CINDY ALLEN
Editor-in-Chief
Interior Design Magazine
CINDY ALLEN
Editor-in-Chief
Interior Design Magazine
Cindy Allen has established herself as a force in elevating the design profession’s importance and exposure—acting as an ambassador and fervent supporter of architects and designers, while providing a platform and vehicle of growth for the design industry.
Allen is an industry champion, promoting the Giants of Design as well as emerging talents. A self-proclaimed design junkie, she brings an unbridled passion for design that is manifested in 17 print issues each year, a digital platform reaching a global audience of over 8 million. With Allen’s direction, Interior Design is constantly evolving to best celebrate designers and their process.
www.interiordesign.net
HARRY ALLEN
Founder
Harry Allen Design
HARRY ALLEN
Founder
Harry Allen Design
Harry Allen established his award-winning, multi-disciplinary design firm, Harry Allen Design, in 1993. Although trained as an industrial designer, Harry achieved prominence in 1994 for his interior design of Moss. A multitude of interior design projects followed. Harry’s product design work spans a wide range, from furniture and lighting to packaging and accessories. His ‘Reality’ line of products for Areaware, including the ‘Bank in the form of a Pig,’ has taken on a life of its own. The Harry Allen Design process is a unique combination of experimentation, cross-pollination between industries, manufacturing expertise and marketplace savvy.
ALEXANDRA BARKER, FAIA, LEED AP
Principal
Barker Architecture Office
ALEXANDRA BARKER, FAIA, LEED AP
Principal
Barker Architecture Office
Alexandra Barker, FAIA, LEED AP is an architect and educator. She is the principal of Barker Architecture Office, an award-winning practice based in New York and founded in 2006. BAAO brings intelligent, inventive design to a dynamic, multivalent world through work that engages the needs of a broad cross section of diverse inhabitants and sites. BAAO’s portfolio includes institutional, educational and retail projects, ground-up private residences and interiors, as well as community engagement projects in the New York area, regionally, and internationally.
Recent projects include City Kids Education Center, Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center, and Maple Street Preschool.
Alexandra is also a founder of Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture program, where she is currently the Interim Chair and Associate Professor. She is a board member of Design Advocates, a community of designers bringing their expertise to marginalized communities, and a board member of the Hart Island Project, which provides information, support, and storytelling for families of those buried in New York’s public cemetery.
www.baaostudio.com
DR. CAROL BENTEL, FAIA FIIDA
Partner
Bentel & Bentel Architect
DR. CAROL BENTEL, FAIA FIIDA
Partner
Bentel & Bentel Architect
Dr. Carol Bentel FAIA, FIIDA, ASID is Chair of SVA’s BFA Interior Design: Built Environments Department and partner at Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners. She is a Fellow of the AIA College of Fellows, Fellow of IIDA, Fulbright Scholar, American Academy in Rome Fellow, 2008 Chair of the AIA National Committee-on-Design, and former Vice-Chair of NYS Preservation League. She co-authored Nourishing the Senses and Correlations: LIFE + WORK, Bentel & Bentel Architects. Dr. Bentel has served on the faculty of Harvard University, MIT, Georgia Tech, NYCCT, and NYIT among others. Dr. Bentel received her Ph.D. in the Department of Architecture from MIT. She is a three-time James Beard awardee for Outstanding Restaurant Design, a Platinum Circle Hospitality Design recipient, and the 2022 “Interior Designer of the Year” Female Frontier Awardee from World Architecture News.
www.bentelandbentel.com
JAMES CORNER, FASLA, PLA
Founding Partner
Field Operations
JAMES CORNER, FASLA, PLA
Founding Partner
Field Operations
James Corner is Founding Partner of Field Operations, based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia, London, and Shenzhen. His work focuses upon the design of important urban public realm projects, which include New York’s highly acclaimed High Line, San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops, Chicago’s Navy Pier, Cleveland’s Public Square, Santa Monica’s Tongva Park, London’s South Park at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hong Kong’s Victoria Dockside, and Shenzhen’s new city of Qianhai.
