Join us on Thursday, December 3, 2026, for General Meeting #6 with special guest speaker Rob Siegel, who will present Architecture + Engineering: Designing for Sustainability and Performance.

1 HSW Pending

Open bar + dinner

Presentation info to follow.

Robert Siegel grew up and attended public schools in Levittown, New York. During high school he apprenticed with a local architect while studying jazz piano. He earned academic scholarships to Syracuse University School of Architecture and to the Facolta di Architetturà di Siracusa in Florence, Italy. After practicing and teaching in Boston, Robert won an academic scholarship to attend Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In 1989 he went to Russia to participate in an exchange program with the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He returned to New York City and established his eponymous private practice in 1991. Robert lived in Lower Manhattan until September 11, 2001. He now lives in Bedford, New York with his wife and three children in a house that he designed and built.

Robert has completed three LEED Gold Land Ports of Entry on the northern border. He was chair of the AIA New York Chapter Committee on the Environment and has delivered seminars on sustainable design to the AIA, the U.S. Green Building Council, and public agencies.

Robert has always combined practice and teaching. He has taught graduate and undergraduate design studios at the Boston Architectural Center, City College of New York, Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University. He has been a guest critic at many architecture schools and has been on several AIA Award juries. Robert’s work has been published 50+ times in books, magazines, and online including Architectural Record, Architecture, Eco-Structure, GSA White Book, GSA Black Book, Government by Example, Korean Architecture, Metals in Architecture, Metropolitan Home, New American Luxury, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. He has received more than 30 awards, including an American Institute of Architects Honor Award for the U.S. Land Port of Entry in Van Buren, Maine, a GSA Design and Construction Excellence project.

Tickets

$0.00 AIANs Members

$25.00 AIA Members from Other Sections

$75.00 Non-AIA Members

$0.00 Students from NJIT, Kean, Union College