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Architectette
060: Pascale Sablan: Redefining GREATNESS in Architecture

Architectette

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 45:38


Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP is a visionary architect and CEO of the New York Studio of Adjaye Associates, where she leads major international, cultural, civic, and commercial projects. As the 315th living African American woman registered architect in the U.S., she is not only an accomplished architect, but an activist dedicated to addressing disparities in her field. Pascale founded Beyond the Built Environment to empower women and BIPOC designers and was the 2023-2024 Global President of the National Organization of Minority Architects. Pascale's advocacy has earned prestigious accolades, including the Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices Award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. She was the youngest African American to be inducted into the AIA College of Fellows and has received grants from the Graham Foundation and the Architects Foundation for her research and exhibitions.We talk about:-Pascale's roles as architect and advocate, motherhood, firm culture, and her recruitment to Adjaye Associates which started with a phone call from Sir David Adjaye himself.-We dive into Pascale's impressive advocacy work including the Great Diverse Designers Library, Say It With Media Pledge, Beyond the Built Environment, and the impact of her most recent publication, Greatness. -The importance of architect engagement and how women and BIPOC people can participate in record-keeping, storytelling, and policy change to resist erasure.____Thank you to our sponsors:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Arcol⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a collaborative building design tool built for modern teams. Arcol streamlines your design process by keeping your model, data and presentations in sync enabling your team to work together seamlessly.- Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Arcol.io⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcol-tech⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- Twitter/ X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://x.com/ArcolTech⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Layer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is the workflow platform for buildings, empowering teams to capture field data & photos, connect it to their drawings & models, and create beautiful deliverables & reports.Use Layer to build your own workflow to generate Room Data Sheets from Revit, manage your CA processes such as RFIs or Punch lists, conduct field surveys and much more. The best thing is, it's all connected directly to Revit so you'll never have to copy and paste data between windows again.- Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://layer.team/architectette⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠____Links:https://pascalesablan.com/https://www.beyondthebuilt.com/____Connect with Architectette:- Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.architectette.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Learn more)- Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @architectette⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (See more)- Newsletter:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.architectette.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Behind the Scenes Content)- LinkedIn:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Architectette Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Page and/or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Caitlin Brady⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support Architectette:- Leave us a rating and review!-⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ AlexGrohl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Scratching the Surface
261. Gregory Wessner

Scratching the Surface

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 52:15


Gregory Wessner is the Executive Director of the National Academy of Design, the New York-based non-profit founded in 1825 that promotes art and architecture in America through exhibition, education, and research. Before joining the National Academy, Gregory served as executive director of Open House New York, and in a variety of roles at the Architectural League of New York. In this episode, Jarrett and Gregory talk about the structure of the National Academy and how it serves artists and architects as it approaches its 200th anniversary, the changing definitions of design, and the value of non-profits in architecture and design media. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/261-gregory-wessner. 
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The Jule Museum Podcast
Episode 30: Walter Hood and Taneshia West Albert

The Jule Museum Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 43:44


Walter Hood and Taneshia West Albert in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024. Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League's President's Medal Award. Taneshia West Albert is an enthusiastic, award-winning educator and design practitioner in the College of Human Sciences at Auburn. Her research and creative scholarship explore cultural identity, meaning and trauma; diversity and inclusion; and methods to increase intercultural competency in design education and practice. Her design career is focused on design for healthcare environments, corporate interiors and higher education spaces with a unique background in Medical Equipment Planning and Facilities Design and Construction.

The Kitchen Sisters Present
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977

The Kitchen Sisters Present

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 26:33


In 1977, a cavernous, rarely used sculpture gallery in the Brooklyn Museum was filled with drafting tables, their tops tilted to display collages of the work and under-told stories of women working in architecture in the United States.We revisit this first significant effort to publicly tell the little known stories of American women in architecture: “Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective.” On view at the Brooklyn Museum from February-April of 1977, the groundbreaking exhibition and simultaneous book, curated and edited by Susana Torre, clearly defined the state of play for women in the architecture profession. Alienated by the profound hostility expressed by the AIA, women architects came together and found an accepting cohort at the Architectural League of New York. They organized. They canvassed. They raised their consciousnesses. The project team identified subjects so previously obscured as to be unknown, and then with the energy and drive of a furious mob, they broke through and laid the groundwork for scholarship, social change, and recognition of women architects for the next fifty years.  Produced by Brandi Howell, for the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation's podcast New Angle Voice.Special thanks to Susana Torre, Andrea Merrett, Suzanne Stephens, Cynthia Rock, Deborah Nevins, and Robert AM Stern. Editorial advising from Alexandra Lange and production assistance from Virginia Eskridge and Aislinn McNamara. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation.The Kitchen Sisters Present, part of PRX's Radiotopia network, is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell. For more stories and information visit kitchensisters.org. 

Voice Lessons Podcast
A Lesson On Owning Your Own Narrative with Pascale Sablan

Voice Lessons Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 34:02 Transcription Available


Meet Pascale Sablan, a visionary architect with an impressive track record of transforming the built environment. Pascale has been recognized as one of the most influential architects of her generation, with a practice characterized by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and sustainability. She currently serves as the NOMA Global President and Chief Executive Officer at Adjaye Associates, New York Studio in charge of all operations, whilst continuing to lead efforts for architectural projects, community engagement and business development. Pascale is not only an accomplished architect but an activist dedicated to addressing disparities in her field. She founded Beyond the Built Environment, empowering women and BIPOC designers. As the Global President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, she's a trailblazer, being the fifth woman to hold this position in the organization's 52-year legacy. Pascale's advocacy has earned prestigious accolades, including the Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. Inducted into the AIA College of Fellows, she's the youngest African American to receive this honor in its 167-year history. Pascale has received grants from the Graham Foundation and the Architects Foundation for her research and exhibitions. Her influence extends globally, with lectures at esteemed institutions like RIBA, the United Nations, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Described as a "powerhouse woman" in the media, her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and Forbes, and she was recognized by Oprah's Future Rising platform. With a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science from Columbia University, Pascale Sablan, with her unique perspective, unwavering dedication, and undeniable talent, is set to shape the future of architecture for years to come.   TOPICS DISCUSSED IN "OWNING YOUR OWN NARRATIVE": What is Pascale's earliest memory of being creative? The lengthy educational journey to becoming an architect 5% of Black students go into architecture school and only 3% graduate. 7 HBUs creative 65% of the students. What happened in Pascale's history of Architecture class and how it cemented her purpose as an advocate The responsibility of showing up as you are in spaces where you don't look like everyone else Architect Magazine's Erasure of Justin Garrett Moore Google and it's definition of great architects Pascale Sablan's new book set for release in September How activism isn't all always about action, it's about wholeness LINKS:   https://pascalesablan.com/ https://www.adjaye.com/ https://www.beyondthebuilt.com/say-it-loud https://www.noma.net/  

Scratching the Surface
250. Jacob Moore

Scratching the Surface

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 53:52


Jacob R. Moore was named the executive director of The Architectural League of New York in June 2023. He previously served as associate director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. He's worked as a writer, editor, curator, and publisher and helped co-found The Avery Review. In this conversation, Jarrett and Jacob talk about the mission of The Architectural League, the role of non-profits in design discourse, and the changing state of design publishing. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/250-jacob-moore. 
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New Angle: Voice
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977

New Angle: Voice

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 25:36


That was some party. Even though I didn't make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what seemed to be pages out of the book, one spread to a table. It overwhelmed with information—but seemed void of the chatter of us working women.   Welcome to New Angle Voice, I'm your host, Cynthia Kracauer.  In this episode, we revisit the first significant effort to publicly tell the under-told stories of American women in architecture: “Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective.” On view at the Brooklyn Museum from February-April of 1977, the groundbreaking exhibition and simultaneous book, curated and edited by Susana Torre, clearly defined the state of play for women in the architecture profession. Alienated by the profound hostility expressed by the AIA, women architects found an accepting cohort at the Architectural League of New York. We organized. We canvassed. We raised our consciousnesses. The project team identified subjects so previously obscured as to be unknown, and then with the energy and drive of a furious mob, they broke through and laid the groundwork for scholarship, social change, and recognition of women architects for the next fifty years. Get your consciousness raised: listen to our voices. Here's “Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977.”   Special thanks in this episode to Susana Torre, Andrea Merrett, Suzanne Stephens, Cynthia Rock, Deborah Nevins, and Robert AM Stern. This podcast is produced by Brandi Howell, with editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. Thanks also to production assistants Virginia Eskridge and Aislinn McNamara. New Angle Voice is brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Funding for this podcast comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation. We are beginning our third season, and hope that if you have followed our progress, that you will want to continue to support our ongoing efforts to tell women's stories of challenge, struggle and success. Visit our website to make a contribution. www.bwaf.org.  

