ADFF:NY 2024 Speakers

Ada Karmi-Melamede

Architect

Q&A - Ada – My Mother the Architect


Annette Insdorf

Film Professor, Columbia University

Q&A - Ada – My Mother the Architect (moderator)


Beatrice Minger

Director, E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Q&A - E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea


Bruce Heavin

Artist

Q&A - This Is Not A House


Clifford Pearson

Contributing Editor, Architectural Record

Q&A - Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square (moderator)


Daniella Ohad

Historian

Q&A - New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century | Sept 28th (moderator)


Elena Baenninger

Senior Cultural Officer, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York

Introduction - E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea


Francesca Molteni

Director, Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

Q&A - Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz / Sept 26


Gabrille Esperdy

Dean of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Q&A - Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown


Gina Angelone

Director, Sitting Still

Q&A - Sitting Still


Gregg Goggin

Director, The House: 6 Points of Departure

Q&A - The House: 6 Points of Departure


Jack Murphy

Executive Editor, The Architect's Newspaper

Q&A - This Is Not A House (moderator)


Jake Gorst

Director, New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century

Q&A - New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century / Sept 28


Jim Venturi

Director, Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Q&A - Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown


Kelly Anderson

Director, Emergent City & Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Q&A - Emergent City


Laurie Olin

Landscape Architect, Olin

Q&A - Sitting Still / Sept 28


Lynda Weinman

Artist

Q&A - This Is Not A House


Martin Filler

Architectural Historian & Critic

Q&A - Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown


Robin Donaldson

Architect, Donaldson + Partners

Q&A - This Is Not A House


Romullo Baratto

ArchDaily Project Manager

Q&A - E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (moderator)


Silvia Siberini

Director, The Pavilion On The Water

Q&A - The Pavilion On The Water


Stefano Croci

Director, The Pavilion On The Water

Q&A - The Pavilion On The Water


Susan Goggin

Production Manager, The House: 6 Points of Departure

Q&A - The House: 6 Points of Departure


Valentina Ganeva

Director, Schindler Space Architect

Q&A - Schindler Space Architect


Yael Melamede

Director, Ada – My Mother the Architect

Q&A - Ada – My Mother the Architect


Ada Karmi-Melamede

Architect

Ada Karmi-Melamede is a prominent Israeli architect. She graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1963. Karmi-Melamede’s work includes a variety of public and private projects, among them the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem and The Open University campus in Ra’anana. Her architectural work combines universal modern architectural principles with local and historical ones. In 2007, she received the Israel Prize in architecture, the second woman to have ever received this prize.

Annette Insdorf

Film Professor, Columbia University
Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at the 92nd Street Y, where she has interviewed 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.

Beatrice Minger

Director, E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

BEATRICE MINGER (b. 1980) is a writer and director based in Zurich. She studied Film, German Studies and Modern History in Zurich, Berlin and Lausanne. After graduating, she worked as Assistant Director and Script Supervisor on various projects and directs short films and video clips. In 2018 her art book HIER SASS ER is published. Her short LOVE A LITTLE (2018) and I FEEL MORE LIKE A STRANGER (2021) are screened in international short film festivals. The hybrid cinema documentary E.1027 (2024), is her debut long feature. Her first feature-length fiction film UNDERCURRENTS is currently in development.

Bruce Heavin

Artist

Bruce Heavin is an artist, strategist, and entrepreneur. As the Chief Creative Officer & co-founder of lynda.com, his creative vision was integral to  lynda.com ’s success as a leader in online training. He created the company’s iconic logo of his wife Lynda Weinman, designed many of the distinctive illustrations on the website, and authored some of the site’s first video tutorials in Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.

An illustrator with experience in both traditional and electronic media, Bruce graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. With an extensive background in illustration, photography, and motion graphics, he has created illustrations for national publications as well as clients including Adobe, MSNBC, and E! Entertainment Television. Bruce is currently a member of the ArtCenter Board of Trustees.

