Leopoldo Villardi is a Brooklyn-based writer and the managing editor at Architectural Record, where he stewards the magazine’s residential coverage, including the annual issue of Record Houses; administers the Design Vanguard award program, a showcase of emerging talent that first began in 2000; and keeps Record’s monthly print issues organized. He has contributed to several books on architecture and coauthored Robert A.M. Stern’s autobiography Between Memory and Invention. Leo is a New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient for his research on modernist Kenneth Warriner. Trained as an architect, Leo holds a master’s degree in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (MS.CCCP) from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and a bachelor of architecture (B.Arch.) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture. Outside of Record, his writings have appeared in Faktur, Log, and the New York Review of Architecture.

As a partner at Robert Stern Architects, Paul has realized projects across a range of scales and architectural expression. His work expresses the value of classical principles in the establishment of human scale and is attentive to regional character and appropriate to climate and culture. By applying time-tested principles in unexpected ways, Paul participates in a tradition of architecture that is very much alive.

Paul has led some of the firm's most prominent planning and multifamily residential projects, including the new town of Celebration, Florida, and Heart of Lake, a new model for neighborhood development in China that combines lessons from traditional local villages and American urban planning. He has helped reshape New York City with his work on the revitalization of the theater block of New York's 42nd Street, and as leader of the design teams for 15 Central Park West, and 220 Central Park South, influential high-end multifamily buildings that helped to reset the market for high-end residential development in Manhattan. Currently, Paul is engaging in the design of a new generation of New York apartment houses as well a family of new residential buildings in Lima, Peru.

Paul has lectured on topics as diverse as high-rise urbanism, 19th-century Scottish country houses, and strategies for redeveloping Havana's industrial waterfront. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation in New York, which organizes lectures, travel, and educational events in support of the museum in London; and is active in the Urban Land Institute and the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Corey Damen Jenkins is the principal and chief executive officer of Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates, an internationally acclaimed interior design and architecture firm based in New York City. Celebrated for its deft approach to layering sophisticated colors, textures, and patterns to create timeless and iconic spaces, CDJA has been inducted into Architectural Digest AD100, ELLE Decor A-List, and the 1stDibs 50, and Corey is among elite company as a respected instructor on the global MasterClass platform.

Corey began his career in interior design in 1996 and founded his own firm in 2008. He has become a celebrated and influential voice in the world of design for interiors that are elevated, bespoke, and distinctive. With the haute couture fashion runway, historic architecture, and world travels as his chief sources of inspiration, Corey creates tailored spaces that meet the ever-changing needs of his clients. Corey’s ethos is governed by design democracy, a North Star approach that ensures his clients’ personalities and lifestyles are reflected with each residential or commercial project.

Arthi Krishnamoorthy is an architect and principal of TenBerke Architects, where she leads transformative work for educational, cultural, philanthropic, and mission-driven institutions. Her practice is centered on architecture as a catalyst — a way for organizations to clarify who they are, expand whom they serve, and build deeper relationships with their communities.

Arthi has led all the firm’s work for foundations, including for The Wallace Foundation and The Women’s Building. Most recently, she led the design and construction of two residential colleges at Princeton University to house more than a thousand students, as well as a mass-timber, net-zero-ready career and leadership center at Smith College. Her work is grounded in the belief that spaces should invite engagement and discovery, with craft and detail that reveal themselves over time. Her buildings are designed to become intimately known: places of familiarity, attachment, and enduring connection.

Raised in Singapore, Arthi brings a global outlook and unending inquisitiveness to her work. In New York, she serves on the board of the Queens Museum, an institution dedicated to visual arts, education, and public engagement in one of the world’s most diverse urban communities. She also serves on the board of AIANY and is part of the working group for the Design for Freedom movement.