Cracks Podcast con Oso Trava
#272. Michel Rojkind - Actualizar tu Sistema Operativo, Longevidad, ADHD, Arquitectura y Diversidad que te Hace Único

Cracks Podcast con Oso Trava

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2024 129:16


Michel Rojkind IG: @rojkind es el fundador de Rojkind Arquitectos, un estudio creativo de diseño, tácticas de negocio, y procesos de innovación experiencial con base en la Ciudad de México. El estudio se enfoca en el diseño de estrategias urbanas y soluciones arquitectónicas convirtiendo las problemáticas contemporáneas en oportunidades de diseño.Por favor ayúdame y sigue Cracks Podcast en YouTube aquí."La vida te da lo que tú estás listo para recibir."- Michel RojkindComparte esta frase en TwitterEste episodio es presentado por ImpactX el programa de Alta dirección empresarial en línea para crecer tu impacto como líder y guiar tu empresa hacia el crecimiento sostenible y por Actinver una institución con más de 28 años en el sector financiero con la que puedes comenzar a invertir desde $10,000.  Estudió Arquitectura y Planeación Urbana en la Universidad Iberoamericana. Ha sido profesor invitado en la IACC en Barcelona, así como en SCI-ARC en Los Ángeles, IIT en Chicago, UPenn en Filadelfia y Harvard en Boston y ha dado conferencias alrededor del mundo.Rojkind ha sido publicado y reconocido en numerosos libros y revistas internacionales como The New York Times, Wallpaper, Architectural League of New York, Architectural Digest, Líderes Mexicanos, Forbes, entre otros.Hoy Michel y yo hablamos de actualizar tu sistema operativo, de combinar varias carreras para ser único, de longevidad y de arquitectura que mejora el mundo.Qué puedes aprender hoyUna buena actitud ante la vidaCómo la arquitectura puede mejorar el entornoEl rol de la energía e el sexo*Este episodio es presentado por ImpactXDescubre ImpactX, el programa de Alta dirección empresarial en línea diseñado para proporcionarte las herramientas, estrategias y sistemas necesarios para crecer tu impacto como líder y guiar tu empresa hacia el crecimiento sostenible. Eleva tu conciencia empresarial y aprende a liderar con claridad y eficacia con el apoyo de otros directores y ejecutivos, como tú, que buscan disfrutar su rol como líder, alcanzar sus objetivos y lograr el equilibrio en sus vidas.Registrate en ImpactX en https://cracks.la/impactx y usa el código CRACKS20 para 20% de descuento.*Este episodio es presentado por Actinver.Invertir es una herramienta que puede ayudarte a tener rendimientos con el tiempo,  por eso es importante asesorarte y analizar las alternativas que hay en el mercado para  definir tus metas financieras; cuanto, como y donde invertir según tus necesidades y hacerlo con una empresa que esté legalmente regulada.Una gran alternativa es Grupo Financiero Actinver, una institución con más de 28 años en el sector financiero con la que puedes comenzar a invertir desde $10,000 y contar con asesoría especializada que te guiará en cada paso para definir una estrategia adecuada para ti.Asesórate con los expertos de Actinver visitando cracks.la/actinver Ve el episodio en Youtube

Meet the Creatives
MICHAEL BEIRUT RETURNS!!! The Season 8 Premiere of Meet the Creatives

Meet the Creatives

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 39:16


The Season 8 Premiere of Meet the Creatives with Michael Beirut, Partner at Pentagram. Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. He worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990. His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, Bobby Flay Bold Foods, Princeton University, the New York Jets, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Playwrights Horizons. As a volunteer to Hillary Clinton's communications team, he designed the H logo that was ubiquitous throughout her 2016 presidential campaign. Bierut served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. He also serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and the Library of America. Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and was awarded the profession's highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. He was winner in the Design Mind category at the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. In 2016, he was the Henry Wolf Resident in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome. Bierut is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art and a lecturer in the practice of design and management at the Yale School of Management. He is a cofounder of the website Design Observer and is the co-editor of the five-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design published by Allworth Press. Michael's book 79 Short Essays on Design was published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press. A monograph on his work, How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry and (every once in a while) change the world was published in 2015 by Harper Collins. His collection of new essays, Now You See It, was published in fall 2017.

The DP Podcast
The Divine Purpose Podcast SE 2 EP 20 with Eddy Dacius and Pascale Sablan

The DP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 61:09


DP Podcast is a leading platform dedicated to empowering individuals and promoting awareness in various fields. Through our diverse range of resources and initiatives, we strive to make a positive impact on society by providing valuable information, support, and guidance. For more information about The Divine Purpose Podcast and its initiatives, please visit www.dppodcast.com   SPECIAL GUEST  Pascale Sablan is a visionary architect with an impressive track record of transforming the built environment. As an Associate Principal at Adjaye Associates, she brings over 15 years of experience and an unparalleled passion for designing structures that serve society. Pascale's achievements are numerous, including being the 315th living African-American woman registered architect in the United States. She is an activist architect who has made it her mission to address the inequitable disparities in architecture. In pursuit of this goal, she founded the Beyond the Built Environment organization, which has become a beacon for women and BIPOC designers seeking to make their mark on the field. As the Global President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, Pascale has become a trailblazer in the industry. She is the fifth woman to hold this prestigious position in the organization's 52-year legacy, a testament to her unwavering commitment to progress. Pascale's advocacy efforts have earned her numerous accolades, including the Architectural League 2021 Emerging Voices award and the 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award. She has also been inducted into the AIA College of Fellows, the youngest African American to receive this honor in the organization's 167-year history. Additionally, Pascale has received the Graham Foundation Grant and the Architects Foundation Grant for her research and exhibitions with affiliated programming. Pascale's influence extends far beyond the United States. She has given lectures at colleges and universities nationally and globally, including prestigious institutions like the RIBA, the United Nations, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In the media, Pascale has been described as a "powerhouse woman" and a "rarely missed opportunity to note the importance of the connection between the professionals conceiving and constructing our environments and the people they should serve." Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and Forbes magazine, and she was recognized by Oprah's Future Rising platform for Black trailblazers. Pascale's educational background includes a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. With her unique perspective, unwavering dedication, and undeniable talent, Pascale Sablan is poised to continue shaping the future of architecture for years to come.   THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! --------------------------------STAY CONNECTED ----------------------

Lives Radio Show with Stuart Chittenden

Architect Jeff Day talks about the role of architecture in our individual and communal existence, the cultural influences shaping our buildings, and some of the contemporary conversations in this field. Day also shares his personal influences and philosophies for designing our built environment.Jeff Day is the founding principal of Actual Architecture Company and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska. Day has received numerous awards including the Architectural League of New York's 2016 Emerging Voices, a 2019 Progressive Architecture Award, and many more besides, and his work has been published in a wide range of journals, design magazines, and books. In 2019 Day was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects, an honor bestowed on only 3% of member architects. Day also serves on the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

La Hora Arquine
#LaHoraArquine | Emerging Voices 2023

La Hora Arquine

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2023 59:02


En este episodio conversamos con las 2 oficinas mexicanas (LANZA Atelier & ORU-Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana) premiadas del Emerging Voices 2023 que da la Architectural League de Nueva York.

Access to Inspiration
93. Andrew Freear: How Rural Studio creates sustainable impact

Access to Inspiration

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2023 40:38 Transcription Available


In our final guest-hosted episode, researcher and designer Josh Wasserman, from episode 44 talks to Andrew Freear, Director of Rural Studio which part of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University. Freear lives in a small rural community in Hale County, West Alabama, where for twenty years he has directed this unique architecture program where students design and build community buildings, homes, and landscape projects for under-resourced local towns and non-profit organization. Freear explains how the project has evolved over the years, and about the unique experience where the students live and work in-situ and are responsible for all aspects of the design and build process including liaison with community partners, local authorities, and those who will be using or living in the buildings.About Andrew Freear:Andrew Freear is the J. Streeter Wiatt Professor and Director of Rural Studio. He was educated at the University of Westminster and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has designed and built exhibits for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, the Milan Triennale, and the Venice Biennale. His honours include the Ralph Erskine Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Freear was a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and in 2020 received the President's Medal from the Architectural League of New York.Connect with Rural Studio: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Rural Studio Farm Connect with Josh Wasserman on LinkedIn Key QuotesWe're here to educate architecture students and help them get a good design education.Architecture students get to not only design their projects, but they get to build their projects.There's a responsibility to make sure that you are building something that will be here a long time.In the late nineties we built a house out of carpet tiles.We asked ourselves could we come up with an affordable home that anyone and everybody could afford.We bring young folks into a place like this and they bring energy and it breaks down some boundaries. class boundaries, race boundaries, misconceptions about this place.We have ambitious students who want to, save the world and you can't come to a place like this and tell people how to live their livesI think we should care about the craft of things. We should care about the way things are put together. And from concept to compete completion. It's a richer world if it's that way.This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Read the transcription for this episode at our website

State of the Arts
State of the Arts Episode 102: "Dial-A-Poem" by John Giorno

State of the Arts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 25:49


State of the Arts Episode 102 just released! In 1968 poet and visual artist John Giorno created "Dial-A-Poem" which is a telephone service that communicates poetry to callers. The service began at the Architectural League of New York. "Dial-A-Poem" ended up being an art display in many prominent museums. A table with a few telephones were set up at each of these museums for patrons to listen to recordings of poetry from many different authors (including John Giorno himself). More than one million people used this service in the comfort of their own homes and workplaces however, which inspired a range of similar services to be created. These services include "Dial-A-Joke," "Dial Sports" and "Dial-A-Horoscope." In 1969 after a review was received for "Dial-A-Poem" in the New York Times, they received millions of calls which caused 250,000 busy signals on the first day. In the 1980's, John Giorno released fifty albums of "Dial-A-Poem" poets to encourage people to start their own "Dial-A-Poem" hotlines. John Giorno passed away in 2019, but not without etching his legacy into the scene of New York art. Not only was he the creator of the successful not-for-profit Giorno Poetry Systems, he was also the subject of Andy Warhol's film "Sleep." This long-time practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism was a prominent activist in the cause of AIDS awareness as well. "Dial-A-Poem" has been revived recently and can be accessed by calling 917-994-8949. This one-of-a-kind episode is an homage to this awe-inspiring artist and his work. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Artist as Leader
Sekou Cooke translates hip-hop culture into built form