Clifford Pearson

Contributing Editor, Architectural Record

Clifford Pearson is a writer and editor who covers architecture, urbanism, and culture. He is a contributing editor at Architectural Record, where he had served as deputy editor-in-chief and senior editor for 26 years. From 2018 through 2020, he was the editorial director of Kohn Pedersen Fox, and from 2016 to 2018, he was the director of the University of Southern California’s American Academy in China and a lecturer at the USC School of Architecture. He has extensive experience in Asia, having overseen Record’s coverage in that region and serving as editor-in-charge of its China edition, 2008-2013. He is the co-author, with A. Eugene Kohn, of The World By Design, the author of Indonesia: Design and Culture, and the editor of Modern American Houses. In 2004 and 2006, he was the co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Mr. Pearson holds a master's degree in architectural history from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in urban studies from Cornell University. Since 2021, he has served as joint artistic director of The Village Trip, an annual festival celebrating arts and activism in Greenwich Village. www.thevillagetrip.com

Daniella Ohad

Historian

Daniella Ohad is a design historian, connoisseur, educator, curator, writer, talk show hostess, who received her PhD degree from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. Her commitment to modern design history includes extensive work in education in the field of design culture; history and theory; interiors; material culture; contemporary design; connoisseurship; and the decorative arts. She has taught in such institutions as the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, Parsons the New School for Design, Cooper Union, and the New York School of Interior Design, and has spoken worldwide in conferences, events, and symposiums in museums, cultural institutions, and television networks.

Elena Baenninger

Senior Cultural Officer, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York

Francesca Molteni

Director, Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

Francesca Molteni graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, studied Film Production at New York University. Since 2002, she produces and directs documentaries, tv formats, videos, and curates design exhibitions. In 2009 she founded MUSE Factory of Projects in Milan. In 2012 she received the Award for Innovation by the President of the Italian Republic, the Compasso d’Oro honorable mention, and the Cathay Pacific Award for women entrepreneurs. She contributes to La Repubblica, D and Door; she’s the author of the book Oggetti d’impresa [Objects of Enterprise], and a member of the Board of Directors of MuseoCity. She documented the 2016 US election for La Casa Bianca [The White House], Rai3. Among the latest films: SuperDesign. Italian Radical Design 1965-75, The Power of the Archive. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Aldo Rossi Design, Green Over Gray. Emilio Ambasz, and We The Others, the documentary dedicated to the life and career of the Brasilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana.

Gabrille Esperdy

Dean of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Gabrielle Esperdy is an architectural and urban historian whose work examines intersections of modernism and consumerism in metropolitan landscapes. Her books include American Autopia and Modernizing Main Street, and she has published widely on topics including queer theory and urbanism, intersections of technology and historiography in the age of big data, and the need for racial reckoning in architecture’s histories. Esperdy is editor-in-chief of SAH Archipedia and the award-winning Buildings of the United States book series. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, and the New Jersey Historical Commission, among others. She is a columnist for Places and appears regularly on broadcast and web series and podcasts, including Ten that Changed America and 99% Invisible. She was a Public Scholar in the Humanities for the State of New Jersey and her current projects include 100 short essays about significant buildings and sites across the Garden State and a book about NJ’s horizontal urban density. Esperdy was educated at Smith College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is currently Professor and Dean of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she has taught since 2001.

Gina Angelone

Director, Sitting Still

Gina tells stories that connect people and ideas through artful documentary and narrative films. Her work has been the recipient of multiple Emmy awards and nominations, garnered top international festival prizes and major foundation grants. Gina directs, produces, and writes films through her company, SA KWA Pictures.

Gregg Goggin

Director, The House: 6 Points of Departure

California native, UC Berkeley graduate, writer, illustrator and filmmaker Gregg Goggin began his storytelling in editorial television. Directing and producing news segments under the pressure of deadlines was great practice for getting to the heart of the story. Deeply interested in environmental topics and the creative process, Gregg’s documentary work has screened in festivals across the globe. Gregg currently resides in Montecito, California with his wife and filmmaking partner, Susan Crawford Goggin.

Jack Murphy

Executive Editor, The Architect's Newspaper

Jack Murphy is Managing Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Previously he was Editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design. His writing has appeared in Architectural Record, Dwell, The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Places, Cite, PLAT, Paprika!, the SF Gate, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Review of Architecture, among other publications. Previously Murphy was Co-Editor-in-Chief of PLAT 8.0 Simplicity and the assistant editor for Totalization, edited by Troy Schaum and published by Park Books in 2019. He received an Honorable Mention for the Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2020 from the International Committee of Architecture Critics. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Art & Design from MIT and a Master of Architecture from Rice University. In addition to his work as an editor, writer, and educator, Murphy has contributed to award-winning architectural practices in Boston, Austin, Houston, and New York.

