Sessions
The Green Architecture Imperative: Design Collaboration
Technology transfer is presenting an opportunity to accelerate the development of green materials and products, sustainable systems, sustainable environments, and collaborative design. Individually and collectively, these elements are being successfully integrated into today’s architecture. This panel will explore the connections between university based research, professional practice and commercialization of sustainable technology.
- The social responsibility of design professions in advancing sustainability.
- How architects, engineers, landscape architects, educators, and private industry are collaborating on complex, environmentally focused projects.
- How the number of specialist consultants who focus on green design technologies are becoming key contributors to the design process.
- The expectations of clients and users for socially responsible design.
- The key components of a successful process for sustainable design projects.
- Cultural attitudes to sustainable architecture in Europe and the United States.
For Architects:
Kean University is a Registered Provider for AIA Continuing Education Systems (CES). This program qualifies for 3 AIA/CES LU (HSW)*
*NOTE: Participants who wish to receive continuing education hours must sign in on the designated attendance sheets. Your attendance is required for the entire program in order for credit to be issued to you.
Featured Speakers:
CHAIR
Design Principal
Harry L. Warren, AIA
Cannon Design
Mr. Warren’s 30 year career in architecture includes significant work in higher education, healthcare and high-technology facilities. An active presenter and lecturer, Mr. Warren’s design work has been recognized with over 100 local, regional and national design awards; in addition he has won several international design competitions, including the new 3000 student, Sabanci University, a totally new, 32 building campus on 240 acres of land, in Istanbul, Turkey
With a portfolio featuring projects from across the world, Mr. Warren has the unique insight needed to develop innovative design solutions, making the most of site characteristics while respecting the surrounding community and context. His portfolio includes several complete new universities, including design of the new 2 million SF, 5000 student, Ave Maria University in southwest Florida.
For the Canisius College, Montante Cultural Center in Buffalo, NY, he was awarded the National AIA Honor Award for Interior Architecture His work has been publish in several major national and international architectural publications including Architecture, Architectural Record, Interior Design, Process Architecture and World Architecture. His worked has been cited in several books on education and healthcare design.
Mr. Warren is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York, School of Architecture and Planning where he teaches a graduate design studio as well as administering a graduate scholarship and mentoring program that recognizes outstanding design talent. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, The Society for College and University Planning, and The American Planning Association.
Formerly Assistant Design Director with Harley-Ellington in Detroit, Michigan and Design Director of the RTKL, Health Sciences Studio in Baltimore Maryland, Mr. Warren is currently a Design Principal at Cannon Design, an 850 person international Architecture and Engineering firm with 15 offices worldwide. His current projects include the new academic facility for Kean University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education, and “Blue City”, a complete new city of 300,000, situated along the coast of Oman, which will include several new university campuses housing 40,000 students from the Middle East.
Principal
Millard H. Berry, III, PE, LEED®
Cannon Design
As the leader of Cannon’s Mechanical Engineering Group, Mr. Berry has been a major contributing factor to Cannon’s strong engineering reputation. As group leader of the firm’s mechanical engineers, he has provided expertise in the design of a wide variety of engineering systems - from central heating and cooling plants to distribution, control, and integrated systems analysis.
Mr. Berry is particularly skilled in providing innovative design solutions for specialized high technology systems and the integration of those systems into learning, research, and workplace environments. His portfolio includes many nationally recognized and widely published projects for clients such as Boston University, Tufts University, Johns Hopkins University, and the State University of New York. An expert in energy efficiency, Mr. Berry participated in the research and preparation of the New York State Energy Office’s Guidelines to Energy Efficient Building Rehabilitation.
Architect and Professor
Laura Briggs
Parsons New School of Architecture and Design
Laura Briggs a partner with BriggsKnowles Architecture+Design in New York City, a practice recognized for its use of light, color and ecological strategies. Their work has been published in several venues including AD, Dwell, Domus, the Home Living Channel and Metropolis Magazine. Projects have ranged from speculative work on the city and research into the integration of photovoltaic and interactive energy technologies into building surfaces. Recent commissions include several townhouse renovations in Harlem and a television studio in the New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard. Director of the BFAAD program at Parsons School of Design. She has taught architecture studio and construction technology at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University New York/Paris, Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Michigan where she was the Mushenheim Fellow.