Artist as Leader

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 26:56


Though Sekou Cooke did not invent the term or the theory of hip-hop architecture, he is one of its leading proponents and practitioners. An architect, urban designer, researcher and curator born and raised in Jamaica and educated at Cornell and Harvard, he currently serves as the Director of the Master of Urban Design at UNC Charlotte. He also owns and operates Sekou Cooke STUDIO, which recently earned a 2022 Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York.Sekou's recent projects include “Grids + Griots,” an architectural intervention commissioned for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the soon-to-be-built Syracuse Hip-Hop Headquarters that will convert a derelict building in the city's Near Westside into event and performance venues and a variety of education and office spaces. Two of his designs are also now included on the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety's list of Approved Standard Plans for Additional Dwelling Units.In 2021, Bloomsbury published Sekou's “Hip-Hop Architecture,” a monograph that, true to its title and inspiration, is a manifesto and exploration constructed more like a music album combined with expansive liner notes than a traditional academic tome, with its foreword written by noted sociologist and author Michael Eric Dyson.In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Sekou draws a line between the fluid and inherently anti-authoritarian nature of hip-hop culture and the kind of equitable and fully participatory built environments hip-hop architecture envisions. https://www.sekoucooke.com/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/hiphop-architecture-9781350116146/https://www.archdaily.com/435952/keep-talking-kanye-an-architect-s-defense-of-kanye-west

Norman Foster Foundation
Vishaan Chakrabarti: Give the cities back to the people

Norman Foster Foundation

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 6:23


In this episode of the Common Futures Series, Vishaan Chakrabarti talks about how last century impacted on cities, in a way that they were created for cars not for people. This century's challenge is to give the cities back to the people, by creating new solutions using new technologies that can make cities more sustainable. Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). He is the author of A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America, published in 2013. Chakrabarti is currently on leave from his tenured faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), where he served as the William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design. After the tragic events of 9/11, he was appointed to be the planning director for Manhattan. In this position he collaborated on the nowrealised efforts to save the High Line and revitalise the World Trade Center site. He serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York, the Regional Planning Association, the Norman Foster Foundation and The World Around You. Common Futures is a new series of podcasts produced by the Norman Foster Foundation that aim to empower our community to make positive change as a platform for people around the world to share and hear inspirational stories and ideas that will shape the future. www.normanfosterfoundation.org

Hablando en Acero
Hablando en Acero. T2. Ep5. Arquitectura sustentable con: M.A. Rozana Montiel.

Hablando en Acero

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2022 51:07


En este episodio nos acompaña en la entrevista la M.A. Rozana Montiel. Es directora y fundadora del despacho mexicano ROZANA MONTIEL | ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA enfocado en el diseño arquitectónico, re-conceptualizaciones artísticas del espacio y el dominio público. Rozana es arquitecta por la Universidad Iberoamericana (Ciudad de México, 1998) con Maestría en Arquitectura, Crítica y Proyecto por la Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya UPC (Barcelona, 2000). En el 2019 fue acreedora del reconocimiento Global Award for Sustainable Architecture otorgado por la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, París. En 2016, fue ganadora del Premio Emerging Voices concedido por The Architectural League of New York. Platicamos con Rozana sobre el descubrimiento de su vocación por la arquitectura, la instalación Stand Up for the Seas!, como fue que el propósito de dicha instalación la acercó a Gerdau Corsa y la importancia del Acero como material reciclado, para cumplir con este propósito de sustentabilidad. En los datos del sector, veremos temas como la producción mundial de Acero por regiones, la inflación, el tipo de cambio y la proyección de Worldsteel. En nuestra cápsula ¿Sabías que? Hablamos sobre el Acero y su relación con el medio ambiente. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gerdau-corsa/message

ALL GOOD VIBES
Loreta Castro-Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi - Taller Capital

ALL GOOD VIBES

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 51:50


Guests of the podcast are two young Mexican architects, Loreta Castro-Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi, co-founders in 2010 of their Mexico City-based architecture and urban design studio, Taller Capital, TC. Deeply concerned about a dramatic water problem that is afflicting Mexico, and the capital in particular, a water management system insufficient to solve extensive and frequent floods during the rainy season and, at the same time, unable to satisfy the water's need of a population of more than 22 million residents, they have started a relevant research-based exploration, since the first years of the university, that has led them to develop solutions capable to transform water management and culture. As integrative support of the underground hydraulic drainage engineering system adopted for the city, one of the largest in the world, their philosophy, centered on the efficiency of ‘hydro-urban acupuncture', has inspired small interventions, integrating retroactive soft hydraulic infrastructures with public space, as recreational parks, implemented with low budgets in areas of dense populated, neglected peripheries. Their research, started from the academia, has continued with the support of important scholarships and prizes, and with the collaborations with universities and other institutions.For the important challenges they addressed and their sustainable and innovative approach, they have received prestigious awards such as the Global LafargeHolcim Award Gold 2018 and LafargeHolcim Award Gold 2017 for region Latin America, shortlisted for the 2020 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award, and winners last year of the Architectural League's annual Emerging Voices, finalists for the World Prize of the 2020 Quito Architecture Bienial and recipients of the silver medal at the 2017 Mexico City Bienial for their Eco Pavillion installation.Loreta, after a Master in Architecture form Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD, has been invited as guest professor and speaker to several institutions in America and Europe and has written essays and articles for several magazines and books.We start our conversation with curiosity from my side to deepen the main reasons that have led Mexico City, born like a settlement on water, to confront this crucial, paradoxical situation of excess of water during the rainy season and severe scarcity of drinking water. We dedicate then attention to their innovative, resilient approach to water's management, focusing on a project in Nogales, Represo, that, far from the coerciveness of a hard system, integrates infrastructural solutions with recreational, interactive spaces, offering a new paradigm of adaptability and trying to get the idea accepted of respecting natural rhythms.We dwell then on the other two parks, realised one in Tijuana, Baja California, and the other, Parque Bicentenario, in Sierra Guadalupe, plus the Parque Hídrico Quebradora, still under construction, all adopting different systems of water management but sharing a common concept, intending to combine place of treatment and recreational place for people.The aesthetically appealing act of respect paid to marginalised and ignored neighbourhoods by these public water treatment-parks, attentively curated, despite limited budgets and the austerity of materials, always local and most of the time recycled, represents another crucial point, able to confer an identity to these severely lacerated urban and social fabrics, engaging the community, restituting dignity and nurturing a sense of belonging.Loreta and José talk also about the great determination that has led them to realise their Eco Pavilion, a meaningful installation conceived with the deliberate intention to raise public awareness about the giant underground drainage tunnel system of Mexico City and the Hydric Pavilion, another interesting opportunity, strategically manipulated, for divulging water culture.We conclude talking about a small intervention in the town of Juchitan Oaxaca, affected by a terrible earthquake happened in 2017: a project of great respect toward the community, embodying multiple opportunities of rebirth and their attempt to offer, with their residential works in Mexico City a daily life more in dialogue with nature even in the congested context of the megalopolis.

Architecture is Political
ARCHITECTS AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS W/ JORDAN KRAVITZ AIA AND LORI A. BROWN FAIA

Architecture is Political

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2022 54:35


In this episode, AIP talks to Lori A. Brown FAIA, an architect and Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University and Jordan Kravitz, AIA, LEED Green Assoc, WELL AP, a healthcare architect and medical planner at Smithgroup, about TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) Laws and the call to action to mobilize a list of architects who can assist in design and construction of new clinics in states where abortion is still legal. If you are an architect and are willing to be included on the list, please contact Lori Brown lbrown04(at)syr(dot)edu As a healthcare architect, and medical planner, Jordan Kravitz believes we can bolster community healthcare practices by creating a strong pillar of health and wellness by designing without bias but with dignity, compassion, and sustainable thinking towards our future. With projects across the entire care continuum from medical office buildings to complex hospital projects she can effortlessly execute the duties of both project architect and medical planner, playing an essential role in integrating the programmatic and spatial demands of a project with its technical requirements. Jordan is known as a leader in her place of work and community through her activism in justices, equity , diversity, and inclusion (J.E.D.I) initiatives and involvement with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the Women in Healthcare Organization. Lori Brown FAIA is an architect and Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. Her creative research practice examines relationships between architecture and social justice and seeks to create political engagement. Links: https://www.routledge.com/Contested-Spaces-Abortion-Clinics-Womens-Shelters-and-Hospitals-Politicizing/Brown/p/book/9781138271623 https://www.averyreview.com/issues/54/legal-houdini http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/41/zoned-out-buildings-and-bodies https://unladylike.co/bonus-episodes/24/lori-brown-clinic-design https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/abortion-roe-architect-list.html https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/architectures-role-in-a-post-roe-world/ Sarah Wesseler, "The Abortion Clinic Next Door," The Architectural League of New York, July 7, 2021 https://archleague.org/article/the-abortion-clinic-next-door/

Keen On Democracy
Kerri Arsenault and Bathsheba Demuth: How to Tell Effective Stories About the Environment

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2022 31:52


Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Kerri Arsenault, author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, and Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, teacher, book editor at Orion magazine, and contributing editor at Literary Hub. Her work has also appeared in Freeman's, the Boston Globe, Down East, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Air Mail, and the Washington Post. She served as a mentor for PEN America's Prison & Justice Writing Program and on the National Book Critics Circle board. Arsenault won a grant from the Architectural League of New York for the project American Roundtable and was appointed to teach the Mellon Foundation-funded Understories Writers' Workshop at the University of Oregon's Center for Environmental Futures. Mill Town is her first book. Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, specializing in the United States and Russia, and in the history of energy and past climates. She has lived in and studied Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage
EA457: Thomas Gluck – Why Architect-Led Design/Build is Better

