Francis Cauffman 2015 - Tapa blanda

The work of Francis Cauffman creates a dialogue between program and place. They reveal the relationships embedded in the environment and activities of a specific project. What is their client's true aim in doing this project? What do they do, and why do they do it? How can they influence their work? This active and essential conversation with their clients becomes the story of their architecture. Francis Cauffman integrate their clients' desired patterns of activity and their functional needs with the physical aspects of architecture. Their emerging body of work amplifies that relationship through a subtle and pragmatic resolution of the specific program for a given project. Francis Cauffman demonstrates new ways of understanding how place and program drive behaviours. They create architectural hybrids that merge a variety of uses and relate to specific environments in terms of the physical forms and human activities that they nurture and stimulate.

James Crispino has focused his career on design, strategic planning, implementation planning, research and development. He specialises in the creation of emerging programmatic hybrids. His research concentrates on the synthesis of new patterns of human behaviour as supported by new technologies. Jim's design and planning work applies these macro-trends in specific works for medicine, research, technology, teaching and multi-functional space. He is accomplished in integrating hybrid programs in the urban environment. His work and research have been published in Architect, Architectural Record, Contract and Interior Design, and numerous industry magazines and journals. Jim has served as guest critic, lecturer, speaker and panelist at conferences, industry forums and design schools around the United States. Jim's projects have won awards from the AIA, AHA, IIDA and numerous state and local design and commercial organisations. Jim holds a BA from Drexel University and is a member of the AIA and NCARB. He is a fellow of the Forum + Institute for Urban Design and a member of SCUP, ACHE and an associate member of the AAMC. He also serves as a mentor in the New York and Philadelphia chapters of the AIA. He has chaired the Finance Committee for the New York chapter of the AIA and sat on the Boards of the Pennsylvania Society of Architects and the New York State AIA.