About this Event
"Voorhees-Made"
Voorhees-Made brings together three distinguished CUNY / City Tech alumni Christian Camacho, Demir Purisic, and Justin Sherman to share their career trajectories, recent work, and ongoing contributions to the City Tech community.
The panel will discuss their professional journeys, the role City Tech played in shaping their careers, and the value of returning to teach, mentor, and collaborate with the next generation. A moderated discussion and Q&A will follow.
Current students, prospective students, and anyone interested in the program are encouraged to attend.
Speakers: (NY Architect), (Studio Purisic), (JFA)
Moderators: Eugene Seungho Park
Location: Voorhees Hall 2nd Floor Lounge
Contact: [email protected]
Christian Camacho is a New York City–based architect and educator of Ecuadorian-Bolivian descent with degrees from City Tech, City College, and Columbia University. His professional experience spans institutional, residential, and commercial work, with roles at offices including Álvaro Siza Vieira, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Asymptote, System Architects, and Smith Miller + Hawkinson Architects. Over the past decade, he has taught a range of courses at City Tech and recently served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYIT, integrating his professional practice into instruction across design studios, professional practice, building systems, structures, and environmental systems.
Demir Purisic is a New York–based licensed architect, educator, and researcher whose work spans cultural institutions, mixed-use developments, design-build projects, and residential and commercial renovations, including the recent transformation of a 10,000-square-foot industrial site into a hybrid cultural complex in Brooklyn. He previously worked at SOM and OMA/AMO, contributing to large-scale urban, adaptive reuse, and transit projects, as well as the Guggenheim’s Countryside, The Future exhibition, for which he created a drone documentary on agricultural automation. His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim, Witte de With, and Harvard GSD, with writing published in Countryside, A Report, Live Feed, and Still Life. He teaches at CCNY, City Tech, and NYIT, and has participated in critiques at institutions including Pratt, Harvard, and Yale.
Justin Sherman is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, and a Principal & Partner at JFA in Brooklyn. With over twenty years of experience, including roles at SOM and ILA, he has led a wide range of domestic and international projects—from mixed-use towers and major transportation hubs to educational, hospitality, and extensive NYC residential work. He has taught for nearly two decades as an Adjunct Lecturer/Professor at New York City College of Technology, his alma mater, and previously studied at Northeastern University and the Boston Architectural College. Justin approaches architecture as a demanding but meaningful balance of art and science, driven by a commitment to positive change.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
186 Jay St, 186 Jay Street, Brooklyn, United States
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