Paul A. Castrucci Architects

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Nov 20, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn

AIA Brooklyn Double-Header: Two-for-One in Sunnyside Gardens

3:00 pm

Sunnyside Gardens Tour meeting point:
Laura Heim Architect
45-14 Skillman Ave
Sunnyside Gardens, Queens NY

Leave work a little early on Friday and experience one of those secret New York City havens that you’ve probably never seen. Finish the afternoon with a glass of wine and a hearty snack at Nerton Construction.

Join AIA Brooklyn for this double-header and earn 3-1/2 learning units. We’ll begin at 3:00 Friday afternoon at the architectural offices of Laura Heim, who will generously lead a tour of Sunnyside Gardens – a premier example of the English Garden City Movement in the United States. High points of the tour will include a walk past the Louis Mumford house, Sunnyside Gardens Park (along with Gramercy, one of only two privately owned parks in NYC), the Phipps Gardens Apartments, the tree-lined streets and the interior courts that give Sunnyside Gardens its unique charm and pedestrian scale.

Just as the sun is setting, we’ll arrive at AIA Brooklyn Gold Sponsor Nerton Construction for a celebratory reception and a tour of their substantial millwork shop. The shop tour will educate us about the materials and methods that go into premium, custom cabinetry including a discussion of finish and hardware types, moisture and warpage resistance and assembly and joining techniques.

3-5 PM: Sunnyside Gardens Tour (2.0 AIA LU|HSW)
5 PM-?: Nerton Construction Shop Tour (1.5 AIA LU)

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Nov 16, 2026 • Mentoring Architectural Pathways + AIA Brooklyn MAP - Mentoring Architectural Pathways

Virtual Event: How to Stand Out As A Young Professional in an Architecture Firm

7:30 pm–9:00 pm

Virtual - held on Zoom

Please join us for an educational CEU about how to stand out as a young professional in your firm! This presentation, followed by an interactive Q+A, will be presented by Devora Schwartz, a licensed architect and NCARB licensing advisor. Devora will share tangible advice for making the most of your early career years, and offer tools for developing strong relationships, technical skills, and more. This event is part of the AIA MAP (Mentoring Architectural Pathways) Emerging Professionals Mentorship Program, but we hope anyone who is interested to participate joins us as well! RSVP below and you will receive a Zoom link to join. See you there!

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Nov 17, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn Housing Committee + AIA Brooklyn Housing Committee

Architects, Developers & Government: Finding the Right Programs and Partners

6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Mercury Store, 131 8th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
You can already see what a site could become. What would it take to build it yourself, with the City as your partner?

More architects are taking on the developer’s role: starting projects themselves, putting the teams together, and seeing them through from idea to occupancy. Many of the best opportunities in New York run through public agencies and mission-driven lenders, including underused sites, supportive and affordable housing, and high-performance new construction and retrofits. From the outside, those programs can be hard to make sense of.

This panel is a practical guide for architects ready to make that move. Sarah Leitson (NYC HPD) and Megan Rosa (NYCEEC) will explain what their organizations fund, what they look for in partners, how to spot opportunities before an RFP comes out, and what makes a first-time team credible. James Petty, Alex Barrett, and David Cunningham, AIA will bring the practitioner’s side: finding sites, raising capital, managing risk, and using design thinking to make hard projects pencil out.

You’ll leave with a clearer picture of the programs and partners available, and the first steps toward starting your own project.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

Identify the NYC HPD programs and NYCEEC financing tools that architects starting their own projects can use, including supportive and affordable housing programs and lending for energy efficiency. They’ll also know what each organization looks for in a development partner.

Describe practical ways for a first-time architect-developer to find opportunities before a formal RFP comes out, build credibility without a public-sector track record, and put together the right team of partners, lenders and consultants.

Explain how an architect’s design and feasibility skills can be used to evaluate difficult or underused sites. That includes working within the zoning, code and approval processes that protect occupant health, safety and welfare.

Evaluate how design choices such as energy performance, accessibility and livability affect a project’s financing, operating costs and long-term public value, and how to make that case to agencies and lenders.
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Nov 18, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn Emerging Professionals (BKEP) + AIA Brooklyn

Chapter Meeting and BKEP “Ask Me Anything” Discussion Panel: Parallel Pathways

6:30 pm–8:30 pm
FXCollaborative
235 Duffield Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join AIA Brooklyn’s Emerging Professionals Committee for a panel discussion on traditional and alternative career paths in architecture. Hear from industry professionals as they share insights on licensure, career pivots, and how architectural skills transfer into tech, real estate, education, and beyond.

