In case you missed the last episode where I teased this talk with Freddie Croce you can get caught up here.
Freddie lives and works in Garfield at inter*ARCHITECTURE. We each independently had the idea for a logo consisting of 2 letters and a punctuation mark. Great minds, I guess.
I hope to update this page soon with some of the images that Freddie used in his presentation, so check back soon.
Today on the show we have four of the presenters for PechaKucha Night happening this Thursday, October 9: Addy Smith-Reiman, Freddie Croce, Julie Mallis and Nikki Dy-Liacco.
Come out and see these people present. They’ll be joining many others, including Phyllis Kim, who you remember from last time.
PKN vol. 19 takes place on October 9 at 6:20 pm at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Center, 805 Liberty Ave in Downtown Pittsburgh. Admission is $15 and includes, drinks, eats, and entertainment.
To start out the show we have a fun audio tour of the sand casting process. Here are the pictures that accompany that tour.
the forms, made of high density foam, sitting inside a flask
a tool for packing sand, and some more flasks
the resin
the mixer. you’ll be hearing a lot from the mixer
scrap iron …
to be broken down …
… all the way down
… so it can be melted to be poured into the sand casts. Hope you enjoyed the tour.
First we hear from Nikki Dy-Liacco. When she’s not working for DDI, she’s looking at cities through their lamp posts.
… but they’re all good. Make sure you check out the moving images, too.
She’s got a million other things going on, too. Like helping run BOOM Concepts (who you can like on Facebook), or her collaboration with DS Kinsel, Magic Organs (getting some press here).
Freddie Croce runs inter*ARCHITECTURE with his wife, Jennifer Lucchino. More on him in the near future.
Today I have for you my first full hour with a female designer, Jen Bee.
This interview was recorded prior to the passing of Gary Carlough, co-founder of Edge Studio where my guest today developed her love for restaurant design. He also taught at my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University. He was a force in the Pittsburgh design community and he will be missed.
Lindsay Grauvogel works for ThoughtForm Design, and has her own website. If you all else fails you should just show up at a PKN event, she’s probably presenting.
Her video and blog series will show up right here once it is the future and those things are real.
Jen used to drive an ice cream bike like this one:
… except hers had the cooler on the back.
Now she designs things that sell food, but out of buildings, not out of coolers. They’re called restaurants, like Spoon in Penn Circle:
Spoon, selected as one of the top 10 new restaurants in the U.S. in a 2011 publication
… and Blue Line Grille in Uptown:
Blue Line Grille, voted best new bar in Pittsburgh
If you’re like Jen and me and you want to sketch more, use the hashtag #5minutesketch on Twitter and Instagram.
Whoever you are, the AIA needs people like you to help make it work. If you’re an architect or concerned citizen interested in getting involved check out the Young Architect’s Forum or any of the other committees. And of course, you can always email: info@aiapgh.org
In this episode of the D:i Podcast we talk with Todd Dunaway of GBBN Architects / Edge Studio about growing up in Kentucky, playing the drums, going from small firms to large and healthcare design.
Season one of the D:i Podcast is nearly over. Make sure you subscribe on iTunes to stay up to date as we close out the season and start off a new one. [link opens in iTunes] [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/d-i-podcast/id658374607?mt=2]
Mark Dietrick sits down with me to talk about Jesuit education, finding his niche in the profession, whether or not automation will phase out architects, and data. Lots of data. Also, I debut a new segment: 3 questions with an architect.
This week on the podcast we have Paul Rosenblatt of Springboard Design. In addition to being the principal there, he also writes (curates?) several blogs:
Floor plan of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (with the geometry derived from the capabilities of cars)
From the Wikipedia entry for the Hampton Grease Band: “[it] is apocryphally said to have been the second-lowest selling album in Columbia’s history, second only to a Maharishi Mahesh yoga instructional record.
In this episode of Design: interviewed, I chat with Dan Rothschild of the Rothschild Doyno Collaborative. As always, links are below to people and projects that we bring up.
We talk a lot about his Design Sketchbook process. Here’s a link to some examples of what the sketches in those books look like. [http://rdcollab.com/sketchbook.html]
A book featuring the work of his firm, Urban Alchemy by Dr. Mindy Fullilove comes out in June 2013. Find out more (including how to get a signed copy) here. [http://www.designcenterpgh.org/designallies/special-projects/behind-the-magic-of-urban-alchemy/]
This very first episode of Design: interviewed features Eric Fisher. He was kind enough to let me into his self-designed home, which is also his office. Click any of the following images to learn more about the projects and people we bring up in the interview.
Maya Lin’s website, whose work comes up in the discussion of weaving landscape and architecture. [www.mayalin.com]
The Emerald Art Glass House, which looms large, both physically and metaphorically.
In case you are not familiar with Frank Gehry’s style, here’s a link to a Google image search that should give you some idea. [http://www.google.com/images?q=frank+gehry+architecture]
