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Frances Halsband, FAIA is a founding partner of Kliment Halsband Architects, a leading design firm in New York City known for its innovative work in architecture, master planning, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse for educational, cultural, civic, and government clients. Frances is an expert translator between institutions and design firms, bringing her unique perspective as a designer, member of the academic community, and advisor for educational and government review boards to every project. She served as Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute and as an architectural advisor to Brown University, Harvard, and Smith College.

She is a former Commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and has served on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of State Foreign Buildings Operations and the Architectural Review Board of the Federal Reserve Bank. Frances was the first woman to be elected president of the New York Chapter of the AIA, has served as president of the Architectural League of New York, and is a frequent participant on many AIA committees, panels, and design awards juries. Frances received a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.

Justin Davidson is the architecture and classical music critic at New York magazine, where he writes about a broad range of urban, civic, and design issues. His book, Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York, was published by Spiegel & Grau in April, 2017. Davidson grew up in Rome, graduated from Harvard, and later earned a doctoral degree in music composition at Columbia University. As a classical music and cultural critic at Newsday, he won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2002.

Barbara Campagna, FAIA, LEED AP BC+C, has worked for the past 30 years as an architect, planner and historian – reinventing and restoring historic and existing buildings. She is the recipient of the National AIA Young Architect of the Year Award 2002 and was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA in 2009 as “the leading national architect and policymaker for the integration of preservation values into green building practices.” She was the President of APT International from 2005-2007 and served on the APT executive committee for 10 years. During her presidency, APT started their Technical Committee on Modern Heritage. She is the author of two books, Changing Places: ReMaking Institutional Buildings and New York State County Fairs: A History and Architectural Survey, many articles on the integration of preservation, modernism and green building practices, and a popular blog entitled True Green Cities.

Barbara grew up in Buffalo, received an Architecture degree from SUNY at Buffalo and a Master’s in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She was the first Executive Director of the Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier in Buffalo, ran her own architecture firm for many years in NYC, served as the Regional Historic Preservation Officer for the Northwest Region of the General Services Administration and from 2006-2011 was the Chief Architect for the 29 historic sites operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she oversaw modern icons such as Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House. 

Barbara started her firm in 2011, BAC/A+P, which brings together all of her experiences – as both a consultant and client – to create a firm that occupies a unique niche in both the historic preservation, modern heritage and green building fields. She teaches graduate seminars in preservation and sustainability at the University at Buffalo and FIT in New York City including a seminar on “Preserving Modern Heritage.

Mark Pasnik, AIA is a founding principal of over,under, a Boston-based architecture and design practice, and is co-director of the pinkcomma gallery. He has taught at the California College of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he is a professor. Mark received the AIA Young Architects Award in 2013, was a member of the executive board of the Boston Society of Architects, and serves on the Boston Art Commission. With Michael Kubo and Chris Grimley, he authored Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, published by The Monacelli Press in 2015.

Robert Nauman, Ph.D, received dual Masters Degrees in music and fine arts before completing his PhD in Art and Architectural History at the University of New Mexico. He currently teaches in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where his research focuses on art and architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nauman also has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians and was co-chair for their annual conference in Denver, on the Publications Committee for Exposure magazine (published by the Society of Photographic Educators), and for 7 years coordinated the reading of the Advanced Placement Art History exam and served on the Test Development Committee for that exam. 

His book On the Wings of Modernism: the United States Air Force Academy dealt with issues of American modernism and architecture during the Cold War, a topic he has pursued in subsequent publications that have addressed the work of architects Walter Netsch and Gertrude Kerbis. He has worked as a team member with architectural firms that have included SOM and RNL Design on a variety of projects at the Air Force Academy, including serving as an advisor for the architect selection for the Center for Character and Leadership Development, working on an architectural inventory report for the entire site, and contributing to the 2016 Cadet Area Development Plan. He has written on preservation issues at the Academy for Columbia University’s FutureAnterior (a Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory and Criticism).

Theodore Prudon, FAIA, FAPT, FoIFI, BNADr is a leading expert on the preservation of modern architecture and a practicing architect in New York City. Dr. Prudon has worked on the terra cotta restoration of the Woolworth Building, the exterior restoration of the Chrysler Building, and of a 1941 Lescaze townhouse in Manhattan. Dr. Prudon teaches preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. He is the recipient of a Graham Foundation Individual grant for his book Preservation of Modern Architecture. He is the founding President of °®¶¹app and a board member of °®¶¹app International.

Jack Pyburn, FAIA is a historic preservation architect and Director of the Historic Preservation Studio at Lord Aeck Sargent. He has over 40 years of experience. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Texas A&M University and Master of Architecture & Urban Design from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Pyburn is a member of the AIA College of Fellows and former chair of the AIA/Historic Resources Committee Advisory Group. He teaches historic preservation architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as the Harrison Distinguished Critic in Historic Preservation in 2012-2013. Pyburn’s research interests include architectural precast concrete and its relationship to mid-century design and construction technology.