William Rohde wrohde@gmail.com (647) 985-3558

Education The Cooper Union - Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture, May 2001

Rhode Island School of Design Landscape Architecture, 1995 - 1996

Experience

2010 – present Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Architect

McMaster University – Centre for Primary Care Concept Design for mixed-use Health Education and Public Clinic - 88,000 sf

George Brown College – Waterfont Health Sciences Campus Design Development though Construction Administration - Health Sciences Education - 370,000 sf

2009 Independent Design Consultant Leary House – Single-family Residence, Towson, MD - 3400 sf + basement

Jup She – Restaurant Interior Renovation, Manhattan - 1000 sf

2005 - 2009 Gensler Project Architect

New Museum of Contemporary Art Design Development and Construction Documents with Sejima + Nishizawa (SANAA) - 56,346 sf The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Visitor, Exhibition and Conference Center - Concept Design with Tadao Ando Architect and Associates - 76,000 sf Renovations and Addition to 1955 Museum Building - Design Development with Selldorf Architects - 32,000 sf

Goldman Sachs Headquarters – 200 West Street Dining & Servery with Office DA

Conference and Fitness Center with Architecture Research Office (ARO) - 80,000 sf

Jackie Robinson Museum + Jackie Robinson Foundation Museum - Schematic Design and Design Development with Ralph Appelbaum Associates - 22,000 sf Foundation - Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, and CA - 14,000 sf

Children’s Museum of Manhattan – “Playworks” early childhood learning center Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, and Construction Administration - 10,000 sf

Baron Capital – 767 Fifth Avenue – 48th and 49th Floor Offices Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, and Construction Administration - 51,000 sf

Gensler – Rockefeller Center office

Construction Administration – 66,000 sf 2002 - 2005 Cho Benn Holback + Associates Staff Architect

Watkins Mill Elementary School – Addition to Watkins Mill Elementary School Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents - 36,000 sf

Hampstead Senior Housing – Renovation and addition to 1940’s Elementary School for senior living Design Development and Construction Documents -74,000 sf Glen Echo Park Rehabilitation – Renovation of Historic Amusement Park for National Park Service

Construction Documents - 30,000 sf built + campus

1998 - 2001 Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Teaching assistant to Professor Sue Gussow: First Year Drawing Awards The George Ledlie Fund Annual Prize Construction Management Association of America Merit Prize

Publications Architects Draw: Freehand Fundamentals by Sue Ferguson Gussow Skills Revit, AutoCAD (2D & 3D), 3ds max, Vray 1.5, Adobe Creative Suite

Accreditations Registered Architect – New York State, NCARB Certified, LEED AP BD+C

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Lower Level Plan Entry Level Plan

Circulation Study

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute2008Gensler with Tadao Ando Architect + AssociatesWilliamstown, MA

As part of the Sterling and Francine Clark’s expansion, Tadao Ando designed a new entry pavilion overlooking a one-and-a-half acre reflecting pool. This Exhibition, Visitor, and Conference Center building, houses special exhibition galleries, conference space, auditorium, shop, restaurant, and cafe. Back of house services include a truck ramp for artwork delivery. As part of Gensler’s executive architect team, I worked as a conduit between Ando’s office and the local client. For instance, the diagram below was presented to the client for their approval of the circulation se-quences. So in this way, we helped to communicate how the Ando design would function for the client. In addition, the study on the opposite page exemplifies how I worked to advance the development of the design. Above the main subterranean gallery is a ground level outdoor plaza. These studies document the required floor to floor height as impacted by two sets of factors. Factor one: Is the outdoor plaza a hard or softscape? Factor two: Can gallery space be lost to accommodate a mechanical duct run, or are transfer ducts required. The spacial implications of decisions such as these would then be relayed to Ando’s office for comment and opinion.

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Wall Scheme w/ Hard Surface - No Transfer Beams

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Lower Level Framing Plan Study

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New Museum of Contemporary Art2007Gensler with Sejima and Nishizawa (SANAA)New York, NY

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The work of the Japanese firm, SANAA, is a diagram made real. In this work, six boxes are shifted, al-lowing light into the gallery spaces. It was the task and responsibility of the executive architect team to preserve the purity of this SANAA design as it is taken from 50% Design Develop-ment through construction.

While the construction systems and materials are fairly ordinary, it is the preservation of the carefully cal-culated form that was the challenge. As an example of the level of preci-sion achieved, in the entire building facade, only one sheet of expanded aluminum mesh is cut off module. To further illustrate, the design allowed me only 18” for the development of the skylight detail shown. Elements required to fit within that tight space allowance include a walkable grating, the skylight, sprinklers, lighting, and polycarbonate laylight.

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Additionally, I was responsible for the reflected ceiling plans and as-sociated mechanical, structural, and electrical coordination. This coordi-nation task was unusually involved, as the ductwork and plumbing was run in-plane with structure on every floor. The steel penetrations on two of the more intricately coordinated floors are shown here to illustrate the complexity of this task.

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McMaster University - Centre for Primary Care2010Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg ArchitectsHamilton, ON

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McMaster Innovation Park

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McMaster University Health Sciences CentreCraig, Zeidler & Strong Architects, 1972

Niagara Escarpment

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McMaster University is a leader of a new interdisciplinary, holistic approach to Healthcare and Health Education. Medical Students, Doctors, Nurses, Researchers, and Practitioners are encouraged to interact and learn from each other. This Centre for Primary Care takes this philosophy on as a clear, programatic goal. To facilitate interaction, circulation is funneled through a central Atrium. All spaces, including Staff Lounge, Retail, Special Event space, Public Clinic, Research Lab, Conference Center, Education Floors, and Cafe, adjoin the central atrium, creating a vibrant and charged vertical circulation spine.

The ground plane of this Suburban Brownfield Site is unfriendly. Traffic along Aberdeen is loud and fast. The surrounding research park sites are still to be developed, sodded even. In reaction to this given condition, the first building gesture, as exemplified by the Vertical Atrium circulation spine, is up. It is a gesture that elevates visitors and staff above this harsh environment. The second building gesture is out. Once at the second story, a southern view to the beautiful Niagara escarpment opens up. The building is terraced and program components slip beneath each other, creating roof top terraces with spectacular views to the south. The building reorients us to a new, elevated landscape. The polluted Suburban one left behind.

11.1George Brown College - Waterfront Campus2012Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg ArchitectsToronto, ON

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Longitudual Section through the vertically integrated campus

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Library Learning Resource Commons

Library Learning Resource Commons - Level 6 Perimeter

12Panel HouseFirst YearThe Cooper UnionProfessor: Diane Lewis

Landscapes are translated into a language of panels and attachment methods. They rest, hang, and clip in various ways onto a structural frame. A cube of space is defined by the six panels. The space is charged with the tension between gravity’s pull and the attachment method that defies it.

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