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L35 Architects is a firm with a truly global perspective. With 12 branches, almost 1,000 projects completed in 43 countries, with 38 partners and over 200 professionals, L35 has delivered world-class designs since 1967. In this podcast, Aaron chats with CEO and Senior Partner Tristán López-Chicheri about bringing young architects aboard, the challenges of designing large projects like the Santiago Bernabéu stadium renovation and integrating environmental objectives into the design process. Learning Objectives:* Describe why L35 CEO Tristán López-Chicheri believes young architects can provide important balance to a firm.* Explain the key design goals L35 pursued when working on the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.* Discuss how L35 can maintain the ability to simultaneously design large stadium size projects as well as small residential projects.* List the challenges and solutions L35 brings to local government administrations to create a more agile working relationship and garner project approval.

Wendy Evans Joseph joins the podcast to discuss designing for exhibitions, reframing context through design, and her studio’s concept for the Folger Shakespeare Library. This conversation is a departure from designing for large civic projects and a focus on different and smaller scales. Studio Joseph relies heavily on community engagement and actual input during the research phase to help shape the final designs, bringing social justice, contemporary issues, and intimate settings into focus as part of the design process.Learning Objectives:* Discuss the importance of including community involvement and suggestions into the design process.* Explain how Studio Joseph strives to define the vision of a project before beginning the design of a space.* Describe the “storytelling” aspect that Studio Joseph brings to projects.* List the ways embedding a narrative into the design proves to be a successful approach for Studio Joseph. Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz

Design ED EP. 166 – Duvall Decker Founded in 1998 by Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA and Roy T. Decker, FAIA, Duvall Decker is part architects, part planners, and part community organizers. With a strong footing in social justice Duvall Decker exemplifies the concept that all architecture is a public work. This podcast is a deep dive into the role that architects can play in creating healthy, functional, and beautiful designs that serve the community regardless of income, budget, or location. Learning Objectives:* Describe what motivated Duvall Decker to be establish the firm in Mississippi.* Explain how Duvall Decker approach design projects that may not be profitable for the firm.* Discuss how planning and efficient work processes can create more design time within projects.* List the ways that Duvall Decker help create trust and set expectations with communities prior to the design process.  Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz

In 1998, co-founders Joshua Aidlin and David Darling joined forces in a small woodshop studio crafting furniture. As that partnership grew, they took their approach to sensible and functional design to their work-a-day jobs as architects. Eventually joining forces and launching their own design firm, Aidlin Darling Design in San Francisco, they found a way to take their ethos and approach to custom furniture design to large scale projects. This podcast excavates the many layers and nuances Aidlin and Darling employ to integrate biophilic design, all the human senses and sustainable design into high-profile projects. Their approach to each project is client and site specific, and includes open communication among clients, consultants, fabricators, and builders to achieve innovative, unexpected results. From projects like the AIA Center for Design in San Francisco, to the University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center, Aidlin and Darling practice an architecture of restraint that has a focus on nature, coupled with sensorial engagement of occupants.Learning Objectives:* Describe the inspirational approach to design of Aidlin and Darling.* Explain how Aidlin and Darling reached out to the local art community to elevate the AIA Center for Design project.* Discuss the deliberate intention of incorporating biophilic design into the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center.* List the ways that Aidlin and Darling believe the next wave of architects can be cultivated and encouraged to pursue a career in design. Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz 

A completely remote team is an oddity for architecture firms. However, even before the lock-downs of Covid, the architecture firm The Ranch Mine, based in Arizona, embraced the concept to build a dream team of designers. Cavin Costello joins the podcast this time to discuss developing the First Phoenix Green Construction Code project, designing for visionary real estate developers, and creating unique homes for trailblazing homeowners across the U.S. Winners of six national awards including the HGTV Designer of the Year contest in 2019 and 2023, The Ranch Mine continues to expand the reach of their firm domestically and globally through a spirit of entrepreneurism and single-minded customer relationships. Learning Objectives:1.    Examine some of the challenges and best practices of having a fully remote architecture firm.2.    Discuss the process of creating custom homes on unique sites that satisfy both the client’s needs and the architect’s vision.3.    Describe the approach The Ranch Mine takes to understand the unique building processes, budgets, and schedules when working in different regions in the U.S.4.    Describe how the spirit of entrepreneurism has helped The Ranch Mine grow as a business while maintaining creative integrity.Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz

UP Studio architect and founding partner John Patrick Wineberry joins the podcast to discuss the gentle and comfortable approach UP Studio employs to guide clients to an understanding of complex design theories. While high profile projects like the house from the Netflix feature film “Leave The World Behind” may draw attention to Up Studio, their minimalist designs and close working relationships with clients are the bedrock inspiration for this successful studio. Learning Objectives:* Describe the overall philosophy that Wineberry incorporated into the creation of Up Studio.* Explain the how integrating natural environment, specifically the following the path of the Sun, helped create client satisfaction in the Open Corner House.* Discuss the process of with working with Netflix during the production of the film “Leave The World Behind”.* Describe the overall experience Wineberry navigated as an architect seeing their project featured in a major motion picture. Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz