[Current Co-Chair]
SANDRINE HÉROUX, AIA
Sandrine is an architect and fabricator with a keen interest in parametric design, 3D printing, complex concrete casting and architectural acoustics. She moved to Boston and joined Payette in 2020 where she currently manages the firm’s FabLab, shepherding projects of all scales from design through to fabrication. She is instrumental in mentoring staff and teaching students from the OpenLab Studio, helping investigate not just the conceptualization, but also the physical realization of design. Beyond her project work, she is an active participant in Pro Bono work and firm initiatives such as the Sho-Ping Chin Legacy of Leadership exhibit initially shown at the 2023 AIA’s Women’s Leadership Summit and AIA24.
[Current Co-Chair]
JASON HASKO
Jason is a facade designer, digital fabricator, and computational specialist. His journey has been marked by years of hard work and collaboration with esteemed fabricators in the North East such as CW Keller, Mark Richey Woodworking, and Island Exterior Fabricators. His expertise shines in complex 3D modeling, design for fabrication, as well as, automation and optimization workflows. You can explore Jason's work at several award-winning projects like The American Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Hospital, MIT Site 4, and The Alliance Theater. As an advocate for the knowledge sharing community in Boston, Jason has taught modeling making courses at the BAC and also hosted presentations at Artisans Asylum.
[Co-Chair Emeritus]
LUCCA TOWNSEND
Lucca is an architect who uses her unique skills and background to design out-of-the-ordinary spaces. She has a passion for the boundary of architecture and landscape, creating structures that merge with their surroundings to create inspiring public spaces. Since joining Sasaki in 2016, Lucca has pushed the boundaries of technologies, materials, and form; experimenting with new ways of using concrete, wood, terracotta, and more. Her experience designing massive aerial sculptures at Studio Echelman gave her expertise in using organic forms and unconventional materials. In her spare time, you can find her water coloring or in the air practicing aerial circus arts.
[Co-Chair Emeritus]
CHRISTIAN BORGER
Christian is a designer, maker, and artist. His work looks critically at the relationships between material, methods of making, and assembly as they apply to architecture and the built environment. Formerly the co-director of fabrication of NADLAB at NADAAA, he now is the director of fabrication at Highland Park Technologies, managing the development and prototyping of a high performance retrofit panel system. Christian has also co-developed and led multiple fabrication oriented workshops at Boston Architectural college as a way to foster a culture of making amongst peers.
[Co-Chair Emeritus]
ATHENA MOORE
Having vastly different viewpoints, experiences, and skills is something that gets me really jazzed in any setting, as it really shows me the potential we have for effecting positive change in what we do. I love to hear and be heard, and work to create safe spaces for that to be possible. Whether its in my Community role at Autodesk, my artist studio co-op, my cycling team, or in chats with friends, I thrive in being a bit of a switchboard operator for people's needs - digging into the greater resource that we can all be to one another.
[Co-Chair Emeritus]
FELIPE FRANCISCO
Felipe Francisco, AIA, CPHC, is an Architect, Builder, and Fabricator with experience ranging from large-scale commercial and institution projects, medium scale Passive House residential projects, and small scale digital fabrication projects. At Studio NYL Felipe’s role is that of Technical Design Leader. As part of the facades division, he works with architects, building teams, and contractors to provide expertise on challenging facade systems.
As a charter member and past co-chair of the Boston Society of Architect’s Maketank Know-Co, he has played a lead role in many of the committee’s efforts in the greater Boston area. Currently he is a board member and future Chair of the Boston Building Enclosure Council. His work has been exhibited at Architecture Boston Expo, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and World Maker Faire NYC, and published in Architect’s Newspaper and Architecture Boston Magazine. In his spare time, he is a gravel cyclist, bike-packer, and backpacker.
[Founder]
BRAD PRESTBO, FAIA
Brad is an architect with over twenty years of experience. A problem-solver with great technical skill, he is Sasaki’s Director of Technical Resources, and shares his knowledge of design and detailing with the rest of the firm to promote better practices in architecture. Brad founded the Boston Society of Architect’s MakeTANK Committee and frequently participates as a design critic at area colleges and universities, and lectures on detailing and bringing maker culture back into the design process.
[Communications Director]
PETER ATWOOD
Peter is a Core Faculty member and Interim Director of Digital Media at the Boston Architectural College, where he leads and teaches design through digital representation and fabrication. He is actively engaged in researching new pedagogical models to address the divide between making and digital media. Formally educated as an architect, he works within a variety of productive activities that explore the space between information and technology.