St. Augustine, FL, March 25-26, 2025 SPEAKERS

STEPHEN MOUZON
www.mouzon.com

Steve is an architect, planner, and author. He is the principal of Mouzon Design, which produces a number of town-building tools and services, including Town Architect services for neighborhoods, cities, and universities around the country. As a result of several successful publications, Steve travels around the world lecturing on building sustainable, lovable, and walkable places.

Preservation Institute St. Augustine Laboratory, Coquina Research, and the Governor’s House

Linda Stevenson, PhD, AIA
Lecturer, UF Historic Preservation Program
Assistant Instructional Professor, School of Architecture

Linda Stevenson is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the School of Architecture and Lecturer for the Historic Preservation Program. Her coursework focuses on historical construction methods and materials, documentation of built heritage, historical resource surveys for communities, and the intersections of historic preservation with contemporary challenges, such as climate adaptation and affordable housing. Current research projects include innovative methods for cultural resource surveys, improving the resilience of historic building materials, and a cultural landscape study for the vanishing agricultural heritage of Florida.

Stevenson has forty years of practitioner experience as a licensed architect and an architectural historian. She established a Florida-based architectural practice in 1991. She is a Trustee for the Board of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Maryland, a Master of Architecture from University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. with a concentration in Historic Preservation from the University of Florida.

Glass in Windows and Doors-Navigating Requirements for Climate and Code

Russ Oliveri, President

Oliveri Windows and Doors
W Palm Beach, FL
www.oliverimillworks.com

Rosario 'Russ' Oliveri is President of Oliveri Millworks, a leader in the South Florida market for architectural hurricane impact fenestration. A former general contractor armed with credible impact testing data, Russ advises general contractors and architects about specifying and installing historically accurate, custom windows and doors which meet stringent coastal area building codes.

Understanding and Designing for Overhead Door Track Systems in Residential Applications

Lauri Wilson
Midwest Territory Manager, Cambek
cambek.com

Lauri is the Midwest Territory Manager for CAMBEK Designer Doors and has been with CAMBEK for almost 9 years. In addition to her role as a sales representative, Lauri also provides training and support to new sales representatives, writes CAMBEK’s continuing education courses, and is part of the marketing team at CAMBEK. In her spare time, Lauri loves downhill skiing with her teenage sons, gardening in the summer months, camping, and traveling.

Mechanics of Beauty

RICHARD FRANKLIN SAMMONS, RA
Fairfax & Sammons, Palm Beach, FL and New York, NY
fairfaxandsammons.com

Richard Franklin Sammons is an internationally recognized expert in the field of architectural proportion, having taught at the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture in London (now The Prince's Foundation), Pratt Institute in New York, and the University of Notre Dame in Rome. He received his B.A. at Denison University and Master of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Mr. Sammons began his career with David Anthony Easton. He is a founding director of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and a founding partner of Fairfax & Sammons Architecture.

Fairfax & Sammons Architecture, with offices in Manhattan and Palm Beach, was established over thirty years ago. The firm reflects the ethos that the built environment's legacy should be imbued with longevity in its approach to materials and practical elements, along with its relationship with the past and present. They have won over forty international and domestic awards, including several Palladio Awards, Stanford White Awards, and Addison Mizner Medals. Their work has been featured in Period Homes, Traditional Building Magazine, The New York Times, Country Life, Architectural Digest, Southern Accents, Old House Journal, and New Old House. The monograph American Houses: The Architecture of Fairfax & Sammons was published by Rizzoli International.

Mr. Sammons is a board member of the American College of the Building Arts and the Merchant's House Museum. He is a member of the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners (ICTP), an international professional body for traditional architecture practitioners, under HRH The former Prince of Wales auspices. Mr. Sammons wrote the foreword for the re-publication of the book The Theory of Mouldings by C. Howard Walker. He also contributed to Get Your House Right along with Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, and Léon Krier. The foreword was written by HRH The former Prince of Wales.