James’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, most notably the ASLA Design Medal, the Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates in Design from the Technical University of Munich and Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the National Building Museum, the Royal Academy of Art in London, and the Venice Biennale. His books include The High Line: Foreseen/Unforeseen (Phaidon, 2015); The Landscape Imagination (Princeton, 2014), and Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (Yale, 1996).
James is Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he served on the faculty since 1990 and as Professor and Chairman from 2000-2013. He sits on the Board of the Urban Design Forum and the Government Advisory Board of Shenzhen and is an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Photo by Jake Chessum.
www.fieldoperations.net
ALDA LY
Founder & Principal
ALA Studio
ALDA LY
Founder & Principal
ALA Studio
Alda Ly is founder and principal of ALA Studio (formerly Alda Ly Architecture). Born in New Zealand and raised in a working-class suburb of Los Angeles, she would watch her cabinetmaker father draw kitchen elevations and accompany him to open houses to see how other people shaped their spaces. From the moment she studied freehand drawing as a UC Berkeley undergrad, Ly knew she wanted to become an architect, and went on to earn a Master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. While still a student at Harvard, in 2008 she helped launch MASS Design Group, the award-winning nonprofit design practice dedicated to humanitarian and socially sustainable work. Since 2002, Ly has lived in New York City and has worked at Rafael Viñoly Architects, 212box, HWKN, and Leong Leong. In these tenures, she nurtured a curiosity in evolving work and cultural spaces, and discovered a talent for leading project teams with empathy. She also co-founded Designers Assembly, which supports young architects who aspire to ethical, creatively fulfilling entrepreneurship. She lives with her husband Rob, a tech product manager, and their son Simon and daughter Stella.
www.alastudio.com
GREGG PASQUARELLI
Founding Principal
SHoP Architects
GREGG PASQUARELLI
Founding Principal
SHoP Architects
Gregg Pasquarelli, FAIA is a founding principal of SHoP Architects. He has been at the center of this collaborative and innovative practice, creating new models for design, master planning and real estate development. Gregg has led many of the firm’s most complex and dynamic projects, including in New York, The Porter House, Barclays Center, the East River Waterfront Esplanade, Pier 17, the American Copper Buildings and the skyline-defining supertalls 111 West 57th Street and The Brooklyn Tower. His global work includes GoCo Active in Sweden, new towers in Rotterdam, Miami, Toronto, New Delhi, Mumbai and Los Angeles. Gregg has been a professor of architecture for more than 20 years at Columbia, Yale, and the University of Virginia. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University in 1994. Gregg is a Fellow of the AIA and a lifetime honoree Academician in the National Academy of Design.
The diverse and trendsetting work of SHoP has been widely celebrated with a variety of honors, among them the Smithsonian’s National Design Award for Architecture, the Chicago Atheneum’s Firm of the Year Award, and their designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
www.shoparc.com
BECCA RODERICK
Design Director of Interiors
Morris Adjmi Architects
BECCA RODERICK
Design Director of Interiors
Morris Adjmi Architects
Leveraging 20 years of industry experience, Becca’s award-winning interiors are guided by an ethos that the most successful spaces shouldn’t just look beautiful; they should feel good too. As the Design Director of Interiors at MA | Morris Adjmi Architects, she is responsible for establishing and implementing the firm’s design goals and standards, inspiring creativity, and ensuring projects are completed to the highest level of quality. In this leadership role, Becca works collaboratively with MA’s Founder & Principal, Morris Adjmi, FAIA, to steer the development of warm yet refined spaces that harmoniously integrate within a project’s architectural and commercial contexts. Before joining MA, Becca served as the Director of Interior Design at One King’s Lane and Senior Designer at AvroKO, where she received recognition for highly-publicized projects such as The Zodiac Room restaurant at Neiman Marcus in Hudson Yards, which received a Gold Key Award and was published in Interior Design and Hospitality Design magazines; the Perry Lane Hotel, named the “Best New Hotel in the World” by Travel + Leisure; and the fit-out of the Holiday House, featured in Vogue magazine.
www.ma.com