Dear June 8 roundtable participants - Tulane School of Architecture ...

Laura Kurgan teaches architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at
Columbia University, where she is Co-Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) and Director of
Visual Studies. Her work explores issues and topics ranging from digital mapping technologies to the ethics and
politics of mapping, new structures of participation in design, and the visualization of urban and global data.
www.l00k.org
www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org
Greg Lindsay is a contributing writer for Fast Company and the author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live
Next (with John D. Kasarda). Aerotropolis asserts that the cities native to our globalized era are cities effectively
orbiting their airports, rather than the other way around. He was previously a contributing writer for Fortune and
an editor-at-large for Advertising Age. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, McKinsey Quarterly, Time, Wired, Travel + Leisure,
Condé Nast Traveler and The Daily Beast. Lindsay is a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center
for Transportation Policy & Management. www.greglindsay.org
Jonathan Mallie is a founding principal of SHoP Construction, established in 2007. Mallie currently serves
as Managing Director of SHoP Construction and as an associate principal of SHoP Architects, where he was
their first full-time employee hired in 1999. Mallie received a Bachelor of Science in Design from the University
of Florida (1996), and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University (1999) where he graduated with
Honors for Excellence in Design. Through his years at SHoP, Mr. Mallie has engaged in the usage of emerging
technologies as a means to facilitate communication and information sharing with fabricators and builders,
thus promoting a hands-on approach towards the design and construction process. Together with his partners,
Mallie has developed integrated design and construction platforms that have instituted transparent working
environments and enabled seamless exchanges of information to take place amongst project stakeholders.
Jonathan has also taught at multiple universities including the University of Florida’s Graduate School of
Architecture’s Global Lab, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Miami University of Ohio, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a registered architect in the State of
New York. www.shop-construction.com/
Sharon Nunes is Vice President, IBM Smarter Cities Strategy & Solutions. Previously, Nunes was Vice
President of Big Green Innovations and launched IBM’s program in Advanced Water Management in 2009
as part of IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative. Nunes has held numerous executive positions leading new growth
initiatives in IBM including a special assignment as Vice President of Technology, working with IBM’s Chairman
and the senior executive team to set the technical agenda for the company. Nunes launched and led IBM’s
Computational Biology Center, and was one of the executive leaders of the Life Sciences business unit in its
start-up phase. She received her PhD in Materials Science in 1983 from the University of Connecticut. She
has held numerous academic advisory board positions, was a National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers of
Engineering” fellow and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering “Engineer of 2020” advisory
board. She was also elected to the University of Connecticut’s Academy of Engineering for distinguished
engineers. www.research.ibm.com/theworldin2050/bios-Nunes.shtml
Nat Oppenheimer is a structural engineer at Robert Silman Associates with extensive experience in new
construction, renovation, historic preservation and sustainable engineering. He teaches structural engineering
at Princeton University, and serves on the boards of the Salvadori Center and the Architectural League.
www.rsapc.com
Elisa Orlanski Ours is Vice President of Planning & Design for Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, and
directs Corcoran Sunshine’s Planning and Design department, which she founded in 2007. Trained as an
architect, she has previously worked in architecture firms and as a construction manager.
www.corcoransunshine.com
Bruce Schaller is Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability at the New York City Department
of Transportation. He oversees agency planning, design and implementation of the transportation elements
in Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC and key elements of DOT’s Sustainable Streets Strategic Plan. Previously,
Schaller was Principal of Schaller Consulting, where he consulted with a variety of government, institutional,
and private clients on identifying transportation needs, developing effective transit programs, taxicab regulation,
transit fare policy, road pricing, transportation finance, customer communications and bus rapid transit.
www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/schallerbio.shtml