St. Augustine Architectural Tour

Paul L Weaver, President
Historic Property Associates, Inc.
St. Augustine, FL

Paul Weaver is qualified as a historian and architectural historian under United States National Park Service professional qualification standards. He has amassed over 40 years of experience in historic preservation, including administering the National Register program in Florida for the Florida Department State, Division of Historical Resources from 1982 to 1984. There he reviewed and prepared nominations for individual and district nominations throughout the State of Florida. As a private consultant, Mr. Weaver has an unmatched record of listing properties in the National Register of Historic Places. He routinely appears before the Florida Historical Commission which reviews National Register nominations at the state level. He has served as ember, Vice-Chair and Chair, Historic Architectural Review Board, City of St. Augustine, Florida (2003-current) where he has been responsible for review of development projects in the City of St. Augustine’s Historic Preservation Zoning Districts. Board responsibilities further include review of demolitions, ad valorem exemption applications, preservation planning documents, and National Register nominations under the National Park Service’s Certified Local Government (CLG) Program.

He founded Historic Property Associates in 1980. He has conducted over 120 community historic surveys and written 70 National Register Historic District nominations.

Redefining Preservation for Resilient Building

Jenny Wolfe
Planning 2 Preserve
Pensacola, FL 

Jenny Wolfe is a dedicated advocate for cultural resources, holding a master’s degree from the University of Florida with a specialization in historic preservation. She has accumulated 20 years of experience in local government and non-profit preservation planning. From 2011 to 2021, she served as the Historic Preservation Officer for the City of St. Augustine, where she managed the Historic Preservation Division. Immediately following that term, she worked with Preservation Design Partnership, a nationally recognized firm based in Philadelphia known for its work in architectural preservation, planning, and flood mitigation design. Now with her own firm, Planning 2 Preserve, she continues in private practice. Since 2014, Jenny has been serving on the Board of Trustees for the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and recently completed a term as Board President.Divider

The Mill at Prattville: A Case Study in Adaptive Reuse

Alan Rogers, CSI, CDT, Dale Inc. Commercial Accounts Executive, and Senior Consultant, Window Systems, Glass & Glazing, Historical Renovation

Alan has 50 years of experience in the window and door industry. His interest in the construction industry began with his father, an architect/engineer, and his brother, a commercial contractor. He graduated from Jacksonville State University in 1972 with a B.S. degree in Marketing and began his career with the J.F. Day Company in Birmingham, AL, representing Pella Windows and Doors. He established the company’s first field office in Montgomery, AL, and later opened the Mid-South distributorship in Memphis in 1975. Alan returned to Birmingham in 1982 to create the Commercial Division for Pella in 1982 working with architects, general contractors, and building owners. After the sale of J.F. Day Company in 2011 he worked for Hixson Consultants as Senior Window Consultant. In 2013 he joined Dale Inc., a Nashville based company representing numerous window and door manufacturers including Marvin, as Commercial Accounts Executive. He has been an active member of the Construction Specification Institute since 1975, and a supporter of the American Institute of Architects since 1972. He joined the Alabama School Plant Management Association in 1985 to continue learning of the demands facing public education and facilities management. Alan has worked with Mississippi State University and Auburn University establishing and continuing scholarships for the Schools of Architecture and has been recognized in the Who’s Who of Architectural Record.

Nick Henninger
Chambless King Architects

Nick Henninger is a principal at Chambless King Architects, based in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. As a designer, Nick has a demonstrated passion for creating memorable environments that enrich and inspire communities. His keen eye for detail and collaborative approach allows for streamlined transitions from schematic design and visualization to finishes, construction drawing assembly, and project management coordination. Nick was the lead architect on the historic renovation and adaptive reuse of The Mill at Prattville and currently serves as President-Elect for AIA Montgomery.

St Augustine Florida Plein Air Sketch Tour & Discourse

Clifford Duch, AIA
President, Cronk Duch Architecture
www.cronkduch.com

CLIFFORD G. DUCH, AIA is co-founder and president of Cronk Duch Architecture. His diversified expertise has earned him a reputation as one of the premier designers in Northeast Florida. His in-depth knowledge and skilled application of classical architecture’s design tenets, remain the focus of every project, whether it is applied to traditional or modern architecture. Mr. Duch’s responsibilities at the firm are co-design, design management & business development. He ensures that each Cronk Duch Architectural project attains the highest levels of quality design and craftsmanship that are inherently found in the works of traditional artisans. As a client-focused advocate, Mr. Duch strives to create appealing and effective design solutions that merge architectural value with the client’s unique vision.