Jake Gorst

Director, New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century

Jim Venturi

Director, Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Jim Venturi is the founder and prin­ci­pal designer of ReThink Studio and ReThinkNYC. Through his expe­ri­ences in infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy, plan­ning, and archi­tec­ture, Venturi focuses on solv­ing the infra­struc­tural, social and eco­nomic chal­lenges of trans­porta­tion planning.

This holis­tic approach is reflected in both his work at ReThink Studio and his past work as a net­work archi­tect, bridg­ing ana­lyt­i­cal and cre­ative assets by build­ing early tech­nol­ogy net­works and devel­op­ing soft­ware. He founded Creative Technologies, a bou­tique sys­tems inte­gra­tion tech­nol­ogy firm cater­ing to archi­tects and design­ers. In 1996, the com­pany shifted focus to design­ing and imple­ment­ing email and net­work migra­tions for Fortune 1000 companies.

Venturi’s work expe­ri­ence in archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning comes from work­ing with archi­tects in his early career and teach­ing archi­tec­ture stu­dents CADsoft­ware at Parsons School of Design.  He gained fur­ther expe­ri­ence more recently from the pro­duc­tion of Bob and Denise, a fea­ture film in post-pro­duc­tion about the renowned archi­tects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Kelly Anderson

Director, Emergent City & Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Kelly Anderson is a Sunset Park based documentary filmmaker whose most recent films are Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square and UNSTUCK: an OCD kids movie (2017). Her 2012 film My Brooklyn, about the hidden forces driving gentrification, had a 3-week theatrical run through IFP, won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed. Kelly produced and directed Every Mother’s Son (PBS, 2004, w. Tami Gold), about mothers whose children were killed by police, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and aired on POV. She also produced and directed Out At Work (HBO, 2000, w. Tami Gold), which was at Sundance and won a GLAAD Best Documentary award. She is a recipient of the George Stoney Award for Outstanding Documentary (UFVA), and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, ITVS, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She was a 2019 Rockwood JustFilms Fellow. From 2015-17 she co-chaired the cooperative distribution company New Day Films. Kelly is currently the Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College (CUNY).

Laurie Olin

Landscape Architect, Olin

Laurie is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today. From vision to realization, he has guided many of OLIN’s signature projects, which span the history of the studio from the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, DC to Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the AIA award-winning Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland, Oregon.

Laurie studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and pursued architecture at the University of Washington, where Richard Haag encouraged him to focus on landscape. He is currently Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for 40 years, and is former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. Laurie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the 2012 National Medal of Arts, the highest lifetime achievement award for artists and designers bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts and the President of the United States. He also holds the 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal, the society’s highest award for a landscape architect.

Lynda Weinman

Artist

Lynda Weinman is a full-time artist, specializing in 3D printing and fabrication of mixed media including ceramics, resin, and plastic. She is the former co-founder of lynda.com, where she was responsible for the student-centered teaching philosophy, authored numerous books and tutorials, and served as the executive chair of the company until the purchase in 2015 by LinkedIn Corporation. Lynda served as the President of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for over eight years and is active on the advisory board of USCB Arts & Lectures. She and her husband, Bruce Heavin, have produced numerous films and documentaries, of which you can find listed on lyndaweinman.com. Lynda is currently consumed with making ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and playing bridge. Her passions include film, design, women’s issues and philanthropy for the arts.

Martin Filler

Architectural Historian & Critic

Martin Filler is an architectural historian, critic, curator, filmmaker, and lecturer best known as a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books since 1985. He received degrees in art history from Columbia University, has written more than a thousand articles for numerous newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and exhibition catalogues, and is the author of the three-volume Makers of Modern Architecture series. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has organized design exhibitions for the Whitney and Brooklyn museums and has collaborated on documentary films with his wife, the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter. 

Robin Donaldson

Architect, Donaldson + Partners

With deep roots in Southern California, founder Robin Donaldson studied painting and printmaking at UCSB, earned his Master’s degree in Architecture from SCI-Arc, and spent his early career working closely with Thom Mayne of Morphosis. Since founding D+P, Donaldson has continued to explore the foundations and push the limitations of architectural practice, working with ambitious and innovative clients to realize extraordinary ground-up residential projects; create homes for quantum computers; and—on the home front—founded an R+D lab dedicated to formulating and articulating new materials, methods, design strategies, and architectural applications.

