Board of Directors, Leadership, and Team

Roger Williams,RA, AIA| AIA Northeastern PA
Project Manager, Larson Design Group

Roger M. Williams is the Technical Manager for the Industrial Studio within Larson Design Group in Williamsport, where he leads staff within the Industrial Studio in the design and production of projects in the general commercial and industrial markets. He has over 35 years of experience in the profession and has worked with small, medium and large firms in northcentral and northeast Pennsylvania and has also practiced corporate healthcare architecture, serving as the Director - Architecture and Engineering for Geisinger until moving to LDG. He has been a registered architect since 1995 and is licensed in Pennsylvania as well as several other states.

Roger has been active in AIA at the local and state level for over 15 years, having served as President of the Northeast PA AIA chapter and as the NEPA AIA representative to AIA PA for six years. He is also active in his local community, where he has served on his local school board and the Bloomsburg HARB as well as local service organizations and AYSO.

Roger resides in Bloomsburg, PA, where he enjoys spending time with his wife Barbara, children, and grandchildren.

Eric Booth, AIA| AIA Pittsburgh
President, Desmone Architects

As President of Desmone, an architecture and interior design firm with offices in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Eric Booth strategizes, innovates and implements through all facets of the company. Eric strives to elevate the perception of the architecture profession by structuring the design process around the fundamental reason a building is constructed: to serve people. This conviction is evident as Eric led the Desmone team to pioneer the design and construction of a 25,000 SF office addition, Pittsburgh’s first WELL Gold certified office space.

After graduating from Cornell University, Eric became a Partner of a large architecture and engineering firm in Maryland. After relocating to Pittsburgh in 2008, he became one of the first new Principals at Desmone in over 50 years, facilitated strategic plans, and managed the day-to-day operations prior to becoming President. Over the last 13 years, Eric has tripled the staff and expanded the partnership base to an additional 5 partners while investing in principles that diversify the firm.

For over 20 years, Eric has served the AIA through a multitude of tactical and leadership initiatives. He served on the board of AIA Chesapeake Bay and held the positions of Communications Committee Chair, Treasurer and President. He also served on the boards of AIA Maryland and AIA Pittsburgh and was a Mid-Atlantic Regional Council representative. In Pittsburgh, Eric is dedicated to economic and community development through active positions such as the City of Pittsburgh Contextual Design Advisory Panel (CDAP), Construction Legislative Council of Western PA, Northside Leadership Conference, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, and the East Allegheny Community Council.

Eric resides with his wife and son in the historic Deutschtown neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where he designed and constructed his own rowhome.

Jamie Ober, AIA, LEED AP | AIA Philadelphia
Principal, Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interior Design

Jamie is honored and excited to serve on the board of AIA Pennsylvania. Through nearly 20 years of professional experience, she has cultivated passions for design and the built environment as well as the principles of equity and advancement of the architectural profession. She looks forward to continuing to advocate for these issues as a member of the AIA PA board.

Jamie earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech where she developed an appreciation for material expression and the unlimited potential of digital design and BIM integration. She currently serves as a Senior Designer, Senior Project Manager for Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interior Design where her work has included a range of major educational and institutional projects. Other work from her career include significant civic and commercial developments such as the relocation of the shrine of St. Katharine Drexel to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia and a 14-story housing development adjacent to Temple University.

Jamie has been energized by her involvement with many professional support and advancement endeavors. She carries a special interest in Equity Diversity and Inclusion issues and serves on both the EDI and Women in Architecture Committees for AIA Philadelphia as well as the EDI Committee for AIA Pennsylvania. She also serves on the AIA PA Strategic Council and is proud to be a LEED Accredited Professional.

By joining the AIA PA board, Jamie hopes to continue her work in advancing the profession of architecture and helping the local community of architects reach for and achieve their professional goals.