Mr. Duch is currently serving as a Board Member and was past President of the Florida Chapter for the acclaimed Florida Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and has received a certification in Classical Architecture which is an extensive curriculum offered by the Institute. In addition to his administrative role with the institute, Mr. Duch has lectured and instructed around the state on topics ranging from Field sketching, courtyard design, contemporary classicism & revitalization/greening of main street America.

Sophia Hernandez
Project Manager, Cronk Duch Architecture
www.cronkduch.com

Sophia Hernandez is a project designer at Cronk Duch Architecture and has been with their Jacksonville team for three years. As a St. Augustine local, Sophia grew up around inspiring architecture that deals with the realities of coastal sea level rise as well as the intricacies of the varied histories present in the Nation’s Oldest City. Because of this, Sophia is passionate about finding ways to direct “resiliency” to not only preserve our historic architecture resources, but also the living identity of place.

Sophia is a recent graduate with her master’s degree in architecture from the University of Florida’s new satellite graduate program Jax Lab, which she was the very first to graduate from. She used her PILOT (project in lieu of thesis) to evaluate how cities and architecture can be viewed as layered assemblies of tangible and intangible facets that all coalesce in the identity of place. She researched how collage might be used as a research and design tool to better understand historic urban environments, specifically Jacksonville Florida.

Sophia also obtained a graduate certificate in historic preservation from UF and has used this academic backing amongst her projects in the historic districts of St Augustine and Palm Beach while working at Cronk Duch Architecture.

Sophia is a member of the Florida Chapter of the ICAA , the new Jacksonville Academic Alliance, and is an Associate Member of the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Institute of Architectures. 

Reconstructing Truss No. 6 from Notre Dame Cathedral- A Model of Collaborative Architectural Education

Tonya Ohnstad, AIA, NCARB
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
NOTRE DAME de PARIS TRUSS

Assistant Professor of Practice
Director of Experiences in Architecture
School of Architecture + Planning
The Catholic University of America

Tonya Ohnstad is a practitioner and professor with an interest in tectonics and materials. She is interested in the intersection of history culture, and construction. Her research uses humble, repeatable components from iconic buildings to explore sociocultural, historical, and embodied human energy. These projects reveal complex cultural conditions, innovative and responsive technologies, and are poised to transfer intangible heritage over generations. She engages the designer, builder, and student through making while setting up a novel pedagogical framework. She sees these projects as a bridge to practice as they harness the power of project collaboration: between historians, craftspeople, students, curators, and academics.

She has practiced in large and small firms, working on projects that address near needs of communities to far flung aesthetic competitions (from funeral homes to floating Guggenheim galleries). Her practice has been international and collaborative by nature, having previously worked at Ateliers Jean Nouvel on projects in Doha and Rio. In Oslo, she worked at Naarud Stokke Wig on projects of urban scale. In the United States, she started by working with her father, for his sole practice, as a teenager in the 1990s. She has worked in Los Angeles as a junior architect at Gehry Partners, primarily on the LVMH museum in Paris and the Novartis Pharma building in Switzerland. She also worked in Boston at Kennedy Violich Architects (KVA), where she was the design lead for the 34th Street Ferry Landing in Manhattan. She received a patent for her work on the award-winning Portable Light project in Mexico with KVA MATx, integrating portable flexible photovoltaics into traditional weaving techniques. She was a partner at Rhetra LLC from 2014-2020, developing a Maasai girls’ campus for Kakenya’s Center for Excellence. She continues to work with Kakenya, engaging architecture students in the design and development of the school buildings. In 2020, students from her design studio completed the library design, which is currently under construction. The common thread in her practice is built around material’s potential to impact the lives of its inhabitants, and how buildings are stewarded. Tonya has a master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a dual Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and French.