BOND Multi
1-on-1 with America's Leading Multifamily Architects
April 24-27, 2025
TX, USA
About
1-on-1 Meetings and Networking with America's Leading Multifamily Architects
Once a year, America’s busiest and best multifamily residential architects and developers leave their projects and offices behind and head for BOND Multi.
They come because they need to meet innovative manufacturers who can show them things they haven’t seen before and who can help them deliver what their clients want.
If you believe in your products and your team, these are the people you need in your life and you simply won’t find them together anywhere else.
Discover the highlights from last year’s event – read our review!
Who Attends
America's Top Multifamily Residential Architects. Guaranteed.
At least four months of research and prospecting goes into building the guest list for BOND Multi. Our search team, with a little help from industry friends, identify and recruit only the most qualified candidates, following a three stage process:
Step 1) Pinpoint the largest, most high-profile multifamily projects in North America in design stages
Step 2) Identify the architectural firms involved and the Principals leading the design and specification
Step 3) Invite those Principals to submit an application outlining their credentials. Accept and enrol pending final QC.
BOND Multi regular attendees include:
Kelly Osburn
Senior Vice President
Humphreys & Partners Architects
Brett Robillard
Studio Director, Design Director
Gensler
Jan Steingahs
Principal
Arcadis
Ian Hunter
Regional Director
Dwell Design
Antonio Donofrio
Principal
Handel Architects
Keith Kobin
Principal
Hord Coplan Macht
Elaine Fitzgerald
Principal, Senior Specification Writer
LJC - Lamar Johnson Collaborative
Duncan Slidell
Executive Vice President
Willow Bridge
The Projects
Multifamily Residential Projects Throughout America
Every single architect and developer you’ll meet has a winnable portfolio of large-scale multifamily residential projects throughout America and the clout to influence who gets specified and who doesn’t.
If you believe your products deserve a place in the best multifamily projects, these are the people who can make it happen for you.
How it works
This is NOT a trade show
You know exactly who’s going to be here and you will have a number of guaranteed, pre-scheduled 1-to-1 meetings with the multifamily project leaders of your choice. And this is just the start.
You are all together for 3 days and 3 nights at a luxury resort, so there’s time and space to meet everybody and it’s this abundance of natural networking that opens up a whole world of possibilities. Because there’s a real community feel here and everyone’s more relaxed and open and any number of conversations can light up the multifamily project trail right in front of you – you’ll see!
BOND Multi delivers America’s true multifamily project leaders with time and space to get to know each other properly. The rest is up to you.
When an architect says “you are going to be my new best friend” that speaks volumes to our brand and message. Any supplier who’s looking to build relationships and become a trusted business partner in this industry needs to be here in this room.
Sam Sutherland
Program
Seminar timings and/or content may be varied at our discretion.
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
Thursday, April 24
Friday, April 25
Seminar - Building Culture: Integrating Local Art into Multifamily and Mixed-Use Developments
David Guerra | Founder, Curator, MARCA RIBE
Synopsis
Integrating the work of local artists into multifamily residential and mixed-use commercial developments is a powerful strategy for fostering community engagement and enhancing a sense of place. This lecture explores best practices for incorporating art into these developments, drawing on case studies from the United States and abroad and will address the value of enhancing aesthetic appeal; supporting local artists and economies; and using art as a tool for storytelling and honoring cultural heritage while adding lasting value to their projects. It also identifies actionable strategies to incorporate art while addressing challenges such as budget, representation, and stakeholder alignment.
Biography
David Guerra is an independent curator, art dealer/consultant, and professor originally from Havana, Cuba, and currently based in both Boston, Massachusetts, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the founder of MARCA RIBE, a dynamic platform dedicated to amplifying the creative voices of the Caribbean and fostering art curating and collecting within the region. He has advised both private and corporate collections regarding art acquisitions. His passion for innovation in the arts has driven him to collaborate on numerous festivals and exhibitions, first in Boston and now in the artistic landscape of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Currently, David imparts his expertise through seminars on Art Curating, New Trends in Contemporary Art, and the Art Market at the University of Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico and the University of Puerto Rico.
