Women Build Podcast: Trailer
Episodes
All electric buildings, heat pumps and grid resiliency
Julie Janiski talks about the challenges of designing all electric buildings, the technology that enables a clean energy supply and the world's tallest and largest residential Passive House certified building
The US and UK’s approach to designing net zero homes and the challenges they face
Jo Cowen and Mary Ann Schicketanz talk about how they define net zero and how to achieve it in the US and in the UK
Designing timber buildings, addressing net-zero targets and pickled wood
Natalie Telewiak talks about the environmental benefits of building with wood, connecting with nature and building height limitations
Luxury heirloom homes, the importance of hand drawings and the ageing of materials
Kate Rasmussen talks about what to consider when designing a forever home, the challenges around new builds and renovations and classical architecture
Designing amenity spaces in multi-residential buildings, the importance of biophilia and reacting to changing demands
Adele Rankin and Meghann Van Dorn talk about how the pandemic has changed the needs of residents, end-user wellbeing and pickleball courts
The evolution of workplace design: using data to design office for people and their varying work styles
Kelly McEachern talks about how the pandemic is shifting office interiors and how using data-based solutions can best support an organization’s workplace needs
Female Frontiers, Pioneers and Champions of Architecture
Pascale Sablan and Yiselle Santos Rivera talk about fostering a positive working environment for women, designing more inclusive workspaces and the benefits they’ve gained from their work being highlighted by WAN’s Female Frontier Awards
Recycling buildings through historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and how climate change and new technology should be considered
Ruth Todd, President of Page & Turnbull talks about how historic preservation projects are funded, the practicalities of future-proofing historic buildings and the importance of recycling buildings to support the environment
Hospitality in a post-covid world, flexibility, social distancing and the One World Trade Center
Alexandra Cuber, head of the hospitality department at Fogarty Finger talks about post-pandemic hospitality interiors, flexibility and being a New Yorker
Designing healthcare for neurodiversity, staff respite and a post covid world
Brenda Smith, Healthcare Practice Leader for the New York studio of Perkins&Will, and former nurse talks about the new Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, how the pandemic has impacted healthcare design and how her experience as a former nurse helped shape her career
Setting up your own architecture and design practice: what you need to know
Amanda Gunawan talks about what inspired her to set up her own businesses, what she’s learned along the way and and the importance of balancing design and business needs
Preventing coronavirus in workplaces, WELL Platinum certification and support from lemons
Natasha Bonugli and Tania Adir talk about what’s being done to protect people from coronavirus in global workplace interiors, how advances in technology will make for safer work environments, the challenges faced when upgrading an older building to WELL Platinum certification and finally how lemons can help with concentration
Putting roads and buildings on diets for a more sustainable future
Lisa Bate and Mia Lehrer talk about putting roads on diets, how to make a city as developed as LA more sustainable, and the award winning, tangible benefits of the Humber College Building NX retrofit
Designing for life on the Moon and Mars
Christina Ciardullo and Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman from Space Exploration Architecture talk about human-centred design, the advantages of 3D printing in architecture and how designing for the living on the Moon and Mars can teach us more about how we should be building for Earth
The all-female team behind Reina talk condos, covid and controversy
Women Build speaks to Sherry Larjani, Managing Partner at Spotlight Developments and Heather Rolleston, Principal and Design Director at BDP Quadrangle about why they formed an all-female team to combat the gender imbalance in the real estate development industry
Challenges, support and coronavirus
To mark Black History month in the UK, we spoke to three women about the challenges that come with being both female and black in this sector, the support available in the UK and the US and how the coronavirus pandemic has revealed problems within the built environments of black communities
What success looks like for a female architect?
Maggie Mullan also speaks about whether women have a more practical approach to design, the growth in women led practices and finally gives some key advice for those starting their architectural career. This podcast series, powered by World Architecture News, gives a voice to women in architecture wherever they’re working
