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| Partners Maria Aiolova, LEED AP, MAUD Harvard, B.Arch. Wentworth IT, Dipl.-Ing. TU Vienna & TU Sofia Maria Aiolova is an architect and urban designer in New York City. Her work is focused on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is the founding Co-President of Terreform ONE. Maria directs the ONE Lab School for Urban Ecology and the One Prize Design and Science Award. Most recently, Maria was faculty at Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design and Parsons the New School for Design. She has taught at University of Toronto, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Boston Architectural Center and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at Harvard GSD, Columbia University, Cornell University, CUNY, Washington University, the Cooper Union and Rhode Island School of Design. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor of 18 technology patents. Maria was the Winner of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award sponsored by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. She has a number of winning competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey. Maria won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award. She received her M.Arch. in Urban Design from Harvard University, B.Arch. from Wentworth IT with Honors, Dipl.-Ing. from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Sofia, Bulgaria. |
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Carlos Roberto Barrios, Ph.D. MIT, MArch. Pratt, Dipl-Eng & B.Arch. Merida, VE Dr. Barrios comes from a rigorous and diverse background having studied architecture, engineering, computer science, aviation, music, film and fine arts. He is a highly recognized scholar in the field of Parametric Design and Morphology and his research is published in national and international forums. He received a PhD in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he investigated parametric models for complex geometry and focused on twisted tall buildings. At MIT he co-founded the Digital Design Fabrication Group and created the seminal work for research projects in that area. He has collaborated in research and educational endeavors with recognized practices that include; SOM, KPF, Gehry and Partners, Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Arup. He was awarded the Thomas Upham Fellowship for his research in Parametric Modeling and Morphogenetic Design. He is currently the Director of the Design LAB in Washington DC where he leads research in computational morphology. Dr. Barrios seeks to understand the morphological principles in natural systems to generate creative solutions for design problems through computational modeling and parametric design. He is an avid sculptor having created a collection of more than 10,000 original designs from a handful of parametric models grouped in 27 collections. |
Alexander J. Felson, Ph.D. Rutgers, MLA Harvard, M.S. UW-Madison, B.A. UW-Madison Dr. Felson is an ecologist and landscape architect. His scholarly research focuses on bridging ecological research with urban design and infrastructure. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale School of Architecture. He has worked over the past eight years on urban and landscape-based projects as a landscape architect. His ecological design projects synthesize ecosystem processes and functions with landscape history and human use patterns. Dr. Felson seeks to integrate statistically robust experimentation as applied ecological research into the form, layout, aesthetic and function of each project. He has worked with Ken Smith Landscape Architect on projects including the Railyard Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico, constructed in 2008, the East River marsh planter, and PS-19, constructed in 2003. Felson also served as an associate and director of ecological design and sustainability at EDAW. There he oversaw a number of projects including the Presidio project and the Planyc2030 Million Trees reforestation project for NYC. He set up the reforestation project as a large scale and long-term ecological research project. He is currently overseeing the implementation of standardized experimental plots, designed as public features, to study carbon accumulation, sustainable management and biodiversity. Felson's PhD integrated a large-scale analysis of salamander migration patterns with the masterplan process. Dr. Felson has lectured and published a number of critical essays and works as an advocate for landscape identity, public space and ecosystem services. |
Nurhan Gokturk, MAUD Harvard, BArch. Pratt Nurhan is a Urban Designer and Artist. He is Co-Founder of Planetary One. He received his MAUD from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecure from Pratt Institute. In 2002, Nurhan founded Hometime L.L.C., which he introduced and developed the first New Orleans style modular home. He then conceived of Project2020, an initiative to develop 2,020 modular homes as an infill strategy on blighted and abandoned inner city lots. Later that year, he was named the Gambit's newspaper's "Top 40 Under 40", a yearly award recognizing the top 40 New Orleans professionals under the age of 40. Since 2004, Nurhan has collaborated with builders, developers and non-profits on the design of over 100 scattered site units throughout New Orleans. Earlier in his career, he worked on the 10,000 square foot Renault Factory Headquarters master plan at Kohn, Pederson Fox and as a senior designer at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill where he gained experience working on various projects including Logan International airport. In 1997, Nurhan coordinated the Habitat for Humanity Buckminster Fuller Design Science Exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey. Nurhan is also widely shared and recognized for his drawings and sketchbooks on Cities and Urbanism. |
