ARCHITECT-ING

Rick Sommerfeld, Founder of the UC Denver CAP  Colorado Building Workshop and Director of the Design-Build Certificate Program, joins the show to talk about his deep architectural background and connection to our state.  He tells the story of the beginnings of the award winning Building Workshop and dives into some of its many trials, tribulations and successes.   See Privacy Policy at https://art...

Chris Shears, founder of Shears Adkins + Rockmore Architects and instructor at the University of Colorado Denver, joins the show to talk about our shared beginnings growing up in the neighboring, Kansas towns of Hutchinson and McPherson. He talks about the series of "interventions" that took him from studying medicine to discovering architecture at the University of Minnesota, Walter Gropius' Arch...

Rachael Johnson, 2021 AIA Colorado President and architect at SmithGroup, joined to talk about her strong Colorado background and interactions with healthcare environments that inspired her work with this typology and inspired her to develop a story-focused means of design at Davis Partnership and SmithGroup. We discuss her many volunteer roles and talk about her vision for AIA Colorado and the co...

Rick Petersen, Principal at OZ Architecture, joined the show for a live session to talk about his distinguished and varied background from Berkeley, to Harvard to Zurich before settling in Denver at OZ almost 30 years ago.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Julianne Scherer, Managing Principal for HDR Denver, joined the show for an Instagram Live session as the first new guest of 2021. We talked about her formative years in Pennsylvania and persevering through Penn State before moving to Chicago for a long stint as a principal at Nagle Hartray Architecture. She then talked about her big move to Denver four years ago and her involvement with this comm...

 Joseph Montalbano, co-founder of studiotrope Design Collective, joined the show for an Instagram Live session. We fought through some technical issues to hear about his beginnings outside of Chicago and education at the University of Illinois, Arizona State and Versailles before moving to Colorado. We then dove into his experiences and influences that formed his theories and understandings of wha...

Chad Mitchell, founder of Meridian 105 Architecture, joins the show to talk about his beginnings and connections growing up in Florida, before moving to Chicago and working for the German-American architect Helmet Jahn.  He then relocated to the 105th Meridian in Denver and worked for Oz Architecture. We then spend most of the time talking about the formation of his firm during an economic downtur...

Nan Anderson, founder of Anderson Hallas Architects and Freight91, joins the show to talk about all of her different educational backgrounds that finally got her to the point of starting a woman led architecture firm.  She talks about then leading this firm with her husband, Dave Anderson and working on a variety of projects with the majority being preservation projects with the Parks Department....

Annicia Streete, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, joined via Zoom for a conversation about growing up in the complex community of Trinidad, her jarring move to South Dakota.  Annicia discusses her involvement in different communities within Denver: architecture, academia, dance, modeling and mentorship. Check out the full conversation on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get...

Brad Tomecek founder of Tomecek Studio joined for an Instagram Live conversation about growing up next to the architectural encyclopedia that is Disney World, attending the University of Florida, starting out in Colorado, and bringing curiosity and fun to his projects and clients. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...

From the "vaults" of this young show comes a late night interview with Brian Dale back in the days before COVID at the office of Open Studio. Brian talks about his deep architectural family roots, his times at the AA and Zaha Hadid's office in London, and the formation of Sort Studio with his wife Meredith Dale.  Listen on  Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Amazon Music&...

 Blake Mourer founder of @openstudioarchitecture joins as the first live guest of the show. We talk through his childhood and growth in Arkansas, his experience with Thom Mayne and Morphosis in LA, through his time as Design Director with Gensler and onto the foundation of his own firm.  Listen on  Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Amazon Music  |  Yo...

Stephen Dynia founder of Dynia Architects joined for our second live conversation to talk through growing up in New Haven, CT, crazy times at RISD and NYC, and starting his own firm in two different cities. We ran up against Instagram’s 60 minute limit but kept the conversation going. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...

 Architect-ing, a show about the lives of Colorado designers.  Check us out See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .