The Architect"s Rolodex

STOP BUILDING IN CONCRETE! Dive into the ultimate urban design challenge: Black Rock City, the 80,000-person temporary metropolis that pops up in the Nevada desert only to disappear just as quickly. We sit down with the visionary co-founder and Chief Culture Officer, Harley Dubois, who steered this massive, innovative community for decades. Harley unveils the rigorous process of trial-by-error and human-centered design that established the city's unique architectural structure, including its

Daniel A. Barber is an American architectural historian and theorist who is currently a professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Barber shares insights into hisbackground, the evolution of his academic work, his current installation at the Venice Biennale addressing the waste heat of air conditioning systems, and the need for architects to embrace reuse and discomfort as part of a collective effort toward sustainability. This episode touches on themes of climate equity, the cultural role

In this episode of The Architect’s Rolodex we land in the middle of a conversation featuring the incredible Harley Dubois, a co-founder and Chief Culture Officer of Burning Man who has stewarded Burning Man's rich cultural history for decades. Harley, the former city manager for over 10 years, offers a unique perspective on this pedestrian city where circles are better than angles when it comes to bringing people together.The episode explores the unique urban and community design of Black Rock

Lola Ben-Alon is an Assistant Professor at Colombia GSAPP, director of the Natural Material Lab and the Building Science and Technology curriculum. She specializes in earth and bio based building materials. Lola has a background in biomedical engineering, civil engineering, and curatorial design and shares her experience cofounding a lab at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology called the Experimental Art and Architecture Lab. She shares how her experiences founded the basis for who she is

Laurel Chądyzński came to talk with us about healthy materials and her work within the mindful Materials team, her sustainability consultant work at Parallel, being an architect at a minority lead firm, but also being a mom. We discussed how she followed her passions to becoming who she is today and how she juggles all her hats. Laurel's Links: mindful Materials Parallel Dyer Brown & Associates Poem by Frank X Walker (click on 'Read the Poem'), Love Letter To the World visit us at COOKFOX

In this episode, we're talking to members of our Studio in the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We discuss Pride Month — from what it means to each person, how they celebrate, and what historical events are important to them. Other topics revolve around their personal experiences with work and life in New York City. We all need places of refuge, places to recharge and heal. We talk queer spaces and what they mean to the individual and to the broader community. Today we have four guests from our COOKFOX

In our inaugural episode, COOKFOX Senior Associate Patricia Lozano and Associate Agathe Ceccaldi sit down for a candid conversation with Julie Rosen, a preservationist at Higgins Quasebarth & Partners. Julie Rosen is an associate at Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, where her work is informed by her background in historic preservation, facade restoration/conservation and construction management. From her thesis work on 20th century brick at University of Illinois to her work on 378 West End