Carmen Tagle co-founded ARCT in 1986. Her major responsibilities are design, project planning and staff coordination. She is well versed in systems analysis, feasibility, and zoning requirements. Ms. Tagle's organizes and monitors the development of projects and allocates staff resources for efficient administration and coordination.

Ms. Tagle has been instrumental in the programming, design and construction phase administration of such projects as 15 Charles Street, 71 Park Avenue, Hebrew Hospital for Chronic Sick and Ballet Academy East (Phases 1 and 2). It is her habit to work closely with the clients and their consultants in order to meet the needs of a project, and cost effectively maximize the potential of the development. In addition to her current design and administrative tasks, Ms. Tagle is responsible for interpreting the complexities of the New York City Zoning Ordinance and City Planning procedures. She also directs the firm's interior design projects, from conceptual design, detailing, selecting and purchasing of furniture, through construction. Ms. Tagle has designed and supervised the construction of custom furniture pieces and cabinetry, some of which has been published in such national magazines as Architectural Digest.

Ms. Tagle is currently an Associate Course Director at the MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center in Philadelphia. Her courses educate such people as industrial hygienists, engineers, environmental scientists, building facilities managers and other "designated persons" in reading and understanding construction and construction documents from an IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) perspective. She has co-written a textbook for this course, which was published in the fall of 1994 under the sponsorship of the FOH. Ms. Tagle has also taught seminars at the Veteran's Administration Headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas and the American Navy Yard in Washington, D. C.

Prior to joining ARCT, Ms. Tagle held the position of Associate at Stephen B. Jacobs & Associates. She was the designer for a wide range of projects including multi-story residential condominiums, hotels, medical office projects and suburban townhouse developments. Before moving to New York, she worked for Betts, Beaudoin, Cash Architects in Montreal, and Isaac Sklar and Associates in Miami Beach where she worked on multistory residential projects.

Born in Lima, Peru, and educated in Montreal, Canada, she is fluent in English, Spanish and French .

REGISTERED ARCHITECT: New York

EDUCATION: McGill University, Montreal

Bachelor of Science, Architecture 1976

Bachelor of Architecture 1977

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Institute of Architects

OTHER ACTIVITIES

President, Board of Directors of "Dances...Patrelle"

Associate Course Director at MEHRC

ALAN G. ROSE, A. I. A.

The primary goal that Mr. Rose has established for ARCT is to understand the problems and needs of the client and, working closely with the client, to accommodate those needs with a physical solution through cost effective design.

Before co-founding ARCT Architecture, P.C. with Carmen Tagle in 1986, Mr. Rose had been a principal with the office of Stephen B. Jacobs & Associates. During the ten years that he was associated with the Jacobs office, Mr. Rose had been in charge of many significant projects, including award winning buildings such as 130 Barrow Street and the Printing House at 421 Hudson Street in New York City. Other projects completed under his supervision include federally subsidized conversions of commercial and institutional buildings to housing, such as the White Plains Armory into senior citizen housing. He was principal-in charge of the adaptive reuse of the Essex and Phoenix Mills into moderate and low income housing in the Great Falls Historic District of Paterson, New Jersey. He also was responsible for new multi-story residential buildings and several commercial projects.

His extensive experience with residential developments and adaptive reuse has led to several commissions for ARCT, including the recycling of the Dietz Coalyard in Ridgewood, New York into Glenridge Mews, an innovative award winning residential complex of sixty-five apartment units, approximately half of which is new construction and half of which has been integrated into the existing structures. Other projects include a low cost seventy-three unit planned residential development in Vineland, New Jersey, the complete interior refurbishing of twelve floors of a major non-profit New York City nursing home, the renovation of an existing New York City tenement to a medical office and residential condominium, several commercial retail complexes, the design of several medical office suites and many custom residences.

Mr. Rose is dedicated to the ideal of improving the urban environment. He believes that through the integration of housing and community services, disadvantaged people may be afforded the help and guidance to establish themselves as productive citizens. ARCT was selected as consulting Architect for a large housing for the homeless project in the Crotona Park area of the Bronx. The project, sponsored by Phipps Houses, consisted of the total rehabilitation of nineteen existing tenements, creating over 500 residential units plus ancillary facilities.

REGISTERED ARCHITECT

New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, N.C.A.R.B.

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bachelor of Science in Building Science 1968

Bachelor of Architecture 1969

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Institute of Architects

OTHER ACTIVITIES

President, Printing House Condominium Board of Directors