Design Voice Podcast
96 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsThe Design Voice Podcast seeks to elevate and amplify those voices of women in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. Each episode features honest conversations with women who shape the built environment - their unique perspectives on the state of their professions, stories about their career journeys, and more. By telling their stories, this podcast hopes to serve as a source of education, inspiration and empowerment.
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#41 - Between is Beautiful with Mani A. Farhadi
September 02, 2020 04:36 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBMani Farhadi is a Senior Facilities Planner at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Office of Facilities, Planning and Management. A global thinker and creative thought leader, Mani has three decades of experience in planning and architecture, and in collaborating with both public and private institutions. She enjoys combining her passion for education with her extensive planning skills to bring about stakeholder consensus and thoughtful solutions. Mani’s leadership extends into v...
#40 - Pathways to Equity with Shalini Agrawal
August 19, 2020 05:47 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBShalini Agrawal brings over 25 years of experience in community engagement, and has dedicated her career to bringing diversity and equity in design, art and architecture. She is co-director of Pathways to Equity, a leadership experience for responsible community-engaged design, and founder and principal of Public Design for Equity, an equity-driven practice for equity-driven outcomes. Shalini is on the board of Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, and Association for ...
Pathways to Equity with Shalini Agrawal
August 19, 2020 05:47 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBShalini Agrawal brings over 25 years of experience in community engagement, and has dedicated her career to bringing diversity and equity in design, art and architecture. She is co-director of Pathways to Equity, a leadership experience for responsible community-engaged design, and founder and principal of Public Design for Equity, an equity-driven practice for equity-driven outcomes. Shalini is on the board of Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, and Association for ...
Native Voices with the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective
August 05, 2020 05:08 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBFor the first time in the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, there are four Native American students enrolled at the same time. They are Elsa Hoover, Zoe Toledo, Heidi Brandow, and Jaz Bonnin, and together, they have formed the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective. Their aim is to support the education and work of Indigenous architects, planners, designers, scholars, allies, and alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this episode, I speak with Elsa, Zoe, Heidi a...
#39 - Native Voices with the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective
August 05, 2020 05:08 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBFor the first time in the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, there are four Native American students enrolled at the same time. They are Elsa Hoover, Zoe Toledo, Heidi Brandow, and Jaz Bonnin, and together, they have formed the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective. Their aim is to support the education and work of Indigenous architects, planners, designers, scholars, allies, and alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this episode, I speak with Elsa, Zoe, Heidi a...
Community Engagement with Siboney Diaz-Sanchez
July 15, 2020 03:42 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBSiboney is an architect and Enterprise Rose Fellow in the Boston area. She works to understand how architecture and design can best serve communities. From 2015-2017 Siboney served as Zoning Commissioner for District 1 in San Antonio. Most recently she helped complete a 63,000 square foot new construction facility for ChildSafe, a non-profit children's advocacy center while at Overland Partners. In San Antonio, Siboney dedicated her time to various non-profit arts organizations including ...
#38 - Community Engagement with Siboney Diaz-Sanchez
July 15, 2020 03:42 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBSiboney is Enterprise Rose Fellow in the Boston area. She works to understand how architecture and design can best serve communities. She is licensed as an architect in the state of Texas. From 2015-2017 Siboney served as Zoning Commissioner for District 1 in San Antonio. Most recently she helped complete a 63,000 square foot new construction facility for ChildSafe, a non-profit children's advocacy center while at Overland Partners. In San Antonio, Siboney dedicated her time to various no...
An Integrated Work-Life with Meghana Joshi
July 01, 2020 07:13 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBMeghana Joshi is a Senior Project Manager at Little Diversified, Newport Beach. Her projects have been honored with multiple SAGE Gold, PCBC Gold Nugget, SoCal, Argentum, & NAHB awards. She received 2019 AIA Orange County’s “Service Award”, 2018 AIA California’s “Associate” award and “Presidential Citation” honoring her commitment to the profession. She is a board member of the AIA Orange County Chapter, and Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She founded and chaired the Women ...
#37 - An Integrated Work-Life with Meghana Joshi
July 01, 2020 07:13 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBMeghana Joshi is a Senior Project Manager at Little Diversified, Newport Beach. Her projects have been honored with multiple SAGE Gold, PCBC Gold Nugget, SoCal, Argentum, & NAHB awards. She received 2019 AIA Orange County’s “Service Award”, 2018 AIA California’s “Associate” award and “Presidential Citation” honoring her commitment to the profession. She is a board member of the AIA Orange County Chapter, and Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She founded and chaired the Women ...
