Della Valle Bernheimer, Brooklyn, N.Y. and Architecture Research Office, New York

Della Valle Bernheimer

Garrick Jones

Garrick Jones has been an integral member of Della Valle Bernheimer since 2005, responsible for office and project development from concept to construction administration. Through over fifteen years of professional experience, his work spans the gamut at a multitude of scales; from large scale architectural, landscape and urban design projects to mixed use, institutional, and residential projects to interiors, furniture design and graphic identity; from planning and design to research and teaching to fabrication and administration. The heart of each project for Garrick is its ability to empower the user and celebrate their aspirations and endeavors: and user-centric design is bred by a dialogue between multiple scales and disciplines. Garrick is also Founding Principal of Ten to One, a small design and research studio specializing in design / build and speculative planning for projects small medium and large. Ten to One has completed and has in construction numerous residential and commercial renovation projects throughout New York City as well as research projects in the City and abroad. Garrick has been an invited professor and curriculum coauthor for the Bennington College Undergraduate Architecture Department, a Teaching Assistant for the Parsons New School for Design Master of Architecture and Undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Programs, as well as a regularly invited Review Critic at numerous institutions. He is currently developing a workshop investigating how architectural planning can actively engage post-industrial remediation in the Gowanus Canal area of New York.

EDUCATION Master of Architecture - Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2003; Bachelor of Arts, Architecture and Fine Arts - Bennington College, 1994.

Architecture Research Office

Stephen Cassell, AIA

Stephen Cassell is principal and co-founder, with Adam Yarinsky, of Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York-based firm practicing modern architecture and visionary urbanism. ARO has completed more than seventy-five projects nationwide for clients such as Goldman Sachs, Princeton University, Prada, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The firm’s portfolio of work includes civic, academic, commercial, residential, and conceptual architecture. A two-time finalist for the National Design Award for Architecture, ARO has received numerous awards and frequent media coverage. In 2010, The Americn Academy of Arts and Letters honored Stephen and Adam with their Academy Award for Architecture. Selections of the firm’s work appear in ARO: Architecture Research Office (Princeton Architectural Press).

Current work by Architecture Research Office includes the renovation of Union Square’s historic pavilion plus a new modern building at the park’s northeast corner; a riverfront education center and recreational papvilion in Beacon, NY; a new entrance building at Brooklyn Botanic Garden as well as th erenovation of the Garden’s cafe; a new theater complex in Lower Manhattan; and a museum dedicated to the life and work of the American sculptor Donal Judd. ARO was a member of the 2007-2009 Latrobe Prize project team that reconceived the New York-New Jersey harbor in response to rising sea levels. A design for Lower Mahattan by Architecture Research Office is now the centerpiece of Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, an exhibit now on display at The Museum of Modern Art. Continued research in connection with the Latrobe Prize will appear as part of the US Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Stephen Cassell holds an undergraduate degree in architecture from Princeton University and received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Stephen has twice served as the Shure Professor at the University of Virginia and as the Friedman Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, Syracuse, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and abroad. In 2008, Stephen was a member of the New York City Green Codes Task Force. He is a trustee of the Van Alen Institute.