Seminar - Understanding Economic Resilience at the Neighborhood Scale
Dr. Rachel Meltzer | Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Synopsis
I will present frameworks to think about neighborhood-level resilience and findings from recent research that test economic resilience in the face of extreme climate events. I will also discuss how these frameworks and research inform planning, policy and practice in urban settings.
Biography
Rachel Meltzer is the Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Her research is broadly concerned with urban economies and how market and policy forces can shape disparate outcomes across neighborhoods. She focuses on issues related to economic development, housing, land use, and local public finance.
Dr. Meltzer’s current research explores how economic and institutional “shocks” impact retail and commercial activity and real estate markets in urban neighborhoods. These “shocks” range from gentrification to the proliferation of e-commerce to extreme climate events like Superstorm Sandy. Dr. Meltzer is also interested in the private provision of public goods, and she has explored a number of questions related to Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Homeowners Associations (HOAs) about their formation and impacts on housing markets and public services. In addition, she has conducted extensive research on Inclusionary Zoning, an alternative to traditional methods of providing affordable housing, including its impact on local housing markets and the political economy behind the adoption of such policies.
Dr. Meltzer’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation.
Prior to joining the GSD, Dr. Meltzer was Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Chair of the Public and Urban Policy M.S. Degree program at the Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment at The New School, where, for over a decade, she taught in the core policy analysis curriculum. Out of that teaching experience, Dr. Meltzer authored the textbook, Policy Analysis as Problem Solving (Routledge 2018, 2025), with her New School colleague, Alex Schwartz. She has also taught classes on quantitative methods, local economic development, and public finance.
Dr. Meltzer is a Research Affiliate at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a Mortgage Officer and Project Manager for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, where she managed the financing and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Dr. Meltzer earned her doctorate in Public Policy and M.P.A. from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and a B.A. in Psychology and Mathematics from Dartmouth College.
Saturday, April 26
Seminar - Creating more socially and environmentally sustainable communities: Learning from Cohousing
Kathryn McCamant | President, CoHousing Solutions
Synopsis
Since the first cohousing community was completed in 1991, there are now over 180 cohousing neighborhoods built across the country: urban and rural, intergenerational and senior focused. Comprised of privately-owned homes clustered around shared open space and common facilities, these neighborhoods encourage environmental and social sustainability. As boomers hit retirement and millennials hit home buying, we are seeing growing interest in community living from both ends of the market. Boomers want to live in walkable neighborhoods as they age, while millennials are exploring the sharing economy and the possibility of living in smaller private space complemented by shared facilities.
Kathryn (Katie) McCamant has been involved in cohousing developments of all scales, as an architect, developer, and development consultant, working with a wide range of communities including rural, suburban, urban infill and mixed use, even several as part of larger Master Plans. Katie will give an update what is happening with cohousing these days, latest trends and challenges, and how what has been learned from these communities can be applied to other multi-family housing development.
Biography
Kathryn McCamant, together with her previous partner Charles Durrett, introduced the cohousing concept to North America in 1988 with their seminal book: Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. Since then she has been involved in the design and development of dozens of communities, now working as a development consultant for communities all across the country. Katie co-authored Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Neighborhoods as well as numerous chapter contributions to other books. She has lived in two of the cohousing communities she developed and was a founding board member of the Cohousing Association. Her firm provides development consulting services across North America.
Speaker TBC
Biography
More information will be announced soon.Sunday, April 27
BOND Events is the best way to meet and work with premium firms and quality one-on-one contacts. Our commitment and level of participation at BOND has grown along with the success of our architectural program.
Dean Moilanen
Gallery
Successful on so many levels. Did not expect to connect with suppliers and developers on such a deep level. Made some new friends too!