COVID Diaries: A Biophilic Future with Bethany Borel, WELL AP
June 17, 2020 02:06 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBBethany Borel, WELL AP is a Senior Associate at COOKFOX Architects in New York City. Since joining COOKFOX in 2012, Bethany’s combined knowledge of architecture and interior design has been a valuable asset to a variety of New York City projects. Currently, Bethany is spearheading the transformative design of the Solaire building in Battery Park City and the International WELL Building Institute headquarters at 220 Fifth Avenue. Bethany also designed and orchestrated the design of COOKFOX’s ...
COVID Diaries: Architecture is Political with Melissa R. Daniel
June 10, 2020 05:52 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBMelissa R. Daniel is an architectural designer in Washington D.C., with a broad range of project experience including multi-family housing, public housing, retail, embassies, federal buildings, and mission critical facility projects. Since 2013, Daniel has ensured that women in architecture have an established platform to tell their stories. She founded a Women in Architecture lecture series for the D.C. metro area, developed fluency with social media and web platforms to boost her storytell...
COVID Diaries: Build Yourself with Mia Scharphie
May 15, 2020 20:44 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBMia Scharphie is a career and business strategist, and the founder of Build Yourself. She helps women in design, tech and innovation move from managing the work to setting the agenda. She helps women move past bias and make their industries and workplaces better places for women's talent. Mia has trained national industry groups like the American Institute of Architects and Americans for the Arts, and works with leadership and staff at global design and innovation companies such as Stantec...
COVID Diaries: Community Spirit with Donna Sink, AIA
May 09, 2020 04:34 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MBDonna Sink, AIA is a registered architect who is committed to good design for everyone in the community. She has worked on urban design, cultural institution, and art exhibition design projects for the last 25 years and has previously lived in Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, and Phoenix. Donna now lives in Indianapolis and works at Rowland Design, an architecture and interior design firm doing cultural, educational, and residential projects across the country. Locally, Donna is Board Chai...
COVID Diaries: Changing the Way We Practice with Evelyn Lee, AIA
May 01, 2020 04:23 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBEvelyn Lee, AIA, is the first ever Senior Experience Designer at Slack Technologies. Evelyn seamlessly integrates her business and architecture background with a qualitative and quantitative focus to build a better workplace experience for Slack Employees, visitors, and guests. Evelyn received her Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors in 2002 from Drury University where she minored in Global Studies while playing on the Women’s Soccer Team. In 2003 she received her Masters of Archit...
COVID Diaries: Space is a Privilege with Rosa Sheng, FAIA
April 24, 2020 05:19 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBFor the next few weeks/months, join Design Voice Podcast as we check in with people in the architecture and design professions to hear how they are living, working, and coping during this pandemic. -- Rosa Sheng is a Designer, Architect, Thought Leader who is known for innovating Architecture with over 26 years experience. When asked "What type of Architecture do you do?" Her answer is "The kind that hasn't been done before." She has led a variety of award-winning and internationally acc...
You Are Your Own Boss with Barbara Flammang, FAIA
March 12, 2020 04:49 - 30 minutes - 42 MBAs a founding partner of KFA, Barbara Flammang, FAIA, has overseen the design and construction of housing and community projects for nearly 40 years, from the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles to the recently completed Los Angeles LGBT Center Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood. Her inclusive management practices have tenaciously advanced gender equity and diversity. She has championed her firm’s achievement of 45-55% female architectural staff, consistently...
Every Voice is Valuable with Yiselle Santos Rivera, Associate AIA
February 19, 2020 05:03 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBYiselle Santos Rivera, Associate AIA, is a medical planner and the Global Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKS, Inc. With national and international experience on a broad range of healthcare, residential, institutional, and commercial/mixed-use projects, she thrives on building equitable practices, empowering the next generation of leaders, and creating inclusive platforms for engagement. She has served the AIA in local and national roles, including DC Chapter Board Director, M...
Architecture is a People Sport with Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA
January 18, 2020 05:18 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBEmily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA, is senior associate at Arrowstreet, a Boston-based architecture and design firm. She has experience with a broad range of academic, hospitality, institutional, and commercial projects, and her innovative design work reinforces that a building is more than its shell; it is an experience. As a frequent speaker and writer on the future of architectural practice, Emily is fascinated by how technology, the social economy, and environmental urgency are addressed in a...