Stephen Heinz, AIA
Architect, Solarchitecture

Stephen M. Heinz. AIA has held to his vision of the architect as a “Medieval Master Builder” since swinging a hammer at age 12. He earned a BA in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and his professional degree at Cornell University. Already influenced by Louie Kahn, Ian Mc Harg, and Malcolm Wells from Penn, and confronting Rowe, Ungers, and Selligman at Cornell, his senior thesis reflected precarious and environmentally challenging sites and the use of natural materials for clustering traditional post and beam housing. It was thoroughly reviled, but he pressed on and remained undeterred in a commitment to conservative and innovative Architecture. While in Ithaca, he simultaneously ran a successful electrical contracting business, a design-build firm, an active BSA scout troop, coached youth soccer, and attended school while supporting a growing family. Moving back to his roots in the Philadelphia area, he practiced all sectors of architectural projects in prestigious local firms. After winning an international design competition in 1986, he started his own private practice. He continues to practice mainly in the Princeton-Philadelphia corridor serving developers, corporations, and individuals. His body of work focuses on sustainable, natural, environmentally responsible, efficient, and beautiful spaces for living, working, worshiping, learning, and celebrating. He has served as a leader in the Bucks County Chapter AIA since 1990 in almost every capacity. He still mentors youth in Scouting, (over 100 Eagle scouts), leads the local township HARB, coaches youth soccer, and is still trekking, skiing, sailing, building and Is laying stone for historic preservation. He continues his experiments in new building technologies, natural heating, cooling, seasonal lighting, geo-thermal storage and release, solar gain and conversion, interior and exterior wind movement and convection, material life cycles, and landscape design, and remains engaged and fascinated with the latest computer assisted design programs and animations.

Kyle Solyak, AIA, LEED AP
Director of Architecture, Tono Group

Kye Solyak, AIA, LEED AP is the Director, Architecture for TONO Group. A Lancaster, PA based design-build firm focused on integrated project delivery, with an architect lead approach to design and construction. Kyle Leads the firm’s day to day operations, its design staff, and the crossover integration from design to construction.

He has served on the AIA Central PA board of directors in numerous capacities, including chair of the Design and Expo committee, various Executive leadership roles, and as president in 2020. He continues to serve as the sections state representative, active in the government affairs committee and on AIA PA’s strategic council. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University and has been a licensed Architect in PA since 2016.

VACANT

David Macharola, AIA, NCARB, CSI CDT
Owner and Principal Architect, David Macharola Architects

David Macharola, AIA, NCARB, CSI CDT has been in the architectural profession for over 25 years. His demonstrated areas of expertise include architectural design, production of construction documents and construction administration. His architectural experience includes building projects for new facilities and renovations of facilities for institutional, industrial, retail, office, parks, K-12 and higher education, religious, correctional and judicial, municipal and public safety. He is the principal architect and owner of David Macharola Architects in Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania and serves as President of the Middle Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Hollidaysburg PA Historic Architectural Review Board. He is married to Sandra Macharola and they have three children and six grand children.

Carl J. Handman, AIA
President, Eyerman.Csala.Hapeman & Handman - Architects, LLC

Carl J. Handman, AIA, attended The Architectural Association in London, England in 1972/73, as a year of Independent Study, graduating from Syracuse University in 1974. Establishing his practice in 1980, he joined the Eyerman office in 1990. His practice is committed to innovative design solutions which combine regional architectural traditions and materials with 21st Century technology.

He believes that each project should be analyzed within the unique set of circumstances that its site has to offer. These variables, when combined with the client's program requirements, budget and energy considerations, produce a design that is responsive to the community and site on which it is located.

An active member of AIA NEPA since the mid 1990's, Carl was appointed to the first PA UCC RAC in 2009, serving until 2011. He was an Adjunct Instructor at Marywood University's School of Architecture from 2011 until 2017.

Also active in his community, Carl has been Chair of the House & Property of Temple B'nai B'rith in Kingston, PA since 2001. He has also served on the Boards of B'nai B'rith Senior Apartments, and the Luzerne County Historical Society, both in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

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Robert Kelly AIA, IDSA, FAIA | AIA Philadelphia
Founder, ideeworks

Robert Kelly, FAIA, IDSA, is an accomplished architect, designer, and recognized leader. Throughout his career he has amassed an extraordinarily broad and deep portfolio of projects each sharing an undercurrent of inventiveness, advocacy and public good.

Bob has been deeply committed to advancing the profession through Design and the AIA. He is on AIA Pennsylvania Board of Directors, representing Philadelphia as the Committee on Design Chair, and he is Chair of the AIA Pennsylvania Excellence in Design and Special Awards Program. He is a former President and Government Affairs Chair of AIA Pennsylvania and has served on a variety of AIA and other nonprofit boards, committees, and task forces at local, state, regional and national levels.

