PAST SPEAKERS
2023
Zhu Pei, Founder Studio Zhu Pei
Chris T Cornelius, Professor and Chair of Architecture, University of New Mexico, Principal and Founder, studio:indigenous
Elisapeta Heta, Principal Jasmax
Loreto Lyon, Partner, Beals Lyon Arquitectos
Viviana Pozzoli, Founder, Equipo de Arquitectura
Lucas Coelho Netto, Founder, MATTERIA
Carlos Martinez, Founder, AR-AR/Martinez Arquitectura
Patricia Llosa, Founder, Llosa/Cortegana Arquitectos
Adriana Chavez, Founder, Officina de Resiliencia Urbana
Tatiana Bilbao, Founder, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
Natalia Silva, Co-Founder, URBANA
Elisa Silva, Founder, Enlace Arquitectura
Juan Andres Machado, Director, ODA – Oficina de Arquitectura
Eduardo Castillo Cortes, Director, Castillo Arquitectos
Guillermo Hevia Garcia, Founder, Hevia + Poblete
Marcelo Maia Rosa, Partner, Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados
Lucas Correa Sevilla, Director, odd+
Martin Corullon, Founder, METRO Arquitetos
2022
Li Hu, Co-Founder OPEN Beijing
Huang Wenjing, Co-Founder OPEN Beijing
Marion Weiss, FAIA - Principal, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Michael Manfredi, FAIA - Principal, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Vicky Chan, AIA - Founder, Avoid Obvious Architects; Chair, Walk DVRC
Ivi Diamantopoulou, AIA - Co-Founder, New Affiliates
Koray Duman, AIA, LEED AP - Founder, B-KD
Eric Ho, AIA - Co-Founder, Architecture Commons; Founder, Neighbourhood Innovation Lab
Maggie Ma Kingsley, Co-Founder and Director, Domat
Amy Yang, Founding Partner, Dash Marshall
Grace Liao, AIA, Director KPF
Nicolas Medrano, AIA, Associate Director, SOM
Nicolai Ouroussoff, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA
Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Charles Correa Foundation
David Stein, Urban Planner; son of Joseph Allen Stein
Diana Kellogg, AIA - Diana Kellogg Architects
Paul Schulhof, AIA - Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Abin Chaudhuri, Abin Design Studio
Anupama Kundoo, Anupama Kundoo Architects
Robert Verrijt & Shefali Balwani, Architecture BRIO
Anupam Bansal & Rajesh Dongre, Atelier for Built-environment Research & Design
Melissa Smith & Sachin Bandukwala,- BandukSmith Studio
Bijoy Ramachandran & Sunitha Kondur, Hundredhands
Sameep Padora, Sameep Padora and Associates
Kapil Gupta, Serie Architects
Sangeeta Merchant & Sanjeev Panjabi, SPASM Design Architects
Ankur Choksi & Sidhartha Talwar, Studio Lotus
Vinu Daniel, Founder Wallmakers
2021
Tatu Gatere - Co-Founder & CEO, BuildHer
Frances Halband, FAIA - Co-Founder, Kliment Halsband Architects
Joseph Mizzi - President & COO, Sciame Construction; Co-Founder, 14+ Foundation
Noella Nibakuze - Associate, MASS Design Group
2020
Elaine Molinar, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP - Partner and American Managing Director, Snøhetta
Rachely Rotem, LEED AP BD+C - Founder, Studio MODU
Suchitra Reddy, AIA - Founder, Reddymade
2019
Benjamin Romano - Founder, LBR&A
Michel Rojkind - Founder, Rojkind Arquitectos
Fernando Romero - Founder, FR-EE
Kim Van Holsbeke - Director, SOM
Mauricio Rocha - Co-Founder, Taller Rocha + Carrillo
2018
Brad Hargreaves – Founder, Common
Hana Kassem – Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Jinhee Park – Founder, Single Speed Design
Susan Chin – Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Space
Matthew Lister – Partner, Gehl, New York
Cody Klein – Managing Principal, Office of James Burnett, Boston
Vincent Lee – Associate Partner, Rogers Partners
J. Meejin Yoon - Head of the Department of Architecture, MIT
Michelle Addington - Dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Erika Hinrichs - Chairperson of Undergraduate Architecture, Pratt Institute
Patrice Derrington - Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE) Columbia University (GSAPP)
2017
Bertram Beissel Von Gymnich, Director, Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Soo K. Chan, Founder, SCDA Architects
Douglas Hocking, Partner, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Chris Cooper, Director, SOM
Satoshi Toyoda, Partner, Rafael Vinoly Architects
Neil Thelen, Founder, Thelen Design Group; Associate DS+R
Thom Mayne, FAIA, Principal, Morphosis
Christopher Sharples, AIA, Principal, SHoP Architects
William Sharples, AIA, Principal, SHoP Architects
Richard Olcott, FAIA, Design Partner, Ennead Architects
Marion Weiss, FAIA, Principal, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Michael Manfredi, FAIA, Principal, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
DK Osseo-Asare, Founding Principal, Low Design Office; TEDGlobal Fellow and Co-founder, DSGN AGNC
Dilip da Cunha, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Co-author, Design in the Terrain of Water
Guilherme Lassance, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Nora Akawi, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director, Studio-X Amman
Geeta Mehta, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Anand Babu, Chief Operating Officer, Google Sidewalk Labs
Allie Kelly, Executive Director, The Ray
Jeff Maki, Senior Director of Innovation and Strategy, Intersection
Brian Lakamp, Founder and CEO, Totem Power
Luc Wilson, Founder, KPF - Urban Interface
T. Alexander Aleinikoff - Former Deputy High Commissioner, Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Sean Anderson- Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Organizer of "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" (2016)
Alfredo Brillembourg - Founder and Partner, Urban-Think Tank
Eliza Montgomery - Designer, Ennead + Ennead Lab, "Rethinking Refugee Communities"
Robert Pietrusko - Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Geospatial Representation + Critical Cartography, Collaborator on EXIT
2016
Cristina Parreno _ Cristina Parreno Architecture
Jiri Vasicek – Lasvit
Martina C Y Lind, AIA, LEEP AP – Roschmann Steel & Glass constructions Inc.
