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WELCOME TO FACADES+ LA! The Architect’s Newspaper is nearing the end of our ninth year of the Facades+ conference program and, after 18 months of disruptions, we are thrilled to welcome new attendees and longtime supporters to the program’s dynamic dialogue. At every Facades+ conference, we strive to bring fresh and relevant programming to each city and are ecstatic to be able to do so again in person. We have taken advanced precautions to ensure that this event will be safe for all attendees. Facades+ Los Angeles brings together top professionals from the worlds of design, engineering, fabrication, and construction to consider how high-performance envelopes contribute to LA’s distinctive character and meet the city’s changing needs. We’d like to thank our conference Co-Chair, Avideh Haghighi, Architect and Sustainability Strategist at ZGF, who has helped curate this program of design leaders from a variety of fields. We invite you to connect with presenters and your peers during networking breaks in the Methods+Materials Gallery. Please get to know the industry-leading sponsors in the Methods+Materials Gallery and learn how they shape the future of building-facade technologies. Has Facades+ struck a chord with you? Have a look at our upcoming 2021 events held in cities across the country. Next we’ll be headed to Seattle on December 3rd for our last in-person event of the year. Visit the Architect’s Newspaper website to learn more about our other upcoming online events such as Re-Use + Renewal and Outdoor Spaces. We are eager to hear from you about how we might improve the Facades+ experience. Talk to us. And please spread the word—help us to continue to grow the Facades+ dialogue and community.
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SPEAKERS CO-CHAIR AVIDEH HAGHIGHI Architect & Sustainability Strategist / ZGF Avideh Haghighi is an Associate Principal and Licensed Architect at ZGF where she dedicates herself to designing a regenerative built environment. As a firm-wide sustainability leader, she guides ZGF teams in discovering synergies between building, social, and ecological processes. With a career equally rooted in design and advocacy, Avideh’s long list of affiliations in the AEC community include former Living Future Los Angeles co-facilitator, former AIA|LA COTE co-chair, current AIA California Climate Change Action Committee member, and current USGBC-LA Board member.
MORNING KEYNOTE TOM WISCOMBE Principal / Tom Wiscombe Architecture Tom Wiscombe is Principal and Founder of Tom Wiscombe Architecture (TWA) in Los Angeles. Tom combines his renowned design expertise with a deep knowledge of construction and project delivery– gleaned from a thirty-year professional career– to create projects with the highest level of care and craft. His recently released monograph Objects Models Worlds, captures the breadth of his practice and ideas. Tom is also Chair of the Undergraduate Program at SCI-Arc, where he has taught for over 15 years.
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE MARIANA IBANEZ Principal / IBAÑEZ KIM Mariana Ibañez is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and the cofounder of Ibañez Kim, a genre-defiant practice that works with sensate materials, atmospheres, and new media to generate architecture, objects, and cities. Their work focuses on the disciplinary core of architecture and its growing periphery, with a focus on the relationship between technology, culture, and the environment. Mariana received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London.
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THURS NOV 11 7:45 AM PT 8:40 AM
Check-in & Breakfast Methods + Materials Gallery
1:30 PM
Welcome
1:40 PM
Dionne Darling | The Architect’s Newspaper Aaron Seward | The Architect’s Newspaper
8:50 AM
AGENDA
Platinum Presenting Partner Welcome
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2:40 PM
Morning Keynote
PANEL | Climate-Responsive Facades: The Next Generation of High-Performance Buildings. Kevin Daly | Kevin Daly Architects Brian Rogers | Enclos Jeffrey Dunn | RIOS Mike Martinez | Atelier Ten Avideh Haghighi | ZGF Moderator
10:55 AM
Biz Blitz | Partner Spotlight
3:40 PM
Networking Break Methods + Materials Gallery
11:35 AM
PANEL | Exploring Embodied Carbon in Building Enclosures Laura Karnath | Walter P Moore Dirk Kestner | Walter P Moore Isabelle Hens | UC Berkeley Sophie Pennetier | Enclos
12:35 PM
Biz Blitz | Partner Spotlight
Biz Blitz | Partner Spotlight Steve Cohen | Vitro
3:45 PM
Networking Break Methods + Materials Gallery
4:15 PM
PANEL | Midcentury Modern Meets Contemporary Performance
Logan Davidenko | Neolith
11:05 AM
