Hillary Brown
Hillary Brown, FAIA is principal of New Civic Works, which works with government and institutional clients to integrate environmentally responsive practices into their building programs. Major clients have included Battery Park City Authority, the New York Power Authority, Governors Island Preservation & Education Corporation, the State University of New York, New York City Department of Design and Construction, and the City of New Haven Public Schools Program. Previously, as design director and Assistant Commissioner at NYC's Department of Design and Construction, she founded the City's Office of Sustainable Design to develop and implement green design policy for municipal building projects, and conduct education and outreach on sustainable development. In 1999, her office produced the nationally recognized City of New York High Performance Building Guidelines. The companion piece, High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines, for which she obtained a Design Trust for Public Space Fellowship, is a progressive study of best practices for the public right-of-way. She is co-author of the U.S. Green Building Council State and Local toolkit, a policy guideline for government. She is on the faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture, and has taught at Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Yale University School of Architecture, and Parsons School of Design . She is Visiting Distinguished Professor at CUNY School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and Fellow of the City University of New York Institute for Urban Systems.

Gerard Evenden
Gerard Evenden joined Foster + Partners in 1991 following his graduation from the Welsh School of Architecture at UWIST and having worked on a number of residential and office schemes for Shepheard Epstein and Hunter, CZWG and Terry Farrell and Partners. His first project at Foster + Partners was the Sarriko Station on the Bilbao Metro. Other projects included the Huxley Lecture Theatre at Imperial College, ITN Headquarters Studio fit-out and a private house in Corsica. He was also involved in designing masterplans for Green Park, a 65-hectare office development at Reading for Prudential, the Riverside Precinct in Adelaide for the Australian Government, and Imperial College, London. In addition, he worked on the concept design for the Hearst Corporation Tower recently completed in Manhattan. His experience in station design was utilised in Canary Wharf Station, London for which he led the design team until its completion in 1999. He subsequently worked on Singapore’s Expo Station completed in 2002 and, most recently, his team won the international competition for the Florence High Speed Rail Station which is currently underway. Other recent work includes two high-rise projects in Sydney: Deutsche Bank Place, a 36-storey premium grade office development; and a mixed-use twin-tower scheme on the site of Sydney’s former Regent Theatre comprising residential/serviced apartment towers above a retail and commercial podium. He is senior partner and group leader at Foster + Partners, directing teams on a diverse range of projects internationally and in the UK. Current projects include The Troika in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Index Building, a mixed-use 80-storey tower in Dubai and several residential and commercial schemes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He is also working on the Masdar Initiative, a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve a carbon neutral and zero waste community in Abu Dhabi.

Kate Orff
Kate Orff is the founding principal of SCAPE. Through her creative leadership of the firm, she explores the cultural and physical complexity of urban landscapes and their unique textures, ecologies, programs and publics. She is a registered landscape architect and an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, leading studios that integrate the earth sciences into the design curriculum. After graduating from the University of Virginia with Distinction, Kate earned a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. She has worked on projects for many prominent academic institutions and private clients that have been published nationally and internationally, including a new waterfront park in Jersey City, the award winning Ford Calumet Environmental Center for the City of Chicago, the Battery Park City Community Center, and six projects for the City of New York.

Ashok Raiji
Ashok Raiji is a Principal in the New York office of Ove Arup and Partners and has been involved in the design of many high-performance buildings all over the world. He has led teams for various recent high-performance, highly sustainable projects including New Songdo City in Korea, Boston Seaport Sustainability Master Plan and Kresge Foundation Headquarters (LEED Platinum rated). He has been Engineer of Record on numerous award-winning projects including Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University, Simmons Hall at MIT, the restoration of the Tweed Courthouse in New York City, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, the Nasher Sculpture Garden in Dallas, TX and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Raiji lectures frequently on Sustainable Design and was a Technical Advisor to the National Building Museum for their “Big and Green” and “Green Communities” exhibitions. He also assisted the curatorial team for the Museum of the City of New York’s current “Growing and Greening New York” exhibition. He has contributed to international journals on the subject of energy and was a contributing author to the National Building Museum’s “Big and Green – Sustainable Architecture for the 21st Century.” Mr. Raiji has a B.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Bombay and a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is member of the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 205 involved in the development of an international standard in Building Environment Design and has been actively involved in the development of a new Building Code for New York City. He is also a Visiting Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City.

Eric Sanderson
Eric W. Sanderson is a landscape ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. His work occurs at the boundary of ecology and geography; his interests are in developing sustainable relationships between humanity and the rest of nature at all scales. He is a conservation planner, working to save wildlife and wild places in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Sanderson is a cartographer, leading a team which mapped the Human Footprint, the first ever map of humanity’s impact on the planet. He also founded the Mannahatta Project, an effort to reconstruct the historical ecology of Manhattan island at the moment of European discovery in 1609. Sanderson received his Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, in 1998; he also holds a B.A.S. in English Literature and Biochemistry from Davis (1989).

Michael Wurzel
Michael Wurzel studied Architecture in Germany, graduating with first class honours in February 1993. During this time he also attended the Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism to study the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and gained practical experience with Murphy/Jahn in Chicago. He joined Foster + Partners in 1993, to work on the detail design of the Commerzbank tower in Frankfurt. He then went on to become project architect for the Micro Electronic Centre, a multi-use energy conscious building in Duisburg, Germany. The building received the RIBA Architecture Award and the Excellent Buildings Award in North-Rhine-Westphalia. He subsequently worked on the competition winning design for the Gerling Headquarters, a 55,000 square metre mixed use development, and on Duisburg Housing, a multi-unit residential project. From 2000 he worked on the Petronas University of Technology, latterly co-ordinating the tender documents with the collaborating architect in Malaysia, and also on the Eurogate, a mixed-use development as part of the Duisburg Masterplan. In January 2001, he started working on the Hearst Tower and shared responsibilities throughout all phases of the project. After becoming a partner in 2004 he relocated to New York to oversee the construction of the shell, the core and the interiors. The project was completed in October 2006 and has received numerous awards for design excellence including the RIBA International Award in 2007. During this time, he was also responsible for the concept design of the New Globe Theatre, a contemporary version of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre on Governor’s Island. In December 2006, he became head of Foster + Partners’ New York office. He was the partner responsible for the Yale School of Management entry which won an international competition in 2007. His current projects include 50 United Nations Plaza, Foster + Partners’ first residential tower in the United States, a nine-storey gallery in the Bowery for Sperone Westwater and a large mixed-use masterplan in Las Vegas.

Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City, makes the complexities of greater environmental sustainability in New York City vivid, compelling, and understandable by bringing environmental concerns to life on an individual, human scale. Organized in terms of a typical day in the life of a New Yorker, the exhibition explores six essential areas addressed by the Bloomberg Administration’s ambitious five-borough plan for sustainability by 2030: water; transportation; energy; open space; land; and climate change. The exhibition features architectural models, interactive displays, diagrams, renderings, photographs, hands-on examples of new materials, videos, and more, many of which have been created expressly for the exhibition.