Leeland McPhail is founding principal of Here Here, a practice with one foot in community advocacy and the other in architecture. From his work with Ghana Free Community Libraries, he brings experience navigating the complex interrelationships of labor, ecology, economy and theory and a belief that the discipline of architecture has a responsibility to support and lift up communities.

Prior to founding Here Here, McPhail’s work ranged from research on and design of mass timber construction with Gray Organschi to large-scale affordable housing developments with Bernheimer Architecture to obsessively designed and detailed commercial, cultural and institutional work with BLDGS. He also sees the need to step out of the pristine, controlled environment of the office and into a sometimes messy community. He’s done this most recently in Atlanta, where he lived and practiced for the past few years, by leading projects for Neighbor in Need to combat gentrification and by organizing within his community to combat predatory development practices.

Before practice, McPhail was the Frederick C. Bland Scholar at Yale School of Architecture, where he earned his MArch. He earned his BSArch at Georgia Tech, where he was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi medal and was a President’s Scholar. He works both locally and globally, and his work has been exhibited internationally.

Lee Altman, AIA, LEED AP, is a Principal at SCAPE. She draws on her experience in city government as well as her past work with architects, artists, scientists and public health professionals to form a multifaceted perspective in managing landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects. Within SCAPE, she works to develop firmwide project management systems and processes and facilitates peer learning across project teams.

Lee holds a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, where she received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the GSAPP Honor Award for Excellence and the William Kinne Travel Fellowship. She currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the same program at Columbia. Lee also holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture with Honors from the Israel Institute of Technology.

Dr. Daniel Sanz Pont is a technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Aeroskin Tech, and a senior scientific researcher at ETH Zurich. He has spent more than 15 years developing aerogel-based technologies for the construction industry, bridging scientific research, industrial development and entrepreneurship. His industry background includes three years as CTO of a leading Swiss and European aerogel distributor, working across advanced materials, product certification and validation, and market applications. His entrepreneurial perspective has also been shaped by a strong family-business culture. He completed a business specialization at Wharton and is an inventor on three aerogel-related patent applications, including a granted European patent. Daniel holds an international PhD in materials science focused on aerogel composites, completed between UPM Madrid and ETH Zurich. Originally trained as an architect, he also holds master’s degrees in building physics and quality and risk management and was an associated researcher at the NCCR Digital Fabrication (NCCR DFAB) at ETH Zurich. His work has taken aerogel technologies from material and component development through building-physics validation to full-scale demonstrators. At Aeroskin Tech, he is translating this multidisciplinary experience into industrialized building-renovation solutions combining high-performance insulation, digital building capture, AI-enabled workflows and robotic fabrication to make complex façade retrofits faster, thinner and more scalable.