Donaldson is the heart of Donaldson + Partners longstanding relationships with clients, collaborators, and essential partners as well as of the firm’s constant evolution and transformation. Outside of the office, he is a committed member of the local and national AIA, and a frequent contributor to local planning committees. Donaldson has been widely recognized for his interdisciplinary creativity, collaboration-intensive teamwork, and stylistic sophistication, and his work has been published locally, nationally, and internationally in Elle Decor, GA Houses, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, and more. He lives in Santa Barbara, above the store.

Romullo Baratto

ArchDaily Project Manager

Romullo Baratto is an architect and urban planner who graduated from UFSC, with a PhD in architecture and cinema from FAUUSP. From 2019 to 2023, he was the Managing Editor of ArchDaily Brasil, the world’s largest architecture, urbanism, and design website in Portuguese. Under his coordination, the platform was recognized with the FNA Award in 2022, becoming the first media outlet to receive this honor.

In 2023, he became Project Manager for ArchDaily Global, the largest architecture website in the world, guiding worldwide editorial initiatives such as ArchDaily Topics, the Building of the Year Awards, and ArchDaily Best New Practices. Combining his academic experience with professional practice, Romullo is dedicated to communicating architecture through texts, interviews, lectures, curatorial work, photography, and video.

Silvia Siberini

Director, The Pavilion On The Water

Silvia Siberini (1980), graduated in Philosophy and History and in Oriental Culture and Civilization, specialized in Japanese language. She works and deepens her studies in comparative philosophy in Latin America, India and Japan. Since 2001 she has collaborated with Italian artists in the field of visual arts (wall paintings, photography, documentaries, publishing) and has been involved in the production and distribution of animations with important international results. She works and deepens her studies in comparative philosophy in Latin America, India and Japan. Since 2005 she has taken part in numerous cultural projects in the philosophical field, having the opportunity to meet some of the most important exponents of contemporary philosophical and scientific culture (Emanuele Severino, Remo Bodei, Carlo Sini, Edoardo Boncinelli, Enrico Berti, Massimo Donà, Pier Luigi Luisi, Michel Bitbol).

Stefano Croci

Director, The Pavilion On The Water

Stefano Croci (1984) lives in Bologna, Italy. He graduated in Art History specializing in Theoretical Philosophy at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. He first focused on musical composition, and then devoted himself to the production of documentaries and video art, founding the production company Caucaso. He holds various roles in the film industry, as director, producer and cinematographer, in productions for international festivals, cinema, museums and academies.

Susan Goggin

Production Manager, The House: 6 Points of Departure
Susan enjoys making films about the things that bring her joy: Art, Architecture, and the Ocean. Her curiosity makes her a natural detective. She relentlessly dives into the research that produces golden nuggets. It’s like a treasure hunt. Always interested in what makes people tick, she enjoys sharing her discoveries with others through film. Susan lives in Montecito, CA with her filmmaker husband Gregg and spends her free time making ceramics and enjoying the outdoors.

Valentina Ganeva

Director, Schindler Space Architect

Born in Bulgaria, Valentina B. Ganeva is graduate of the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She holds a BA degree in Film History and Theory and made her mark as a freelance film critic for major Bulgarian publications. After relocating to Los Angeles, Valentina became Murex Films co-owner and an exec. producer. During her time with the company she built an extensive resume as a film editor. Her lifelong interest in art, architecture and design merged with her knowledge and experience in film production culminated in “Schindler Space Architect”, a passion project about the life and works of R.M. Schindler.

Yael Melamede

Director, Ada – My Mother the Architect

Yael Melamede is the co-founder of SALTY Features, an award-winning, independent production company based in New York City whose goal is to create media that is thought-provoking, vital, and enhances the world. Melamede’s documentary credits include 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (2022), the Steven Spielberg six-part series WHY WE HATE (2019), WHEN I WALK (News & Documentary Emmy Award Winner, 2015), (DIS)HONESTY—THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES (2015), INOCENTE (Academy Award Winner, Best Doc Short, 2013), and MY ARCHITECT (Academy Award Nominee, 2004). Yael was an architect before becoming a filmmaker and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

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