Women Build

Women Build speaks to Tamsin Hanke about Passivhaus accreditation, what needs to be considered pre design and what architects need to be aware of when sourcing appropriate materials. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Women Build speaks to Kelley Hoffman about designing senior living communities, the amenities necessary to encourage interaction between residents and the importance of client and resident feedback. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Ámbar Margarida and Amanda Cronick about how well sustainability and wellness work together, designing for different age ranges and taking a trauma-informed design approach. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Meredith Seeds about designing retail spaces to suit diversity, disability and the ageing population, whether design expectations have changed post-pandemic and the emergence of architecture NFTs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Rebecca Berry, Regan Shields Ives and Elena Bobeva talk about transforming historic buildings to suit today's needs and the technology that can make these buildings more sustainable. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Julie Janiski, Partner at Buro Happold about the challenges of designing all electric buildings, the technology that enables a clean energy supply and the world's tallest and largest residential passive house certified building See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Jo Cowen and Mary Ann Schicketanz about how they define net zero and how to achieve it in the US and the UK See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Natalie Telewiak about designing timber buildings, addressing net-zero targets and how building materials help us connect with nature. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Kate Rasmussen about what to consider when designing a forever home, the challenges around new builds and renovations and classical architecture See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Adele Rankin and Meghann Van Dorn about how the pandemic has changed the needs of residents, end-user wellbeing and pickleball courts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Kelly McEachern, Senior Project Manager/Designer at Perkins&Will about how they are using data to create worker personas to design office environments that suit different personalities and work styles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Pascale Sablan and Yiselle Santos Rivera about fostering a positive working environment for women, designing more inclusive workspaces and what they gained by entering WAN's Female Frontier Awards. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Ruth Todd, architect, planner and President of Page & Turnbull. Ruth talks about how historic preservation projects are funded, the practicalities of future-proofing historic buildings and how recycling buildings supports the environment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Alexandra Cuber, head of the hospitality department at Fogarty Finger. Alexandra shares how hospitality interiors can be adapted to suit social distancing, the evolution of the workplace, copper bars and the regeneration of the One World Trade Center site. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Brenda Smith, Healthcare Practice Leader for Perkins&Wills' New York studio  Brenda shares with us how the pandemic has impacted healthcare design, designing for neurodiverse patients' needs and how her experience as a former nurse helped shape her career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Amanda Gunawan, co-founding principal of OWIU. Amanda shares with us some really sound advice as to what is needed when you set up your own architecture and design practice, the importance of business plan research and sourcing crucial support, and the differences between working in Asia and the US. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Natasha Bonugli, Global Principal of Design at Unispace and Tania Adir, Founder and CEO of Uncommon. We talk about what's being done to protect people from coronavirus in global workplace interiors, how advances in technology will make for safer work environments, the challenges faced when upgrading an older building to WELL Platinum certification and finally how lemons can help with concentration. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Lisa Bate, Global Sustainability Lead and Senior Principal at B+H Architects in Canada and Mia Lehrer, Founder of Studio MLA in the US. We talk about putting roads on diets, how a city as developed as LA can be more sustainable, and the Humber College Building NX, which went from being the inefficient building on campus to become the first Net Zero Carbon Design Certified Retrofit Building in Canada in 2019. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Christina Ciardullo and Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman from SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) about their designs for Moon based living,  human-centred design, the advantages of 3D printing in architecture and how building for the Moon and Mars can teach us more about how we should be building for Earth.  Continuing a decade-long association with NASA's Johnson Space Center Human Habitability Division & Langley Research Center, the mission of SEArch+ is to conceive, investigate, and develop innovative 'human-centered' designs enabling human beings not only to live, but to thrive in space environments beyond Earth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women Build speaks to Sherry Larjani, Managing Partner at Spotlight Developments and Heather Rolleston, Principal and Design Director at Quadrangle Architects about why they formed an all-female team to combat the gender imbalance in the real estate development industry, the sometimes surprising responses they received as a result of it and how condo living can be covid-proof. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To mark Black History month in the UK, WAN's Women Build podcast spoke to three women about the challenges that come with being both female and black in this sector, and how the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the problems of the built environment in black communities. Recording a podcast virtually had it's challenges this week and we apologise for the sound issues. We'll nail it next time.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this, the first Women Build podcast, we talked to Maggie Mullan, principal at her practice in Liverpool, about what success looks like for women in architecture, whether women have a more practical approach to design, ask are we seeing a growth in women led practices and finally some key advice for those starting their architectural career.   We also let listeners know why WAN decided this was the right time to launch the Female Frontier (powered by WAN) Awards. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The new podcast from World Architecture News See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.