PANEL | Breathable Beyond Belief: The Complexities of SoFi Stadium’s Aluminum-and-ETFE Canopy Kais Al-Rawi | Walter P. Moore Manzer Mirkar | HKS Niel Prunier | HKS Aaron Seward | The Architect’s Newspaper Moderator
Tom Wiscombe | Tom Wiscombe Architecture Aaron Seward | The Architect’s Newspaper Moderator
9:55 AM
Afternoon Keynote Mariana Ibanez | IBAÑEZ KIM Aaron Seward | The Architect’s Newspaper Moderator
Jamilla Walcott | YKK AP
8:55 AM
Remarks
Phillip White | CO Architects Mark Hershberg | KPFF James Woolum | ZGF Avideh Haghighi | ZGF Moderator
5:15 PM
Closing Remarks Aaron Seward | The Architect’s Newspaper Avideh Haghighi | ZGF Co-Chair
5:30 PM 7:00 PM
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SPEAKERS KAIS AL-RAWI Senior Associate / Walter P. Moore Kais Al-Rawi, AIA works at the intersection of architecture and engineering. He is a Senior Associate at the Los Angeles office for Walter P Moore. Kais focuses primarily on the façades and specialty structures of projects at a multitude of scales, ranging from artwork and stadia to airports and museums. He is the 2020 recipient of Walter P Moore’s Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding Young Professional Award, Kais holds a Master’s Degree from the Architectural Association (AA) in London and is a graduate of Ryerson University in Toronto. KEVIN DALY, FAIA Founder and Principal / Kevin Daly Architects Kevin Daly is the founder of Kevin Daly Architects. For over twenty years, he has pursued an architecture that delves into the paradoxes of the urban condition and the consequences of intervention. Bolstered by abundant research, he has demonstrated the benefits of advanced, unconventional building technology in works that range from public schools, custom residences, and university buildings to affordable housing. He is on the design faculty at UCLA and has served on juries or lectured at institutions internationally. JEFFREY DUNN Senior Project Director / RIOS As Senior Project Director at RIOS, Jeffrey manages a range of renowned creative offices, campus planning, and repositioning projects. His experiences in urban architectural and planning projects include adaptive reuse residential, ground-up private residential, commercial university campus projects, and master planning. Jeffrey received his Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University and his Master of Architecture from Cornell University. He is a registered architect in Washington, California, and Oregon. BRIAN ROGERS Technical Project Manager / Enclos Brian Rogers is a Technical Project Manager for Enclos, an Eagan, Minnesota based company that specializes in designing and manufacturing complex geometric facades. As a key member of their engineering department, Brian implements new 3D technology
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throughout Enclos’ manufacturing, quality control, and field layout processes. Notable projects include VIA (625 W 57th Street), Hudson Yards Tower A, Chase Center Arena, and the Las Vegas Stadium. His passion for architecture and design originated at the Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned his Master’s degree in architecture. ISABELLE HENS Researcher / UC Berkeley Isabelle Hens is an MS student in Building Science, Technology and Sustainability at UC Berkeley. She obtained her BS in Architectural Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and her MS in Architectural Engineering from Penn State. With a background in both architectural design and structural engineering, Isabelle aims to use parametric design to improve multidisciplinary collaboration in early-stage building design by providing designers with simulation-based performance feedback. MARK HERSHBERG Principal / KPFF Mark Hershberg is a Principal in the Los Angeles Structural office of KPFF Consulting Engineers. As a practicing structural engineer, he leads projects ranging from seismic retrofit and restoration of historical structures to new construction of major hospital buildings. He has lectured in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UCLA, teaching structural steel design, and is currently a consulting member for the Hospital Building Safety Board. LAURA KARNATH Senior Enclosure Technical Designer / Walter P Moore Laura Karnath is a registered architect and Senior Enclosure Technical Designer at Walter P Moore’s Los Angeles office. An impassioned advocate for computationally driven building data management and for high-performance facades, she believes both to be central in the ultimate decarbonization of the built environment. Laura is co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Carbon Leadership Forum. She holds a Master’s degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University at Buffalo.
