Brandt Knapp is a New York-based, architectural designer and educator. She currently teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology as well as Pratt Institute. Since graduating from the M. Arch I program at Yale School of Architecture in 2010, she has worked in the offices of Richard Meier & Partners, Joeb Moore & Partners and begun her own practice with a series of collaborations for architectural installations in the New York area as well as small scale residential and commercial projects. She met her design partner, Jerome W Haferd, while in grad school where they began working together on school projects. In 2012, she and Jerome W Haferd, built their first work following their proposal for curtain, which won the inaugural Folly Competition initiated by the Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park. More recently they collaborated with media (sound) artist Jessica Feldman, on caesura: a forum, a public art & architecture installation on Marcus Garvey Park's acropolis in Harlem.
Design + Make Jose Alcala, Hillier College of Architecture and Design at NJIT
Jose Alcala is a licensed architect, industrial designer, renewable energy specialist and educator. He has been awarded ten patents and one provisional patent and has received several awards for both his architectural and product design work. Alcala is co-founder of two companies that serve the industrial, architectural and sustainable fields of design - MADLAB, LLC (Morozov Alcala Design Laboratory) and RELAB, LLC (Renewable Energy Laboratory). Alcala is a registered architect in the State of New Jersey and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).