Architecture and the building industry are one of the most essential industries as they fulfill the need of shelter for humans. Architects who have worked in the industry have pointed out several drawbacks and lack of tech penetration.

To help bridge the gap in the industry, these women architects turned into entrepreneurs to provide solutions for fellow architects and designers.

Here is a look at women who are creating innovative tech products and creative solutions to help architects grow in the industry.

Vijayadurga Koppisetti, an architect from Hyderabad believes greener solutions are not only important to safeguard the environment but also the health and wellbeing of occupants. In 2018, she founded Architude, an infra-tech startup to provide green buildings with solutions that are affordable and easily adoptable.

By leveraging new age technologies, Architude is developing products and services to help foster sustainability and reduce the construction industrys carbon footprint by providing green solutions. The Hyderabad-based startup has built an AI (artificial intelligence) product called KNOWYOURBUILD that suggests lists of suitable and sustainable materials tagged with time, cost, energy efficiency and maintenance information.

The virtual prototype models built using Architude products behave exactly like real buildings. The cost of the construction, time schedules, energy efficiency of the building and the data needed to maintain the building can all be extracted from these models.

Working in the industry for close to two decades, Tithi Tewari had witnessed several problems and situations while communicating design intent to clients through traditional tools and mediums that did little to aid their overall understanding. Despite the extensive use of 3D renders and walkthroughs, she realised that clients had trouble visualising the end-product.

Tithi and her husband Gautam Tewaris startup SmartVizX launched Trezi, a fully-immersive VR product for the construction industry in 2018. The startup claims it is Indias first such product for this industry.

Trezi is a SaaS product, which transforms design communication in the building construction industry. It allows users to step into the virtual world with co-designers and clients to interact with their design, and each other, in real-time, within immersive environments and over desktop systems alike. It allows users to explore, review, and modify their designs at full scale and colour.

It was Minal Dubeys childhood dream to become an architect. However, when she became one, she says people around her did not really understand what the work of an architect entailed.

Turning to entrepreneurial solutions, Minal identified that the key was to encourage architects and interior designers to document their work. Her startup Spaciux creates content for an online community of architects and interior designers.

Realising the potential of documentation for architects and designers, she began to offer services to architects to document their work. After the documentation process, the startup makes the best of social media sites like Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube to showcase their work and help architects connect with potential clients.

A major milestone has been producing a web series called Spaciux Incredible Architects which showcases various types of Indian architecture on Amazon Prime, which was released in the US and UK as well.

With a background in the design industry and having worked with many firms as an architect, Tanya saw a gap in designers, their practice, and business communication. She realised that design and architecture firms were only focusing on their work, and not using communication to ensure growth.

Keen to bridge this gap, Tanya started Epistle Communications in 2011 from her home, a one-of-its-kind agency that offers bespoke strategic communication consulting for design, architecture, and allied industries.

The startup has more than 30 design and allied brands as clients. The list includes Indias top 10 architecture firms. It has helped clients get featured in over 1,800 online and 1,500 print publications and has helped small and big firms get global recognition and access to new business opportunities.

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in district 2 of ho chi minh city, nha dan architects has carved out an introverted yet voluminous living space called bunker house. spanning five floor levels, including a basement and roof terrace, the interior spatial experiences are designed around the concrete structure, resulting in a sense of robustness and an honest expression of materiality.

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in previous projects by nha dan architects, a system of concrete beams and columns was used to free the floor plans of columns, better connecting the different spaces while letting the outdoors in. in bunker house, they employed this concrete system not only as structure, but also as spatial partitions and the projects guiding aesthetics.

a series of concrete columns grouped into 3 legs serve as structural anchor points for the cantilevered waffle slabs. these 3 legs define the spatial experiences throughout the house: on the first floor, the first leg protects the living spaces from the outside world; the secondessentially an elevator coreand the third leg together delineate a soft border between served and service spaces. the first and second leg accentuate the living and dining room with the added height. on the upper levels, these legs merge with non-structural walls to define the limits between the interior and the outdoors, and partition off the upper level into smaller rooms.

the raw aesthetic and texture from the waffle slabs ribs are continued onto the concrete and metal pergolas on the outside, and also the ceilings and walls. the resulting interior space feels contained and sturdy, like a bunker, and yet fluid, airy and full of natural light.

project info:

project name: bunker house

type: residential

location: district 2, ho chi minh city, vietnam

architect: nha dan architects

status: completed

design: 2018

construction: 2019

construction area: 9493.77 ft2 (882 m2)

architects in charge: nguyen dinh gioi, tran minh phuoc

contractor: nhadan co., ltd

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Reopening Schools

With the school year ending soon, schools across the country are looking ahead to the fall. The CDC recently released a one-page checklist for administrators to consider when reopening schools that include screening students and staff upon their arrival, increasing cleaning and disinfecting throughout facilities, social distancing, promoting regular hand washing and employees wearing face coverings.

