With more than 13 years of experience, Lauren serves as Director, Architecture at HLZAE. She oversees a team of senior and mid-level managers and associates who collaboratively facilitate clients on projects from design to construction. Lauren’s projects include building envelope consulting and repair, historic preservation and restoration, glazing and fenestrations, and interior renovations.
She also has extensive experience in NYC LPC permitting and approvals process.

Lauren oversaw the exterior restoration project at Fordham, University’s Church and Chapel. HLZAE was hired to manage an extensive restoration campaign of the historic bell tower, built in 1845, which involved the replacement of decorative architectural elements on the church. Original brownstone architectural features were cleaned and patched. Ornamental pinnacles and other decorative stone elements made from local marble to create load-bearing rubble walls were restored or replaced in kind. The Bell Tower was then coated in a breathable silicate coating to preserve the 180-year old facade.

270 West 89th Street is a building purchased and annexed by B’Nai Jeshurun Synagogue, and serves as a Community Center and school to the congregation and community. At B’nai Jeshurun, Lauren led a campaign to restore and repair original wood and stained glass windows from the 1920s. The windows were removed and shop-restored, then reinstalled and painted in the field, all under an LPC-approved permit.

Lauren earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Thomas Jefferson University (formerly Philadelphia University) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a registered Architect in New York and New Jersey, NCARB-certified, Member of the AIA National division, AIA New Jersey and AIA Architects League of Northern New Jersey. Lauren is also a Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector (QEWI).