EntreArchitect Podcast with Mark R. LePage

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 46:52


https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/HeadshotThomasGluck.jpg ()Why Architect-Led Design/Build is Better Thomas Gluck is a principal at GLUCK+ in New York City. Named by Fast Company as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in architecture, GLUCK+ has been recognized for their unique approach to Architect Led Design Build: single-source responsibility with architects leading the building process. The practice is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design together with real-world expertise to craft bold, innovative and conceptually unique architecture. GLUCK+ presented Thinking Making Making Thinking, in The Architectural League of New York's Current Work series. The firm was featured in Architectural Record The New Master Builders, The Architect's Newspaper Inside Architecture's One-Stop Shop, and Architect Best Practices: Engaging in Architect Led Design Build. Notable award-winning projects include the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, hailed by The New York Times as one of the city's best new works of public architecture, Bridge, a LEED Gold high-rise mixed-use development in Philadelphia which received an AIANY Award of Merit in Sustainability, and Tower House, selected for Architectural Record's Record Houses in 2013. GLUCK+ also designed and built The Stack, the first prefabricated steel and concrete modular residential development in New York City, which received an AIANY/BSA Housing Honor Award. Recent projects include 145 Central Park North, a new condominium development at the top of New York City's iconic Central Park and Malt House, the sensitive renovation and expansion of an early twentieth century brewery complex into a new commercial mixed-use development in the heart of Harlem. Thomas Gluck received a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. Thomas also serves on the Board of Trustees for Keewaydin Camp. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Why Architect-Led Design/Build is Better with Thomas Gluck. Connect with Thomas online at https://gluckplus.com (GLUCK+), or find him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-gluck-65023720/ (LinkedIn). Please visit Our Platform Sponsors http://BQE.com/masterclass (BQE) makes it easy to manage your projects and people, for maximum productivity and ultimate profitability. Register now for the next Designing Your Business Masterclass at http://BQE.com/masterclass (BQE.com/masterclass). https://arcat.com (ARCAT) is the online resource delivering quality building material information, CAD details, BIM, Specs, and more… all for free. Visit ARCAT now and subscribe to http://arcat.com (ARCATECT Weekly and ARCATAlert). http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all in one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/why-architect-led-design-build-is-better/ (EA457: Thomas Gluck – Why Architect-Led Design/Build is Better) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).

COVIDCalls
EP #465 - 3.11.2022 - The Architecture of COVID

COVIDCalls

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2022 74:41


Today I welcome Daniel Barber, Jeannette KWO Kuo, and Paul Lewis to discuss architecture and design in the COVID era. Daniel A. Barber is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he is also Chair of the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Architecture. His most recent book is Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020). Daniel edits the accumulation series on e-flux architecture and is co-founder of the Current: Collective on Environment and Architectural History. For 2021-2022 he is a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Universität Heidelberg. Jeannette Kuo is partner at Karamuk Kuo Architects based in Zurich and Professor of Architecture and Construction at TU Munich. Previously she was Assistant Professor in Practice at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her work and her research focus on integrated design, looking at architectural space, technology and culture to address a more sustainable future. The work of the office ranges from collective housing to institutional projects for public clients and include the International Sports Sciences Institute in Lausanne, a low-tech sustainable office building; the Archaeological Center at Augusta Raurica; and the extension to the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston. Paul Lewis, FAIA, is a Principal at LTL Architects based in New York City.  He is a Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture, where he has taught since 2000.  Paul is the President of the Architectural League of New York and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.  His New York based firm has completed academic, cultural and institutional projects throughout the United States.  LTL are the 2019 NY State AIA firm of the year and have received a National Design Award, have been inducted into the ID Hall of Fame, and have received multiple AIA design awards.  The firm's recent work includes Poster House, The Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center, and a new residence hall at Carnegie Mellon University.  LTL Architects are the authors of Manual of PhysicalDistancing (2020), Intensities (2013), Opportunistic Architecture (2008) and Situation Normal....Pamphlet Architecture #21 (1998). Their 2016 book entitled Manual of Section has been translated into six languages, and LTL is currently completing a book about plant-based materials used in the sections of house construction.

Archispeak
#251 - Revisiting Rural Studio

Archispeak

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 44:24


A conversation about a recent lecture by Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith of Rural Studio at The Architectural League.LinksAndrew Freear and Rusty Smith, Rural Studio: The Challenges of Sustainable Rural Living (YouTube)Archispeak #170 - Guerilla Architecture; a conversation with Steven Hoffman of Rural Studio after a viewing of the Citizen Architect documentary.SponsorEnscape is a real-time rendering and VR tool for the AEC market. It empowers design workflows by plugging into building modeling software and turning the models into immersive 3D experiences. Visit https://enscape3d.com/archispeak to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Episode 23: Interview with Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA of BROOKS+SCARPA Architects #WFH

"I’ve never met a woman architect before..." podcast

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 34:13


This interview was done as part of the series for the Monterey Design Conference 2019 but it became the first part of the #WFH series that came about as the world starting shutting down for the Covid Pandemic, that we are still experiencing now... Lawrence Scarpa,  FAIAPrincipal, Brooks + Scarpa ArchitectsBiographyThe work of Lawrence Scarpa has redefined the role of the architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. He does this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building. Each project appears as an opportunity to rethink the way things normally get done – with material, form, construction, even financing – and to subsequently redefine it to cull out its latent potentials – as Scarpa aptly describes: making the “ordinary extraordinary.” This produces entirely inventive work that is quite difficult to categorize. It is environmentally sustainable, but not “sustainable design;” it employs new materials, digital practices and technologies, but is not “tech” or “digital;” it is socially and community conscious, but not politically correct. Rather, it is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday, and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways.Over the last ten years, Mr. Scarpa's firm BROOKS + SCARPA received more than 50 major design awards, notably 18 National AIA Awards, including the 2010 Architecture Firm Award, the 2006 and 2003 AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Project” awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, and finalist for the World Habitat Award, one of ten firms selected worldwide. In 2004 The Architectural League of New York selected him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture and in 2009 he received The Lifetime Achie­vement Award from Interior Design Magazine. In 2010 his firm Pugh + Scarpa received the AIA National and California Council Firm Award. His work was recently exhibited at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC and featured in NEWSWEEK. Mr. Scarpa has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in an interview with Leonardo DiCaprio.He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools including the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He was also the 2009 E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor, the 2008 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Alfred Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2005 University of Michigan Max Fisher Visiting Fellow, and 2004 Freidman Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.  He is a co-founder of Livable Places, Inc.; a nonprofit development and public policy organization dedicated to building mixed-use housing on under-utilized and problematic parcels of land.Link to blog post:https://inmawomanarchitect.blogspot.com/2020/04/aiacalif-mdc-3-interview-with-lawrence.html

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design
34. Designing for Education | Paul Lewis of LTL Architects

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 40:43


In today's episode, I am joined by Paul Lewis, FIAI, Principal at LTL Architects based in New York City. He shares with us his experience of working on projects for universities across the United States, from NYU to the University of Wyoming. Additionally, we learn more about his project working on the Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub Project. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize, the Emerging Voices Award and the Young Architects Award. As a 265-bed residence hall, the Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub Project aims to improve the quality of student life by providing an open space for social interaction as well as fostering an environment for wellness and play. Paul shares with us his experience working on this project, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. To add to his impressive list of professional experience, he also works with students to develop environmentally sensitive and sustainable projects as the Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. In today's episode, we learn more about Paul's experience as a designer and educator, how virtual learning and quarantine measures are shaping the design of student dormitories, as well as the challenge of building a university building off-campus during the COVID-19 pandemic.About the Guest:Paul is a founding partner of the amazing design firm, LTL Architects, and for his work is a winner of the prestigious Rome Prize, the Emerging Voices Award and the Young Architects Award. Besides his work as a designer, he is a professor of architecture at his alma mater, Princeton University, and was recently named an Associate Dean. With the ample free time he has, he also serves as the President of the Architectural League of New York. We will be talking about his Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub Project.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or on your favorite podcast platform. Topics Covered:Carnegie Mellon University Residence & Academic Hub Project.Addressing “Town and Gown” issues, the expression used to describe the relationship between a university and the surrounding municipalityPaul's experience working as a professor at Princeton's School of ArchitectureHow virtual learning and quarantine measures are shaping the design of student dormitoriesChallenges of building a university building off-campusAbout Your HostAtif Qadir is the Founder & CEO of REDIST, a technology company making it easy for commercial real estate professionals to find and use the $100B of real estate incentives given out every year in the US.Resources and LinksPaul's LinkedInLTL Architects LinkedInLTL Architects WebsiteGrab our exclusive guide Seven Tips on How to Stand Out in Your FieldLearn more on the American Building websiteFollow us on InstagramConnect with Atif Qadir on LinkedInLearn more about Michael GravesLearn more about REDIST

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design
Improving the Work of a Legend | Vishaan Chakrabarti | Part 2

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2021 44:01


Today we will be speaking with Vishaan Chakrabarti, a licensed architect and the founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). His professional portfolio is diverse, expanding from creating a master plan for the surrounding area of Michigan Central Station in Detroit to creating a social housing neighborhood in East New York. In this week's episode, we will be speaking to Vishaan about his latest project for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, originally designed by I.M. Pei. His firm has brought its vision for creating sustainable and equitable designs to this project in order to create more accessible spaces. We will also be discussing how his firm's design will seamlessly integrate with legendary architect I.M. Pei's geometric forms and shimmering glass pyramids.The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located on Lake Erie and has been an essential driver for the local economy. It was no surprise that after securing a plot of land that the institution would immediately start looking towards expansion and renovation. From all across the world, twenty-two leading architects submitted their proposals and eventually, eight were shortlisted. Vishaan's firm was selected as the winning design -- a 50,000-square-foot triangular building made of steel. Join us on this week's episode as we learn more about Vishaan's journey as well as how his firm is dedicated to crafting a careful balance of the cutting edge and the conservative.   Learn more about Vishaan ChakrabartiVishaan Chakrabarti is a licensed architect and the author of two books, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America and NYC 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers. Previously, he held senior roles at SHoP Architects and New York City Department of City Planning. Vishaan also serves on the board of the Architectural League of New YOrk and the Regional Planning Association. Vishaan lectures internationally and has made several media appearances on CBS, MSNBC and NPR. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of City Planning degree from MIT, and dual bachelor's degrees in art history and engineering from Cornell University. About your host: Atif Qadir is the Founder & CEO of REDIST, a technology company making it easy for commercial real estate professionals to find and use the $100B of real estate incentives given out every year in the US. Resources & Links:Learn more about PAUConnect with Vishaan on LinkedInGrab our exclusive guide Seven Tips on How to Stand Out in Your FieldLearn more about the Rock and Roll Hall of FameConnect with Vishaan on his websiteFollow us on Instagram.Connect with Atif Qadir on LinkedIn.Learn more about Michael Graves.Learn more about REDIST.