These guidelines, along with input from state and local health officials, will impact the learning environment moving forward. We asked designers and architects from across the country what they anticipate classrooms will look like in the fall if they were to reopen, how the coronavirus will impact school design in the long-term, and suggestions on design concepts schools can implement right away to help with social distancing in facilities. Their answers offer insight to available design options and possibilities that can help school leaders plan and make the best decisions for their students and staff.

Answers have been edited for length and clarity.

Within classrooms, there may be a need to create physical distance by making operational decisions such as staggering the number of students within the physical space. Perhaps by deploying remote learning tools and strategies, students can join the classroom instruction from another location within the school building. James E. LaPosta Jr., FAIA, LEED AP, Principal, Chief Architectural Officer at JCJ Architecture

Because schools dont have the time or the funding to build additional classrooms or make the ones they have bigger, they are left with options that strategically alter how existing space is being utilized. For example, schools could use colored tape to mark circulation patterns and six-foot queueing distances on the floor (as were now seeing in grocery stores) around offices, lunchrooms and other locations. Other strategies may require enacting changes in social design, such as dividing the students into groups on a rotating schedule of in-person and distance/online learning. As for classrooms often already challenged with overcrowding schools may need to make tough choices. In classrooms where there is a support area, temporarily removing the support area furnishings may allow desks to be sufficiently separated. Alternatively, larger classes could be moved into the gymnasium or the cafeteria, or even outdoors should weather permit. Julia McFadden, AIA, associate principal and K-12 sector leader for Svigals + Partners, New Haven, CT

As students return to K-12 classrooms in the fall they will be greeted with the next normal a classroom hyper-focused on hygiene, social-distancing, and enhanced air filtration. Most, if not all of these next normal will become routine but will they take away from the learning experience, after all they are bolt-on measures born from reaction rather than proactive design thinking. Billions will be spent by schools all over the world to react in this way and it will not improve the learning environment for our children. After all we are social creatures and we learn by doing in an interactive, socially engaged environment. Jason Boyer, AIA, LEED AP, Principal at Studio Ma, Phoenix, AZ.

The Fall (of 2020) is way too early to anticipate meaningful, long-term, changes of any kind, in life, or in anything at all as planning, design and building take significant time; months, years. Sure, Fall 2020 will be a different experience for the class of 2024 and maybe the classes of 2025, 2026 and 2027.

But will it stay that way? There is no telling. So, in what ways might it change? This remains to be seen.

The shift in thinking the COVID19 crisis will precipitate will likely take five years or more to manifest itself in measurable ways certainly that long in new buildings; most likely more time than that. John Kirk, AIA, Partner, Cooper Robertson

Schools will likely step up the level of monitoring of each individual students health with daily (or more frequent) symptom checks while promoting hygiene in the daily routine. The latter will probably include handwashing stations at building and classroom entrances coupled with increased cleaning and sanitizing protocols for students, faculty and staff. Mark A. Sullivan, AIA, LEED AP, partner with JZA+D

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Text description provided by the architects. Theber Shed 2 is the second rural building we have designed on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. The project came about because the client had a lot of stuff and needed more space to store it, display it and enjoy it.

His collection included vintage cars, WWII army jeeps, model planes, GI Joes, art, old signs, signed guitars, antique tram ticket dispensers etc etc etc.

There was an existing off the shelf blue corrugated shed which was only 4 years old with galvanised structural steel still shiny. The problem the client had apart from the need for more room was that he couldnt get his classic, stainless-steel Airstream bus in due to the access being too low in height and could just not see how keeping the existing shed was going to work.

We convinced him that we had to keep the existing structure, adapt, reclad and add to the building to make it work both functionally and visually to look like it was always one building.

It improves a usually bland utility into a piece of elegant architecture set in an amazing setting. It realizes the fact that there isnt really a preconceived idea about what a shed should look like and proves that a shed can look really great.

Theres not really much more to say about it as the photos pretty much tell the story. A favourite project of ours with a fantastic client and builder who did our design justice.

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Citing the "interests of justice,'' a federal judge has ended Oregon refuge occupation leader Ryan Paynes federal supervision a year and a half early.

Payne, once described as a pivotal architect of the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, served his prison term of three years and one month and completed half of the three years of supervised release that U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown ordered in March 2018. He received credit for the time he was held in jail after his arrest in late January 2016.

Payne was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to impede federal employees at the wildlife refuge through intimidation, threat or force. He paid his $10,000 restitution in full by Sept. 23

Payne married after getting out of prison, has four children with his wife and one on the way, according to his lawyer Lisa Hay, Oregons federal public defender.

He is head of operations at REM Technologies, a start-up company in Belgrade, Montana. The company is developing a new method of processing raw materials in the metals supply industry. Hes been employed there since August after working as a licensed electrician for another company since his release from custody, according to his lawyer Lisa Hay, Oregons federal public defender.

