School of Architecture and Art to host John Cays

The School of Architecture and Art is pleased to welcome John Cays on Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. in the Chaplin Hall Gallery. Cays is a professor of practice in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Arts Philadelphia and a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. Cays was a project manager at Robert A.M. Stern Architects and then later co-founded GRADE Architects, an architecture and interior design firm in New York City. He is a recognized sustainable design professional and lectures internationally on the subject of life cycle assessment in architecture. The session can be joined both in person and virtually.

Cays served as the northeast regional director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture from 2014-2017, the director on the National Architectural Accrediting Board from 2017-2020, and also the Hillier College associate dean for academic affairs from 2005-2024. He currently serves on the SIGGRAPH Education Committee and is a current board member of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment. In 2021, Cays established and has continually organized and co-chaired the international Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design (eLCAd) symposium and was awarded the ACLCA Education LCA Leadership Award. He is the author of "An Environmental Life Cycle Approach to Design: LCA for Designers and the Design Market," published by Springer Nature.