Featured Jury
Architecture
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Julian Weyer MAA Partner, CF Moller
BiographyJulian Weyer
MAA Partner, CF Moller
Julian Weyer was born in Berlin, and has lived in Denmark since 1975, where he finished his studies at the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1994. Since then, he has lectured at the School of Architecture, and worked professionally as an architect, before becoming a partner of C.F. Møller Architects in 2007. Julian Weyer has extensive experience in the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, including numerous competition wins and award-winning designs. He is working on projects in Denmark, Germany and the UK as well as worldwide. He is also a frequent lecturer worldwide, and author of articles and book publications. Awards include the Civic Trust Award, RIBA International Award, Aarhus Municipality Architecture Award, Residential of the Year WAN AWARD, Worldwide Brick Award and the Danish Academy Council prize. He is working on projects in Denmark, Germany and the UK as well as worldwide.
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Annabelle Selldorf Principal, Selldorf Architects
BiographyAnnabelle Selldorf
Principal, Selldorf Architects
Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects. Born and raised in Germany, she received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2017, Ms. Selldorf was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three years after receiving the organization’s prestigious Award in Architecture. She is also the recipient of the 2016 Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architecture New York Chapter.
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Gary Handel Founding Partner, Handel Architects
BiographyGary Handel
Founding Partner, Handel Architects
Gary Handel FAIA is the Founding Partner and Managing Principal of Handel Architects. Since starting the practice in 1994, Mr. Handel has overseen its growth to a firm of over 150 architects, designers, and planners around the world. The firm is a leader in the fields of mixed-use and sustainable buildings, designed to support urban density, and is known for projects including the Dream Downtown Hotel, the World Trade Center Memorial, the Millenium Tower, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington DC. Handel has served on the Boards of the Friends of the High Line and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and received numerous honors for his contributions to New York’s built environment.
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Carol Ross Barney Founder, Ross Barney Architects
BiographyCarol Ross Barney
Founder, Ross Barney Architects
Carol Ross Barney is a Chicago architect and principal designer at Ross Barney Architects, which she founded in 1981. With a career spanning over 40 years, she has made significant contributions to the profession, particularly in the design of the public realm. She became the first woman to design a federal building when commissioned as architect for the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Ross Barney's other projects include the JRC Synagogue (LEEDPlatinum), James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building (LEED Gold), Chicago Riverwalk, and the CTA Morgan Street Station. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago chapter of the AIA.
Technology & Innovation
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Evan Loomis Co-Founder, ICON
BiographyEvan Loomis
Co-Founder, ICON
Evan Loomis has been a successful entrepreneur for more than 15 years and most recently co-founded the Austin-based startup, ICON, the construction technologies company leading the way into the future of human shelter and homebuilding using 3D printing and other scientific and technological breakthroughs. In 2018, ICON delivered the first 3D-printed home to receive a building permit in the U.S. and closed a seed round of $9M that included investments from Silicon Valley heavyweights, a renowned international developer and America’s largest homebuilder among others. Evan began his career as an Investment Banker on Wall Street. From there, he co-founded Wedgwood Circle, an angel investment group with a focus on the media and entertainment sectors. In 2010, he co-founded TreeHouse, the eco-friendly Home Upgrade Company disrupting the field of home improvement. In 2017, Evan launched a holding company called Saturn Five with the mission of building companies that matter. Unlike traditional VC firms, Saturn Five designs and launches companies from scratch, working hands-on in the early stages to launch and scale companies. Evan is a start-up mentor at Techstars Austin, SKU and Praxis. He is the co-author of Get Backed from Harvard Business Press (2015) and Elon Musk: This Book Is About Rockets! (2017).
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Neri Oxman Designer and Professor, MIT Media Lab
BiographyNeri Oxman
Designer and Professor, MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli architect, designer, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. Many of Oxman's projects use 3D printing and fabrication techniques. They include the Silk Pavilion, spun by silkworms released onto a nylon frame, Ocean Pavilion, a water-based fabrication platform that built structures out of chitosan, G3DP, the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass, and collections of 3D-printed clothing and wearables worn in couture shows and performances. She has held exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and Boston's Museum of Science, is a senior fellow in the Design Futures Council, and was the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2018.