Mr. Paynes compliant conduct and positive contribution to his community throughout the past 18 months of supervised release demonstrates that further supervision is unnecessary, Hay wrote to the court.

Federal prosecutors did not object. Brown granted Paynes request, effective May 12.

Payne was one of 18 people who either pleaded guilty or were convicted by a jury in the 41-day Malheur refuge occupation in 2016. Prosecutors originally indicted 26 people. Leader Ammon Bundy, brother Ryan Bundy and five others were acquitted of all charges during a trial. The government dropped a conspiracy case against independent broadcaster Pete Santilli.

In January 2018, a federal judge in Nevada dismissed separate conspiracy charges against Payne, Ammon and Ryan Bundy and their father, Cliven Bundy, after she found prosecutors engaged in flagrant misconduct'' and a deliberate attempt to mislead'' and made several misrepresentations to both the defense and the court about evidence. The U.S. Attorneys Office is appealing the dismissal.

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Ive been spending a lot of time at home lately ... like many of us of here in Virginia and across the nation.

Luckily, my house is my favorite place to be. I fell in love with it from afar and had a house crush on it for years.

Its a modern house, but different from any Id ever seen.

I used to walk by it while pushing a stroller when my younger son was a baby. Id crane my neck to get a good look at it: tucked away in the hollow of a hill above a small lake in the Bon Air area of Chesterfield County. The house was all angles, blue-gray wood siding and windows facing the water. It was indeed different: private, strange and artistic. Every time I saw it, I thought: What would it be like to live there?

One day, I saw the For Sale sign during my morning walk. I ran home, pushing the stroller, and Googled the house, out of breath. It was at the very top of our buying range, a little over, to be honest, but just barely within reach. I said to myself: I have to have it.

We called our real estate agent, then put in an offer. After a small bidding war and a crazy amount of luck, it was ours.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

My house was built in 1974 by Richmond architect Ernie Rose for his family.

The house is all angles and light, strung together by a spine of skylights down the front hall, and turned toward the lake so that almost every room has a water view.

Its designed slightly in the Frank Lloyd Wright style, with its narrow entrance that forces you into the home, and then opens up, with a sweeping view of the water and an open floor plan. But its also unique to itself and the architect who created it.

I didnt know much about Rose when we bought the house. But I wanted to know more. So I turned to the Richmond Times-Dispatch archives, where I found a stack of articles about him.

Retired architect Ernie Rose stands in the office in his workshop at his house which boasts many features attractive to the handyman. (Photo 2005)

Born in Richmond, Rose ran a thriving architecture firm in the 1980s and 1990s, first with Ernie Rose Inc., followed by Rose Architects in the mid-1990s. Roses firm designed some of the first office buildings in the Innsbrook Corporate Center, the Heilig-Meyers headquarters in Goochland County and the original CarMax showroom on West Broad Street that is now used as the prototype for over 150 locations.

Rose was known for his budget-conscious approach to projects. He could come up with a budget for a quality building and stick to it, an attribute hard to find in many architects, said his former business partner Mark Larson. He also designed condominiums in the Lockgreen community off River Road and the new urban housing development Winchester Greens off Hull Street Road.

Before out-of-town developers discovered Richmond, he almost had a monopoly on office work in town. It became a chase for developers. Whoever could call him first got his services, Larson said.

In 1999, Rose Architects merged with Baskervill, and Rose retired shortly afterward. When he died in 2006 at the age of 67, projects of Rose Architects dotted the city as well as 20 other states.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

But what he didnt make at least many of were private residences.

Ernie just didnt do houses. He was a commercial architect, his wife, Connie Rose, said.

Designing houses requires a certain personality, Larson said. Its labor intensive. It doesnt pay as well as [other projects].

While Rose might be best known for his commercial work, his private homes are spectacular. But, of course, Im biased.

Pennie and Keith Parkin at their home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin at their home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Keith and Pennie Parkin at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylight in their living room.

Architect Ernie Rose's sketch ofPennie and Keith Parkin's house on Lake Shore Drive.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Gus Decker, 8, Colleen Curran, Henry Decker, 12 and Francis Decker and at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

View of the skylights at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Built-in bookcases in the living room at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Main hall at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. The sliding barn door conceals a small storage area.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Bedroom built-in window seat and wrap-around windows overlooking the lake.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Built-in linen closet in the front hall used for towels and sheets. The top drawers are used for the kids' hats and gloves in the winter.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylights in the main hall let in diffused light.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. View of the kitchen.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Built-in china cabinet and bar in the kitchen.

Connie and Ernie Rose stand outside their home on Buford Road in the Bon Air section of Chesterfield. By all definitions it is a handyman's dream house as it features a complete woodshop and a lift in the garage for working on automobiles.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the front door.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the backyard.

