Julie Torres Moskovitz , AIA, LEED & WELL AP, CPHC/CPHTm

Ms. Torres Moskovitz is an architect and Director of Sustainability and a Senior Associate at WXY architecture + urban design, a 50-person firm based in Lower Manhattan. She leads projects in environmental health and is overseeing 20 Wellness rooms for New York City Health & Hospitals across 20 public hospitals for the Workforce for a program called Helping Healers Heal. Ms. Torres Moskovitz is project director for several New York State Park projects and a NYPA Canal Project in Lockport, a study for upgrading existing NYCHA community centers as Resiliency Hubs – the first of its kind in NYC. In her role as Director of Sustainability, she works to prioritize people and the public realm while also designing for resiliency, optimum energy-efficiency, and zero-carbon ready buildings.

Prior to WXY, she was principal and founder of Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC and designed the Tighthouse, the first certified passive house in NYC (PHI 2012) which was a retrofit of an 1899 rowhouse. She is author of Princeton Architectural Press’ The Greenest Home, which features 18 Passive House case studies. After the Tighthouse project, she continued to retrofit over 15 passive house strategy projects and several new passive house residences.
Ms. Torres Moskovitz teaches as a visiting professor at several universities (Syracuse University, Pratt Institute, Parsons, RISD, and NYU) class that range from design and planning for developers, Eco-Urban seminar, to core classes in Building Environment and design studios. She has co-taught several trainings for architects and engineers at the AIA Center for Architecture including trainings for green building initiatives under Local Law 31 and Local Law 97 compliance. She is currently training in Regenerative Design.