I am IIDA

Robin is the Northeast region Managing Principal of Gensler and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Over 32 years of design experience, she has guided some of the largest and most respected international corporations, financial institutions, and law firms through headquarters project development. She was the lead for The New York Times headquarters and the new American Red Cross headquarters. Her projects have won many design awards, including the Business Week/Architectural Record Award, the International Interior Design Association’s Decade of Design Award, and a national award from the Society of American Registered Architects.

What is your favorite example of great design?

The plaza at Rockefeller Center.

Who is your favorite designer?

Gensler (collectively)

If you weren't a designer, what would you be doing?

I’d be an entrepreneur.

List 5 words that describe design.

Informed, purposeful, compelling, beautiful, essential

List 3 things you can't live without.

My husband, my daughter, and New York City.

What is your favorite quote or motto?

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~ Theodore Roosevelt