Contract Magazine - October 2019 - 65

Location Chicago

Joined firm 2013

It's sometimes a challenge to find rising talents in a big firm: Design, after all,
is a team sport, and recognition is generally given to the firm's team, rather than
specific individuals. At Gensler, however, Oswaldo Ortega, AIA, NOMA, LEED,
is one young architect whose talents annd work with underserved communities
makes him one to watch.
A native of New York City, Ortega joined Gensler's Chicago office as an
associate in 2013, where he leads master planning studies, and architectural and
interiors projects. He was project architect for Johnson Controls' Asian Regional
headquarters in Shanghai, coordinating the efforts between the firm's Chicago
and Shanghai offices. Ortega represented the firm during 11 trips to Shanghai,
establishing himself as a critical team member and client contact. Prior to Johnson
Controls, Ortega was the Project Architect of The Garage at Northwestern
University, a 12,000-square-foot tech incubator space located within an existing
garage on its campus. Most recently, Ortega has been given the opportunity
to lead a series of retail projects for one of Gensler's global clients.
Ortega has committed himself to diversifying the architectural industry
while serving to enhance underserved communities through design excellence,
leadership, education and mentoring. Since 2003, with his founding of SMAD
(Society of Multicultural Architects and Designers) at Syracuse University,
Ortega has been developing initiatives to serve disadvantaged communities

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and to increase the percentage, retention and matriculation of minorities
into architecture.
In 2017, as President of I-NOMA, Ortega, through NOMA's Project Pipeline
Initiative, developed a strategy to methodically support a child from the age of
10 through his/her architectural licensure exams. The restructuring of the chapter
created a finance and marketing team that Ortega led to a dramatic increase
from the previous annual budgets the chapter had been accustomed to working
with. Through Ortega's leadership, the Project Pipeline program went from being
a two-day camp with seven students, to a year-round program that has impacted
over 550 students this year alone, and over 2,000 students since he started
leading project pipeline programming in 2015.
This year, Ortega was a recipient of the AIA Young Architects award,
which is given to young architects who have demonstrated exceptional leadership
and made significant contributions to the architecture profession early in their
careers. Ortega sums up his design philosophy quite simply: "Through design
excellence we can create positive social changes in underserved communities
and in our workplace; as design has the ability to create new efficiencies,
resources and opportunities, not to mention a lot of joy," he says.

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Contents
Editorial
Industry News
The List: Fall Releases
Product Briefs: Textiles & Acoustics
Designer You Should Know: Atelier Cho Thompson
Trend Page: Office Accessories and Animals
emerging talents Designers doing breakthrough interiors
71 Collective Brooklyn, New York
Bianco e Bianca Timișoara, Romania
Boxx Creative London, United Kingdom
Casework Portland, Oregon
Craft & Bloom Tel Aviv, Israel
ETC.etera Los Angeles, California
Fettle Los Angeles, California, & London, United Kingdom
Islyn Studio Brooklyn, New York
LA-Más Los Angeles, California
LEVER Architecture Portland, Oregon, & Los Angeles, California
Matthew Goodrich New York, New York
Menard Dworkind Montréal, Canada
Oswaldo Ortega Chicago, Illinois
Roar Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ROY San Francisco, California
Standard Architecture Los Angeles, California
Studio Boscardin. Corsi Arquitetura Curitiba, Brazil
Studio Modijefsky Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Uufie Toronto, Canada
Wiercinski-Studio Poznań, Poland
Product Preview: Healthcare Design Expo (HCDE)
Product Preview: Boutique Design New York (BDNY)
Matrix: Education
Matrix: Maison&Objet Paris
Designers Select: Flooring
Exhibition: Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence
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Contract Magazine - October 2019 - Product Preview: Healthcare Design Expo (HCDE)
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Contract Magazine - October 2019 - Product Preview: Boutique Design New York (BDNY)
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