA Navy Yard Building 24 to coordinating the assessment of 900,000 SF of building stock at St. Elizabeth’s Campus in Washington, DC.

An industry leader in sustainable architecture, Brad Jacobson is skilled at synthesizing diverse perspectives to craft technically rigorous, high performance solutions that are energy-efficient, budget-driven, and create exceptional occupant satisfaction. Brad is leading the way in designing carbon neutral projects starting with today’s all-electric, Net Zero energy buildings. He spearheads mixed-use office developments, including the Net Zero Energy and LEED Platinum certified headquarters for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which was named a National American Institute of Architects Top Ten Green Building, to higher education projects such as the Teaching & Learning Complex at UC Davis, a Net Zero-ready building set to form a new hub for student life.

Karin Liljegren, FAIA, IIDA, has dedicated her career to revitalizing downtown LA. Her inspiration comes from the past, present and future of underutilized urban places. She is the founder and principal of Omgivning, the downtown-based architecture and interiors firm. Liljegren is known for the creative conversion of existing structures, starting in 1999, when she worked on the first projects under LA’s new Adaptive Reuse Ordinance while with Killefer Flammang Architects. In 2009, Karin launched Omgivning, a Swedish word for "how a space feels around you." Omgivning's mission is to unite the human and urban scales by breathing new life into interiors, buildings and communities. The staff has now grown to forty and touched 400 buildings in Los Angeles. From a rich array of existing and historic spaces, Omgivning creates new programmatically and technically complex hotels, multi-family housing, offices, restaurants and bars, often with custom furniture. In her advocacy work, Liljegren is highly active with city and county officials in crafting policies that ease the challenges of working on existing buildings.

Gary Martinez, FAIA, is an internationally recognized expert on the design of landmark performing and cultural arts centers. As a Partner and Studio Director at OTJ Ar- chitects, Gary leads with an unwavering belief in the power of architecture to inspire, engage, and heal, while recognizing that the results of his work must reflect the shared values of the communities in which he practices.

Gary approaches the design of cultural and performing arts facilities by looking to the future experience of the community, patron, performer, and operator, even when the context of the venue is firmly rooted in the past. Since 1976, he has met the challenge of designing new facilities as well as renovating historic assets to accommodate op- era, symphony, chamber music, and a single public speaker in successive performance slots. By aligning practical solutions, sound project management, and exemplary ar- chitecture, Gary develops solutions that maximize flexibility, ease of operation, and versatility while artfully balancing the requirements of clients and those of the commu- nities in which they practice. A sampling of Gary’s signature projects includes the rei- magining of Washington, D.C.’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, the renovation of New York City’s iconic Webster Hall, the revitalization of the Boston Opera House and the Cincinnati Music Hall, as well as the design of the Smart Financial Center in Sugar Land, TX.

SiJing Sanchez, AIA, LEED APBD+C, Assoc. DBIA, is a Project Architect at EHDD, a San Francisco-based architecture firm which is leading the way towards a carbon neutral built environment. SiJing has worked on many sustainable projects with a focus on those that promote sustainability access to a broader community of users. She is currently leading a child research and development center that is targeting carbon neutrality by 2035

Architect Juliane Wolf designs and advocates for built structures that simultaneously serve communities and their environments. A Design Principal and Partner in Studio Gang’s Chicago office, Juliane brings her expertise in sustainable public spaces, complex visitor-serving organizations, towers, and large-scale, international projects to the studio’s most celebrated cultural and high-rise projects across the Americas and Europe. Over the past 10 years, Juliane, she has led the design for several of the Studio’s most significant adaptive reuse projects, including the recently completed Beloit College Powerhouse, which transformed a coal-burning power plant into a student union centered on recreation and wellness, and the rehabilitation of the Reynolds Building, an old tobacco warehouse, into a new College of Design for the University of Kentucky. She is also the Deputy Lead Designer for the O’Hare Global Terminal, the Studio’s largest project to date.

Juliane is a graduate of the Architectural Association (AA) in London, where she received a Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design and remained following graduation to teach as Unit Master at the Diploma School. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from IIT. Juliane has served as a juror for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), participated in panel discussions at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Conference, and lectured at the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) and the Chicago Building Congress (CBC).

Samuel Medina is the executive editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. He was previously the editorial director of Metropolis magazine. As a writer, his work has been published in art and architecture magazines such as Artforum, the Art Newspaper, and Domus, among others. He recently edited a monograph on the architect Eric Owen Moss, due out this year.

Matthew Marani is a Program Manager and Editor for The Architect’s Newspaper. He curates AN’s Facades+ conference series, and covers cutting-edge projects nationally and internationally for their Facades+ Newsletter and In Construction sections.