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design
Improving the Work of a Legend | Vishaan Chakrabarti | Part 1

American Building by Michael Graves Architecture and Design

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2021 40:40


Today we will be speaking with Vishaan Chakrabarti, a licensed architect and the founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). His professional portfolio is diverse, expanding from creating a master plan for the surrounding area of Michigan Central Station in Detroit to creating a social housing neighborhood in East New York. In this week's episode, we will be speaking to Vishaan about his latest project for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, originally designed by I.M. Pei. His firm has brought its vision for creating sustainable and equitable designs to this project in order to create more accessible spaces. We will also be discussing how his firm's design will seamlessly integrate with legendary architect I.M. Pei's geometric forms and shimmering glass pyramids.The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located on Lake Erie and has been an essential driver for the local economy. It was no surprise that after securing a plot of land that the institution would immediately start looking towards expansion and renovation. From all across the world, twenty-two leading architects submitted their proposals and eventually, eight were shortlisted. Vishaan's firm was selected as the winning design -- a 50,000-square-foot triangular building made of steel. Join us on this week's episode as we learn more about Vishaan's journey as well as how his firm is dedicated to crafting a careful balance of the cutting edge and the conservative.   Learn more about Vishaan ChakrabartiVishaan Chakrabarti is a licensed architect and the author of two books, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America and NYC 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers. Previously, he held senior roles at SHoP Architects and New York City Department of City Planning. Vishaan also serves on the board of the Architectural League of New YOrk and the Regional Planning Association. Vishaan lectures internationally and has made several media appearances on CBS, MSNBC and NPR. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of City Planning degree from MIT, and dual bachelor's degrees in art history and engineering from Cornell University. About your host: Atif Qadir is the Founder & CEO of REDIST, a technology company making it easy for commercial real estate professionals to find and use the $100B of real estate incentives given out every year in the US. Resources & Links:Learn more about PAUConnect with Vishaan on LinkedInGrab our exclusive guide Seven Tips on How to Stand Out in Your FieldLearn more about the Rock and Roll Hall of FameConnect with Vishaan on his websiteFollow us on Instagram.Connect with Atif Qadir on LinkedIn.Learn more about Michael Graves.Learn more about REDIST.

The Daily Gardener
September 16, 2021 Flower Shop Success Tips, Engelbert Kaempfer, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Sharyn McCrumb, Walled Gardens by Jules Hudson, and Frederic Edward Clements

The Daily Gardener

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2021 13:44


Today we celebrate a German naturalist and two American female landscape architects. We hear an excerpt about September from a modern Southern writer whose stories are set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about Walled Gardens. And then we'll wrap things up with the birthday of an American plantsman and ecologist. His work continues to inspire the botanists who follow in his footsteps.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News Plan for Growth and Happiness | SAFnow.org | Molly Olson   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events September 16, 1651  Birth of Engelbert Kaempfer, German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer. He is remembered for his ten-year exploration through Russia, Persia, India, and Asia between 1683 and 1693. He was the first European to bring botanical specimens back from Japan. His book, Amoenitatum Exoticarum (1712), was an invaluable medical resource and offered the first flora of Japan, featuring nearly 500 plants from the island. He was the first Western botanist to describe the Ginkgo.   September 16, 1876  Birth of Marian Cruger Coffin, American landscape architect. She was one of two women in her 1904 landscape architecture class at MIT. Since most architecture firms didn't hire women, Marian started her own practice in New York City and became one of America's first working female landscape architects. She started out with small projects in the suburbs of Rhode Island and ended up as the most in-demand landscape architect for the East Coast elite. Her client list included the Fricks, the Vanderbilts, Marjorie Merriweather Post, the Huttons, and the du Ponts. Her legacy includes many of her Delaware commissions: Gibraltar (Wilmington, Delaware), the University of Delaware campus, Mt. Cuba, and Winterthur. In 1995, author Nancy Fleming expanded her Radcliffe thesis and wrote Money, Manure & Maintenance - a book about Marian Coffin's gardens. The title was a reference to the three ingredients Marion thought necessary for a successful garden. Marion once observed, The shears in the hands of the average jobbing gardener are, indeed, a dangerous implement. As much devastation can be done in a few moments as it will take an equal number of years to repair. This I have observed to my sorrow...   September 16, 1887  Birth of Annette Hoyt Flanders, American landscape architect, and writer. A daughter of Milwaukee, she worked on all types of gardens in the Midwest and out East. For her design of the French Gardens at the McCann Estate, she received the Architectural League of New York's Medal of Honor in Landscape Architecture (1932). In a 1942 article in The Record (New Jersey), she advised, Hold on to every bit of beauty you've got. Don't tear up your gardens. We're going to need gardens more than ever, and what's more, we can't afford to create an economic crisis by throwing out of work hundreds of people who are dependent for their livelihood on things we need for our gardens.  She once said, Real beauty is not a matter of size — a tiny, inexpensive garden can be just as beautiful as a big one.   Unearthed Words There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn. ― Sharyn McCrumb, King's Mountain   Grow That Garden Library Walled Gardens by Jules Hudson This book came out in 2018, and it is from the National Trust. In this book, Jules Hudson of the BBC shares some of the most spectacular walled gardens throughout England and Wales. In centuries gone by, these gardens were vital to sustaining family life - not only for food - but also for medicine and beauty. In the late 18th century, these gardens became synonymous with wealth as the elite sought to grow exotic fruits right in their own backyard. Over time, these kitchen gardens were enhanced with glasshouses and heated walls. The level of creativity, commitment, and charm reflected in these gardens are evident still today. This book is 240 pages of walled kitchen gardens in all their glory. You can get a copy of Walled Gardens by Jules Hudson and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $12   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart September 16, 1874  Birth of Frederic Edward Clements, American plant ecologist. In 1916, he introduced the concept of a biome to the field of ecology. He also helped pioneer the study of vegetation succession. He believed his botanist wife, Edith, would have been a world-renown ecologist if she hadn't devoted so much time to help him. Together the “Doctors Clements” traveled across America researching and teaching the next generation of ecologists. For fieldwork, Frederic devised a technique known as the quadrat method: pound four stakes into the ground, wrap a string around the stakes, and tally the number and kinds of plants in the square. MIT's John Vucetich marveled at the power and scale of Frederic's work, writing, To draw a string around that many sets of stakes, to sit down before a small patch of the Earth that many times, to get down on the level with plants, to take a quick look, gain a gestalt, and then engage in the deliberative task of touching every single plant, recognizing its species name and writing it down, pressing pencil to paper, once for each individual—to do that not for a weekend, not a few dozen times, but to perform that meditation thousands of times over a lifetime—there is no more intimate, more mesmerizing way to connect with nature.    Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Talk Design
Scott Specht

Talk Design

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 67:29


Scott Specht is founder and principal of internationally acclaimed Specht Architects, inventor of the self-sufficient zeroHouse™, and a frequent speaker on where things are headed (and where they’ve been) in the world of architecture, design, and engineering. He has been featured at conferences and on video presentations sponsored by such hosts as TEDx Talks, Dyson, Indeed, the American Institute of Architects, and The University of Texas at Austin. Scott has received numerous awards for his work from organizations such as the American Institute of Architects, The Architectural League of New York, and Architectural Record. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, and hundreds of other publications. His firm was listed frequently in the “Top 100” architects by New York magazine, and his most recent book, Coffee Lids, has received acclaim for its unusual take on the design of “unseen objects” that populate our daily lives.Specht Architects’ work includes residential, commercial and university-based projects, including the The Carpenter, an environmentally sustainable adaptive re-use of a former Carpenter’s Union complex, and Casa Xixim, a completely off-the-grid bio-resort in Tulum. The zeroHouse™, a high-performance, self-sufficient house established Specht as an international design leader in the micro-dwelling movement. Prior to his work at Specht Architects, Scott was a consulting designer for Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, and worked with that firm on its winning New York World Trade Center planning competition scheme. Scott was also a designer with Deborah Berke Architect, and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, both in New York. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ALL GOOD VIBES
SO – IL

ALL GOOD VIBES

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 35:56


SO – IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008. The couple represents one of the most inter-esting and original names among the young generation of architects. The philosophy that animates their work aims to dialogue with different cultures and countries, open to the world without any geographical borders. Their projects expand from North America, Asia, Europe creating an authentic interaction with the environment and the community. Well known for their research about innovative use of materials, they are authors of the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art for the University of California, Davis (2018), the award-winning Kukje Art Gallery in Seoul, Korea and the recent Las Americas, an affordable social housing, in Léon, Mexico. In 2010, the firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with its playful, interactive installation Pole Dance, receiving a widespread at-tention. A generous production of temporary installations is an integral part of their de-sign. Their suggestive unexpected ludic scenography combined with poetic lyricism, en-gages the audience, making people more aware and responsible towards urgent topics. The Museum of Architecture and Technology, MAAT, Lisbon, during the past year has organized “Currents- Temporary Architectures”, an exhibition dedicated to 12 of them. Many other prominent cultural institutions as the Museum of Modern Art and Guggen-heim Museum have showcased their work. Awarded with extensive recognitions and prizes, including the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League, they have been featured on many publications, as New York Times, CNN and Frankfurter Allge-meine.

