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Originally from Colombia, Graciela Carrillo, AIA, immigrated to the United States in early 2003. While in Colombia, Graciela worked as an Architect at the Bogota’s Institute of Urban Development (IDU), a Government owned institution in charge of city planning and infrastructure construction for Bogotá. Currently she works as a registered Architect for Cashin Associates, P.C an Engineering Consulting firm based in Long Island, NY. At Cashin, she has worked on and lead all scales of urban design, planning and architectural projects, including leading municipalities to integrate sustainability features within their projects and LEED project administration and commissioning services.
Graciela has committed almost a decade of volunteer leadership service to the AIA. She has been involved with the AIA at the local, state and national level, currently serving as the President-Elect as well as the EP and WIA Co-Chair of the AIA Long Island Chapter. On a National and State level in 2017, Graciela was appointed as the NY Regional Director (YARD) for the Young Architects Forum (YAF) and sits on the AIA New York State Board of Directors. Graciela obtained her B. Arch in Bogota, Colombia, and a Masters in Environmental Planning from Pratt Institute and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Through her volunteering to the AIA, Graciela has had an abundance of career enrichment and professional development. Of particular interest is providing a voice for immigrant professionals established in the U.S., and encouraging and supporting them in their path towards licensure and professional development, since she experienced, first hand, the challenges of being educated in a foreign country while ultimately acquiring a professional license in NYS. |
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Mr. Charles-Pierre is a Project Manager with MK Architecture, PC and a graduate from New York Institute of Technology. He has two decades of experience in a variety of work including historic preservation, zoning & building code consulting, project management, and construction administration. His experience in architectural firms including STV Inc. and PM Architecture, has given him the foundation to work on a wide range of projects like the JFK AirTrain Light Rail stations and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also taught three semesters at PRATT Institute to incoming freshman minority students in the Architecture (HEOP) program.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC and Board Chairman for Brooklyn Neighborhood Services formally (NHS Bedford Stuyvesant). |
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Toshi Karato is dedicated to creating meaningful landscapes that ground us as people of a distinct place. After receiving degrees in history and civil engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, he earned his graduate degrees in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Virginia where he pursued his interest in phenomenology and sustainability. During this time he served on the 150th Anniversary committee of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers and as President of the Blue Bridge Branch of the ASCE. He has worked as project engineer and landscape architect on a variety of projects ranging from private residences to large scale developments in the United States, Germany, China and the Middle East. He is currently leading the landscape design effort on several residential projects with Sawyer|Berson.
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Kelly Hayes McAlonie, FAIA, LEED AP is an architect and the Director of Campus Planning at the University at Buffalo and 2012 President of the American Institute of Architects New York State. Kelly has dedicated her profession to educational architecture. Among the notable projects in which she has been involved while at UB is the new School for Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the signature project for UB 2020. She previously was Associate Vice President of Cannon Design, where she served in their Education Practice. Kelly began her architectural career designing children’s playgrounds and other learning environments for children. She has maintained that interest in the spaces and education of children, founding "Architecture+Education", an national award-winning program which brings architects together with teachers to introduce children to the world of design, and helped to create the Architecture and Design Academy (ADA) in the Buffalo Public Schools.
In 2011 Kelly and colleague Despina Stratigakos collaborated with Mattel on the design and launch of Barbie I Can Be…Architect. That year she also co-curated "Buffalo’s Bethune", the first exhibit in 25 years on Louise Bethune FAIA, America’s first woman architect, at the Buffalo History Museum. She has written widely on Bethune for over ten years. In 2012 she was the recipient of the AIANYS Del Gaudio Award and in 2011 she won the EB Green Distinguished Service Award from AIA Buffalo/WNY. In 2008 she was a recipient of the American Institute of Architect’s National Young Architects Award and in 2006 she won the Young Architect of the Year Award in AIA Buffalo/WNY. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Dalhousie University where she received the Alumni Award. She is currently writing a book on Louise Bethune. |
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Giovanni Santamaria is an architect and educator. His research focuses on Landscape and Ecological Urbanism which integrates the scale of architecture in a dimension concerning issues not only related to the history of urban settlements, to politics, sociology and technologies but most of all, to the complex ecology of our transforming environments: natural phenomena, problems of pollution, space reclaiming/ reuse, producing lands, consumption, and processes of sustainable growth within a metabolic approach.
Santamaria earned a Ph.D in Architecture and Urban Design from the Facoltà di Architettura of Politecnico di Milano, after obtaining a degree in Architecture from the I.U.A.V. in Venice. At Politecnico di Milano he taught Architecture Theory and Urban Design studios, while he received postdoctoral research grants and participate to EU-sponsored projects. He is currently Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Design at NYiT- New York Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching several studios at undergraduate and graduate level. He is also the co-creator of the Exchange Agreement with Politecnico di Milano. He participated to exhibitions, among others the Biennale di Venezia, and to several International Design Competitions receiving prestigious awards. He is active in lecturing in Universities between Europe and USA, author of books and essays published in several architecture magazines. He has been part of the Post-Sandy Design Committee at AIANY, and he is member of the Fulbright Committee. |