Kevin Hirth, director of KEVIN HIRTH Co. & Assistant Professor at UC Denver CAP, joins this live show recorded at CU Denver College of Architecture and Planning to talk about his architectural education at University of Virginia and Harvard Graduate School of Design, a few of his foundational mentors, and his appreciation and embrace of drawing as a representational form.

In our live Q&A Kevin responds to questions regarding staying focused, his early interest in physical making, engaging in architectural history and theory, and what’s on the horizon for his practice and pedagogy.

This episode is sponsored by Form Kitchens, Signature Doors & Windows and Modern In Denver.

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Michael M. Moore, Founder of Tres Birds, joins the show to talk about his unique design-build model and creative interests. We cover topics that include his path to Denver and architecture via Crested Butte and UC Berkley, in addition to enlightening conversations on energy flow in cities, mass timber, creativity driven by moon cycles, and his incredibly interesting thesis centered on Peter Zumthor and regionalism. Michael and his team are doing brilliant work in Colorado so please enjoy this peak into his creative genius.

After the credits we talk about how to design without site or program, raising kids as an architect, making the most of life, and living life guided with Astrology. To learn more about these astrological principals, check out his wife, Stacey Chamberlain’s, website https://www.aquariusrisingastrology.com/.

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Mike Blea and Breton Lujan, co-founders of Raw Creative, join the show to talk about their shared Colorado upbringings and their initial disinterest in architecture before finally “drinking the Kool-Aid” and diving in to found their design and fabrication firm. They talk about the early days of Raw, which started at CU Denver and the Colorado Building Workshop, and the moments they have since learned and grown from.

After the credits we talk more about our shared struggle with “imposter syndrome”, a secret Aspen house, and how to deal with the feeling of being addicted to stress.

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Stacy Passmore and Diane Lipovsky, co-founders of Superbloom, join the show to talk about their relatively new Landscape Architecture firm. We dive into their varied backgrounds living and working in locations such as Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Vancouver, Telluride, Ghana and Nigeria before both attending Harvard (a decade apart). Stacy and Diane met at Civitas and after a fortuitous camping trip, Superbloom was formed in 2021.

We talk about running a firm as a partnership, hiring employees, winning projects, and building community. After the credits they flip the table and ask Adam questions about his influences, they talk about their favorite Architect-ing episodes, and their experiences reviewing architecture students.

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Bob Binder, Principal and Denver Studio Director at DLR Group, joins the show to talk about growing up in Colorado, encountering architecture at an early age, studying at Montana State University and working summers in the oil fields. Bob has sat at every seat in DLR, starting as an intern and progressing to Studio Director. We talk about the benefits (and shortcomings) of a large firm, and his goals and desires for the future.

After the credits we talk Broncos football (at the time of this interview we thought Aaron Rodgers might be the next quarterback, but we are now both happy with landing Russel Wilson) and work life balance within the profession.

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Adam Harding, @rothsheppardarchitects, Joseph Montalbano, @studiotrope, Nicole Nathan, @jnsarchitecture, and Rebecca Stone, @ozarchitecture, join the show for a live interview at the School of Environmental Design at University of Colorado Boulder. Each panelist presents a project from their academic past, a few recent professional projects, and discuss the journey in between. See all the slides from their presentations on our website: www.architect-ing.com.

They talk about the importance of establishing a strong project concept, strategies for clear communication, and preparing for job interviews. Afterwards, they take some written-in and audience Q&A from the CU EVD students.

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Jon Gambrill and Michelle Liebling, Co-Managing Directors of Gensler Denver, join the show to talk about their Swiss-army-knife-type experiences and career trajectories that brought them to running the Colorado branch of the largest architecture firm in the world. They talk about the practicalities of leading an architecture office, the benefits of a large corporate firm, the low and high points of their careers, the biggest issues facing architecture in the future, and advice to young architects and women entering the field.

After the credits we talk about “sympathy” interview strategies for winning projects during COVID, Michelle’s time away from Gensler, and the time Jon hired Rebekah Wagoner instead of Adam Wagoner.

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Chris Gray and Steven Perce, Founders of BLDG.Collective, join the show to talk about each of their unique journeys that eventually led them to graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver and to founding their practice in the Great Recession of 2009. They talk about the lessons learned in leading an architecture firm as a partnership, and how they have methodically crafted their design and business approach to collaborate with ideal clients on meaningful projects.

After the credits we have an extended conversation about business and marketing advice, the Boulder architectural community and ways to talk about architecture to clients and your grandma.

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Alex Gore, Co-Founder of F9 Productions and Inside the Firm Podcast, joins the show as part of a podcast swap to talk about his life as a serial entrepreneur from his beginnings drawing spaceship fuel tanks, to studying only the courses he was interested in at North Dakota State, to landing a job with Daniel Libeskind, to obtaining a Masters in Construction Management, to founding F9 Productions in one room with a folding lawn chair around 9 basic principles set upon “multiple legs” of different revenue streams.

Check out Alex and his business partner, Lance Cayko’s podcast Inside the Firm, where they dive into the nitty-gritty details of how to start, run, and grow a small business.

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E.J. Meade, Principal at Arch11, joins the show to talk about how his car broke down in Boulder, and he never left. After gaining a philosophy degree, E.J. picked up a “How to Carpentry” book, and built his first home. A summer at the GSD propelled him into architecture school at the University of Washington and then CU Denver where he was mentored by the uncompromising Douglas Darden. From school E.J. founded Arch11 (1 more than 10) and never looked back.

In the bonus segment, we talk about the future of Arch11, the longevity of an architect’s career, how you have to get fired to understand you can survive it and how Rodolfo Machado compared E.J. to his maid.

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