RadicalxChange Replayed
No Normal - Keller Easterling in Conversation with Shumi Bose

RadicalxChange Replayed

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2020 34:30


COVID-19 is an x-ray of racial injustice, inequality, and ineffectual government as well as a rehearsal for climate catastrophe. It exposes a modern mind that maintains the myth of solutions, newness, freedom, and universals. That mind gives authority to new digital technologies, econometrics, and law, to segregate and eliminate problems. COVID graphically models the productive entanglement between problems as well as forms for re-tuning and redesigning those entanglements. Interplay itself is the form—protocols of interplay that resist solutions or modular methodologies. Unfolding over time and indeterminate in order to be practical, they generate lumpy mixtures of different kinds of artifacts in space. Consider design protocols that deal with, among many other things, automation, migration, police defunding, cooperative land tenure, coastal retreat, reforestation and compounding reparations. SPEAKERSKeller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. A recently published e-book essay titled Medium Design (Strelka Press, 2018) previews a forthcoming book of the same title. Medium Design inverts an emphasis on object and figure to prompt innovative thought about both spatial and non-spatial problems. Other books include: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) which researched familiar spatial products in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999) which applied network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure, and Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), which considers building removal or how to put the development machine into reverse. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Architecture and Design. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Blueprint Award for Critical Thinking. Her MANY project, an online platform facilitating migration through an exchange of needs, was exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research and writing on the floor comprised one of the elements in Rem Koolhaas's Elements exhibition for the 2014 Venice Biennale. Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home: The House that Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934–1960. She has published web installations including: Extrastatecraft, Wildcards: a Game of Orgman and Highline: Plotting NYC. Easterling has exhibited at Henry Art Gallery, the Istanbul Design Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Rotterdam Biennale, the Queens Museum and the Architectural League. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad. The journals to which she has contributed include Domus, Artforum, Grey Room, Cabinet, Volume, Assemblage, e-flux, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, and ANY. Shumi Bose is a teacher, curator and editor based in London. She is a senior lecturer in history and theory of architecture at Central Saint Martins, and teaches Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art. She is also curator of exhibitions at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Exhibitions include Freestyle: Architectural Adventures in Mass Media, a RIBA commission by Space Popular, currently on both virtual and shuttered physical display, and Conservatism, or The Long Reign of Pseudo Georgian Architecture, with Pablo Bronstein in 2017. . Shumi co-curated Home Economics at the British Pavilion, for the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016, exploring the future of the home through a series of 1:1 domestic proposals. In 2012, she was curatorial collaborator and publications editor for Sir David Chipperfield on Common Ground, the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Shumi has held editorial positions at Blueprint, Strelka Press, Afterall, Volume and the Architects’ Journal, and contributes to titles including PIN UP, Metropolis and Avery Review. In 2015, she co-founded the publication Real Review, currently run by Jack Self. Recent publications include Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City (ed. Mel Dodd, Routledge, 2019), Home Economics (The Spaces, 2016), Places for Strangers (with mæ architects, Park Books, 2014) and Real Estates (with Fulcrum, Bedford Press, 2014).

Business of Architecture Podcast
337: Amplified Urbanism with Lorcan O'Herilhy and Richard Loring

Business of Architecture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 61:25


Today's guests are famed architect Lorcan O'Herilhy and renowend LA developer Richard Loring. Richard Loring is the Director of Design + Construction for Domos. He's an award-winning developer with a long-standing history of working with many of the most forward-thinking architecture firms. After receiving his masters in the History of English Architecture at Cambridge University, Loring founded Archetype, a general contracting company, where he built many noteworthy contemporary buildings for 26 years. Loring then served as Managing Director for Habitat Group Los Angeles, developing contemporary multifamily projects throughout the city. Many of Loring’s Habitat Group projects won AIA awards at the local, state and national level in addition to garnering coverage in leading architecture and design publications such as The New York Times, Dwell and Architectural Record. Today, Loring is leading the latest Los Angeles Domos project in Hancock Park. In partnership with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, Domos plans to reconfigure the property to bring the building up to current city codes and invigorate the living spaces, while preserving the building’s classic exterior. These plans include the addition of at least three new floors to the building, including co-living suites. Lorcan O’Herlihy FAIA is the founder and principal of LOHA (Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects) which seeks opportunities to engage the ever-changing complexities of the urban landscape while embracing architecture as a catalyst of change. Since its inception in 1994, LOHA's urban and social concerns have been paired with an interest in artistry. Lorcan spent his formative years working in New York and Paris on the Grand Louvre Museum as a designer at I.M. Pei Partners. Lorcan has also worked as a painter, sculptor, and furniture maker. The methodologies of material exploration and formal inflection, derived from the looseness of abstract art have played a significant role across all media and are a critical driver of his architecture. Lorcan’s professional practice has been accompanied by his academic and intellectual pursuits. He received a Master of Arts in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association in London, writing a dissertation on social connectivity and generative urban strategies. He has taught and lectured extensively over the last decade, including at the Architectural Association in London, Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc], Cranbrook Academy of Art, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, Pratt Institute, and the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. In 2004 the Architectural League of New York selected Lorcan O’Herlihy as one of the eight “emerging voices” in the United States. In 2009, Lorcan was elevated to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the profession. Lorcan’s commitment to design excellence in commercial, educational and residential projects has earned over 90 national and local design awards, including the AIA CC Distinguished Practice Award, AIA Los Angeles Firm of the Year Award, and in 2018 LOHA was awarded the status of #1 Design Firm in the US according to Architect Magazine's Architect 50.   ► Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for updates: https://www.youtube.com/c/BusinessofArchitecture ******* For more free tools and resources for running a profitable, impactful and fulfilling practice, connect with me on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessofarchitecture Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enoch.sears/ Website: https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BusinessofArch Podcast: http://www.businessofarchitecture.com/podcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/business-architecture-podcast/id588987926 Android Podcast Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BusinessofArchitecture-podcast ******* Access the FREE Architecture Firm Profit Map video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Download the FREE Architecture Firm Marketing Process Flowchart video here: http://freearchitectgift.com Come to my next live, in-person event: https://www.businessofarchitecture.com/live Carpe Diem!

New Books in Urban Studies
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in Urban Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City's Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Architecture
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in Architecture

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Sociology
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Public Policy
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in Public Policy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in History
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 40:17


As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration. Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is a professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonic Acts Podcast
Sonic Acts 2020: DESIGN EARTH: Rania Ghosn – Geostories

Sonic Acts Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 40:58


SONIC ACTS ACADEMY 2020 DESIGN EARTH: Rania Ghosn – Geostories 23 February 2020 – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Architects Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy co-founded DESIGN EARTH to engage with geography in addressing humanity’s relationship to the Earth through architecture. From Monaco to Mexico City, their research develops projects around concepts such as hypothetical volcanos, the ​‘Pacific Cemetery’ where satellites go to die and a methane aviary as waste disposal unit rendering gas pipes a forest for birds. Rania Ghosn (DESIGN EARTH) begins her lecture Geostories with the question: How might the geographic imagination convert into an image and narrative of the climate crisis? That is, not only as a calamity of the physical environment, but also as a predicament of the cultural one – of the systems of representation through which society relates to complex and unknown environmental futures. In Geostories, geographic fiction becomes a medium to synthesise different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, space debris and a host of other social-ecological issues, and to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet. The collaborative practice DESIGN EARTH based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Cambridge, Massachusetts and is led by architects Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH literally means ​‘earth-writing’, deploying geographic aesthetics as a form of environmental speculation in the age of climate change. The practice received a Young Architects prize from the Architectural League of New York and DESIGN EARTH have been commissioned by the Venice Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and Oslo Architecture Triennale. Projects have been exhibited in international art spaces such as SFMOMA and Times Museum, Guangzhou and acquired by the New York Museum of Modern Art. Ghosn is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning and Jazairy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Michigan. They co-authored Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (2018), ​‘a manifesto for the environmental imagination’, and Geographies of Trash (2015).

ALL GOOD VIBES
Jinhee Park

ALL GOOD VIBES

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 22:45


Our new guest will fill the atmosphere of this new encounter with her energetic and extremely vibrant character. Beyond her apparent docile compliance, which is a bit a characteristic from her Asian origins, she hides an iron will and an extremely resolute character. Very talented and endowed with great originality and analytical skills she has achieved prestigious awards at a very young age, as AIA Young Architects Award, Emerging Voices Award and the Young Architects Forum Award by the Architectural League of N.Y. and the honour to be mentioned on some of the most authoritative architectural magazines. She will tell us about micro-housing and ‘spaces in between', a topic she has always dealt with since the beginning, facing the crucial problem of living space in our contemporary crowded metropoleis. Environmental sustainability in a tropical country will be another interesting point that will be touched in our virtual chat.