The personal residence Ernie Rose built for himself and his wife on Buford Road. It was built in the Victorian style to blend in with the houses in Old Bon Air.

The personal residence Ernie Rose built for himself and his wife on Buford Road.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. They are standing in the living room. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Ernie Rose built these closets and the window seat including its cushions for the upstairs bedroom. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Ernest W. Rose Jr., with Rose Architects, is surrounded by models and drawings of the future headquarters for Heilig Meyers in Goochland. The company is one of the 'Rising 25' after twenty-six years in business. Photo taken Tuesday, August 13, 1996.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. The photo of their kitchen was taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Retired architect Ernie Rose stands in the office in his workshop at his house which boasts many features attractive to the handyman. (Photo 2005)

Even though my house is over 45 years old, it feels so fresh and modern, and it speaks to how my family lives today.

It has an open floor plan with an open kitchen that looks over the large living room. I can cook and watch my children playing at the same time. There is no formal dining room, because Rose didnt believe in them at the time. What I love about this house is how efficient it is. It makes sense. It was designed with a distinctive vision and on a budget which was classic Ernie Rose.

Ernie didnt do showy stuff. His work was about quality, the craft, the scale. His houses were almost designed not to be flashy. He was a midcentury modern kind of guy. He liked Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Like those houses, it was hard to find the entrance. Its all about the scale, bringing the scale down to the human scale. They were very human-oriented, Larson said.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Bedroom built-in window seat and wrap-around windows overlooking the lake.

At my home, the entrance is tucked into the side of the house. The master bedroom is just off the front door, with a built-in window seat overlooking the lake and built-in closets and drawers. The windows are so large, that when you sit at the window seat, you feel as if youre outside in nature, even though youre inside. And thats how it feels throughout the house: that it was built to be one with nature.

Rose designed his homes to fit the landscape and to offer the best views of the nature around them. In the living room, built-in bookshelves climb one wall in a dramatic slant. There are built-ins throughout the house: a china cabinet in the kitchen, a linen closet in the hall, and filing cabinets and drawers in a small study upstairs.

Ernie would lay out a house based on efficiency. He cared a lot about that. He designed to maximize the materials in the building and to minimize waste. The level of details that was part of Ernies mindset, Larson said. A good architect will spend a lot of time worrying about those kinds of things.

The bones of the house are so great, we didnt have to do much to it when we moved in, except to purge most of our furniture, because with the built-ins, we didnt need it anymore. Instead, we focused on filling the walls with paintings signed by my artist father-in-law, Chase Decker.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

When I showed a friend a picture of our living room, she asked: Where are all the books and toys and newspapers? Where is the clutter? Theyre in the built-ins. Honestly, its the easiest house to tidy up Ive ever lived in. It has a whole-house vacuum (from the 70s that still works!) that has been a life-changer.

Even the long modern sofa in the living room is a built-in that Rose designed and built himself.

Ernie was a craftsman. He worked on restoring old cars and MGs. But he also had a really great touch with furniture. He liked the simplicity of Shaker-type furniture. He would use that as a starting point and make it his own, Larson said.

Rose studied architecture at Virginia Tech and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. At Tech, he was inspired by the Bauhaus school, taught by many of the professors, which focuses on craft, simplicity and having a harmony of function.

They taught him how to make things with your hands, Larson said.

Ernie was very much into the modern and the midcentury, the Eames and Bertoia chairs, Connie said. He made really good cabinets and beautiful furniture. He never had a plan. Hed just start cutting wood, and it always came together. I have a lot of pieces he built and so do the kids.

Main hall at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. The sliding barn door conceals a small storage area.

When the Roses lived here in the 1970s, they had three sons, and the house was so private, they didnt have any window coverings. The skylights in the main hall let in the softest, most diffused light, all day.

Ernie was very big on having light come in. He didnt like dark interiors. He would put windows in corners and near the door to let in the light, Connie said.

When the lake behind the house became a popular spot for ice-skating in the winter, Connie had to invest in curtains for the bedroom for privacy. Otherwise, the house is turned away from the street, facing the water, for total privacy. Its the inverse of many houses, which typically face the street. Its not for everyone, but it spoke to me and my appreciation of privacy.

The house also has a garage with a pitched roof and doors that swing open where Rose used to work on vintage cars. My husband has turned it into the man cave. He throws parties in there that I dont even realize are happening, and that, my friends, is marital bliss.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Our house wasnt the first that Rose built in the Bon Air neighborhood. He built another, modern in style, for the Hsu family in 1972. Its built into the hill, all cantilevers and levels, with a deep brown-stained siding. We struck up a friendship with the owners, Keith and Pennie Parkin, based on our love of Ernie Rose houses.

Parkin, a graphic designer, was looking for a house after his divorce in 2012. He spotted the Rose house while out driving.

