Anthony G. Piscopia, AIA
Senior Associate & Director of Housing Preservation

Mr. Piscopia has 30 years of experience in design and construction incorporating quality, sustainability and efficiency. He has extensive experience in architecture, design, NYC code compliance and zoning studies for proposed development, project management, and construction of private and public work. Mr. Piscopia has also served as HAKS’ lead design constructability reviewer progress sets, bid and confirmed set of contract documents prepared by other architectural and engineering firms for various NYCHA projects. 

Prior to joining HAKS in 2013, he served for 9 years as Deputy Director of the Office of Design for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). In this position, he was responsible for directing and supervising 80 in-house architects and engineers as well as nine consultant architectural engineering firms to provide contract documents and construction administrative services for ARRA-funded projects and mixed finance modernization projects for $700 million of hard costs. As Deputy, Mr. Piscopia also led the consultant efforts on physical needs assessment for NYCHA properties. Prior to working for NYCHA, Mr. Piscopia served as chief architect and owner’s representative for a privately-owned hospitality company in New York. His earlier career included being a project architect at an architectural/engineering firm specializing in Section 8 gut rehabilitation and new multi-family affordable housing in the South Bronx. 

Mr. Piscopia holds a Bachelor of Architecture from City College of The City University of New York and is a Registered Architect in New York. 

Select Project Experience 

  • NYCHA RAD Bundle III - Hope Gardens Consolidation (1321 units in 60 residential buildings) - Bushwick 

  • HPD Cluster Program with various nonprofit developer/providers (351 units in 16 buildings) - Bronx 

Education 

Bachelor of Architecture, CUNY/City College of New York, NY 

Affiliations 

Registered Architect – New York State #016013 

Holds NYC Building Department Class ‘A’ Expeditor Identification 

AIA Housing Committee 

NYC Building Code Construction Requirements & Materials Committee 

Volunteer Member of 2014 NYC 

Building Code Advisory Committee 

Volunteer Member of 2017 NYC Building Code Technical Committee 

Volunteer for rescue Greyhound organization Long Island Greyhound Connection (LIGC)

Specific NYCHA Experience 

  • NYCHA Design Department including all developments and nearly $3B of capital improvements in a 10 year tenure. 

  • At HAKS worked NYCHA projects through an On Call A/E contract for the following:

    • Gravesend Houses: 634 units in fifteen 7-story buildings. $150M Superstorm Sandy Recovery & Restoration. 

    • Pomonok Houses: 2,069 units in thirty-five 3, 7 & 8 story buildings. $65M Building Exterior Envelope Restoration & Renovation (Roofing, Masonry & Window Replacement). 

    • Queensbridge North: 1,540 units in thirteen 6-story buildings $24M. Building Exterior Envelope Restoration & Renovation. 

    • Queensbridge South: 1,604 units in thirteen 6-story buildings $24M. Building Exterior Envelope Restoration & Renovation. 

    • All Developments: 274 units in 2600 multi-story buildings $300K Section 504 Evaluation Report of all developments. 

    • S. Sotomayor Houses: 1,497 units in twenty-eight 7-story buildings. $100M Constructability review of contract documents by others for Major Renovation of Building Exterior Envelope and Bathrooms.