Leadership Breakfast with Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, FAIA

Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, FAIA.

Speaker: Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, FAIA, LEED AP, Chief Architect, NYC Department of Design and Construction

Margaret O’Donoghue Castillo, FAIA, LEED AP, is Chief Architect of the NYC Department of Design and Construction. The newly created Office of the Chief Architect assures that the ideas of Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 factor into all DDC projects. It uses the mayoral lenses to bring guiding principles of growth, equity, sustainability, resiliency, and healthy living to both public buildings and infrastructure. In addition to design involvement on DDC projects, the Office of the Chief Architect coordinates interaction with the Public Design Commission’s regulatory review and with the Percent for Art program of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

A former Design Principal of Helpern Architects in New York City, Castillo specialized in sustainable and historic preservation projects and was responsible for the design of many public buildings, including libraries and schools. While working at Helpern Architects, she served as 2011 President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Vice President for Government Advocacy for AIA New York State. She is 2016 President of AIA New York State. An expert on energy policy, she organized the Buildings=Energy exhibition at the Center for Architecture and brought its case studies to the International Union of Architects conference in Tokyo.