Vice President/Principal
Todd J. Hill, ASLA
EDAW Inc.
Todd Hill is a designer and land planner who has built a career with EDAW since 1984. His focus is centered on applying sustainable principles for landscape architecture, community planning and urban regeneration projects. His experience with EDAW has led to work worldwide, based from three different EDAW offices. He is a graduate of EDAW's Summer Student Program, class of 1985 and holds professional Landscape Architecture state licenses in Florida (No. 1407) and Georgia (no. 859).
Mr. Hill's background includes comprehensive project work for both
public agencies and private-sector clients, providing services to
establish the vision, principles and design concepts for their projects;
large-scale campus and community master plans; regeneration of urban
districts; and design of public realm urban spaces, resorts, recreation
and entertainment projects. Todd has successfully completed many large
award-winning design projects ranging from communities, institutions,
resorts and urban spaces. He has led multi-disciplinary teams through
the planning and design process, which have been followed through to
detailed construction documentation and construction administration,
including 3 years of fulltime on-site experience.
CEO
Darius F. Mosun
Soheil Mosun Limited
Mr. Darius F. Mosun joined Soheil Mosun Limited (SML) in 1990 after graduating in Manufacturing Engineering and Business Management from Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. He represented Humber College in the 2001 Premier’s Awards and was inducted into the college’s Alumni Wall of Distinction in 2002.
Under his guidance as Chairman and CEO, SML has evolved into a world-renowned manufacturer specializing in high-end custom fabrication and design. The company, founded by his parents in 1972, established itself as a business whose attention to detail was second to none. Recognizing the company’s core competency in quality fabrication and design, Darius focused on developing its Project Management and Manufacturing Design departments, through the addition of professional managers and industrial designers. Today, SML is now undertaking complete Design Build projects such as the supply and installation of the building enclosure for the Bahá’í Temple for South America in Santiago, Chile and the Jewish War Veterans International Memorial in Toronto, Canada.
SML has recently completed projects including multi-million contracts at General Motors’ Global Headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, GM’s Vehicle Engineering Center in Warren, Michigan and Merrill Lynch’s Headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Other recently completed work includes the passenger waiting room booths, wheelhouses and information kiosks for the Long Island Railroad in Jamaica New York (for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) and the elevator interiors at the San Francisco International Airport. SML has also been a proud participant in other prominent projects such as the design, supply and installation of solid bronze windows at one of Canada’s most historic building, the Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario and the design and development of outdoor benches and custom food service kiosks for the Battery Park Conservancy in New York, New York.
Principal and co-founder of Interface Studio
Scott Page
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Design, Interface Studio
Mr. Page is an urban designer and planner with degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and The Georgia Institute of Technology. With a portfolio encompassing neighborhood design, waterfront planning, downtown revitalization and economic development, Mr. Page has led projects in diverse locations such as Jersey City, Atlanta, Fort Wayne, Singapore and Philadelphia. A lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, Mr. Page has participated in international conferences focused on emerging trends in urban design and planning.
Mr. Page founded Interface Studio in 2004 with Brian Phillips to explore innovative solutions to community-based design and architecture. With an emphasis on environmental sustainability, the firm is engaged in a wide range of design assignments from market-rate and affordable green housing developments to comprehensive neighborhood plans, open space strategies, waterfront design and a city-wide housing strategy for the City of Rochester, NY. Interface Studio’s cross-disciplinary work has been featured in 306090, Salon, City, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the recently released Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism and Technology.
US Representative in New York
David White
Transsolar
David White studied architecture and mechanical engineering at Yale University, graduating in 1997. He then apprenticed in energy efficient building design at Obayashi corporation in Tokyo and Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann in Pennsylvania. His growing interest in this field led him to enroll in UC Berkeley’s Master of Architecture program, where he continued to study architecture and mechanical engineering concurrently. While at Berkeley he taught energy and environmental management in architecture and worked as a consultant in San Francisco and London.
Mr. White joined Transsolar in the fall of 2004. Since May of 2005 he has served as the company’s US representative in New York. Since October 2005 he has taught a studio in climate-responsive design at Columbia University.
