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Adam Schiffmacher

Adam Schiffmacher

Brooklyn, NY, US

 

About 

Always seeking new ways landscape and architecture can be woven together to define spaces and experiences through material, program and light.

Searching for professional employment, working on LEED GA & AP BD & C certification, moving to NYC in 2016 to further path to licensure.

Thesis work during graduate program focused on researching methods / strategies of memorial design in the United States, with a design proposal that provides one solution to memorializing ambiguous events with shifting viewpoints and perspectives.  Through the utilization of architecture and landscape architecture, the thesis analyzed the place of a memorial in the age of terror, the contemporary time period that currently occupies the ongoing U.S. War on Terror.

Elsewhere:

Employment 

Glendale Development, Buffalo, NY, US, Creative Director

•Responsible for creation of re-branding & marketing designs and initiatives
•Creation, Design and management of new websites / branding for different properties

Dec 2015 - current
 

Linden Properties of WNY, LP, Buffalo, NY, US, Creative Director

•Responsible for creation of re-branding & marketing designs and initiatives
•Surveys and measures existing apartments & buildings, translate into Revit & Sketchup diagrams
•Provide management of I.T. and architectural initiatives within company

Aug 2012 - Dec 2015
 

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for several classes:

•Diversity & Design under coordination of Beth Tauke, Spring 2015
•Architecture History 2 under coordination of Hadas Steiner, Spring 2014
•Teach Recitation of 15 students details & principles of architectural history
•Evaluate, grade and create lesson plans for recitations during the semester
•Architecture Media II & Media III under coordination of Matt Hume, Academic Year 2013-2014

Sep 2013 - May 2015
 

HHL Architects, Buffalo, NY, US, Designer

•Collaborated with Architects and Project Managers in creating / editing construction documents
•Converted existing historical drawings into updated detail drawings
•Participated in Design workshops, construction and accessibility seminars

Nov 2011 - Mar 2012
 

Undergraduate Student Association: University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, Creative Director of Communications

Contract position, only for 1 year cycle.
•Create outreach within student body through creative viral branding techniques
•Manage staff of 16 and oversee creative branding and production for $4.2 Million organization
•Created marketing campaign for annual concert series which returned $150,000+ more revenue than previous years

Jun 2010 - Jun 2011
 

Education 

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US, MArch, Masters of Architecture

Focus on Ecological Practices, Thesis work on War Memorial design in United States

Sep 2013 - Dec 2015
 

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US, Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

Aug 2009 - Dec 2010
 

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US, Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Aug 2005 - Dec 2010
 

Awards 

AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit, Award

Henry Adams Certificate of Merit recognizes the top academic performance of each accredited school of architecture in the country. This award recognizes the second highest grade point average in the School of Architecture and Planning's 2015 graduate class at 3.94.

2015
 

Department High Academic Achievement List Scholarship, Scholarship

Scholarship received for outstanding Academic Achievement from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

2014
 

Department Scholarship, Scholarship

Scholarship received from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning

2013
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills