by Center for Architecture
On Thursday, March 12, architects, designers, architecture enthusiasts, and young professionals will gather at the Center for Architecture for Guess-A-Sketch, an architecture-themed sketching tournament to support the nonprofit’s education initiatives. Emceed by Jonathan Massey, Dean and Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, four architects will live-sketch iconic buildings from around the world on stage as competing teams guess to win. Audience members are also invited to guess, with the opportunity to win a selection of items generously donated by our prize sponsors.
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Meet this year’s four honoree sketchers:
Jonathan Jackson, WeShouldDoItAll
Jonathan Jackson is a multidisciplinary designer whose practice bridges architecture, spatial design, and graphic design. While formally trained as an architect, his self-taught journey into graphic design reflects a genuine curiosity that drives his collaborative approach to creative problem-solving. In 2004, Jackson founded WeShouldDoItAll, the internationally recognized New York-based design studio known for its boundary-crossing approach to creative challenges. At the core of his practice is a people-centered philosophy that prioritizes meaningful relationships as the foundation of effective design. His expertise has been sought worldwide, with lectures at prestigious institutions including Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Walker Art Center, University of Michigan Taubman College, and international venues like the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne and UsByNight Design Festival in Antwerp. Through his studio practice and educational outreach, Jackson advocates for design as a collaborative discipline that strengthens communities and shapes culture.
Andrea Lamberti, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, Studio Seilern Architects
Based in New York City, Lamberti collaborates with client organizations to achieve transformational projects, inspiring and inclusive architecture, and sustainable, resilient buildings. This approach has guided her work on educational, cultural, research, health, and mixed-use projects while embedded within the award-winning practices of Rafael Viñoly Architects for 26 years, where she was a partner until 2023, and in the practice of Norihiko Dan and Associates in Tokyo, Japan, in the 1990s. Andrea joined Studio Seilern Architects in 2024 to grow the London-based award-winning international design practice in North America. Recently, Lamberti completed the feasibility study and space program for a mental-health non-profit organization seeking to consolidate from multiple locations into one historic facility in New York City. Additionally, she has been co-leading design competitions for various projects including an opera house in a major urban center, and a community theater, both in Europe.
Committed to lifting individuals and communities through her work, and an energetic spokesperson for the design profession, Lamberti is dedicated to knowledge-sharing about architecture and design, and to bolstering equitable pipelines within the profession for youth, emerging professionals and underrepresented communities. Currently, she serves on several boards including AIA New York State, Stony Brook University Civil Engineering Department’s Advisory Board and MIT’s Architecture Alumni Group. In 2025, she and Sonya Falkovskaia received the Brunner Grant in support of the initiative they founded, Crit Collective, which connects professionals and young designers to schools of architecture with the intention of broadening participation in design juries. She served as president of AIA New York in 2022, leading with the theme “Just Practice.”
Arthur Liu, Studio Gang
Architect Arthur Liu is a Design Principal at Studio Gang, where he also leads the firm’s New York office. Since joining Studio Gang in 2015 as one of the firm’s first team members in New York, Liu has led some of its most significant projects in the city and beyond, including the award-winning 11 Hoyt, a residential tower in Brooklyn, and the upcoming Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Currently, Liu serves as design manager for NewYork-Presbyterian The Beacon, a new healthcare center in New York. He holds a Master of Architecture II with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Cornell University.
Gabriel Smith, FAIA, LEED AP, Gabriel Smith Architecture
Gabriel Smith is a New York City-based architect with experience in the US, UK, Europe and South America. With over one million square feet of built works in the public realm, he has focused on complex projects for cultural, education, commercial and government clients. He holds degrees in architecture from Harvard and Tulane. In 2015, he was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows for his contributions as a designer. He is a LEED AP with completed Net Zero Carbon and LEED Platinum projects. Smith started his professional career in London at Norman Foster’s office. His two plus decades designing museums started at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple where he worked on the firm’s key projects including the ULL Hilliard Art Museum and IGFA Museum. More recently, Smith has led the major museum projects at Allied Works and Thomas Phifer and Partners including the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Glenstone Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass. Integral to his practice is both hands-on exploration including painting, furniture design along with teaching and lecturing at Cornell, Columbia, CUNY, Tulane, Parsons, Harvard and Syracuse.
And our evening’s Master of Ceremonies:
Jonathan Massey
Architectural designer and historian Jonathan Massey shows how policy and design intersect to shape biopolitics, civil society, and resource use. His work includes Crystal & Arabesque (2009) and Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (2018, edited with Barry Bergdoll) as well as work on sustainable design, homeownership, spatial politics, and urban technology. Massey curated the exhibition Designing Material Innovation (2017) and advised on creation of the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, co-founded the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, and coauthored Governing by Design (2012). After completing undergraduate, professional, and doctoral degrees at UCLA and Princeton, he worked at Syracuse University and California College of the Arts before joining the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning in 2017 as professor and dean. He was recognized in 2020 by DesignIntelligence as a “most admired educator.”