LPC's Vice Chair Frederick Bland

Frederick Bland, a commissioner and recently appointed vice chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, is now presiding over the commission’s public hearings and public meetings as interim chair – following the resignation of Meenakshi Srinivasan in June – until an official LPC chair is appointed to office. Bland is an architect and managing partner at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, a New York-based architecture firm known for restoring and renovating historic buildings, as well as an adjunct professor in New York University's art history department.