Life of an Architect
041: Talking Shop with Omar Gandhi

Life of an Architect

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2020 57:50


Today is a special episode because we are sitting down with my very close and personal friend, even though we have never actually met, Canadian architectural rock star Omar Gandhi. This is the first in a series of posts we are rolling out for the 2020 podcast season titled “Talking Shop with __________.” We anticipate doing around four of these specialty episodes this year and we decided to come out the gate strong with our first guest - Canadian Architect and Emerging Voice in the architectural community - as well as my friend - Omar Gandhi. [Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player]  Before we get into all the pretty photography, drawings and models, here is a professional bio from Omar that should help you understand who we are talking with today. [l-r: Canadian Architect Omar Gandhi; the letter from Omar to Bob Borson ... to hear how this letter came to be, listen at the 16:26 mark]Omar Gandhi is a Canadian architect currently practicing and residing in both Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. After studying in the Regional Arts program at Mayfield Secondary School (Caledon) and then the inaugural Architectural Studies Program at the University of Toronto Omar moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where he received his Master's degree in 2005 at Dalhousie University. After graduation, Omar worked for Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, Young + Wright Architects, and finally MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects upon his return to Halifax. Gandhi started his own design studio in 2010 and became a registered architectural practice in 2012. Omar is the recipient of the 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome and was listed in Wallpaper* Magazine's 2014 Architects Directory – their list of the top 20 Young Architects in the World. Omar was named one of the Architectural League of New York's ‘Emerging Voices' of 2016, one of Monocle Magazine's 20 most influential Canadians, and was named one of Architectural Record Magazine's Design Vanguard for 2018. Most recently the studio was the recipient of the 2018 Governor General's Medal in Architecture for the cabin at Rabbit Snare Gorge – Canada's highest honor for built projects. Omar was appointed as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture for the Fall semester of the 2018-19 academic year. Just to help you understand the context and talent of who we are speaking with today on the podcast, we decided to isolate a single project and put it on display so you could see the finished product, the rigor associated with the floor plans, and the creative process which includes model-making as well a hand-drawn concept sketch. The project we are focusing on today is The Lookout at Broad Cove Marsh located in Inverness, Nova Scotia. While I have included several images here, I did not include all that are available - not that you need an additional reason to visit Omar's website but go here to see more images, including several from the interior of the project.  This is a beautiful project and we promised Omar that we would recognize the individuals who contributed to its creation. Architect Omar Gandhi, Jeff Shaw, Peter Kolodziej, Amber Kilborn Engineer Andrea Doncaster Engineering Structural model Ben Angus Contractor Joseph ‘MacGee' MacFarlane Photography Doublespace Photography Okay, time for the hypothetical question – which is really the only reason why the first part of this podcast exists … it's all just leading up to this moment. As it turns out, Omar is familiar with how this works except I had to clarify that either Omar or Andrew could answer first, but no matter what order, I will go last so I can change the rules and make fun of everybody's answers. Andrew is very familiar with how this works! [46:00 mark] Would you rather only age from the neck up or the neck down?

Life of an Architect
041: Talking Shop with Omar Gandhi

Life of an Architect

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2020 57:50


Today is a special episode because we are sitting down with my very close and personal friend, even though we have never actually met, Canadian architectural rock star Omar Gandhi. This is the first in a series of posts we are rolling out for the 2020 podcast season titled “Talking Shop with __________.” We anticipate doing around four of these specialty episodes this year and we decided to come out the gate strong with our first guest - Canadian Architect and Emerging Voice in the architectural community - as well as my friend - Omar Gandhi. [Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player]  Before we get into all the pretty photography, drawings and models, here is a professional bio from Omar that should help you understand who we are talking with today. [l-r: Canadian Architect Omar Gandhi; the letter from Omar to Bob Borson ... to hear how this letter came to be, listen at the 16:26 mark]Omar Gandhi is a Canadian architect currently practicing and residing in both Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. After studying in the Regional Arts program at Mayfield Secondary School (Caledon) and then the inaugural Architectural Studies Program at the University of Toronto Omar moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where he received his Master’s degree in 2005 at Dalhousie University. After graduation, Omar worked for Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, Young + Wright Architects, and finally MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects upon his return to Halifax. Gandhi started his own design studio in 2010 and became a registered architectural practice in 2012. Omar is the recipient of the 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Professional Prix de Rome and was listed in Wallpaper* Magazine’s 2014 Architects Directory – their list of the top 20 Young Architects in the World. Omar was named one of the Architectural League of New York’s ‘Emerging Voices’ of 2016, one of Monocle Magazine’s 20 most influential Canadians, and was named one of Architectural Record Magazine’s Design Vanguard for 2018. Most recently the studio was the recipient of the 2018 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for the cabin at Rabbit Snare Gorge – Canada’s highest honor for built projects. Omar was appointed as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor in Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture for the Fall semester of the 2018-19 academic year. Just to help you understand the context and talent of who we are speaking with today on the podcast, we decided to isolate a single project and put it on display so you could see the finished product, the rigor associated with the floor plans, and the creative process which includes model-making as well a hand-drawn concept sketch. The project we are focusing on today is The Lookout at Broad Cove Marsh located in Inverness, Nova Scotia. While I have included several images here, I did not include all that are available - not that you need an additional reason to visit Omar's website but go here to see more images, including several from the interior of the project.  This is a beautiful project and we promised Omar that we would recognize the individuals who contributed to its creation. Architect Omar Gandhi, Jeff Shaw, Peter Kolodziej, Amber Kilborn Engineer Andrea Doncaster Engineering Structural model Ben Angus Contractor Joseph ‘MacGee’ MacFarlane Photography Doublespace Photography Okay, time for the hypothetical question – which is really the only reason why the first part of this podcast exists … it’s all just leading up to this moment. As it turns out, Omar is familiar with how this works except I had to clarify that either Omar or Andrew could answer first, but no matter what order, I will go last so I can change the rules and make fun of everybody's answers. Andrew is very familiar with how this works! [46:00 mark] Would you rather only age from the neck up or the neck down?

Business of Architecture UK Podcast
075: Running a Global Multi-generational Practice with Tom Kundig, Olson Kundig

Business of Architecture UK Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 52:31


What a corker of an interview this was! What a delight and absolute pleasure to be speaking to an archi-hero of mine, Tom Kundig the principal and owner of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects. Tom's honours include some of the highest design awards, including a 2008 National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt; a 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; selection as a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture; a MacDowell Colony Fellowship; and selection as an Emerging Architect by the Architectural League of New York. He has also received eleven National American Institute of Architects awards. In 2011, he was included in The Wallpaper* 150, Wallpaper (magazine)'s list of the 150 people who have most influenced, inspired and improved the way we live, work and travel over the last 15 years. In this conversation Tom discusses: - how a practice of 200 still produces some of world's most extraordinary private residences and the importance of that work within the practice - what is a good client and how to find them, in his words 'The whole industry is about finding good clients' - the complexity of branding a cross generational design practice with multiple distinct architectural voices

The Archiologist
Asking the Right Questions in Architecture / Jenny Wu

The Archiologist

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2019 33:28


In this episode we talk about her experience attending the top two universities in the United States, Columbia and Harvard. We talk about the most important thing to her "rethinking what design is" and asking the right questions in design. She tells me about how her and her partner Dwayne Oyler started Oyler Wu Collaborative together by basically making ends meet financially only to pay rent and to survive while they felt amazingly motivated to continue working on projects even if they didn't even a client and she explains how the dedication and hard work has paid off over the years. She talks a little bit about what it is like to have the same partner in life and in work. She also tells the story of how she started LACE, her 3D printed jewelry lane that has grown amazingly over the years. Finally, she gives her best piece of advice to you guys, studying architecture right now or even recent graduates, to learn that school should be the place to study different ideas, you do not need to know exactly who you are now. I loved this conversation, I loved Jenny's positivism and openness to tell her story with all of you. I cannot wait to hear what you all think! Jenny Wu received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Currently, Jenny is a member of the design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc) and Columbia GSAPP. She has previously taught at institutions such as Syracuse University and Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition to her architectural practice, she also founded LACE by Jenny Wu, a line of 3D printed jewelry, in 2014. The pieces have been widely featured in publications such as Forbes, People, and Elle Magazine. Most recently, Jenny was named one of four design visionaries by Porsche and Dwell Magazine in their "Powered by Design" documentaries, showcasing her pioneering work in 3D printing. Jenny Wu is a partner at the Los Angeles based architecture firm, Oyler Wu Collaborative, which she founded in 2004 with Dwayne Oyler. The firm is recognized for its experimentation in design, material research, and fabrication, and was the winner of 2013 Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record. She was recently named one of the four design visionaries by Porsche and Dwell Magazine in their Powered by Design documentaries, showcasing her pioneering work in 3D printing. The office has won numerous design awards, including the 2013 Emerging Talent Award from AIA California Council, 2012 Presidential Honor Award for Emerging Practice from AIA LA, Taiwan's ADA Award for Emerging Architect, and 2011 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League in New York. They published Pendulum Plane in 2009, and most recently Trilogy: SCI Arc Pavilions (SCI-Arc Press) in 2014. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Big Ideas for Better Places
Virginia Hanusik: Providing a Different Perspective on Climate Change

Big Ideas for Better Places

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2018 55:14


Virginia Hanusik is a photographer and the manager of climate change initiatives at the Architectural League of New York. Her work showcases communities threatened by climate change. She partners with others to provide a reference point for the impending threat of climate change. The results are very revealing. On this podcast, we talk about the power […]

XX|LA Architects Podcast
Interview with Elizabeth Timme – XX|LA Episode 008

XX|LA Architects Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2018 61:07


This episode features Elizabeth Timme, founder and co-executive director of LA-Más with Helen Leung. LA-Más is a non-profit urban design organization that helps lower-income and underserved communities shape their future through policy and architecture. During this episode, Elizabeth talks about LA-Más, and some of the exciting work they are doing in our city. Elizabeth and Helen were just named Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York, and Elizabeth is also part of the Re:Code LA team. Elizabeth is a graduate of USC School of Architecture and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and comes from a rich background immersed in architecture as daughter of the late Robert Timme, who was the dean of USC’s School of Architecture. Elizabeth talks about what it’s like to be a female third-generation architect, and her journey to LA-Más. We discuss some of LA-Más' projects including work on backyard houses, or ADUs. I admire Elizabeth’s conviction, openness, and intellect. I love that she does not accept things for how they are, and challenges what they could be. For more information about LA-Más visit: https://www.mas.la/ Or connect on Instagram @mas4la  

Municipal Equation Podcast
EP 38: Being Careful About Smart Cities and Civic Tech (And the Best Fictional Mayors)

Municipal Equation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2017 41:02


Appropriate to the age of exponential innovation, the smart-cities conversation is moving quickly. Should we it slow down? Explore additional ethical questions? Evaluate our best practices and ideas? More and more people think so. On this episode, we meet a town that's built a "simulated smart city" so they can try it before they buy it and experiment to better understand how it all fits together. And we talk with an author whose new book, among many other things, questions whether advances in civic technology are really taking the complexities of human beings and their various communities into account. Are we being inclusive in our efforts to collect better public data, engage with residents, and manage municipal resources? (After that, we get a bit lighter -- by listing out some of the best fictional mayors of all time, as submitted by you.) Episode 18, "The Smart Cities Primer" - GovTech, "Cary, N.C., Turns Existing Government Campus Into a Simulated Smart City" - Cary Citizen, "Cary Joins Municipal Initiative to Streamline Data, Share with Other Towns" - Book by Cassim Shepard, "Citymakers" - Urban Omnibus, a publication of The Architectural League of New York - Popular Mechanics, "Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a Smart City" - Places Journal, "A City Is Not A Computer" - Richard Florida, "Innovation and Urban Inequality Go Hand in Hand" - Tech Crunch, "Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to turn Toronto area into a model smart city" - Death and Taxes piece, "The politics of Mayor McCheese from McDonaldland" - Episode 17, "That High Lonesome Data" -  

KUCI: Get the Funk Out
Ronald Rael, author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary, joins Janeane 7/17 9:15am pst

KUCI: Get the Funk Out

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017


"Part historical account, part theoretical appraisal, and part design manifesto, Borderwall as Architecture is reminiscent of Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York in its sweeping assessment of both the sociocultural peculiarities and outlandish possibilities represented by a prominent structural element."—Blaine Brownell, Architect Magazine Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”—the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz. Ronald Rael is Associate Professor in the departments of Architecture and Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Earth Architecture, a history of building with earth in the modern era that exemplifies new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. The Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum have recognized his work, and in 2014 his creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York.

