Architects and Engineers / America and The World's Economies

Delve into Architecture and Engineering with Sherida E. Paulsen, an Architect, and Robert Silman, a Structural Engineer. What is the relationship and interrelationship between architecture and engineering? How does Technology impact them and vice versa? What does the future look like? Is there an overlapping of the professions? The Infrastructure. The Environment. New materials, including floors that generate energy!!!!

Join Josh Stiles, Managing Director of IDEAglobal New York, for his views of what is going on with the American Economy and the World's Economies. The dependency and interdependency of the World's Economies. The Global Economy, The Global Village, Hedge funds, derivatives, the role that machines played, computers morphing a financial hiccup into a full blow crisis, hedge funds, etc. Josh, ought one's money be under the mattress?






Guests

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Sherida Paulsen
President, American Institute of Architects: NY Chapter
Principal, PKSB Architects


Sherida joined PKSB Architects in 1999 as a Principal. She is currently chair of the Van Alen Institute, and Director of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation. Ms. Paulsen was recently elected AIA President, New York Chapter and began her term on January 1, 2009. She served as a Commissioner and Chair of the Landmark Preservation Commission from 1995 to 2004. She received her Masters in Architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Sherida has also designed a range of award-winning educational, residential and mixed-use projects for a broad group of clients, including the Claremont Riding Academy renovation, the Cooper Union, Hunter College of CUNY, New York Presbyterian Hospital, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the City of Bay City, Michigan.







Robert Silman, President
Robert Silman Associates


Robert Silman has expert knowledge of construction systems in the United States dating back to our earliest building types. The Office of the Secretary of the Interior has appointed Mr. Silman to the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Board representing the fields of engineering and preservation education, on the basis of his outstanding professional qualifications and ability within the broad field of historic preservation. In 2006 he received the New York Historic Districts Council's Landmarks Lion Award, an honor bestowed each year on an individual who has made significant contributions to historic preservation.

He is an international leader in the promotion of sustainable design. As Chairman of the Working Commission 7 on Sustainable Design, for the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE), and was Chairman of their annual symposium in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro devoted to issues of sustainability. In recognition of his dedication to excellence in structural engineering and his role as a mentor for young engineers IABSE awarded Mr. Silman the prestigious Anton Tedesco Medal in 2005. Mr. Silman has written a number of articles on sustainability for Structural Engineering International, and he was a member of the Consortium writing the High Performance Guidelines for New York City Capital Construction Projects sponsored by the Mayor's Office. And finally, he led his entire office in participating in an intense effort to completely revise specifications and design methodologies to incorporate principles of sustainability.


To read more about his firm, check out Robert Silman Associates







Josh Stiles, Managing Director
IDEAglobal New York


Prior to joining IDEAglobal, Josh was a proprietary bond trader at Nippon Credit Bank for three years. He formerly worked as a proprietary bond trader for six years at Drexel Burnham and two years at Citibank. He began his career in business as a credit analyst at First Fidelity. Josh has a B.A. from Amherst College, and an MBA in finance from New York University. Josh now runs a team of six economists/strategists who, tapping into IDEAglobal's global team, provides a fresh insight into U.S. interest-rate markets.