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Designing for Action: Adrienne Heflich & Mark L. Gardner

Thu, Jul 9    2pm

Adrienne Heflich (Michael Van Valkenburgh Assoc. Inc.) + Mark L. Gardner (President, AIANY, Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects)

Adrienne Heflich enjoys the problem-solving challenges and consensus-seeking opportunities inherent to designing and realizing public landscapes. Gaining early experience with some of the firm’s most ambitious and complex projects, Adrienne has been an integral member of MVVA’s design and construction administration team since 2013. She received a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College. She joined MVVA in 2009.

Mark L. Gardner, AIA, NOMA, is a principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects (J/GA), an award-winning design practice and studio that works across scales from product design to interiors to buildings. His firm has won an AIA National Honor Award and numerous AIANY, NOMA and Architizer design awards. Gardner is the Assistant Professor of Architectural Practice and Society at the School of the Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design / the New School. He is the past Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture. Mark is on the Board of Advisors for the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he advocates for issues of diversity and inclusion. He also currently serves on the Board of Youth Design Center (YDC), a nonprofit on a mission to reduce the number of disconnected youth in Brownsville, Brooklyn by lowering their barriers to entry to the STEAM professions and increasing their relevant experience in the innovation economy. He is a Vanguard Member of the Van Alen Institute’s Board of Trustees and a Fellow of the Urban Design Forum. Gardner is the 2026 President of AIA New York and is a Past Co-Chair and current member of the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which he helped to restart with Venesa Alicea.