JANUARY 21ST, 2010
By BUILD LLC
Our 5th in the series of hot-shots doing some really nice work around the globe and making a significant contribution to the design world. Thanks to everyone who contributed names, projects and ideas.
Jan Gleason, U.S.A.
We’d like to start out by acknowledging the loss of a true hero here in the Northwest. Founder of Environmental Works, a non profit firm in specializing in child-care centers, homeless shelters, low-income housing and community centers, Gleason believed everyone deserves good design. In addition to acting on that belief, she played soccer, was a cellist in the Cascade Symphony Orchestra and even put in time for other non-profits. She set an outstanding example and she’ll be missed.
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NOVEMBER 18TH, 2009
By BUILD LLC
It’s time for installment #4 of the Women Making an Impact series and we gotta say –the work we’re coming across keeps getting stronger and stronger. All ten women in today’s post are, once again, entirely from BUILDblog readers. A huge thanks to your contributions. Keep ‘em coming and we’ll keep the series loaded with hot, forward-thinking work.
Amanda Levete, UK
Levete’s designs are future-forward and unapologetic. Her projects seem to have a commitment to the possibility of human behavior as opposed to simply delivering design twists on established formulas. The work challenges the functions of a society and interjects a necessary exploration into the design world.
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NOVEMBER 6TH, 2009
By BUILD LLC
We’ve been having an immense amount of fun with the Women Making an Impact series. The education that comes with simply researching these individuals should also be worth some PhD college credit somewhere. Today we’ve got another 10 mega-design stars for you. Check out the previous posts here and here and enjoy todays:
Allison Brooks, U.K.
Not only is the work ambitious, fast-forward thinking and inspiring but the Brooks website is a pleasure to tour. Brooks is skilled not only in design but in the mastery of enrolling clients in important, progressive ideas.
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NOVEMBER 4TH, 2009
By BUILD LLC
The response to our recent Women Making an Impact post was astonishing. We received enough resources from our rock-star readers for an entire series and today we’ve got the second addition put together. Without further ado, some sharp shooting ladies who have made enormous contributions to the design world.
Ray Eames, U.S.A.
So significant and infectious were her contributions to the design world that it is nearly impossible to walk through a modern project and not find some derivative of Eames design.
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SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2009
By BUILD LLC
A recent BUILDblog post created a fictitious lecture series for the department of architecture here in town and while we were busy patting ourselves on the back for putting together what we thought was a rather robust list of speakers, a few readers brought up a very good criticism. Not one of the speakers on our list is female <insert embarrassment, shuffling of feet and lack of eye contact here>. It was proposed that we dedicate a BUILDblog post to the females who are making an impact on the design world and we have every intention of rising to the challenge for today’s post. Thanks to Alex and Sondra for keeping us on task. Here goes:
Jane Jacobs: In April of 2006 the design world lost one of its greatest writers, observers, theorists and activists. Her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is, to this day, one of the most influential resources in the world on urban architecture and urban planning. Her other titles are every bit as good. At a time in society where the mainstream thinking was to tear everything down and start with a blank canvas – Jacobs questioned it all and wrote the book on urban design.
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