Design Voice Podcast Origin Story! - Interview with the host Catherine Meng
November 09, 2019 06:47 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBDesign Voice Podcast is back! To start off Season 2 of the show, I thought I would do something a little different – share my own story. I speak with Julia Gamolina of Madame Architect on why I became an architect, how this podcast came to be, and my thoughts on adjusting to life and work so far as a new mother.
Digging Deep with Kathy Scott
March 06, 2019 05:11 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBKathy Scott is a Principal at Walker Warner Architects. After growing up on Long Island, Kathy was awakened to architecture's potential during her time at Rice University where she earned a Bachelor of Architecture in 1993. During her years in Houston, Kathy regularly visited Renzo Piano's Menil Collection, drawn by the building's quiet contextualism, simplicity and inventive use of natural light. Kathy was equally impressed by Piano's collaborative approach with master craftsmen and has so...
Designing Healthy Environments with PJ Glasco
February 12, 2019 06:01 - 31 minutes - 43 MBPJ Glasco is a Principal at Cannon Design. She is a healthcare planner and designer who has worked with many of the nation’s top healthcare institutions to create landmark facilities. Her designs have enhanced the campuses of several institutions, including Texas Children’s Hospital, Harris Health System, the University of Texas Medical Branch and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. PJ is a past chair of the Houston chapter of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Health and has presented a...
How to Be with Phoebe Lam
February 06, 2019 07:09 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBPhoebe Lam is the Director of Operations and a Project Manager at William Duff Architects in San Francisco. Along with managing the studio’s operations, planning, and hiring, she also works on projects in the single-family residential and commercial sectors. Drawing on experience creating conceptual designs and site plans for 1,000,000 sq. ft. outdoor retail centers, as well as multi-building and multi-block programs and parking layouts, Phoebe also enjoys more intimate, small scale tenant i...
The Fabric of Cities with Dana Getman
January 23, 2019 07:06 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBDana Getman is an Associate Principal at SHoP Architects in New York City, leading some of the firm’s most complex and dynamic projects. Dana received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture II from Yale University. She recently completed project management of 111 West 57th Street, a 1,400 foot tall terracotta and bronze super tall residential tower located adjacent to the original Steinway showroom overlooking Central Park. Among other projects, she a...
Change Leadership with Taryn Kinney
January 09, 2019 05:32 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBTaryn Kinney is a Principal, and K-12 Education Studio Leader at DLR Group. Taryn is a native Texan who has successfully led the strategy, visioning, planning, and design of more than two million square feet of learning space, both nationally and internationally. She enjoys sharing her knowledge from her experiences and creating connections to implement exceptional learning environments. During her 15 years of developing facilities to support new educational models she has seen her clients f...
Resiliency and Leaving the World Better For Others with Natalie Tse
December 19, 2018 07:10 - 29 minutes - 41 MBNatalie Tse is a California licensed Structural Engineer and Project Manager at Tipping Structural Engineers in Berkeley, California with a broad range of design experience in educational, commercial/retail, residential, science and technology sectors. Her portfolio includes the structural design, assessment, and seismic retrofit of over 35 school campuses, a mission critical laboratory and office building, and the design of a new wood-framed cathedral over concrete post-tensioned podium. ...
Architecture for EveryBody with Rachel Preston Prinz
December 05, 2018 07:05 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBRachel Preston Prinz is an architecturally-trained American designer, and founder of the Santa Fe based consulting agency Archinia. She works at the intersection of architecture and design, placemaking, cultural and historic preservation, and community engagement. In addition to Archinia, Rachel also runs a non-profit organization, Architecture for EveryBody, which aims to bring the craft of architecture, usually reserved for the wealthiest 98%, to the people. Rachel is a filmmaker, an edu...
Successful Mentor-Mentee Relationships with Carrie Moore and Jennifer Grosso
November 07, 2018 05:58 - 36 minutes - 51 MBIn this special episode of Design Voice Podcast, I’m joined by Carrie Moore and Jennifer Grosso of SOM’s New York office to discuss mentor-mentee relationships. Carrie and Jen talk about the mentorship programs at SOM, and share their insights on why mentorship is so valuable from both the mentor and mentee perspectives. They offer some great advice on what to do if your firm doesn’t have a formal mentorship program, as well as how to find your place at a larger firm. Carrie also shares with...
