As an acclaimed architect and professor, Gary Wang, AIA, is in an ideal position to help architecture students successfully make the transition from the classroom to professional practice. Here are 10 things he believes architecture students need to understand before entering the profession.
Read MoreFrom the time I was a little kid, I loved creating, building, inventing. I took after-school classes on robot making, spent hours building with Lego and creating Rube Goldberg machines, and invested even more time playing Minecraft. Today, I’m a sophomore in the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture, which is ranked in the top 25 percent of architecture programs in the U.S.
Read MoreReema Shakra helps coastal cities develop strategies to plan for erosion and flooding caused by sea-level rise. As senior managing associate in ESA’s Los Angeles office, she works with hydrologists and coastal engineers to develop options that help cities mitigate the increased risk of storm damage.
Read MoreMoh’d Bilbeisi is a licensed architect, illustrator, artist and Eminent Professor of Architecture at the Oklahoma State University School of Architecture. He encourages the next generation of architects to be reformers who express themselves using their hands, their pencils and their minds.
Read MoreIf you ask 20 people to define EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), you can expect to hear 20 different answers. Yiselle Santos Rivera, the first director of EDI at HKS and a senior medical planner, attributes the confusion to the lack of a common language.
Read MoreTransformation has been a recurring theme throughout Scott Wickstrom’s career, and it’s central to his current role as chief strategy and operating officer at Gallagher & Associates. Wickstrom’s current position is the culmination of a 20-year career defined by sharp—often surprising—left turns.
Read MoreGrowing up in St. Louis, Shelley Niemeier spent hours immersed in the pages of Architectural Digest. But an opportunity to work in interior design and a chance encounter on Twitter changed both her career path and marital status. She now works as an interior designer and project manager at SPACE Architecture + Design.
Read MoreJulia Gamolina didn’t start her blog, Madame Architect, with any particular goals in mind. She just knew she wanted guidance for her career and to start writing again. Now she hopes it can become an equally inspiring place for those who dream of a career in architecture.
Read MoreBruce Kopytek’s dream job came to a screeching halt in 2009, courtesy of the Great Recession. He has since authored four books filled with stories from individuals who worked in department stores when the retailers were in their prime. He also continues to practice architecture as VP of commercial architecture at Fieldstone Architecture & Engineering.
Read MoreEach year, the National Association of Women in Construction hosts Women in Construction Week to raise awareness of the growing impact of females on the industry, and to highlight the breadth of opportunities available to them. In honor of #WICWeek2019 (March 3-9), I reached out to a few clients, colleagues and friends, inviting them to answer the question: “What makes construction a great career option for women?”
Read MoreAs Director of Aviation – North America at Ross & Baruzzini, Mike Zoia leads a team of about 25 airport engineering specialists who focus on modernizing the security and technology infrastructure at airport terminals across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Read MoreFor the first several years of her architectural career, Yin “Penny” Pan, AIA, aspired to work on many different project types—from schools, to office buildings, to residential developments. That perspective changed in 2011 when she visited her 95-year-old grandfather at a Shanghai hospital after he broke a hip.
Read MoreWhen I joined HOK in early 2001, one of my first observations was how passionate its architects, engineers and designers were about their work. They took seriously their role in addressing so many of society’s greatest challenges. It was—and is—infectious. With that in mind, I reached out to several A/E/C friends and former colleagues to ask them why they’re proud of what they do.
Read MoreSome of the nation’s foremost sports organizations rely on Kelly Furlong’s creativity and imagination to help them raise their game. As a senior graphic designer at global sports architecture firm Populous in Kansas City, she specializes in creating three-dimensional branded environments that motivate, inspire, entertain and thrill.
Read MoreSerendipity paved the way for Aileen Cho to build an enduring career writing about the world’s most innovative transportation and infrastructure projects. For more than two decades, Cho has reported on airports, roads, ports, rail systems, bridges and infrastructure developments as senior transportation editor at Engineering News-Record (ENR).
Read MoreLeigh Stringer, a principal and workplace strategist at EYP Architecture and Engineering, helps organizations accommodate the evolving needs and preferences of their employees while creating healthier, more productive work environments. L.L. Bean recently tapped her expertise for its Be an Outsider at Work initiative, which encouraged employees to temporarily swap their office for the great outdoors.
Read MoreAdam Chernick is on a mission to bring sophisticated 360-degree architectural renderings to the hands of anyone with a smart device. As firm-wide design technology specialist based in HOK’s New York studio, he explores new applications for virtual reality, augmented reality and adjacent technologies such as hand recognition and 360-degree photography.
Read MoreNadene Taylor, an associate at Beyer Blinder Belle in New York, has discovered the importance of being herself, a belief she readily shares with others. “I want people to understand that it doesn’t matter what you may look like, where you may come from or what your upbringing may have been,” she says. “If you’re true to yourself, nothing is impossible.”
Read MoreMore than a century ago, Joe Spiegelglass maneuvered a pushcart through the streets of downtown St. Louis in search of work repairing the city’s storefronts. Today, his great-grandson, Tim Spiegelglass, continues that family legacy from the suburban offices of Spiegelglass Construction Company.
Read MoreHaril Pandya, FAIA, spends his weekdays bringing new life to old buildings and his weekends reinterpreting favorite pop-rock songs. As principal and director of asset strategy and repositioning at Boston-based design firm CBT, he leads a team of nearly 25 architects focused on repositioning the city’s aging structures.
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