On Thursday, February 13, 2020, join award-winning architect Piero Lissoni, critic/author Alastair Gordon, developer Allison Greenfield, and architect Alexander Gorlin, for an evening of critical conversation about the challenges and triumphs of adaptive reuse architecture. The panel discussion will be moderated by architect Guido Hartray. The case study of the recently completed Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach, will be used to highlight issues of design, engineering, and sustainability. This event is presented by Lionheart Capital in partnership with the Harvard Alumni Architectural and Urban Society.
LOCATION & TIME
The Harvard Club of New York, Mahogany Room
35 West 44th Street
New York, NY
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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This event is by invitation only. Please RSVP by Thursday, February 6, 2020 to confirm your seat. Space is limited.
PANELISTS
Piero Lissoni, Founder, Lissoni Associati
With offices in Milan and New York, Lissoni & Partners has a thirty-year history in developing international projects in the fields of architecture, landscape, interior, product and graphic design, in addition to being responsible for the art direction for some of the most influential design companies. Led by Piero Lissoni, the practice combines a range of expertise with a tailored approach that sets it apart, establishing a stylistic code and a visual identity that are clearly and instantly recognizable.The practice’s work is inspired by a sense of rigor and simplicity and is characterized by a regard to detail, coherence and elegance with particular attention to proportion and harmony. Piero Lissoni is art director for Alpi, Boffi, De Padova, Living Divani, Lema, Lualdi, Porro and Sanlorenzo, for whom he also designs an extensive range of products. Recognized as one of the masters of contemporary design, he has worked with a wide range of international brands including Alessi, Antrax, Atlas Concorde, B&B, Bonacina1889, Cappellini, Cassina, Cotto, Fantini, Flos, Glas Italia, Golran, Illy, Janus et Cie, Kartell, Kerakoll, Knoll, KN Industrie, Nerosicilia, Olivari, Salvatori, Tecno and Viccarbe. Organised into three fields of intervention, the practice is composed of Lissoni Casal Ribeiro and Lissoni New York for masterplans, landscape design, architecture and interior design, Lissoni Associati for product design, art direction and fit-outs and Lissoni Graphx for graphic design, visual communication and brand identity.
Alastair Gordon, Author, Critic, Cultural historian, Publisher and Editor
Alastair Gordon is an award-winning author, critic, cultural historian, publisher and editor. For more than twenty years, he wrote on architecture and environment for the New York Times and in 2008 became Contributing Editor on Architecture & Design for WSJ. Magazine, launching the popular “Wall-to-Wall” design blog on the Wall Street Journal’s web site. His work has appeared in many other publications including Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, Architectural Record, the New York Observer, House & Garden and Dwell. As Publisher’s Weekly wrote: "Gordon's eye for the convergence of art, architecture and commerce is unerring." Alastair has published more than 28 books, including such critically acclaimed titles as Weekend Utopia, Naked Airport, Spaced Out, Unfolded and Wandering Forms. In 2016, he launched “Poetics of Place”, a critical writing program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a course which he continued to teach at several other universities. He has received numerous prizes for his critical prose and been awarded research fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. Cited for “Excellence in Criticism” by the American Institute of Architects, Alastair served as General Editor of the Princeton Papers on Architecture and is currently the Editorial Director and Publisher of Gordon de Vries Studio, an imprint that specializes in books about the human environment.
Allison Greenfield, Partner of Lionheart Capital
Allison Greenfield is a Partner at Lionheart Capital and has worked in the real estate industry for over 20 years. Beginning her career as a luxury residential sales broker with the Manhattan-based Corcoran Group, Ms. Greenfield co-founded Oz Holdings, LLC with Ophir Sternberg in 1995. At Oz, she worked to realize the full potential of undervalued assets through renovation, construction and unique marketing campaigns. Principally engaged in the construction, architecture, design and marketing of projects, Ms. Greenfield’s responsibilities continue to be the implementation of development and repositioning plans. Ms. Greenfield is also a trained architect; a trade she learned to better compliment her duties with the firm. Ms. Greenfield studied Architecture at The New School University, Parsons School of Design and holds a Bachelors Degree in History from Barnard College/Columbia University.
Alexander Gorlin, Architect, Design Critic, Author, and Scholar
Alexander Gorlin is a noted architect, design critic, author, and scholar. His internationally recognized firm Alexander Gorlin Architects specializes in design for highend residential, religious institutions, housing for the homeless, and master planning. Alexander Gorlin is a graduate of the Cooper Union and The Yale School of Architecture and winner of the Rome Prize in Architecture. He is the author of five books, including the definitive companion books on The New American Townhouse, Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism, and Kabbalah: In Art and Architecture published by Pointed Leaf Press. His work has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Interior Design and has received the prestigious Architectural Digest AD100 Award for 18 years.
MODERATOR
Guido Hartray, Founding Partner of Marvel Architects, AIA
Guido Hartray is a founding Partner of Marvel Architects and has led design teams working on a wide range of projects, including Pierhouse and 1 Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the renovation and reprogramming of the Central King Building for the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His interest in public space has informed streetscape redesigns for Hudson Square, the Meatpacking District, and Union Square. He has led a number of affordable and supportive housing projects including Far Rockaway Village for Phipps Houses which will create a new civic center for the town as well as 1700 new apartments. Guido is dedicated to creating architecture that contributes to an environment that is greater than the individual project and uses his experience designing public spaces to inform the social structure within the building. It is the relationship that a project establishes with elements beyond its limits that makes it an exciting and engaging place to inhabit. Guido has applied this strategy to integrating infrastructure elements in urban neighborhoods as well and transformations of existing buildings. The dialogue between new and existing, project and neighborhood, infrastructure and architecture makes spaces that engage their inhabitants. Guido has taught and participated in design juries at Columbia, City College, Pratt and NJIT. He participates in the NYC AIA’s Urban Design Committee and Enterprise’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. He was Fulbright Scholar in Barcelona studying public space design and has a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Environmental Design from Miami University.