On Grit, Vulnerability, and Telling your Story with Bianca Koutsakos
October 17, 2018 05:59 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBBianca Koutsakos is a Business Development Manager at Neoscape, a creative agency that specializes in branding and visual storytelling of the built environment. Bianca represents the agency’s San Francisco office, and spearheads the market growth, business development and marketing strategy for their West Coast market. Part of her role involves increasing awareness of Neoscape’s services that specialize in 3D visualization, branding, film, interactive, and design specifically for commercial ...
The State of the Practice with Wanda Lau of ARCHITECT Magazine
October 03, 2018 06:34 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBWanda Lau, LEED AP, is the editor of tech, practice, and products for ARCHITECT and Architectural Lighting. Along with 10 years of experience in the AEC industry, she holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan State University, an S.M. in building technology from MIT, and an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School. Her writing covers a wide range of topics including architecture, technology, business, sustainability, and energy performance, and has appeared in Arc...
Pushing Boundaries with Margaret Cavenagh
September 19, 2018 06:20 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBMargaret Cavenagh is a Principal at Studio Gang and leads the firm’s interior architecture practice, working closely with Jeanne Gang on all interior, renovation, and architectural projects. Margaret has experience designing a wide range of project types and scales including multi-family, mixed-use projects; work space design; and custom residential design. Guided by expert observations of how people use space, Margaret consistently delivers award-winning interior designs while attaining s...
Practicing With Intent with Anthia Wong
September 05, 2018 06:00 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBAnthia Wong is a Team Lead and Project Manager with the interior and architecture firm FORGE, where she works on a wide range of commercial, interior, and tenant improvement projects. She focuses much of her time on relationship building and fostering the lines of communication externally with clients, as well as internally within the firm. Her underlying passion of wanting to help people lent well to elevate her to a position that requires making sure that client expectations are being met ...
Making Connections with Angie Sommer
August 15, 2018 05:29 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MBAngie Sommer, S.E. is an Associate at ZFA Structural Engineers in San Francisco. She’s currently a project manager and engineer for a wide variety of projects around the Bay Area and California, with a focus on the educational and senior living sectors. She is heavily involved in a variety of industry organizations, including the San Francisco chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW SF), and the Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity Committee (SE3) of the Structural Engineers As...
Advocacy by Design with Pascale Sablan
August 02, 2018 08:16 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBPascale Sablan, AIA, is an award winning architect and mentor in New York City. Pascale seeks excellence and humanity in all of her projects while providing a resounding voice for the issues facing women architects and architects of color. She’s also only the 315th black female architect to obtain licensure in the US. She has lectured at colleges and universities across the US, is a 2018 AIA Young Architects Award recipient, a past president of the New York Coalition of Black Architects (NYC...
Madame Architect with Julia Gamolina
July 18, 2018 07:22 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBJulia Gamolina is the founder and editor of Madame Architect, an online platform celebrating women in architecture from different generations, countries, and corners of the industry. Originating as a guest series on ArchiteXX's online journal Sub_teXXt, Madame Architect is designed to encourage young women considering entering this industry by showing the myriad of choices they have in crafting a meaningful career. The ultimate goal for Madame Architect is that everyone who is looking at th...
Engaging Communities with Sandra Vivanco
July 04, 2018 08:06 - 29 minutes - 41 MBSandra Vivanco is a Professor of Architecture and Diversity studies at California College of the Arts, co-director of the CCA BuildLab, as well as the founding principal of A+D, Architecture + Design, in San Francisco. Based on the premise that inclusiveness and design excellence can and should co-exist, the work of A+D is globally recognized and operates at multiple scales. As one of a few of Latina-owned architecture firms in the country, A+D explores cultural identity representation as de...
Speculative Futures with Jennifer Wolch
June 20, 2018 11:14 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBJennifer Wolch is the William W. Wurster Dean and Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley. Jennifer holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Geography from California State University Hayward, and a PhD in Urban Planning from Princeton. She's a scholar of urban analysis and planning, and her past work focused on urban homelessness, urban environmental justice and political ecology, and the delivery of affordable hous...