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Yves Behar Founder, Fuseproject
BiographyYves Behar
Founder, Fuseproject
Yves Behar is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999. He is also Chief Creative Officer at Jawbone, where for the last 11 years his products, brand and communications work has helped the company become a leader in wearable and audio consumer electronics. Behar is also the Creative Co-Founder of OUYA, an open sourced gaming platform, and is Co-founder of start-up August, a next generation home entry system. His other collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, GE, Puma, PayPal, SodaStream, Samsung, Issey Miyake, Prada and many others have received international acclaim.
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Sydney Mainster Vice President of Sustainability, The Durst Organization
BiographySydney Mainster
Vice President of Sustainability, The Durst Organization
Sydney Mainster serves as the Vice President of Sustainability for The Durst Organization - a 100-year-old family-run Real Estate company based in New York City. She brings over 13 years of professional and academic Architecture, Design and Construction experience to her role. Her current passion is defining strategies to transform the building product industry and resultant material waste streams. Prior to joining the Durst Organization in early 2014, she served as Adjunct Faculty and Director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Materials Resource Center. She moved to Austin, TX after earning a Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2010, and after spending the summer teaching design as an Architecture Studio Instructor for the GSD’s Career Discovery program. Between her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley (BA in Architecture; Minor in Structural Engineering) and graduate school, as well as post-GSD, she worked at a variety of construction industry-related jobs in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Boston, New York City, London, and Austin. She has professional experience working in Architecture, Structural Engineering, Construction, Academia, and as a Green Building Consultant to Texas and New York developers.
Interior Design
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Andrew Cogan Chairman, Knoll
BiographyAndrew Cogan
Chairman, Knoll
Andrew Cogan is Chairman of the Board of Knoll, Inc. the renowned producer of office systems, seating, tables, desks, textiles and other home accessories by visionary architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Frank Gehry, and Sir David Adjaye. Cogan previously served as President and CEO of Knoll from 2001 to 2018, part of a 25+ year career at Knoll and other international manufacturers working in the commercial interiors industry. Cogan also serves as Director of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and of the American Woodmark Corporation. Over 40 Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Cheryl Durst Vice President and CEO, IIDA
BiographyCheryl Durst
Vice President and CEO, IIDA
As Vice President and CEO of the International Interior Design Association, Cheryl Durst is an innovator and visionary driver of progress in the Interior Design industry. Since joining the IIDA in 1997, Durst has helped grow the organization to 15,000 members across 58 countries, curates and publishes Perspective, the association’s thought-leadership journal, and directs all IIDA programs, including more than a dozen global design competitions, which recognize worldwide excellence in interior design. She was inducted into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
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David Rockwell Founder and President, Rockwell Group
BiographyDavid Rockwell
Founder and President, Rockwell Group
David Rockwell is founder and president of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, 250-person cross-disciplinary design practice based in New York City, Madrid and Shanghai. Known for its large-scale interior and hospitality projects, the firm has worked on a broad range of projects, including restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, hospitals, museums, and Broadway sets. Rockwell’s honors include a 2016 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, the AIA New York Chapter President's Award, the 2008 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Interior Design, the Presidential Design Award; and induction into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame. Rockwell Group was named by Fast Company 2008, 2014 and 2015 as one of the world’s most innovative design practices.
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Joan Blumenfeld Design Principal and Interior Design Director, Perkins+Will
BiographyJoan Blumenfeld
Design Principal and Interior Design Director, Perkins+Will
Joan Blumenfeld is a Principal and Interior Design Director at Perkins+Will, a global architectural firm with over 2,200 employees in 20 offices.Recognized as a thought leader in design, she was elected to both the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in 2005 and 2014, respectively. Blumenfeld serves on the boards of numerous design organizations including, the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Beverly Willis Foundation, the Center for Active Design, NYC Building Congress, IIDA, and Women Executives in Real Estate. She has received over 40 design awards in the past five years, including a 2018 Interior Design magazine Best of Year Award and being named 2018 Design Legend by Contract Magazine.