Internal Architecture

Take a hike to Grotto Falls with Dãmasa Germaine Perry as she shares her life's work as an animist. Through powerful storytelling, we traverse her recent rights of passage initiations in Gabon, Africa. Diving into the world of energetics, ancestors, and right relationship to the world around us, which includes being in devotion and in ritual with our everyday life. As she likes to say - Enter...

In part two of our conversation, Mackenzie Coulthard and Tessa Coughenour dive into their graduate thesis projects—exploring water scarcity and wind turbine sustainability. Mackenzie shares her research on water scarcity as a spectrum, architectural frameworks for both arid (Las Vegas) and coastal (Miami) environments.  Tessa challenges our assumptions about renewable energy, revealing the hidden...

In this two part conversation Mackenzie Coulthard and Tessa Coughenour share what it's like entering the field after completing their Master's degrees. We discuss the tensions between creating warm, eclectic homes and economic forces, the parallels between Hood Feminism and sustainability movements (who gets centered vs. who gets left out), and the professional narratives we've inhe...

This episode starts off with a guided spatial exercise, followed by some quick and dirty architectural theory, followed by a case made for interdependence. Internal architecture bridges the internal and the external, exploring work that is both intimate and professional, abstract and practical. This episode is just the beginning to future conversations we will have on this topic in the future!  Re...

For today's episode we have our very first guest Danae Filpula Ankney speaking about her experience in grad school, job search, and her current position in architecture. She shares grounded insight and reflection that will help listeners to step into a confident mindset and take ownership for their education and career. This isn't a story shared without the struggle and humanity of the p...

In this very first episode, Cassandra Brown explores and introduces Internal Architecture. Emphasizing the importance of self-discovery, education outside of convention, our voice as designers, and the power of everyday conversations.  She sets the foundation for what it means to bring our full selves to practice and education in the field - to challenge existing narratives and use systems thinkin...