Susan Rodriguez is a founding partner and Design Principal in Ennead Architects. Recipient of the NYC AIA 2012 Medal of Honor, the studio is known for excellence in the design of buildings in the public realm. Her work focuses on projects for educational, cultural, scientific and governmental institutions. Through her designs she seeks to create an architecture fused with its surroundings and inspired by its program. Her projects have received numerous awards for design excellence and sustainability, among them, National, State and local AIA and SARA Awards and Chicago Atheneum American Architecture Awards.
Among her projects are the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Lyceé Français de New York, Sarah Lawrence College Visual Arts Center, Common Ground Community Schermerhorn House, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the Gateway Center at Westchester Community College, Westmoreland Museum of Art and the Center for Design Innovation at Mass Art. Read more
Susan Rodriguez
Frank Lupo
Nat Oppenheimer is an Executive Vice President of Robert Silman Associates, a structural engineering firm with offices in New York City, Washington DC, and Boston. He has extensive experience in the areas of new construction, renovation, historic preservation, and sustainable engineering, and leads much of the firm’s institutional work.
Current projects include the addition to and renovation of the Harvard University Art Museum; the new 220,000-square-foot building for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City’s Meatpacking District; and the new Police Academy located on 35 acres in Queens, NY.
Nat Oppenheimer
Randy Antonia Lott is an architect and director at Moed de Armas &
Shannon Architects (MdeAS). Randy received her Bachelors in Architecture from Cornell University in 2001, minoring in architectural theory and graduating with honors. She joined MdeAS in 2002, and became an associate in 2006.
Moed de Armas & Shannon, established in 1991, is an award-winning architecture firm based in New York City. Founded with a shared belief in classically modern architecture, the firm emphasizes a collaborative design process to develop elegant solutions to complex problems. The firm's body of work is varied across project types, including commercial, public space, residential, and interior projects, with an expertise in high-performance glass facades. Read more
Randy Antonia Lott
We also recognize Mehonaz Kazi of Sciame Construction and Hiroko Nakatani of Ennead Architects for their significant contributions as integral members of the project’s design team.
Frank Lupo is an award winning architect practicing in New York . His work has been published internationally, and has been the subject of several major architectural exhibitions, including The Un-Private House at the Museum of Modern Art. Frank’s architectural commissions have included galleries for Perry Rubenstein, Tony Shafrazi and Larry Gagosian. He has served as visiting critic at Pratt Institute, Harvard University, Pratt Institute and Cooper Union, and as a jurist at Columbia University, Pratt , Princeton and Yale University.
His work has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, and architectural publications throughout the country.
An accomplished artist, his drawings have recently been accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His White Apartment project was awarded an AIA National Honor Award for Interiors in 1998 and an AIA NY Chapter Design Award in 1996. Frank earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Cincinnati and his Master of Architecture from Yale University. Read more
Design Principals
Our highly talented team of award-winning design principals is responsible for developing and overseeing all aspects of the project's design including the site planning, architecture and engineering of the educational buildings, housing units and other structures.