Marvel Architects
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Guido Hartray's Bio
Guido Hartray is a founding Partner of Marvel Architects and has led design teams working on a wide range of projects, including Pierhouse and 1 Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the renovation and reprogramming of the Central King Building for the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His interest in public space has informed streetscape redesigns for Hudson Square, the Meatpacking District, and Union Square. He has led a number of affordable and supportive housing projects including Far Rockaway Village for Phipps Houses which will create a new civic center for the town as well as 1700 new apartments. Guido is dedicated to creating architecture that contributes to an environment that is greater than the individual project and uses his experience designing public spaces to inform the social structure within the building. It is the relationship that a project establishes with elements beyond its limits that makes it an exciting and engaging place to inhabit. Guido has applied this strategy to integrating infrastructure elements in urban neighborhoods as well and transformations of existing buildings. The dialogue between new and existing, project and neighborhood, infrastructure and architecture makes spaces that engage their inhabitants.
Guido has taught and participated in design juries at Columbia, City College, Pratt and NJIT. He served on the jury for the AIA national housing design awards and Enterprise’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. He was Fulbright Scholar in Barcelona studying public space design and has a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Environmental Design from Miami University.
Jonathan J Marvel's Bio
Born in Puerto Rico, Jonathan Marvel is an architect and urban designer with over 30 years of experience providing architectural planning, community, economic and sustainable development of public spaces, educational institutions, single and multi-family housing, libraries, museums and large-scale mixed-use developments. He is Founding Principal of Marvel Architects with offices in New York and San Juan. In 2017, Jonathan co-founded Resilient Power Puerto Rico and since then has spoken on behalf of the island’s needs at TEDx Dartmouth, The Architectural League, AIA Puerto Rico, UMass Club, Colegio de Arquitectos de Puerto Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico, and the Universitario Tecnológico de Bayamón’s Presidential Keynote. Jonathan is the recipient of national and international design awards including a 2019 Presidential Citation by the American Institute of Architects and being named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2019. Sits on the boards of The Buckminster Fuller Institute and The Isamu Noguchi Museum and chaired the AIANY Chapter Committee on Planning and Urban Design from 2013 to 2019. Jonathan has contributed essays on museums, public community spaces, and micro-housing, and is also the founder of Truck Product Architecture, Rock 12 Security Architecture, and Citizen Designer, a participatory planning, listening and advocacy effort. Jonathan teaches at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Planning and Placemaking, and since 1990 has taught as an adjunct at Columbia, Harvard, Parsons, Rice University, Washington University, and Syracuse.
Lissa So's Bio
Lissa So is a founding Partner of Marvel Architects with over 20 years of experience. She is driven to build innovative architecture that effortlessly accommodates the user and creates uniquely beautiful spaces. Lissa honed her expertise in theatre design renovating St. Ann’s Warehouse, a project that brought multiple awards and prestige to the Marvel office, and has led to additional theatrical and cultural work. She recently completed the Lyric Theatre, the new home of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and is leading the design team for Theater Squared, a new regional theatre in the burgeoning cultural hub of Fayetteville, AR. In addition, Lissa is currently spearheading 1 Clinton, a 36-story residential tower that will also house the new Brooklyn Public Library, and the new Northeast Bronx YMCA. This work in the Bronx has led to a collaboration with Phipps Neighborhoods to provide afterschool programs to underserved communities in efforts to promote women and minorities in architecture. Lissa attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she studied architecture.
Timothy Rowan's Bio
Timothy Rowan is the Managing Director of Marvel, PLLC overseeing the operations, finance, human resources, legal, information technology, and other administration aspects of the practice. Prior to joining the team in 2007, Tim gained extensive experience in the architecture, engineering and real estate industries during his years at leading firms like Deloitte and ARUP. Tim’s comprehensive approach to management enables our team of Architects to focus on the quality of their designs in a collaborative environment that remains profitable with sustainable growth.
Tyler Silvestro's Bio
Tyler is a Registered Landscape Architect and Partner at Marvel. He works with cities, community advocates, and non-profit developers, and landowners to reveal the potential impacts of and cultural connections inherent to shared landscapes.
As a lead landscape architect, Tyler leads projects spanning from small public plazas to long-term urban master plans and has managed projects facing the challenges of coastal resiliency, ecological urbanism, and community building. His current portfolio includes the Union Square Partnership Visioning, a reimagining of the Union Square Park District, 14th Street, and future public spaces that would replace much of the vehicular streets surrounding the Park, campus circulation and ecological performance improvements for a Hudson Valley area school, and the design of numerous accessible roof terraces for mixed-use and affordable housing developments.
Tyler is an advocate for the reemergence and cultural preservation of secondary cities and co-founded Corridor. Tyler has taught or collaborated on design studies at Columbia University GSAPP, The Boston Architecture College, and The University of Virginia. He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York and came to Marvel with over 10 years of experience in civil engineering, architectural journalism, and landscape architectural design.
Yadiel Rivera-Díaz's Bio
Yadiel joined Marvel in 2017 as lead of its landscape architecture practice, where he has been in charge of managing open space, master plans and landscape projects. He has over 13 years of experience as a landscape architect and three as an architect, designing open public spaces in the United States, Puerto Rico and abroad. Through his experience as a multidisciplinary designer, he has negotiated the intersection between landscape architecture, architecture and urban design. He has managed projects in diverse contexts and at various design scales, taking ideas from conceptual design all the way through construction. He recently was the project manager in charge of the design and construction oversight of the first-ever open streetscape and park along the Las Vegas Strip, bringing back native desert vegetation and local materials to the streetscape of Las Vegas, while keeping its sense of wonder and excitement. He also led teams of designers and consultants through the design of public parks in San Jose, CA; for the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA; and for Pier 57 Sky-Park in New York City. He currently manages Bronx Point, the ninth WEDG-verified project in NYC, a waterfront promenade project along the Harlem River in the Bronx that extends Mill Pond Park, creating a new nature walk framed by renewed native ecosystems as well as open access and views to the water.