1. PATTERN and CONTEXT 2. MAP and LAYER 3. OBJECT and FIELD 4. NETWORK and FLOW 5. EVOLVE and ADAPT 6. SCAFFOLD and ARMATURE 7. ENERGY and EMERGENCE
Biography
Robert Cody is a registered architect in New York, LEED accredited, and a member of the AIA and NCARB. He is a founding partner of Amoia Cody Architecture, established with his partner Angela Amoia. Since 2005, he has taught at the New York Institute of Technology, where he has served as Professor of Practice since 2019, focusing on comprehensive and community design studios as well as building technology courses. He is currently the Director of the Master of Architecture program at NYIT. Robert has taught and coordinated design studios across all levels, building construction, architectural theory, and led study abroad programs in Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia from 2014 to 2019. His leadership roles at NYIT include Chair (2011–2017), Associate Dean (2017), and Director of Undergraduate Programs (2018).
Angela Amoia is a partner at Amoia Cody Architecture and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at NYIT's School of Architecture and Design. She has balanced practice and teaching since earning her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she began her research on Alvar Aalto. Amoia has taught history, theory, and architectural design studios, including comprehensive studios, and has participated in study abroad programs in Italy with a focus on architectural history. In practice, she has served as project manager on a wide range of work, including skyscrapers, large-scale academic facilities, residential buildings, and adaptive reuse projects, in both internationally and locally recognized New York City firms.
"Through its inclusion of fresh analysis and new material, Alvar Aalto and Urban Design stands as a valuable addition to Aalto discourse, appealing to existing scholars in developing a more complete understanding of his life's work. Perhaps more importantly, as a result of the book’s generous introduction to urbanist and conservationist theories, it also provides the opportunity for Alvar Aalto and his socially benevolent idealism to inspire and guide the next generation of architects, planners and urban designers towards a more socially and ecologically sustainable future."
- George Michelin, a graduate of the Oxford Brookes School of Architecture and the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. A British/Finnish designer and architect.
"Within the context of the environmental crisis, Aalto’s biophilic design approach has only come to resonate more strongly for architects, planners and urban designers."
- Arkkitehti / Finnish Architectural ReviewBook — 22.4.2026, URBAN DESIGN Book Review: Alvar Aalto and Urban Design "Alvar Aalto’s environmental thinking was ahead of its time."