Night White Skies
Ep. 007 _ Douglas Pancoast

Night White Skies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2016 65:07


Douglas Pancoast, was featured in New City Magazine's list Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago 2016. New City featured Douglas for his project, The Array of Things, which will be installed in April, 2016. Awarded a $3.1 million grant by the National Science Foundation, the project will create a network of interactive, modular sensor boxes that will be installed around Chicago to collect real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use.  Douglas Pancoast is an Associate Professor, Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (2002). BArch, 1991, University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design; MArch, 1995, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Exhibitions: National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; Architectural League of New York; Cranbrook Kingswood Gallery. Publications: Princeton Architectural Press; Oculus; Architecture; The Architectural Review. Awards: Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum Competition; Charles E. Peterson Prize.

Business of Architecture Podcast
148: Overcome Hurdles and Get More Work for your Architecture Firm with Peter Barber

Business of Architecture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2016 24:11


Today a special guest host takes over the Business of Architecture show with our first ever “UK Edition”.   Rion Willard is the founder/director of The Thinking Hand Studio, a UK-based architecture practice.   Today is the second part of Rion Willard's interview with British architect Peter Barber.   Architect Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers, Will Alsop and Jestico Whiles prior to establishing his own practice in 1989. He is currently a lecturer and design tutor at the University of Westminster.   Peter Barber has lectured about the practice of Architecture internationally, at institutions including the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural League in New York, numerous university schools of architecture including Genoa, Frankfurt, Brighton, Kingston and Glasgow as well as Oxford University and The Bartlett – University College London.   In today's show you'll discover:  

Business of Architecture Podcast
147 Innovation and Education in Architecture with Peter Barber

Business of Architecture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 24:08


Today Rion Willard interviews British Architect, Peter Barber. Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers, Will Alsop and Jestico+Whiles prior to establishing his own practice in 1989. He is currently a lecturer and design tutor at the University of Westminster. He has lectured about the work of the Practice at many institutions, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural League in New York, and numerous international and domestic university schools of architecture including Genoa, Frankfurt, Brighton, Kingston and Glasgow as well as Oxford University and The Bartlett - University College London. He has been invited by the Government to lead a discussion on "Designing for Better Public Spaces" with a team of top built environment professionals. He was an advisor to English Partnerships in the production of the Urban Design Compendium. In today's show you'll discover:

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox
The Busy Creator 51 w/guest Peter Kubilus

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2015 38:14


Peter Kubilus (@PeterKubilus) is an interiors and architectural photographer based in metro New York. Following studies in both photography and architectural engineering, Peter has created a practice photographing offices, hotels, residences, and more. Our conversation covers his origins in photography, how he came to specialise in architecture, and the workflow of setting up lights and creating his images. Check out Peter's photography at his website, kubilusphoto.com   Show Notes & Links Peter describes his work as modern, clean, refined, not messy Previous photographers on The Busy Creator Podcast include Bill Wadman, Christine Blackburne, Taylor Mathis Peter only photograph's “The built environment” Seton Hall Prep, high school in New Jersey Peter's first introduction to architecture and building came from visits to his father's build sites as a youth Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Interior Design magazine Peter's college classes “activated the creative side his head” Prescott and Peter grew up in neighboring towns, both attended Drexel University, but didn't meet until later. “Circulation” is the term for a person moving through architecture, being at scale, etc. Colour Temperature (mixtures of LEDs, Fluorescents, Sunlight) Shooting for a hotel may mean conveying a lifestyle. Shooting for the architect may center around materials. Peter's projects range in scale from a kitchen to a 30-story building Each image can take a few hours to set up, yielding only a few images per day High Dynamic Range (HDR) composites in Photoshop “You can't turn garbage into a masterpiece.” —Peter Kubilus ← Click to Tweet Center for Architecture, American Institute of Architects (AIA) NY Ch, The Architectural League of New York 200 Lexington, D&D Building “Networking was what really initially launched my career.” —Peter Kubilus ← Click to Tweet Felix Sockwell, Illustrator, and past guest on The Busy Creator “Opportunity + Preparation = Success” ← Click to Tweet “Just because I'm not out in the field shooting doesn't mean I'm not working.” —Peter Kubilus ← Click to Tweet  Peter Kubilus on Twitter  Peter Kubilus on Facebook  Peter Kubilus on Instagram  Peter Kubilus on LinkedIn Tools Canon 5D Mk-III Photoshop Lightroom Dropbox Constant Contact Paperless Post MailChimp Techniques Take a walk-through of a built space before you photograph Ask the architect questions — he or she knows the plan inside and out Find the right angle, then strip out extraneous material that might distract from the shot Take point-and-shoot photos during a walkthrough Don't allow objects in a shot to overlap. This may require micro-rotations. Stage the room first, then light it Take multiple shots at different exposures so you can built it later in Photoshop as needed Get the image right “in the camera” so you only have to spend 20–30 minutes in Photoshop Use Lightroom to pare down your images. Then bring to Photoshop for retouching. Deliver files via Dropbox rather than FTP. Attend networking events, even as frequently as 4 days a week. Use email newsletters rather than mini-portfolios — at least you can track who opens emails Have a website with portfolio samples Spend 30 minutes a week on LinkedIn Wake up early and do those digital time-wasters before you start work Use an assistant for shoots Habits Maintain a presence on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook fan pages Backup your files immediately after connecting your camera Try Audible.com Free for 30-Days Visit BusyCreatorBook.com for your free trial Get Digital Photography Guide by Larry Hall as a free audiobook

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox
The Busy Creator 30 w/guest Michael Bierut

The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2014 53:00


The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 30 with Designer, Educator & Writer Michael Bierut Michael Bierut (@MichaelBierut) is one of today's most renowned and respected graphic designers. Since 1990, he has been a Partner at Pentagram, where he works with clients like MIT Media Lab, The Yale School of Architecture, and the New York Jets. In addition to his work at Pentagram, he is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art and co-founded the online publication Design Observer, where he writes about design and creative culture. Together we discuss Michael's feelings in becoming a business owner, how he divides work duties with his team, the clunky process of learning business skills as a young designer, and the exhaustive routines which power his morning. We also learn the 19-syllable Starbucks order he buys each working day, and how long it takes him to run 3 miles. Read more about Michael via his lengthy biography on Pentagram's website. Show Notes & Links Pentagram's New York Office, and its library, where we recorded this episode Michael Bierut in the Pentagram Library. Image via The Architectural League of NY Michael [still] thinks of himself as a “working graphic designer” Michael's previous — and only — employers were Massimo & Lella Vignelli As a young designer, he “never spent a minute lying in bed wondering if a client was going to pay an overdue invoice.” Michael writes his own proposals; there is no “behemoth” behind the scenes “I thought I was ready to be a business owner, but I really didn't know much about it.” ← Click to tweet Pentagram Partners “really like to do the work.” Michael currently works with 6 designers, 2 project managers, and 2 interns. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” ← Click to tweet Teaching business skills to designers isn't “baked in” to Pentagram's ethos, but it happens through close collaboration Without cultural context, working as a designer can be a “long road to carpal tunnel syndrome.” Knopf Doubleday, publisher Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis New York Times “The world we live in was created by people no smarter than us.” —Prescott mis-quoting Steve Jobs ← Click to tweet “Designers are actors playing a part. We have to learn about X and show the world X.” ← Click to tweet Michael is a Lazy Designer “The time I invest [in proposals] is always intense and personal.” ← Click to tweet Michael's famous sketchbooks notebooks. Currently working with #104. Make It Bigger by Paula Scher Tools Marble composition notebooks Venti Triple Non-Fat Cappuccino from Starbucks Techniques Oversee a single designer, bring on a second only if you need it Keep your pitches/responses to briefs short but purposeful. Don't participate in theatrics. Ponder a problem during your morning run. Solve it during that time. Habits Wake up early (5:15a–5:35a) Jog 3 miles every morning Use vacations as a time to focus on a particular project Build writing into your routine. Chunk it down and don't give yourself a chance to escape.

RISD Voice
Robert Moorhead, Episode 2, RISD Voice

RISD Voice

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2010 35:34


In this second episode of RISD Voice, we interviewed Robert Moorhead at Moorhead and Moorhead. Robert received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his Bachelor of Industrial Design from RISD in 1996. In 2000, he and his brother, Granger Moorhead, co-founded Moorhead and Moorhead, a New York-based architecture and industrial design studio. Their work has been widely recognized internationally, including being part of the Cooper-Hewitt's 2006 National Design Triennial. In 2008 they were named Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York.