Keith and Pennie Parkin at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

No one was living here at the time. I pulled into the driveway and peeked into the windows. I wasnt sure if I could afford it. But I was like, This house has to be mine, Parkin said.

He called his agent, got a tour and learned the listing price was within his budget at $260,000. It wasnt updated, but I didnt care, he said. I liked the fact that it was contemporary, modern and completely different than any house Id ever seen.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylight in their living room.

Their house is like a mirror image of ours. It has the familiar Ernie Rose trappings: the same white built-ins with silver pulls. They even have a built-in stereo cabinet and a giant square skylight in their living room.

While Ernie was working on that house, he came across the lot for our house.

Architect Ernie Rose's sketch ofPennie and Keith Parkin's house on Lake Shore Drive.

The Roses bought the lakefront lot for $3,500. Rose didnt have a lot of work at the time, as he was just starting out with his own company, and Connie said he would often come out and help build the house.

It took nine months to build, which wasnt a long time, but seemed like forever, she said. The budget for the house was a little under $45,000, which Rose stuck to, for the most part. To adjust for inflation, that would be around $250,000 today. In the interest of full disclosure, the list price when we bought the house in 2014 was a bit more $300,000 because it included two additional parcels of land, one on each side. My husband and I pooled all our savings together, every scrap and cent we'd ever saved or earned, for the deposit and never looked back.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the front door.

The house Ernie Rose is most well-known for is a white Victorian on Buford Road that was featured in Southern Living magazine twice. Built in 1995, the Buford Road house was custom-built to look like the late 19th-century Victorian homes that surround it, even though it was designed by a modern architect.

The Buford Road house was a whole other turn completely. Ernie said, I cannot and will not build a contemporary house in the middle of Old Bon Air. It wouldnt be right, Connie said.

Connie and Ernie Rose stand outside their home on Buford Road in the Bon Air section of Chesterfield. By all definitions it is a handyman's dream house as it features a complete woodshop and a lift in the garage for working on automobiles.

The house on Buford Road was the greatest example of his craftsmanship, Larson said.

Outside, it almost looks like a farmhouse from the 1900s with a standing-seam green metal roof and copper gutters, but inside, it has all the modern amenities and functional design of today.

It was such an amazing house with lots of oversize columns and woodwork, Connie said. It had built-in furniture, cabinets and Corian counters, which Ernie favored. The garage even had a hydraulic lift where he worked on his vintage cars.

When it sold in 2005, the listing price was around $750,000.

Gus Decker, 8, Colleen Curran, Henry Decker, 12 and Francis Decker and at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

In these times when were encouraged to be safer at home, I feel lucky. Because this is the only place I want to be.

I think about Ernie Rose often and what its like to live in a house thats well-designed. And how thankful I am for it, especially now.

Downstairs, the electrical box is signed, simply, in strong black letters: Rose. Like an artist signing a painting. A work of art. That we, by some sort of miracle, get to live in.

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Harriet Harris, dean of thePratt InstituteSchool of Architecturein New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time.

Harriss, who recentlybecame the second female dean of the school, will speak to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

Harriss, who appeared at the inaugural Dezeen Day last year and judged the first Dezeen Awards in 2018, studied architecture at Oxford Brookes University.

Before moving to New York City, she led the post-graduate research programme in architecture at theRoyal College of Artin London.

Her books include Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition, and A Gendered Profession, which explores gender imbalance in the architecture profession.

At Dezeen Day, she appeared on a panel on design education alongside Zaha Hadid Architects principalPatrik Schumacher, and clashed with the architect over the long-hours culture in the industry.

Other creatives featured in our Screentime series include trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel,New York architecture practice SO-IL,The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee,filmmaker Gary HustwitandBritish-Israeli architect Ron Arad.

This Screentime conversation is sponsored byEnscape, a virtual reality and real-time rendering plugin for architectural design programmeAutodesk Revit.

Virtual Design Festivalis the world's first online design festival, taking place from 15 April to 30 June. For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, contact us atvirtualdesignfestival@dezeen.com.

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italy has suffered one of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks in the world and has endured europes longest lockdown. may 4th marked the first day of phase 2, shedding a little light into a society in desperate need of it. to help with the transition, thecity of milan has launched a new campaign called a new start. one step at a time inviting citizens to respect the rules in the gradual reopening of the city. the northern italian city, which has announced an ambitious plans to reduce car use, will also launch a new initiative aimed at architects and designers, asking for ideas that envision a safe back to normal or new normal city.

the YESMILANO campaign is part of a creative initiative where italian singer ghali invites the milanese to face the end of the lockdown with caution, awareness and serenity

milan, the financial capital of italy, is also known for its forward-thinking and design-oriented attitude. since the crisis started, italian creatives and companies alike have changed their usual doings and transformed their efforts in order to help the country face the crisis. some examples include fashion giant prada producing medical overalls and masks for healthcare personnel and carlo ratti building emergency hospitals from shipping containers. engineers turned a decathlon snorkeling mask into a respirator while the maker community 3D-printed multipurpose tools designed to slow the spread of the virus.

