2016 Design Conference The Palace at Somerset Park October 20, 2016

Speaker Biographies

Stephen Chrisman, AIA Stephen Chrisman is a Senior Associate with Ferguson & Shamamian Architects. Born in Oregon, he was educated at The Oregon School of Design and received his Master of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Stephen also studied with the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture and the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Studies Program. He began his career at the office of Allan Greenberg and joined Ferguson & Shamamian in 1995. He became an Associate in 1999 and a Senior Associate in 2005. Stephen has been involved with a wide range of the firm’s projects from small historic additions to large scale new country estate projects throughout the country. His current projects include a large stone villa in the Bahamas, a stone country house in New Brunswick, Canada, and a large new house in Los Angeles which completes a program that was continually expanded over the past 15 years.

Stephen has led design teams for two projects which won both a Palladio Prize and a Stanford White Award. He is a Fellow at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art where he also teaches regularly. His work has been published in numerous books and magazines and has been featured in architectural exhibitions.

Christopher Connock Christopher Connock is a design researcher at KieranTimberlake, a prominent architecture firm established in 1984 and a leader in architectural research and innovative buildings. He explores topics related to construction systems, digital fabrication processes, hardwaresoftware interfaces, and informatics. This knowledge has been applied to the design for modular housing in India, and to the invention of Pointelist, a lowcost, highdensity sensor network, and Tally, a Life Cycle Assessment application. He has created immersive virtual environments and an array of bespoke software tools for architectural design projects. Christopher received a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia. He has taught, lectured, and conducted workshops at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Woodbury University.

Christian Jordan Christian Jordan is principal of PJA Architecture and an adjunct professor in the College of Architecture + the Built Environment (CABE) at Philadelphia University. He obtained a B.Arch from Philadelphia University in 2005, where he graduated cum laude and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal and the Herman Goldstine Thesis Award for his work “Mapping the Invisible: An Architecture of Data Synthesis”. In 2006, he created the Experimental Modeling seminar within CABE as a way for students to track emerging digital methodologies in architecture. He has continued to serve as an adjunct professor in the College, having taught senior capstone studios and seminars that focus on the intersection of emerging technology, theory and practice. He has been an active part of the architectural community in Philadelphia: most recently as team leader for DesignPhiladelphia 2015’s signature event where he was able to showcase his interests in digital fabrication and prefab assembly. Christian is currently working as part of a team at Philadelphia University that won a 2015 NCARB Award grant for its proposal, “Interdisciplinary Design + Experimental Architecture Studio (IDEAS) on Textile Material Strategies.” He is currently serving as the 20162017 AIA Young Architect Regional Director of Pennsylvania.

Rick Joy, AIA In 1993, Joy established Rick Joy Architects in Tucson, .[1] The firm, owned and operated by Joy, had a staff of twelve as of 2013.[2] offers high-concept contemporary design combined with full traditional architectural and master planning services. From the beginning, each of the firm's works has been exhibited and published extensively and has won numerous awards.[3] Joy received the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture[4] and in 2004 won the prestigious National Design Award from the /Cooper-Hewitt Museum.[5] The firm has gained substantial international recognition, has participated in multiple exhibitions, and has been featured in over 150 publications worldwide. Joy has lectured extensively throughout the United States and around the globe and is considered an important contributor on the ongoing global discourse on modern architecture. He periodically serves as a visiting professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, , , and M.I.T. In 2002, Joy’s first monograph was published under the title Desert Works, as the first in the Princeton Architectural Press/Graham Foundation invited New Voices in Architecture series.[1]

Mark LePage, AIA Mark R. LePage, AIA is the Partner in Charge of Operations at Fivecat Studio Architecture, a leading residential architecture firm located in Westchester County, New York. Mark and his wife, architect Annmarie McCarthy, launched Fivecat Studio in 1999 at the age of 29 with no money and no clients. Together they grew their regional firm to a staff of six, managing projects worth more than $10 million. Mark is the founder of EntreArchitect, an online education resource inspiring architects to build better businesses. He launched the original Entrepreneur Architect blog in 2007 as a personal project to document ideas for business success. In 2012, Mark relaunched Entrepreneur Architect at EntreArchitect.com and introduced EntreArchitect Podcast. Working to become an influential force in the profession, Mark’s mission is to teach sole proprietors, small firm architects and students the importance of business success in the profession of architecture.

Ryan Lohbauer, RA Ryan Lohbauer believes cities are the most important engines of well being for their citizens, and architecture underpins this promise through continuous advancement of high quality of life solutions. His inventive approach to the creation of well designed, efficient, and healthy spaces drives his work at Stanev Potts Architects. Ryan has specialized in creating high value solutions for residential and commercial adaptive reuse projects. Working very closely with developer clients on over 20 buildings in the city of Philadelphia, he has developed a robust understanding of the complex constraints that come from zoning and building codes, historic approval, and financial feasibility.

Ryan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design in 2007, receiving a Masters of Architecture and a Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development with coursework at the Wharton School of Business. His graduate work focused on the application of urban economic theory towards the creation of new architectural and urban design concepts. He graduated in 2002 from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies. Ryan remains active with the community as a board member of the PennDesign Alumni Association.

Eric Oskey Eric Oskey is a registered architect and partner of Moto Designshop. His substantial background in construction technology, management and design allows the office to fully realize the conceptual through the technical.He has over twenty years of experience in Academic, Institutional, Retail and Hospitality work. Before joining Moto Designshop, he worked at the office of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, where he was a project manager of multiple large scale academic projects.

Eric holds a Master of Architecture from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Drexel University. He is also an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and has taught at a number of other institutions, including Drexel University and Cornell University. In 2010 Eric won the James Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship, from Cornell University, where he documented social and political effects of the adaptive reuse of Manufacturing Complexes in Moscow, Russia.

Petra Stanev Petra Stanev RA LEED AP, founding principal, has a steadfast belief in the transformative power of good design. She is a critical thinker with an eye for material and detail. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm’s creative ventures and oversees design, detailing and management in the office.

Petra cofounded Stanev Potts after nine years at Dagit Saylor and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson where she was Project Architect of the award winning LEED Silver Terasaki Life Sciences Building at UCLA as well as of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Dental Medicine. She is a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Petra earned her Master of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design after graduating cum laude from the University of Delaware with an Honors Degree in Anthropology. Interested in the technical aspects of design and construction methodologies, she received a Fulbright Grant to study the environmental adaptations of vernacular architecture in northern Bulgaria. Tangential passions that further inform her architectural thinking include glass blowing, art book design and fabrication, clothing and jewelry design and production.

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