Jury Members

Travis J Bridges, Associate AIA

Tarica Harris, LEED AP
Tarica graduated with honors from Drury University with a Bachelor of Architecture and BA in Art History.  While completing her professional degree, she was selected for membership in Tau Sigma Delta architectural honor society and elected her chapter’s AIAS member of the year.  She followed her developing interest in historic architecture to Cornell University and earned a master’s degree in Historic Preservation Planning.  Her thesis, “Back to the Future: An Examination of Yesterday’s Houses of Tomorrow” was presented at the 2001 Association for Preservation Technology International Conference.  Upon graduation, she moved to Boston and worked on such notable projects as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Old North Church, and “Stonehurst,” a private residence designed by H.H. Richardson.  A LEED-accredited professional, Tarica is a Job Captain at TRO Jung|Brannen.  Her recent projects include Boston’s W Hotel and the Al Bateen Residential Towers in Dubai, UAE.  In her free time, Tarica enjoys running, travel, cooking, and Red Sox baseball.

Christopher Hart
Mr. Hart has extensive experience in urban design and disability work. Born with cerebral palsy, he began his involvement with accessibility in his teens through his work with his town’s commission on disability, which he chaired for several years. In this capacity, he provided plan and site review for accessibility for his town and served on his town’s Municipal Space Needs building committee. Mr.Hart continued his work in the access field by working for the MBTA’s Office for Transportation Access. He also designed and coordinated theconstruction of his current home.

In 2000, Chris joined Adaptive Environments as a Project Coordinator. While earning his degree at the Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, he took over Adaptive Environments’ project, Neighborhoods Fit for People and expanded it to cover all master planning and large projects within the City. He is known for his seemingly unending knowledge of mass transit issues and sense of humor. He is sought for writing and public speaking engagements for universal design issues and life quality topics. These opportunities have included a presentation at the plenary session on mass transit design at the 2002 Universal Design Conference in Yokohama Japan and as the keynote speaker for the Pediatric Symposium.

Mark Pasnik
Mark Pasnik is an assistant professor of architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology and a principal in the design firm over,under. He received degrees from Cornell University and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design before working for nearly a decade at Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the California College of the Arts, and Northeastern University. From 1995 through 2000, he was a member of the editorial staff of the theory journal Assemblage, and his writings have appeared in Monolithic Architecture, Summa+ (Argentina), Architectural Record and the Cornell Journal of Architecture. He has authored three books, including two from the series Architecture in Detail (entitled Elements and Materials), as well as a monograph on a building by the Belgian architect Philippe Samyn, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2004. With over,under, he is currently involved in the design of projects in Cairo, Egypt and on the Pacific coast of Guatemala.

Lisa Pasquale
Lisa received a Bachelor of Architecture, with distinction, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004. She’s currently a designer at Utile Inc, in Boston, working predominantly in construction phases on low-income and market rate housing projects. She's interned for several firms in the Boston area, including Sasaki Associates and Hubert Murray, Architect + Planner.  After graduation, she moved to Shanghai and practiced as a planner for a Chinese firm, where she worked on the design of a new Shanghai Korean International School.  Her undergraduate thesis focused on designing architectural navigation and way-finding systems for the blind.  She continues this pursuit, presenting her thesis on haptic design at the International Conference for Universal Design in Kyoto, Japan this past October. For the last academic year, she’s been an instructor at the Boston Architectural Center, teaching freshman design and theory.  This coming October she will begin a Masters of Architecture in Sustainable Environmental Design at the Architectural Association in London. When not in the office or at school, she can be found rock climbing, kayaking, playing ice hockey and racing yachts around New England.