Urblandia | AVENTURA | SALONS — Chris Houck - Industry Perspectives and Connections
Join us for Urblandia SALONS | Aventura — our monthly, in-person forum for strategic peer connections across the real estate ecosystem. This curated conversation brings together leaders shaping the built environment through design, materials innovation, deal-making, and construction delivery.
Featuring guest perspectives — expect real-world insights, cross-disciplinary dialogue, and meaningful connections with collaborators for your next real estate project.
Special thanks to our partner Industrious for facilitating this gathering and many more to come.
Format
Short talk / guest perspectives → moderated discussion → peer connections — light bites/refreshments provided.
Featured
Chris Houck is a licensed architect in Florida, New York, and New Jersey, and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He holds a Master of Architecture from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from The College of William and Mary graduating magna cum laude. Prior to establishing his firm, Chris was an associate at Belmont Freeman Architects in New York.
Chris Houck Architect is an architectural office that brings expertise to residential and commercial projects. CHA is a service driven practice committed to collaboration with clients to achieve their project goals, an approach that strives to discover full project potential and an end result finely crafted to the user’s needs.
CHA prides itself on its practical approach to architecture. Of course, every project has a myriad of demands, interesting or otherwise, that must be met. And if the effort and expense is to be taken to accomplish these things, they should be done so in a careful, elegant, and beautiful way.
Chris Houck Architect recognizes building is not a practice of limitless resources, whether financial, environmental, or temporal. Simply put, CHA’s aim is to do the most with the least, an aim towards design that is environmentally responsible as well as economical both in means and aesthetic.
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Urblandia SALONS are intentionally structured to support cross-disciplinary partnership, helping participants identify aligned collaborators, form project teams, and pursue opportunities that extend beyond geographic boundaries. Grounded in circular economy principles, human-centered design thinking, and nature-adaptive best practices, these gatherings prioritize long-term value creation through stronger relationships, smarter projects, and more resilient places.
Who Should Attend
Architects, developers, engineers, interior designers, planners, place makers, city-builders, investors, technologists, manufacturers, and professionals shaping the built environment.
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