Alice Blank is the principal of Alice Blank, Architect, an architectural and design studio carrying out innovative residential and commercial projects in the metropolitan region since 1995. Prior to establishing her firm, she worked as an architect and as an urban planner in Cairo and in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Alice has taught architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning at Hunter College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Catholic University of America, and she has led several international public design competitions including Ideas Afloat – a series of competitions and events that generated development strategies for the 42 islands comprising the archipelago of New York City.

She is the vice chair of Manhattan Community Board 1 and the chair of the board’s environmental protection committee, where she helps address critical land use issues in the city. Alice also serves on the board of the Governors Island Trust, the City Club of New York, and she is actively involved with many of the City’s preservation and environmental groups.