we must be careful. but not afraid. we are masked, not blindfolded, says the singer

now that people are allowed to go out, the commune di milano is asking designers and architects to envision solutions to help citizens safely transition into phase 2 one that asks for the use of personal protection and social distancing. projects should include practical solutions that allow business to stay afloat with citizens being safe. that means spacers to ensure the social distance measurements, separators for restaurants and even new floor plan developments among others.

this is the phase in which we understand the value of freedom. together we are more human than ever before.

in recent weeks many professionals and companies have offered to make their skills available to the city to face the emergency together, wrote cristina tajini, milans councillor for commerce, on her tumblr page. during thursdays meeting, we decided to start a public consultation aimed at planners, designers, and architects to roll out of their ideas: from spacers to signs that manage access, passing through new furnishings and innovative solutions that optimize the outdoor space, to the layout of markets, shops, public businesses and covered public spaces, in order to guarantee distance, without sacrificing conviviality.

these final verses describe the spirit, the attention and care required for milans return to the new normality

there will be no time limit to submit proposals, the invitation will remain open for the duration of the emergency, she concludes. the projects will be periodically evaluated, discussed and inserted into a virtual catalog that can be consulted free of charge by traders and operators, through the institutional channels of the municipality of milan. in the next few days we will publish the notice, meanwhile start thinking about it!

stay tuned as we will share the news once more information is available.

anew start. one step at a time

project info:

name: a new start. one step at a time

directed by: davide gentile

with: ghali, ida marinelli, thora keita, giada lanzotti, marco mazzei

created by: TBWA italy group

chief creative officer: nicola lampugnanicreative director and copywriter: sara ermoli + ghaliart director: tommaso espinosacopywriter: manuel bonardi

production: a tapelessfilm

produced by: daniele gentiliexecutive producer: luca legnanidirector of photography: alessandro ubaldieditor: matteo motzocostumes: sara costantinimake up: silvia murciano

music by: a.carnevali, fm ruffert, m.pozzi, n.barozzi

with the special collaboration: SMEN

juliana neira I designboom

may 09, 2020

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Mother knows best, as the saying goes, and it holds true for the designers and architects who shared their memories with us for Mothers Day. From instilling an appreciation for craftsmanship to encouraging a rebellious streak, these designers mothers have had a profound impact on both their personal and professional outlooks. Heres how motherly wisdom has translated into excellent design advice.

George Yabu and his mom, Masako.

Be bold; be curious.

George Yabu recalls his moms fearlessness and moving to Canada from Japan. "This was in the 1930sshe grew up on a rice farm and took it upon herself to immigrate to Canada when she was 19. This was just not done in society back then," he explains. Once in Canada, she learned her stepmothers tailoring trade and assisted with the business. She took it upon herself to learn every aspect of Western fashionsgoing so far as to memorize the patterns for work. "She was always driven to learn how things worked and how to fix things through very clever, cost-effective means," says George.

Keep a problem-solving mindset.

"She looked at things through industrial design and engineering principles, a trait she has transferred onto me," George explains. As a result, he is always wondering about how things work and seeking solutions to challenges. "That is what design is all aboutsolving problems," he says.

Amagansett is George Yabu and Glenn Pushelbergs summertime home in the Hamptons. Note the color and texture of the rugs, which were influenced by Glenns mom, who was a talented weaver.

Glenn Pushelberg,co-founder of Yabu Pushelberg

Glenn Pushelberg and his mom, Shirley.

Create and craft.

Glenn Pushelberg comes from a family of crafters. "My mom had to work when she was young, but in her spare time, she enjoyed copper tooling," he says. Her mother, in turn, was a weaver. "I recall heading to her home which would be filled with looms, fabrics, and yarns," he says. "She would have old boxes of clothing, the contents of which she would rip up to make these beautifully colored rag rugs." Crafting for sheer pleasure and utility remains a large part of their family fabric to this day.

Nina Freudenberger and her mom, Marie.

Accent with color.

Nina Freudenberger says that her mom, an artist, was always careful with color, tending toward more neutral palettesbut with a bold accent. "For instance, my childhood living room carried mostly cream-colored furniture mixed with dark, antique furniture," says Nina, "but then she would find a burnt orange and sienna pillow (one of her favorite shades) and make that the vibe for the room shine!"

Choose foundational pieces that you can design around.

"I watched her change the accents over the years while keeping the primary, investment pieces the same, which I highly recommend for all of my clients now," says Nina. "It gives you much more flexibility and keeps foundational pieces timeless." For instance, her mother went through an animal print phase, and later an Indian textile phase, which created a harmonious, layered warmth around anchoring pieces.

