Linda Pollak, AIA, ASLA Affiliate
Lead Juror
Marpillero Pollak
Architects
New York, NY
Linda Pollak is
a principal of Marpillero Pollak Architects, whose current
NYC projects include Elmhurst Community Library, Queens Plaza
Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements, New Stapleton Waterfront,
and Children’s Museum Lightweight Structures. MPA is
a member of the NYC Design + Construction Excellence Program.
The firm's projects have been recognized with awards from
AIA, ASLA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Environmental Design Research Association, and others. A member
of the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty from 1992
to 2004, Linda's research on architecture and urban landscape
has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the American
Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Arts, New York
State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts,
the Graham Foundation, the Burden Foundation, the Wheelwright
Fellowship in Architecture, and the Milton Fund of Harvard
University. She is co-author, with Anita Berrizbeitia, of
Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape, and of
essays in the books Reconstructing Urban Landscapes, Landscape
Urbanism Reader, Large Parks, and Case: Downsview, and numerous
journals. She is on the Board of Directors of the Storefront
for Art and Architecture and Design Trust for Public Space.
Thomas
Hut, AIA, RA, LEED AP
HS2 Architecture
New York, NY
Thomas Hut is a
principal of Hs2 Architecture. A registered architect since
1980, Tom has more than thirty years of professional practice
and construction experience on both small and large-scale
construction projects. Holding a Master of Architecture degree
from Princeton University (1980) and a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Williams College (1974), Tom has led the design of some
of the firm's largest projects in landmarked districts both
in New York City and elsewhere. Tom worked with the Guggenheim
Museum on their museum projects in New York City both in Soho
and in the Frank Lloyd Wright building uptown, and on the
design and construction of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. A
member of the South Orange, NJ Planning Board, Tom is also
active on the Design Committee of Main Street South Orange
and is a LEED AP accredited professional.
Ellen Neises
James Corner Field
Operations
New York, NY
As associate partner
at James Corner Field Operations for eight years, Ellen Neises
led the master plans for Fresh Kills Park, a landscape process-driven
redevelopment of a large urban landfill complex, and Lake
Ontario Park, a 925-acre park that includes beaches, wilds,
and portions of the Toronto portlands, which was awarded the
2009 National Honour Award by the Canadian Society of Landscape
Architects. Ellen managed the open space design for Columbia
University's waterfront public space on 218th Street and new
campus on125th Street. She oversaw the master plan, urban
design and public approvals of a 55-acre mixed-use waterfront
development in Baltimore. Ellen is a graduate lecturer in
the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University
of Pennsylvania and a visiting Assistant Professor at the
Graduate Planning Center at Pratt Intitute. Ellen has a BS
from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Public Policy
from Harvard University, and a Masters of Landscape Architecture
from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the recipient
of the Ian McHarg Prize for Excellence in Contemporary Ecological
Design.
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