SPEAKERS DIRK KESTNER Principal, Director of Sustainable Design / Walter P Moore Kestner applies his passion for environmental accountability in design to elevate the knowledge and expertise of all those around him, creating better results for clients and projects. He was founding chair of the Sustainability Committee of the ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and is widely acknowledged as a leader in the advancement of sustainable structural solutions. As a member of the LEED Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group of the U.S.G.B.C, he helps guide the criteria of the LEED rating system. Kestner is a professional engineer in Texas and Georgia and is LEED AP/BD + C. MIKE MARTINEZ, LEED AP Associate / Atelier Ten Mike is an Associate in Atelier Ten’s San Francisco office and member of the firm’s Daylight Practice. As an integrated design specialist, Mike has unique expertise in daylighting & façade optimization for energy performance, human experience, occupant health and thermal comfort. Mike was an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts and has a M.Arch from the UC Berkeley, and a B.A in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. MANZER MIRKAR, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP Vice President / HKS Manzer Mirkar is a Project Architect and Designer at HKS, Los Angeles. His portfolio includes work on a variety of project types with a keen focus on geometrical and technical complexity. Manzer holds a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of California, Los Angeles and has continued to make contributions in Academia as a visiting lecturer and mentor. He currently sits on the Talent Acquisition Committee and is a board member on the LA Design Fellowship Committee at HKS. SOPHIE PENNETIER Associate Director - Special Projects / Enclos Sophie holds 14+ years of experience in the design of complex structures and facades. She joined Enclos in 2018, where she has steered various projects’ specialty facades scope sales and design assist efforts, engaged in prototyping,
modular curtainwall systems, and various research topics such as ultra-thin glass, facades acoustical analysis and sustainability. In 2010 through the industry-academia partnership IAPP ARC she developed cold bent glass numerical analysis tools and has since published several research papers on structural glass. NIEL PRUNIER, AIA Senior Project Architect / HKS Niel Prunier is a Vice President and Senior Project Architect in the Venues Practice at HKS. Niel received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University where, through the Rice Internship Program, he worked at Cesar Pelli and Associates on the Petronas Towers. Niel has worked for multiple internationally acclaimed design firms on award-winning museums, civic and cultural buildings. With HKS, Niel’s past work informs his technical guidance in leading large teams for complex and multifaceted projects like SoFi Stadium. PHILLIP WHITE, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Associate Principal / CO Architects CO Architects Associate Principal Phillip White has over 20 years of experience as an architect and designer for large-scale university, academic, research and healthcare facilities. He has extensive experience with both new construction and renovation projects, and recently worked on the modernization of two iconic Paul Revere Williams’ buildings at UCLA. Phillip joined the CO Architects in 2016 and is a registered architect in California and New York. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the California College of the Arts. JAMES WOOLUM Partner / ZGF With a career in architecture spanning 30 years, James Woolum has significant experience designing corporate, healthcare, research, and institutional environments. James has led design and workplace strategy efforts for a variety of media, technology, and financial services clients and has also been instrumental in the design of notable healthcare and institutional projects. James is a member of both the American Institute of Architects and the International Interior Design Association and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California.
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FRIDAY WORKSHOPS 12 Facades+ Los Angeles
WORKSHOPS SPEAKERS TRACK A
Envelope Detailing and Project Collaboration 8:45 AM PT 9:00 AM
Virtual Doors Open Welcome Powered by
9:05 AM
Exterior Cladding Innovation: Rainscreen Design with Ultracompact Surfacing Natasha Appel | Cosentino
10:05 AM
Advanced Facade Detailing* Instructors Chris O’Hara | Studio NYL Bradford Prestbo | Place Tailor Stan Su | Morphosis
2:30 PM
Designing Glass to its Full Potential – How and Why the Rules have Changed Instructors Richard Green | Green Facades Charles Berman | DS+R
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WORKSHOPS TRACK B
Embedding Sustainability through High-Performance Facades 8:45 AM PT 9:00 AM
Virtual Doors Open Welcome Powered by
9:05 AM
High End Back Ventilated Facade Framing Nolan Day | SYSTEA
10:05 AM
Life Cycle Assessment: Level up Low-Carbon Facade Design Instructors Katherine Chan | Walter P Moore Laura Karnath | Walter P Moore
12:30 PM
Netzero Accelerator Showcase Instructors Ben Stapleton | USGBC-LA Colin Mangham | USGBC-LA
2:30 PM
Designing Glass to its Full Potential – How and Why the Rules have Changed Instructors Richard Green | Green Facades Charles Berman | DS+R
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WORKSHOPS SPEAKERS TRACK C
Contextual Design and Reuse: Blended Approaches to Hybrid Material 8:45 AM PT 9:00 AM
Virtual Doors Open Welcome Powered by
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Perimeter Fire Barrier Systems for Today’s Hybrid Window Wall Designs Mike Zanotelli | STI Firestop
10:05 AM
Automated Building Performance Analysis and Value Addition for AEC Professionals* Instructors Nilesh Bansal | Covetool Twisha Raja | Covetool Udiksha Kapini | Covetool
2:30 PM
Designing Glass to its Full Potential – How and Why the Rules have Changed Instructors Richard Green | Green Facades Charles Berman | DS+R
