Iñaki Alday

Dean, Richard Koch Chair in Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture

Principal and Founder aldayjover architecture and landscape

Iñaki Alday received a Master of Architecture degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1992. Together with Margarita Jover, he founded aldayjover architecture and landscape in 1996 in Barcelona.

Since 2016, he has been the co-director and founder (with Pankja Vir Gupta) of the Yamuna River Project, a long-term, interdisciplinary research program whose objective is to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in the Delhi area. Both in academic research and in practice, Inaki promotes a new attitude towards the transformation of our environment and how architecture can contribute to the inhabitation of the most challenged areas of the planet. He utilizes a multidisciplinary global vision and social and environmental ethics to examine the role of architecture and architects.

Julia Czerniak

Professor and Associate Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture

Julia Czerniak is associate dean and professor of architecture at Syracuse University where she teaches studios as well as seminars on landscape theory and criticism. Julia is educated both as an architect (Princeton University, M. Arch 1992) and landscape architect (Pennsylvania State University, BA 1984) and her research and practice draws on the intersection of these disciplines. Julia’s work focuses on the physical and cultural potentials of urban landscapes. Recent design research advances landscape as a protagonist in the remaking of Rust-Belt cities, from a series of public space interventions along a derelict creek to ecologically and spatially rich streetscapes for a newly planned campus of Syracuse University. Julia’s work as a designer is complemented by her work as educator and writer, which in all cases advances design as a way to enable new ways of seeing, imagining, valuing and acting within our challenged anthropocentric environment.

Harrison S. Fraker

Professor Emeritus Of Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Chosen as the fifth Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Harrison Fraker was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting and sustainable design, applied research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean. He currently is the Chair of the Energy Resources Group (ERG), a world renowned, interdisciplinary graduate group on Campus and is also the Ax:son Johnson Visiting Professor in the Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes) Masters program at Lund University in Sweden. He was selected recently to receive the 2014 Topaz Medallion, the highest award given in architectural education by the AIA and the ACSA. Harrison is one of the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge advisors.

Gary Hilderbrand

Founding Principal and Partner, Reed Hilderbrand; Peter Louis Hornbeck
Professor-in-Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gary Hilderbrand is a Founding Principal and Partner of Reed Hilderbrand. A committed practitioner, teacher, critic, and writer, Gary is Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1990. His honors include Harvard University’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Award with Douglas Reed, and the 2013 ASLA Firm of the Year award. DesignIntelligence named Hilderbrand one its “25 Most Admired Educators” of 2016. Gary is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA Design Medal, the highest honor available to an American landscape architect. Gary Hilderbrand has developed an abiding commitment to promoting a heightened focus on urban forestry practices through the firm’s work in cities, and through design studios and sponsored research projects at Harvard.

Dr. Cleary Larkin

Assistant Scholar, School of Architecture, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) at University of Florida

Dr. Cleary Larkin is a licensed architect with specialized practice experience in historic preservation and community planning. After a professional career in Virginia and New York City, she earned a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, preservation and planning, both in historical and contemporary practice, and historic land-use decisions as a source of inequity in communities. Dr. Larkin's work at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between education and practice, relating to contemporary issues such as equity, affordability, resilience and cultural heritage conservation in changing communities. As an Assistant Scholar, Dr. Larkin leads the Florida Resilient Cities (FRC) program, a new initiative that helps communities across Florida build capacity to be more prepared for, and more resilient to, greater risk. The first FRC project (2019-2021) is focused on Port St. Joe, a panhandle town impacted by 2018’s Hurricane Michael. Supported through a generous grant from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, the Port St. Joe project is a partnership between The Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, and The Center for Landscape Conservation Planning.

Kate Orff

Founding Principal, SCAPE; Director of the Urban Design Program, Co-Director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), and Professor, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)

(RLA, FASLA) Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founding Principal of SCAPE. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects. She is known for leading complex, creative, and collaborative work processes that advance broad environmental and social prerogatives. In 2019, Kate was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows—one of the highest honored bestowed on landscape architects practicing in the U.S. Kate was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2017, the first given in the field of landscape architecture. In 2019, she accepted a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, on behalf of SCAPE, and was named a Hero of the Harbor by the Waterfront Alliance. She was a 2012 United States Artist Fellow, dubbed an Elle Magazine “Planet Fixer,” and has been profiled and interviewed extensively for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, National Geographic and more.

Allan Shulman

Founding Principal, Shulman + Associates; Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture and Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture

(FAIA, LEED AP) Allan Shulman is an architect, author, editor and curator. He also serves as the Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture and Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Allan's research focuses on themes of modernism, tropicality and urbanism. Published works include Building Bacardi: Architecture; Art and Identity, Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning; The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida; and as a co-author, The Making of Miami Beach: 1933-1942; The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon; and Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide.

As an extension of his research, Allan founded Shulman + Associates in 1996 with a focus on the creation of relevant, site-specific designs. In this body of work, he has become a leader in forging a creative urban synthesis of preservation and innovation, and in developing new approaches to tropical architecture. Under Allan's design leadership, S+A projects have been widely recognized, with 86 design awards and publication internationally. Elevated to Fellowship in the AIA in 2008, Allan was awarded the AIA Miami Silver Medal for Design in 2010 and the AIA Florida Gold Medal in 2017.

Anne Tate

Professor, Rhode Island School of Design

A pioneer in sustainable planning for 20 years, Anne Tate leads various sustainability initiatives on campus. She is interested in the intersection of design and policy and served in 2003–04 as special advisor on sustainable development in the Office for Commonwealth Development (OCD) in Massachusetts, a post that combined the executive offices of environment, energy, housing and transportation. At the OCD she led two signature efforts: the Sustainable Development Principles and the Transit Oriented Development Initiative. With Doug Foy, Anne negotiated the settlement that unlocked development for 145 acres of prime waterfront land in Somerville, MA. She now co-chairs the Citizen Advisory Committee in Somerville. Her current project, Urban Eden, illustrates what our cities could be like if we were to build in partnership with nature. Anne earned the AIAYoung Architects Award for Community Service and first place in the Progressive Architecture design competition for affordable housing. In addition to teaching at RISD, she has lectured at Yale, Harvard and Princeton.