The Founders of HCA bring combined experience of over 75 years.
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Karen is a Founding Partner of Heritage Conservation Architecture, D.P.C, and has been a practicing architect for 20 years and brings varied experience to the design studio, ranging from important house museums, a nationally significant landmark church, a private school, residential design, renovations, and interior design. She provided programming studies for the re-use of an historic carriage house for the Newark Museum and provided the programming and schematic design to successfully attain State Approval for a new Visitor’s Center at the Morven Museum and Garden, a National Historic Landmark in Princeton NJ. She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Columbia University School of Architecture, where she received a Kinne Fellowship for original research on the work of the mid-century modern architect, Eileen Gray.
Projects Iona College Grand Hotel The Bronx Zoo Trinity Church Various Private Residences Hoboken City Hall Morven Museum & Garden Newark Museum |
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Nate is a Partner at HCA with 10 years of experience practicing architecture on a wide variety of projects. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania, whose experience ranges from archeological digs in Turkey to reimagining a 400 acre sea-side campus dotted with deaccessioned asylum buildings, that will be transformed into a public park. He has held roles as design architect, preservation planner, and architectural conservator. His breadth of knowledge is expansive, ranging from conducting laboratory analysis, programming a new building to fit within a historic campus, and the renovation of a historic house to Passive House Standards.
Projects Harvard River House Renewal Riverside Church Various Private Residences Various Archeological Sites |
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Ray is a partner at Heritage Conservation Architecture, D.P.C. and serves as the Director of Restoration for the firm. He brings forty years of preservation and conservation experience, much of it associated with some of the most iconic buildings in the country. He is a trained architectural conservator and is most well-known for founding the oldest historic preservation consulting firm in the U.S, Building Conservation Associates, Inc. Ray has contributed his knowledge and expertise to the field of historic preservation as a lecturer in a number of venues, including teaching a course in Architectural Materials Testing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Building Conservation graduate studies program. Mr. Pepi has published papers and lectured on a wide variety of conservation topics, including masonry cleaning, sandstone repair, terra cotta, stone restoration, bronze and stone statue restoration, cast iron, and digital tools for project management and building maintenance. Mr. Pepi is the Chair of the American Friends of the Old Royal Naval College, part of a World Heritage Site, in Greenwich, London; and serves on the board of the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School in New York, NY.
Projects United Nations General Assembly St. Patrick's Cathedral Grand Central Terminal, Exterior Restoration The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal One Madison Avenue, MetLife Home Office New Amsterdam Theater Moynihan Train Station/Farley Postal Office Los Angeles Central Library |