Marianne Kwok – Principal at KPF
Anthony Acciavatti - Architect | Cartographer | Historian - Partner at Somatic Collaborative
Richard Roark - RLA, ASLA, LEED AP BC+D - Partner at The Olin Studio
Stephanie Goldberg - AIA, LEED AP - Principal at Lab Architect Group
Carolina Salguero - Founder and Director at Portside New York
Roland Lewis – CEO Waterfront Alliance
Archie Lee Coates IV– Co-Founder of +POOL, Principal and Founder at PlayLab
2015
Odile Decq - Architect and Founder of the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative strategies in Architecture _ via remote technology
Kim Yao, AIA - Principal at Architecture Research Office
Deborah Gans, FAIA- Principal Gans studio, Professor at Pratt Institute
Marion Weiss, FAIA – Partner, Weiss/Manfredi - Graham Chair , Professor of Architecture, Penn Design, UPenn
Lynette Widder – Founder of Aardvarchitecture - Professor at Columbia
David Van Der Leer - Executive Director at the Van Alen Institute
Alex Schweder - Artist
Marisa Yiu, AIA - Founding Partner, ESKYIU Architects, Hong Kong
Sherry Dobbin – Creative Director and Director for Public Art - Times Square Alliance
Alfred Zollinger– Principal of Matter Practice - Associate Professor at Parsons
Alejandro De Castro Mazarro - COLUMBIA GSAPP
Quilian Riano - DSGN AGNC
Jae Shin - HECTOR and NJIT
Damon Rich - HECTOR and Harvard GSD
Rafi Segal - MIT
Peggy Deamer - PRINCIPAL at PEGGY DEAMER,
ASSISTANT DEAN of THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, YALE UNIVERSITY
Louis Becker, Int'l Assoc. AIA - Principal at Henning Larson
Dror Benshetrit - Founder at Dror Studio
Archie Lee Coates IV - Founder at Playlab
Allen Sayegh - Founder at INVIVIA
Seher Shah - Artist
Diane Lewis, FAAR - Principal at Diane Lewis Architects / Professor at The Cooper Union
Adam Lubinsky - Principal at WXY Studio
Jennifer Pehr -Associate Principal at KPF
Michael Samuelian, AIA, AICP - Vice President at the Related Companies
Eliot Sclar - Professor at GSAPP, Columbia University
2014
Vito Acconci – Acconci Studio
David Assael – ArchDaily
Forth Bagley, AIA – Director at KPF
Sunil Bald – Principal at Studio SUMO
David Basulto – ArchDaily
Kai-Uwe Bergmann - Partner at BIG
Vishaan Chakrabarti – Principal, SHoP Architects and Director at CURE, Columbia University
Mark Collins – Cloud Lab | Morpholio Project
Yolande Daniels – Principal at Studio SUMO
Jaime Derringer – Design Milk
Craig Dykers, AIA, MNAL, FRIBA, FRSA, LEED AP – Founding Partner at SnØhetta
Joseph Giovannini – New York Architectural Critic and founder of Giovannini Associates
Matthias Hollwich, SBA – Principal at HWKN and Co-founder of ARCHITIZER
Diana Jou – Wall Street Journal
Kurt Kohlstedt – Founder of WebUrbanist
Greg Lindsay – Fast Company
Kyle May – Clog
Sammy Medina – Metropolis magazine
Elaine Molinar, AIA, MNAL, LEED AP – Managing Director – Partner at SnØhetta
Cliff Pearson – Editor at Architectural Record
Robyn Peterson – Mashable
Brooke Kamin Rapaport – Senior Curator for the Madison Square Park Conservancy
Rafi Segal – MIT Architecture / Architect/Blogger
David Van der Leer – Executive director at the Van Alen Institute
Albert Vecerka – photographer at the ESTO group
Thomas de Zengotita - Professor at the Draper Grad. Program -NYU and the Dalton School
Jane Smith, AIA, IIDA - Partner at Spacesmith, Department Chair, School of Visual Arts, Interior Design