Thanks to her mother, Nina has a passion for experimenting with different patterns. "They make any room pop!" she says.

Layer different styles.

"My mom could effortlessly mix antiques she found and layer them with modern pieces," says Nina, who warns that it is a lot harder than it looks. "It takes careful thought and confidence to do it rightits one of the many things I admire about my mother."

Mardi Doherty with her mom, Helen, and her daughters Chili (background) and Bonnie (foreground).

Challenge conventions.

"As a child, we lived in a modest 1950s home that had a very bold, all-red kitchen, and my bedroom had thick navy and white diagonal stripes splashed across all walls," says Mardi Doherty. These bold moves taught Mardi to think of design as an extension of personality. "I learned to cherish my individuality, reject conformity, and be proud of thinking differently from others."

Previously a church from the 1900s, this contemporary home repurposes the original stained-glass windows.

Keep a sense of humor.

Being able to mentally reframe a situation has helped Mardi immensely. "Its one of the greatest lessons Ive learned from my momnothing is ever as bad as it seems," she says. "In fact, her saying is, When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, which always makes me smile!" She adds that her mother is very pragmatic, and that "she doesnt think anything is worth stressing too much about," which Doherty applies to her personal and professional life.

Pursue happiness.

"She taught me that its okay to let a great opportunity go if it doesnt make you happy," says Mardi. "This has been applied many times in my business."

Greg Faulkner with his mother, Mary.

Live thoughtfully on the land.

Making frequent trips from his hometown in Northern Indiana to visit his grandparents in Frankfort, Kentuckyagricultural, horse-and-bourbon countryhelped Greg Faulkner appreciate the relationship between people and nature. "In contrast to the intensely built, suburban environment of my hometown, the opportunistic and expedient way in which people inhabited farmhouses that were set upon open rolling hills, valleys, and verdant forestry did not go unnoticed," he says. "This was thanks to my mom, who gave me an appreciation for this natural landscape."

Faulkner Architects marries modernity and rural architecture with this barn-inspired home, which pays homage to the agricultural heritage of Glen Ellen, California.

Lead a project-driven life.

Gregs mother was a multi-hyphenate woman with numerous ongoing projects that included sewing dresses for herself and her daughters, tending to their home vegetable garden, oil painting, and keeping a clean and disciplined home environment. He adds that on the surface, it may not appear like these were architectural lessons, but "they are lessons about achieving a disciplined, ordered, and project-driven life." From his mothers example, Greg learned that any projectpersonal or professionalnecessitates "a consistent determination within a daily, iterative process that allows a constant return to the task with a fresh perspective." Overall, he says that engaging in such projects adds richness and realness to our lives, yielding "tangible results and effects that give us the satisfaction of accomplishing useful work, like the making of a good house."

Andrew Maynard with his mom, Patricia, at his childhood home in Tasmania.

Be wonderfully weird.

"Mom always let me be weird, which was perfect preparation for a life in design," Andrew Maynard says. The permission to be creative and think outside the box has resulted in projects with climbing walls, slides, nets, and secret rooms.

Tower House is a family residence in Victoria, Australia, whose playful plan includes an upper-level hanging net space for reading and relaxing.

Appreciate the outdoors.

During his childhood in rural Tasmanias mountainous landscape, Andrews mother helped cultivate an appreciation for the landscape, encouraging him "to consider it as an extension of our living space."

Build creative skills.

Andrews mother encouraged him and his siblings to build a skill they enjoyedcrafting, knitting, sewing, painting, building. "She pushed me to draw, which has been fundamentally important to my development as an architect, and a skill I feel should be picked up as early as possible," he says.

Place empathy over ego.

One of the most important things Andrew learned from his mother was the value of empathy: "It allows you to keep your ego in check and respond directly to client and community needs." Many of the delightful features he incorporates into homes are rooted in misunderstood subcultures. "Skateboarding, raves, anime, and street artall of which I lovedwere considered almost criminal activities by some, and a waste of time by most," he says.

Bonnie Bridgess mother, Janet, marks the location for a feature tree on the construction site of a BBA-designed residence in Cazadero, California.

Support the work of tradespeople.

"My mom was a general contractor and self-performed all of the work for her residential design-build projects," says Bonnie Bridges. "Demo, concrete, framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, cabinets, tile, paint, roofingshe did it all." Bridges has since cultivated a deep respect for the skilled carpenters, general contractors, and tradespeople who bring a designers vision to life. "I often say that, after design, my role is to support the contractor as much as possible and be the resource they need to make their (hard) job easier."

The Southern Pacific Brewery in San Francisco is housed in a former machine shop at the termination of an old train line. The spacious shell considers all the functional needs of the client, which included running a bar, restaurant, and full production brewery.

Prioritize functionality.

"I was inspired by my mom to focus on holistic, systems-based design thinking," says Bonnie. Her mother taught her about the importance of emphasizing function and considering about all the systems that go into designing a spacefrom water and electricity, to gas and drainage.