1.5 CEU’s

Register early! Registration closes at noon on November 17th

Panelists:

Sally Gilliland, AIA, LEED AP; Chief Financial Officer, Hudson Companies

Ting Chin, AIA, LEED AP; Principal, Linearscape; Professor, City Tech

Marshall Shuster, AIA; Principal, Mesarch Studio

Moderators:

Selin Demirbas, Co-chair of BKEP Committee

Emily Nelson, Program Director of MAP Committee
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Nov 19, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn + CityTech

Design That Heals: Documentary Film Screening and Discussion

6:30 pm–8:30 pm

City Tech Voorhees Hall
186 Jay Street, Brooklyn

Join CityTech and AIA Brooklyn for this special evening featuring a screening of Design That Heals, a documentary exploring how architecture can improve lives, strengthen communities, and promote healthier, more equitable environments. The film follows the collaboration between Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS) and Les Centres GHESKIO in Haiti, where innovative healthcare design and infrastructure helped address the devastating cholera outbreak following the 2010 earthquake.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Katie Swenson from MASS and Professors Elena M’bouroukounda and Anne Leonhardt from City Tech. exploring the intersections of architecture, healthcare, infrastructure, and community well-being. The conversation will connect these real-world challenges to architectural education and highlight how design professionals can make a meaningful impact on the communities they serve.

1.5 HSW Learning Units

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Nov 19, 2026 • AOA Brooklyn and AIA New Jersey

Climate Adaption in Action: Risk Assessment to Resilient Infrastructure

6:30 pm–8:00 pm

FXCollaborative, 235 Duffield St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

From risk assessment to real outcomes, learn how NYC resilience projects turn climate adaptation strategy into on-the-ground infrastructure.

From risk assessment to shovels in the ground — this session draws on major NYC resilience projects (the BIG U, East Side Coastal Resiliency, Lower Manhattan, and citywide waterfront initiatives) to show how climate science, engineering, planning, and funding come together to deliver real adaptation outcomes. Walk away with practical approaches for turning climate resilience goals into implementable, on-the-ground results.

Sign up early – registration closes at noon on November 18.

1.5 AIA LU

This program is hosted by AIA Brooklyn and AIA New Jersey

The AIA Brooklyn Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate—to the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public—design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment. Learn more.

The AIA NJ Committee on the Environment (COTE) is committed to advancing sustainable design and environmental responsibility within the architecture profession. Our mission is to educate, inspire, and support architects in creating buildings and communities that are resilient, energy-efficient, and ecologically sound. By promoting the integration of sustainable practices into all aspects of design and construction, we aim to reduce the environmental impact of the built environment and enhance the quality of life for all. Learn more.

Speakers:

Travis J M Bunt, AIA is the Managing Partner at Office for the Next Environment, where he focuses on the design integration and implementation of public infrastructure. A former Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer, he has spent the past decade supporting major city and regional climate adaptation efforts. He is the Architect of Record of six miles of Lower Manhattan’s coastal redesign, including the East Midtown, Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery, and East Side Coastal Resiliency projects; a technical advisor on flood protection to the Battery Park City Authority; and the urban design lead for the ongoing Financial District and Seaport Climate and Maritime Masterplans for New York City.

Roni Deitz is the Global Director for Climate Adaptation at Arcadis, where she helps public and private sector clients navigate climate risk and deliver resilient infrastructure investments. Roni has supported some of the region’s most transformative resilience initiatives, including the BIG U and East Side Coastal Resiliency, Lower Manhattan resilience efforts, waterfront and coastal resilience projects across the five boroughs, and citywide climate adaptation programs. Her work brings together climate science, engineering, planning, funding strategy, and implementation to help communities, and infrastructure owners move from climate risk assessment to on-the-ground resilience outcomes.

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Nov 20, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn

AIA Brooklyn Double-Header: Two-for-One in Sunnyside Gardens

3:00 pm

Sunnyside Gardens Tour meeting point:
Laura Heim Architect
45-14 Skillman Ave
Sunnyside Gardens, Queens NY

Leave work a little early on Friday and experience one of those secret New York City havens that you’ve probably never seen. Finish the afternoon with a glass of wine and a hearty snack at Nerton Construction.

