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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.