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The Times Architects Stepped Up in Crises

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For the past few months, the architecture community has been trying to bring its contribution to the fight against the pandemic. The global spread of this crisis might have triggered a coordinated, and thus a more visible effort, but this isnt the first time professionals step up in crises. Over the years, natural disasters and emergencies have determined several architects to get involved in disaster relief initiatives, as well as a wide range of humanitarian actions. In this article, we take a look at different occasions various architects and practices made a significant contribution to, helping affected communities overcome hardship.

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There are plenty of design proposals for post-disaster architecture out there, but it is quite seldom that architects get the chance to put their designs into practice, or help the affected communities in a tangible way. In light of recent global events, it is worth taking a look at how the architecture community can bring its contribution to critical situations.

If one were to name the professions leading figure in humanitarian architecture, it would probably be Shigeru Ban. The Pritzker-winning architect is notorious for his involvement and hands-on approach in emergency response, having undertaken disaster relief projects around the world. His work in this field has started with the design of paper-tube temporary homes for the refugees of the Kobe earthquake in 1995. Around the same time, Ban established the Voluntary Architects Network, to provide post-disaster aid. Among his numerous initiatives, he created temporary housing following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and developed a multi-storey housing complex made of shipping containers for the victims of the 2011 earthquake in Onagawa. Ban also designed a temporary cardboard cathedral to replace the one destroyed in Christchurch by the 2013 earthquake and created modular dwellings for the victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In 2017, he signed an agreement with UN-Habitat to design 20,000 new homes for refugees in Kenya.

When an earthquake hit Pakistan in 2005, architect Yasmeen Lari decided to help, so she worked with the affected communities to rebuild homes using the materials at hand, such as bamboo and mud. Since then, she has helped build more than 36,000 homes for flood and earthquake victims in her home country, structures that withstood subsequent natural disasters. In 2007, Lari also built community kitchens in refugee camps. The architect co-founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, an organization which, among others, trains people from rural areas in making building components and products which they can later monetise, helping those communities rise above poverty. Yasmeen Lari was recently awarded the 2020 Jane Drew prize for her extensive humanitarian work over the last two decades.

After the 2016 earthquake devastated several towns in central Italy, the Genoa-based architect was called by the Italian prime minister at the time to lead reconstruction efforts and develop natural disaster prevention strategies. As part of this initiative, Renzo Piano established a research group and created ten prototypes for anti-seismic housing to be built along the Apennines. In 2018, another tragic event hit Italy, with the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa. In the aftermath of the disaster, Piano, a Genovese himself, offered to donate the design of a new bridge to replace the old one. The structure has recently been completed. Prior to these events, Renzo Piano had also accepted Emergency NGOs request to design a new healthcare facility, the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery, in Uganda, currently under construction.

The earthquake that struck central Italy in 2016 resulted in the loss of centuries-old architecture and the town of Amatrice was the most severely affected. Stefano Boeri joined architect Renzo Piano in the reconstruction process, designing a new school canteen for Amatrice. Supported with donations from all across Italy, as well as the architects themselves, the scheme was a first small step towards the reconstruction of the severely destroyed territory. The project then evolved to become Polo del Gusto Square, with the surrounding buildings accommodating eight restaurants. Encompassing a range of different services, the design was part of the attempt to recreate jobs, restart economic activities and revive local tourism.

The charity and design studio began their humanitarian work in 2004, providing educational spaces for the Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Their approach aims to foster community resilience by involving the users in the planning and construction phases. In partnership with different NGOs and humanitarian organizations, CatalyticAction has designed and built several playgrounds in refugee settlements in Lebanon. In 2016, the practice repurposed the donated materials used for a pavilion at the Expo in Milan to redevelop the Jarahieh Refugee School, formerly housed in a temporary tent.

The Pritzker-winning architect is well-known for his efforts to promote social development and overcome disparity. The half-finished house has become a signature for the studio ELEMENTAL, allowing governments to provide housing at a very low price, while still creating quality homes. This design strategy has been incorporated in the replacement of an illegal settlement in Iquique or the Monterrey Housing project in Mexico. The architect also played an essential role in the reconstruction of the Chilean city of Constitucin after the earthquake and tsunami of 2010, which resulted in creating a forest to attenuate the effects of future natural disasters, as well as Villa Verde Housing, a residential neighbourhood for 484 of the affected families. To help with the lack of affordable housing worldwide, as well as with the rapid urbanization, Aravena released four of the studios incremental housing designs to the public for open source use.

The list could be longer but still manages to prove that in times of dire need, there were architects who answered the call and helped. Whether this deserves praise or is simply a part of the profession's social responsibility is an open debate. These examples serve as a reminder that individual action can make an essential difference in crises when peoples livelihoods are disrupted.

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