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Jessica Jamroz

Assistant Professor Adjunct

Jessica Jamroz is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary design and construction practitioner specializing in bridging the relationships of architecture with city planning, experimental technologies, environmental science, construction, and culture.  

Ms. Jamroz has been working professionally in the fields of Architecture and Planning since 1998 with projects in the Americas, Europe, India, China, and Africa. She has executed the vision behind several technically, politically, and culturally challenging public projects—work that influences generations of lives. Directing more than a billion dollars of design and construction throughout her career she negotiates a complex interplay of participants to build bold, meaningful, quality work and structures the deals and productive relations behind them. Her solutions are elegant, sustainable, and bankable. Her work has been recognized by more than 25 Awards of Excellence in the fields of Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Construction, the Arts, and Religion.  


Ms. Jamroz’s work includes the design and construction of two September 11th Memorials: Empty Sky New Jersey's 9/11 Memorial (Liberty State Park) and Westchester County 9/11 Memorial (Kensico Dam Plaza); she directed an office in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina where she effectively managed 27 diverse neighborhoods, a maze of consultants, and empowered the voices of thousands of residents in the Unified New Orleans Plan―a sustainable recovery & rebuilding plan responsible for 9,200 acres and 43% post-Katrina population; she spearheaded the restoration of the Ramirez Solar House, the earliest U.S. solar house in extant, as a non-profit partner to the DOI National Park Service; led a 47-person THINK team in an innovative vision + action plan for Jamshedpur, India transforming it from 600,000 into a 2-million person sustainable 'Town within a Park, within a City' for the TATA group; and managed the $160M museum expansion for the Albright-Knox Art Museum—the sixth oldest museum in the U.S.—as the Owners’ Representative, among other notable work.

Ms. Jamroz's CV is available here. 

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