Interestingly Rafael Vinoly and Carl Stein worked on the same campus. Check this out from CUNY. Stein worked on a building by George Post.

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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: CARL STEIN ON SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
Carl Stein, of Stein White Nelligan Architects in New York, didn't set out to score LEED points for the new building he designed for the State Department of Environmental Conservation's Region 3 headquarters in New Paltz, New York. Nevertheless, it's expected to be the first office building in New York to win the LEED gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. Stein has some concerns about LEED, however. "The issue I have with LEED is that it's primarily a laundry list -- it doesn't force you to think about architecture in a dynamic, synergistic manner." A key issue in thinking holistically about a building, Stein says, is to understand how it uses energy. Stein is no newcomer to thinking about energy efficiency. He and his father Richard Stein wrote the seminal text, Handbook of Energy Use for Building Construction for the U. S. Department of Energy in 1981. "It documents the embodied energy of a building," Stein says, "i.e., the energy that goes into manufacturing it: raw materials, finished products, transportation associated with delivering stuff to the site, energy that is used on the site, and so on." The firm's public library in South Jamaica, Queens, made the AIA's Earth Day 2000 top ten list.
Metropolis, Oct 2004, by Alex Ulam. from http://www.greenclips.com/