Join AIA Brooklyn for this double-header and earn 3-1/2 learning units. We’ll begin at 3:00 Friday afternoon at the architectural offices of Laura Heim, who will generously lead a tour of Sunnyside Gardens – a premier example of the English Garden City Movement in the United States. High points of the tour will include a walk past the Louis Mumford house, Sunnyside Gardens Park (along with Gramercy, one of only two privately owned parks in NYC), the Phipps Gardens Apartments, the tree-lined streets and the interior courts that give Sunnyside Gardens its unique charm and pedestrian scale.

Just as the sun is setting, we’ll arrive at AIA Brooklyn Gold Sponsor Nerton Construction for a celebratory reception and a tour of their substantial millwork shop. The shop tour will educate us about the materials and methods that go into premium, custom cabinetry including a discussion of finish and hardware types, moisture and warpage resistance and assembly and joining techniques.

3-5 PM: Sunnyside Gardens Tour (2.0 AIA LU|HSW)
5 PM-?: Nerton Construction Shop Tour (1.5 AIA LU)

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December
Dec 1, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture + AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture (WIA)

A Celebration of Recent AIA Brooklyn Fellows

5:30 pm–8:30 pm

Marset USA Showroom
202 North 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

A Celebration of Recent AIA Brooklyn Fellows – Design Dialogues: Georgeen Theodore, Interboro Partners and Bryan Young, Young Projects

This Design Dialogue celebrates two Brooklyn architects elevated to the AIA College of Fellows within the past two years. In 30-minute lectures, each will share the ethos behind their practice, research, and teaching, illustrated through completed projects at a range of scales. A moderated conversation follows on the Fellowship process: why they applied, how distilling their careers into a 35-word capsule statement sharpened their understanding of their own work, what has changed since their elevation, and how Brooklyn shapes the way they practice.

Georgeen Theodore, FAIA, co-founder of Interboro Partners and professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, will present her participatory approach to urban design: looking closely at what already exists and finding pragmatic, surprising ways to reuse and transform it. Moving from early temporary public spaces built through borrowing, bartering, and “precycling” to neighborhood planning in Detroit, the reimagining of vacant schools, and community-driven climate adaptation in New York and Athens, she will discuss how listening and co-design with underserved communities can shape both places and public policy, and how she carries that approach into the classroom.

Bryan Young, FAIA, founder of Young Projects, will present how hands-on material experimentation drives his studio’s design process. Through work ranging from furniture and interiors to houses and a retreat in the Dominican Republic, he will trace how studio experiments such as hand-pulled plaster and palm-formed concrete become built architecture, and how embracing ambiguity, and letting go of control at the right moments, produces spaces that are surprising and bespoke. He will also discuss how this research informs his teaching.

1.5 AIA LU

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Dec 7, 2026 • AIA Brooklyn

2026 BKDA: Brooklyn Design Awards Celebration + Holiday Party

6:00 pm–9:00 pm

501 Union
501 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215

We’ll be kicking off the holiday season by recognizing exceptional Brooklyn-based and Brooklyn-made architecture + design. Award recipients will be recognized at a ceremony of colleagues and peers.

AIA Brooklyn members, affiliate members and friends are invited to celebrate with the community! Join the party at 501 Union in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Schedule:
6 PM – Arrival and Happy Hour
7 PM – Award Ceremony
7 45 PM – Buffet & Passed Plates

Ticket Prices:

$130 AIA Brooklyn Members & Allies

$150 AIA Brooklyn Affiliate Members & Bronze Sponsors

$175 Non-AIA Brooklyn Members

Special Pricing for Emerging Professionals & Students

Sponsorships:

Opportunities range from $500 to $3,000.

Each level of sponsorship provides acknowledgment in the Brooklyn Design Awards edition of PYLON (Winter 2027) in the form of your company’s name, logo, and/or special message. All sponsors will be individually recognized at the awards ceremony. PYLON is available on the AIA Brooklyn website and is distributed to over 2,000 architects and designers in our network.

Any level of sponsorship will support the Brooklyn Design Awards efforts—celebrating outstanding projects by Brooklyn firms and exceptional design work within, and beyond, the borough.

New in 2026: presentation of the inaugural Emerging Professional Friendly Firm Award

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