The FLOW Group brings together five award-winning professionals from art, architecture, engineering and lighting design. Artist Janet Echelman produces monumental wind-activated sculpture suspended from highways and architecture, with major commissions in Portugal, Spain, Holland, and the United States. Architect Jeanne Gang, principal of Studio Gang Architects, designed the Starlight Theatre with a kinetic roof. Aeronautical engineer Peter Heppel has engineered America's Cup sails, tensile fabric airlocks for NASA, and the Millennium Tower in Glasgow, which rotates in the wind. Architectural lighting designer Domingo Gonzalez illuminated the NYC Police Memorial, JFK Airport's Terminal One, and the George Washington Bridge. Hoboken resident Aine Brazil, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti Engineers, joins the team as the engineer of record and has extensive experience in the design and construction of high-rise offices, hotels, hospitals, air-rights projects with long span transfer systems and other public projects.

Architect Ralph Lerner FAIA, and landscape architect Kate Orff have more than thirty years combined experience in the fields of architecture and urban design. Currently Lerner is a Professor of Architecture at Princeton's School of Architecture, where he previously served as Dean for many years. His firm has received numerous design awards including those from Progressive Architecture , the New Jersey AIA, and Architectural Design. Among his notable projects are the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi, India; the Winston-Salem Downtown Plan; and the Public Realm Improvement Strategy for Lower Manhattan. Kate Orff's landscape design focuses on urban ecology and public space design. Currently she serves as an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, where she teaches seminars and studios at the intersection of landscape, infrastructure and architecture.

Artist Brian Tolle and architect Frederic Schwartz are both actively engaged in the design of public work. While working on his Irish Hunger Memorial, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, Tolle watched as the first plane struck the north tower. In the months following the terrorist attack, the memorial became the first active construction site in Lower Manhattan. His other works include WitchCatcher in City Hall Park and Waylay for the 2002 Whitney Biennial in Central Park. Tolle recently won the Mall B competition sponsored by Cleveland Public Art, which will be dedicated in the summer of 2004. After witnessing the tragedies of September 11 th firsthand, Schwartz co-founded the THINK team, one of the finalists for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center. Nearby, his design for the new Staten Island Ferry Terminal is currently under construction. The Santa Fe Railyard Park and Plaza (with Ken Smith and Mary Miss) and the SW Regional Capitol of France in Toulouse (with VSBA) are other major commissions.

Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko is best known for his powerful, large-scale projections on public buildings and spaces, which he first developed in Toronto in 1980. Now he divides his time between New York and Boston, where he heads the Interrogative Design Group at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His work has been extensively exhibited worldwide, including New York, Washington, DC, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Vienna and Warsaw, and it is represented in many museums such as the Walker Art Center; the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Jewish Museum in New York; and the National Galleries of Canada and Poland. Architect Julian Bonder, principal of Julian Bonder + Associates, is an active contributor to American and international discourse on memory, public space, public art, cultural trauma and monument design, often working outside the traditional boundaries of architecture. He has taught architecture at Syracuse, Roger Williams and Buenos Aires Universities, and now serves as Hyde Chair and visiting professor at the University of Nebraska.

Della Valle + Bernheimer Design was founded in 1996 by Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer when they joined forces to enter the competition for the renovation of the Philip Burton Federal Building Plazain San Francisco. Since winning that competition and the first San Francisco Prize in Architecture in 1996, this young, Brooklyn-based architectural team has completed numerous residential projects and garnered recognition for public architectural projects and competition entries. For the Hoboken September 11thMemorial Competition, Della Valle + Bernheimer will be collaborating with Thomas Balsley Associates, a landscape architecture firm with over thirty years experience creating and reshaping public plazas, parks, and waterfronts. 
 
dZO (Degre Zero Architecture) is a firm of five young architects who have studied and worked in New York, France and Spain: Arnaud Descombes, Elena Fernandez, Antoine Regnault, David Serero, and Esther Sperber.  The firm received the 2002 Young Architect's Award from the Architectural League and was included in the French Cultural Minister's "New Albums of Young Architects" in 2001/2002.  In addition, dZO was the First Prize Winner of the Ephemeral Structures Competition for the 2004 Olympic Games inAthens.  Recent commissions include loft and residential projects, the Steve Madden flagship store in New York and an extension to the Contemporary Art Museum in Tel Aviv.
 
The design team of Jackie Ferrara and M. Paul Friedberg combines decades of experience in sculpture and landscape design. Ferrara is an accomplished artist and designer known for her minimalist use of geometric shapes. Her work has earned numerous art and architectural awards and is included in major collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Friedberg’s redesign of the landscape for the Jacob Riis Houses in New York City distinguished him as an innovator in urban design.  He created the first waterfront plaza at Battery Park City/World Financial Center. His work has been repeatedly recognized by AIA, ASLA, and The Waterfront Center. Ferrara and Friedberg have collaborated on numerous projects, including the award-winning Canal Demonstration Project in Phoenix (2001). 
 
Architect Mehrdad Hadighi is currently based at the State University of New York/ Buffalo, where he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture as well as the Department of Comparative Literature.  A partner in Studio for Architecture since 1987, he focuses on architectural research and experimentation as well as residential and public design projects.  Hadighi also curates architectural exhibitions for the Burchfield Penny Art Center and co-directs the Center for the Study of Space.  Previously he taught at Columbia and Miami Universities, and has also served as a guest professor and critic at Cornell, the University of Arizona, the University of Texas/Arlington, and in Korea and Lichtenstein.  His work has been widely exhibited and published.

 
The design team of Jody Pinto and Morris Sato Studio has collaborated on many acclaimed public commissions, including Boone Sculpture Garden, Pasadena; Beach Improvement Group Project, Santa Monica; Light Cylinders, Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport; and Light Islands, Tokyo.  Since the mid-1970s, artist Jody Pinto has created an extensive variety of award-winning public projects across the country and abroad.  Her work is represented in numerous museum collections, including the Guggenheim, the Whitney and the National Gallery of Art. The practice of architects Michael Morris and Yoshiko Sato includes a number of museum exhibitions, most recently at the American Folk Art Museum, as well as highly regarded commercial and residential commissions, one of which received Architecture Magazine's 2002 Home of the Year Award.
 
 
Alison Sky is a New York-based sculptor and public artist whose approach is defined by a sensitivity to the specific social, historical, and environmental elements of a given site. One of the co-founders of SITE, Sky served as partner and principal of that firm for two decades. Her public commissions include theIndependence National Historic Park in Philadelphia (2003), and numerous commissions for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New Jersey Transit, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.