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. MIT, MAUD Harvard, MArch. Columbia, BPS SUNY Dr. Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Terreform ONE. He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto. Earlier, he was faculty at Pratt, Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded fellowships at Moshe Safdie and Assoc., and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT. Currently, he is a 2011 TED Senior Fellow. He won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity, History Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To". Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America". In 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert Report. Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for "The Future of the Environment" in 2010. |
David Maestres, MArch. Harvard, BArch. Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, VE David was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism from Universidad Simon Bolivar. He later obtained a Master in Architecture (MArch II) with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a registered architect in Venezuela where he opened his own practice in 1997. During that time he designed and built several projects of various scales ranging from stage design, exhibition spaces and single-family houses. After finishing at Harvard in 2002 he worked at the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York, where he later became an associate. In 2007, he worked at TEN Arquitectos where he led projects that varied from infrastructure, museums, hospitality, residential towers and educational facilities. In 2010 he founded David Maestres Arquitecto (dmA), a New York based design studio that focuses on research and design strategies at many different scales and complexities. In addition to his professional practice, David Maestres has taught at the BAC in Boston, the Career Discovery Program at Harvard School of Design, NJIT College of Architecture and Design, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Pratt Institute. He has been invited as a design critic at several institutions including Rice, Harvard, UPENN, Pratt, Universidad Central de Venezuela among others. Currently teaches Design Studio at Pratt Institute. |
Walter Meyer, MLAUD Harvard, BLA University of Florida Walter was invited to build his University of Florida thesis project; an urban prototype for an artificial surf park in mission beach San Diego, CA. After graduation he worked for three years on urban design projects with WRT, the firm founded by Ian Mcharg. Afterward, Walter received a MLAUD from Harvard University. He spent the next five years as an ecological designer for Cooper, Robertson and Partners, working on large urban projects by integrating the modeling of ostensible hazards such as storm surge, runoff pollution, tsunamis, unstable soils, and converting them to project assets. In 2006 he founded Local Office Landscape Architecture with his partner. Their work includes the Parque del Litoral, in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico for the 2010 Central American Games. This project won the 2010 AIA Honor award in Puerto Rico; it is the first implementation of phytoremediation technology at the scale of an entire city. Walter was recognized in Washington DC by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for "leadership and innovation in the green economy". In 2009 Local Office was awarded a state grant by the New York State Council of the Arts for CSO2GO, a series of wetland parks mounted on barges that will be deployed city wide to treat water pollution. He also won a 2008 NY-ASLA Merit Award for "Garden between City and Sea," a realization of the principles of sustainable coastal landscape architecture at the residential scale. Walter has been a lecturer and visiting critic at Columbia University, Harvard University, MIT, Parsons New School, Pratt Institute, U of FL, FIU, and Puerto Rico. |
Jason Vigneri-Beane, MArch. Iowa, BPS SUNY Jason is an architect and cross-disciplinary designer with projects ranging from architecture and urbanism to industrial and graphic design. His current work is focused on cross-disciplinary design as a catalyst in near-future scenario-planning. In addition to his work with design and future-casting, he has worked for a number of years on the relationships among design, new media, technology and social organization. He has taught and lectured in the United States, Europe, and Asia and he currently coordinates the Master of Science in Architecture program at Pratt Institute in New York. |
Affiliate Partners Anya Bokov, MArch. Harvard, BArch. Syracuse Anya is an architect and urban designer based in Moscow and New York. She received her Master in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University with honors. Anya is an adjunct professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute and was previously a visiting professor at Northeastern University School of Architecture. She is an author and editor of the Project Russia/Project International magazines, the leading architectural publication in Russia. She has worked as an architect and urban designer with NBBJ in Moscow and Columbus, OH, City of Somerville/Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development, Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, Gluckman Mayner Architects and Polshek Partnership in New York. Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D. Harvard, B.S. Hunter Dr. Medvedik earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences program. As part of his doctoral work he has used single-celled budding yeast as a genetic system to map pathways that underlie the processes of aging in more complex organisms, such as humans. Prior to arriving in Boston in 1999 for his doctoral studies, he has lived most of his life in New York City. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from Hunter College, City University of New York, in 1998. Since graduating in 2006 from Harvard, he has worked as a biotechnology consultant, taught numerous undergraduates at Harvard University and mentored two of Harvard's teams for the annual synthetic biology competition (iGEM) held at M.I.T. Now, he is the principal investigator at the Bioworks Institute laboratory for art and biology in Brooklyn, New York. Also Oliver is on the board of directors for the non-profit organization Genspace, a biological reasearch incubator that is dedicated to teaching genetic engineering. Copyright 2010 Planetary ONE [Open Network Ecology] |
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