Design Voice Podcast

An Architect’s Guide to the Housing Crisis - Part 3

This is Part 3 of a special three-part mini series about the housing crisis in the Bay Area and the architects, designers, activists, developers, and innovators that are doing something about it. This final installment features individuals and organizations working toward three vastly different housing solutions, their design processes, and visions for the future. Guests featured in this episode are: * Deanna Van Buren, Co-Founder and Design Director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces [https://designingjustice.org/] * Cara Eckholm, Chief Revenue Office at Nabr [https://nabr.com/] * Osma Dossani Thompson, Architect and Senior Associate at DLR Group [https://www.dlrgroup.com/] We hope you enjoyed this series! Let us know what you think by sending feedback to hello@designvoicepodcast.com [hello@designvoicepodcast.com]

An Architect’s Guide to the Housing Crisis - Part 2

This is Part 2 of a special three-part mini series about the housing crisis in the Bay Area and the architects, designers, activists, developers, and innovators that are doing something about it. Part 2 explores how people are currently navigating building housing in the Bay Area and features conversations with Caroline Souza, principal at David Baker Architects [https://www.dbarchitect.com/], and Mauren Sedonaen, CEO at Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco [https://habitatgsf.org/]. This series is sponsored by AIA San Francisco and DLR Group.

An Architect’s Guide to the Housing Crisis - Part 1

There’s a massive housing crisis across the United States - what can architects do to help address it? In this special three-part mini series, we’ll be digging deeper into the housing crisis in the Bay Area and hear from the architects, designers, activists, developers, and innovators that are doing something about it. This series is sponsored by AIA San Francisco and DLR Group.

#80 Evolutions of Landscape and Practice with Sarah Warto

Sarah Warto is a landscape architect and founder of Boxleaf Design [https://www.boxleafdesign.com/].  Influenced by her mother and grandmother, fellow landscape designers and passionate botanical enthusiasts, Sarah was exposed at a young age to many aspects of the field; igniting her passion for design and its intersection with the natural world. Sarah is a proud New York native who earned her landscape architecture degree from Cornell University, where she learned how to apply rigorous technical skill to a growing appreciation for innovative and humanistic landscapes. Her career began at HOK, working on large-scale and highly-complex international and national planning and landscape projects.  Later moving to the private sector, Sarah, was able to apply her appreciation for historical gardens to creating highly personalized, timeless and contextual spaces. In 2012, she started her own practice, Boxleaf Design, a full service landscape architectural firm, focusing on high end residential and commercial work in the Bay Area. Sarah is continually seeking insight and creative rejuvenation from the Bay Area's native and diverse environment, in its purest and most rugged form. In this episode, Sarah talks about how her interest in landscape architecture developed, what landscape architecture school was like, and her first job experiences out of school. Sarah also shares what made her decide to start her own studio, her experience growing and managing a practice, her design process, how landscapes are always evolving and never finite, and advice for those who want to start their own businesses.

#79 Curating a Career and Spaces that Resonate with Madelynn Ringo

Madelynn Ringo is an architectural designer specializing in experiential spaces that resound with purposeful beauty. With an insatiable passion for problem-solving and high regard for heartbeat moments, Ringo creates storied environments expressed within a formidable architectural framework. Simply, Ringo scales brand identities to life with a commitment to feel-good originality. Ringo received her Architecture Master’s degree from Yale University and employs her classical training through an intuitive lens that celebrates beauty and architecture as an experiential artform. Her sculptural approach to space powers Ringo’s adventurous use of texture, form, materials and color, pushing functionality into a realm of convention-breaking appeal. Previously, Ringo served as the creative lead on retail experiences for Glossier, designing locations in Miami, Boston, Austin and Atlanta.  Immersive experiences for iconic brands such as Studs, Bala, Funny Face Bakery and the Museum of Ice Cream are among her portfolio of designs for beauty, wellness and culturally inclusive lifestyle brands with a focus on collaborative exploration, collective solutions and a strong belief in spaces that resonate.  Madelynn is also the Head of Studio Design for aging wellness brand Modern Age [https://modern-age.com/], bringing the customer experience to life through careful consideration for every customer touchpoint. Ringo founded Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio [https://ringo-studio.com/] in 2020 with a focus on collaborative exploration, collective solutions and a strong belief in spaces that resonate. In this episode, Madelynn shares her experience moving to New York City, navigating the early years of her career and curating her professional experiences before starting her own studio. Madeleynn talks about her design process, why she loves the discovery phase of projects, and how she balances inspiration versus invention in the visually saturated world that we all live in now. We also talk about designing for Gen Z and Millennial audiences, and the desire to create emotional reactions in people when they enter a space. You can also find Madelynn on Instagram @madelynnringo [https://www.instagram.com/madelynnringo/?hl=en].