Catherine (Katie) Broh AIA, LEED AP | AIA Philadelphia
Partner, MGA Partners Architects

Katie Broh, AIA is a Partner at MGA Partners in Philadelphia where she directs the firm’s work for academic projects and those involving cultural and performing arts organizations. Her prowess in addressing advanced pedagogy across disciplines and for performance, social, collaborative and maker spaces has led to innovative and highly regarded designs for academic and cultural institutions including University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, Indiana University, University of Delaware, Northeastern University, University of Michigan, The Shipley School, Central High School and the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.

Katie has long maintained an immersive leadership role in Philadelphia’s cultural scene through her board leadership of two non-profits dedicated to arts education for school children—Musicopia and Dancing Classrooms Philly. She is a past board member of AIA Philadelphia and remains co-chair of AIA Philadelphia’s Owner’s Roundtable. She has been an adjunct faculty at Drexel University’s Westphal College for over 10 years, teaching design studios and thesis. In addition, Katie currently serves on the Facilities Committee for Germantown Friends School.

Katie is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. She resides in Philadelphia with her husband, Jonathan Broh AIA, and their son.

Anne Chen, AIA, LEED AP
Founder, BLD:ac

Anne Chen, AIA, LEED AP is an experienced architect and project executive/ manager. A former Design Principal/ Partner with GBBN Architecture and Owner/ President of EDGE studio, she left the practice to launch her own consultancy committed to helping business owners and organizations plan and manage their capital projects through the full project life cycle.

Anne serves on the advisory boards of the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Stuckeman School at Penn State University. She is also a member of the Contextual Design Advisory Panel of Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning. She has taught studio classes at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture and has been a guest presenter at CMU’s Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems and Tepper School of Business.

Ken Doyno, AIA LEED AP
Senior Principal, President Rothschild Doyno Collaborative

Ken Doyno is President of Rothschild Doyno Collaborative, an architecture and urban design firm focused on creating meaningful design solutions using collaborative processes with clients and communities. Ken provides leadership in how architecture, community planning, and property development simultaneously increases economic, social, and physical value of our communities. Ken advances projects and innovation by aligning and challenging people to create shared visions that connects and serve clients while making the world a better place.

In addition to thirty-three years of professional practice, Ken has advanced regional change through participation in civic, academic, and cultural activities. Ken recently initiated and now co-chairs the AIA – PA Housing and Community Development sub-committee of the Government Affair Committee. Ken worked extensively with Dr. Mindy Fullilove in developing the book Urban Alchemy; Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities. Ken served as an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University for multiple years in the fifth year architecture “Urban Lab” studio and the first year architecture studio. .

Ken also regularly leads Community Vision programs for Leadership Pittsburgh and serves on the Board for the Saturday Light Brigade which is internationally recognized for using radio and audio to amplify, and share ideas and stories. Prior community work includes chairing the Design Center of Pittsburgh, advisory board member for Chatham University’s Landscape Architecture program, and advisory board member of the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Quintin Kittle, AIA
Principal qkArchitecture

Throughout his 30+ year career in Architecture, Quintin Kittle has distinguished himself as an effective leader, an inspiring mentor, and a tireless advocate for the profession.

Quintin has always relished his role in molding and developing the next generation of leaders in Architecture. Throughout his career he has mentored younger associates and has developed a strong network of fellow architects and constructors. With experience in managing all phases of architectural projects from pre-design to construction documentation, Quintin has passed on his knowledge through presentations on practice management, and the built environment. When he started his own practice, Quintin actively recruited, trained, and developed emerging professionals while also encouraging these associates to become involved in AIA early in their careers.

Quintin is a well-rounded architecture professional who has developed a distinct expertise in project and practice management. In 2011 he founded qkArchitecture where he focuses on commercial, retail, and residential projects and has developed a specialization in adaptive reuse projects or all types and scales.

Quintin is particularly proud of his association with AIA and has used his various roles to advocate for the profession. He currently holds AIA Pittsburgh AIA Pennsylvania Board Member positions, serves as Chair of the AIA Pittsburgh Advocacy Committee, and is a member of the AIA PA Governmental Affairs Committee.

Quintin, a proud Navy veteran, lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh with his wife Ellen and their two children. He attended [current National Champion] Louisiana State University and is licensed to practice architecture in Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia. Quintin is optimistic about the future of Architecture in the Commonwealth and is committed to promoting and supporting the AIA’s programs and platforms.