March 3, 2022
6:30 PM est
Alexandra Cuber AIA, LEED AP
Alexandra Cuber has lived in Germany and Spain and has spent most of her 20-year career in New York City. Her career began as an exterior architect for many high-rise projects and museums including the Perez Art Museum. In 2011, she joined Fogarty Finger, where she leads the hospitality interiors studio. She conveys her strong design sensibility to projects including The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s public and amenity spaces, a new commercial amenity campus, headquarter build-outs and a boutique hotel in downtown Manhattan.
Alexandra holds a Diploma in Architecture from University of Applied Science of Cologne, Germany and a Master of Architecture from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. She is a Registered Architect, AIA member and LEED AP. She is an advocate for women and minorities and a passionate mentor for young talent.
The benefits of having a Plan B
During her career as an Architect, Alexandra always maintained an expansive and flexible vision of the path ahead. She has generally stayed open in the pursuit of her goals, checking in along the way about whether what she was doing was fulfilling or making her happy at any given moment. Alexandra never allowed herself to become so focused on a goal that she lost herself or her happiness in the process, and that has contributed greatly to her career.
Alexandra is a strong believer that if you love doing something you produce your best work, which inevitably leads to success. Anytime she decided to make a change or pursue something throughout her career, she always had both a plan A and a plan B. If plan A didn’t work out, she moved to plan B, which often turned out to be the better option.
Keeping an open mind and staying flexible allowed her to encounter opportunities she would have never thought possible. Having a plan B mixed with following your heart has proven the recipe to success for Alexandra and makes the career ride an interesting adventure. The unknown can be scary, and many feel this pressure to figure everything out ahead of time, but there is also opportunity and excitement in the unknown.