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INSTRUCTORS NILESH BANSAL Director of Sustainability / Covetool Nilesh is the Director of Sustainability at cove.tool. His primary focus is on product development, supporting research efforts and guiding the AEC industry in defining their organizational strategy for adopting sustainability as a key parameter to help them move towards data driven empirical design decision making. Nilesh strives to democratize Building Sciences for the masses, having a true impact in our fight against climate change. He has a M.S. in Building Performance and Diagnostics from Carnegie Mellon and has served as a Sustainability Specialist on several large commercial projects. CHARLES BERMAN DS+R Charles Berman, AIA is an Associate Principal who joined the studio in 2013. He attended Arizona State University and received a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been practicing architecture for over 30 years. Berman is a senior member of the design team of The Shed. As the Senior Technical Director on the project, he led The Shed development including the façade and the resolution of many of The Shed’s complex technical systems. KATHERINE CHAN Associate / Walter P Moore A member of the AEC industry since 2012, Katherine joined Walter P Moore in 2018 as a technical designer in the Enclosure Engineering practice of the New York office. She has focused on the design of building enclosures and specialty structures, which she says allow her to combine her interests in structures, architecture, and engineering as a whole. Katherine earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Structures from Columbia University. RICHARD GREEN Green Facades Richard Green is Principal / Owner of Green Facades. He received both Bachelor and Graduate Diploma in Structural Engineering from Monash University in Australia specializing in light-weight structures, and he has formal training in
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corrosion technology. He has worked on significant airport extensions in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, Changi Airport in Singapore and was the lead façade designer for Main Terminal Building of Helmut Jahn’s Suvarnabhumi Bangkok International Airport in Thailand. UDIKSHA KAPINI BIM Specialist / Covetool Udiksha is a BIM Specialist with the research team at cove.tool. She recently graduated with a Master of Science degree in Architectural Technologies from Georgia Tech. She specializes in integrating building information systems and data through a multi-disciplinary understanding of the built environment and architectural technologies. Her work at cove.tool explores the collaboration of building performance and the rapidly growing technological trends in the AEC industry with BIM capabilities. She believes the true transformation of information from design to construction is through automating building intelligence. COLIN MANGHAM Director / USGBC-LA Colin has guided global brands (generating over $500 million in revenues) and startups (securing over $75 million in funding) through birth, growth, and even rebirth. A four-time Chief Marketing Officer, he concurrently serves in that role for Morpho Energy. Colin is a LEED Green Associate, Living Future Ambassador, and Steering Committee member for ILFI’s LA Collaborative. With an MBA from the University of Liverpool, he is a guest lecturer at UCLA, LMU, and the ESB Business School at Reutlingen University (Germany). Colin has been an Angeleno since 1998. CHRIS O’HARA Founding Principal / Studio NYL O’Hara is facade director for the Skins Group, a division of Studio NYL, established to provide full service facade design specializing in thermal modeling, moisture/condensation analysis, and in-depth detailing. Although Studio NYL is recognized for its skins work with cutting-edge glass and glazing, their team also specializes in digitally fabricated metal skins, GFRC, reinforced polymers, stone, ultra high performance concrete, terra cotta, and traditional precast. O’Hara is currently working on multiple projects in the Boston area.
INSTRUCTORS BRADFORD J. PRESTBO, FAIA Director of Operations / Placetailor
BEN STAPLETON Executive Director / USGBC-LA
Bradford J. Prestbo, FAIA, is advancing the profession through his practice, advocacy, and educational efforts in the use of cutting-edge design technologies, high-performance design, and the incorporation of maker culture into the design process as Director of Operations at Placetailor, a Development / Design / Build practice. Bradford is the current chair of the AIA’s Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community, and founded the Boston Society of Architect’s MakeTANK Knowledge Community, where he currently serves as the National Director.
A native Angeleno, Ben Stapleton launched and managed the La Kretz Innovation Campus in Downtown Los Angeles, most recently serving as SVP, Operations & Finance for the LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI). Stapleton has also held the positions of Managing Director of the LA Better Buildings Challenge and Vice President & Cleantech Practice Group Lead at JLL. He has served on the boards of LA Bioscience Hub and USGBC-LA. Stapleton holds an MBA from the USC, Marshall School of Business, and a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics from the UCLA.
TWISHA RAJA Computational Designer / Covetool
STAN SU, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Morphosis
Twisha is a Computational Designer with the research team at cove.tool. The focus of her design and research is trifold - Design Computation, Sustainability, and User Experience as they relate to the AEC industry. She strives to integrate smart workflows for designers by automating monotonous design workflows to make them more efficient and sustainable, which is exactly what she gets to work on at cove. tool. She recently graduated with a M.S in Advanced Architectural Design from Carnegie Mellon University and also a licensed architect in India. She believes that if every design decision is data-backed, designers will inherently work towards fighting climate change.
Stan Su, AIA / LEED AP BD+C is an architect who specializes in the technical design and delivery of high-performance building enclosures and specialty structures. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has 27 years combined experience in architectural design, systems fabrication, and construction administration. Stan has led both architectural design teams and facades-specific consultant teams on projects in the United States, Asia, and the Middle East.
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