Leap of Faith with Angeles Garcia
June 06, 2018 08:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBAngeles Garcia is a Project Executive at McCarthy Building Companies. Originally from Ensenada, Mexico, Angeles has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Tijuana Institute of Technology. Angeles started out at McCarthy over 20 years ago by answering a newspaper ad for a Project Admin position. Since then she has slowly worked her way up to an executive role, breaking down barriers all along the way. In this episode, Angeles shares some great advice on how to inspire teams to do great ...
What Makes Your Heart Sing with Anne Torney
May 16, 2018 05:03 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBAnne Torney is a partner at Mithun | Solomon, and leads their San Francisco office. For more than 20 years, she has made affordable multi-family housing and transit-oriented urban infill the focus of her work. For Anne, architecture isn't just about the form or the icon, but the process of making and the narrative of a building, and sharing that with a community to help them envision change. She believes that the two biggest challenges of our time are income inequality and climate change, bu...
Finding the Balance with Mary Wurst
May 02, 2018 08:00 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBMary Wurst is a lighting designer and electrical engineer DLR Group. Her design philosophy revolves around seeing light, whether natural and artificial, as the soul of any space. A chance encounter with a cadaver arm ended up steering her toward getting an engineering degree, and she’s now a Senior Associate at DLR Group. We discuss the importance of exposing high school students to different careers, the challenges that mid-level professionals face, how she balances her work life with her ...
Work-Life Success! with Nishita Lakhani
May 02, 2018 06:05 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBNishita Lakhani is a Senior Project Engineer at McCarthy Building Companies. Although she is relatively new to the profession, I loved hearing how passionate and positive she is about the construction industry. We talked about the differences between construction in India versus the U.S., how you don’t realize it when you’re in school but communication is the key to successful projects, and whether or not mentorship and diversity initiatives are actually effective. Show Recap: How growing...
Sticking With It with Sandra Biddulph
April 18, 2018 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MBSandra Biddulph is a structural engineer, and a Principal at the firm DCI Engineers. Before settling down in Irvine, Sandra worked in both LA and Seattle, and has had a really interesting career journey. She’s worked at small firms, co-founded her own practice, and worked on the general contractor side before becoming Principal at DCI. She appreciates the art of structural design; watching a project come together, with a tangible finished product that becomes a part of our built environment....
On Crafting a Practice with Irina Schneid
April 04, 2018 08:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBIrina Schneid is an architect, educator, and principal of the interdisciplinary design lab SCH+ARC Studio LLC. Aside from running her design practice, she currently teaches undergraduate design and theory courses at Pratt Institute. In this episode, Irina shares with me how she got her foot in the door in the ultra competitive world of academia, how she balances teaching and running her own practice, and how motherhood has changed her notion of what constitutes a successful career.
Raising Your Hand with Laura Guzman
March 28, 2018 08:10 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBLaura Guzman is the National Director of Marketing and Business Development at the global engineering firm WSP. Prior to that, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Microdesk, a design technology consultancy, so she really has her finger on the pulse of the AEC industries. In this episode, she shares her career journey, and I ask her for all sorts of advice on how to be an advocate for yourself, how to work with difficult people, and on applying for roles you don't feel ready for yet. (We...
The SE3 Project with Rose McClure
March 28, 2018 08:05 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBIn this episode, I speak with Rose McClure, a structural engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Rose is a co-founder of the Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity Committee (SE3), which was established in 2015 with the mission to study and work to improve engagement and equity in the structural engineering profession. We discuss all things SE3, and how work-life balance, flexibility in the workplace, and equity aren't just "women's issues".
Forging New Territory with Jill Lerner
March 28, 2018 08:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBIn this inaugural episode of Design Voice Podcast, I speak with Jill Lerner, FAIA. Jill is an architect and Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, a global architectural design and planning firm, where she leads their academic, healthcare, and research practices. In this episode, Jill shares how she became an architect, what she loves most about the profession, and what role architects should play in civic issues.
Design Voice Podcast: A show featuring women in architecture, engineering, and construction
March 17, 2018 22:19 - 3 minutes - 5.18 MBThe Design Voice Podcast seeks to elevate and amplify the voices of women in the architecture, engineering, and construction professions. Each episode features honest conversations with women who shape the built environment. By telling their stories, this podcast hopes to serve as a source of education, inspiration and empowerment. Check out this preview and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes will be dropping soon, so stay tuned!