Heidi Mendoza, owner of the interior design firm re.dezine, joins to talk about her rich and diverse path that brought her to design.  Growing up in Finland Heidi studied Marketing and Accounting before switching to Broadcasting which led her to TV voiceovers and singing in a band. While pregnant with her second child she completed a degree at the Interior Designers Institute in Newport Beach California and moved to Colorado. Heidi formed re.dezine after founding the Creative Co-Lab and has crafted immersive interior projects throughout Colorado. 

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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.  

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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' Architects Collaborative, Harvard's Graduate School of Design and then Colorado where he and his firm have had a profound impact on our urban fabric. 

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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 community at large.

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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.  

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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 community. Check out the full conversation on iTunes, Google, Spotify, Anchor or wherever you get your podcasts and visit www.architect-ing.com for images of her work.

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 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 what architecture is, and how he now tries to implement it at studiotrope.

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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 downturn and the buildings that his team has created since. Check out the full conversation on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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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. Nan is joined by her daughter Elsa to talk about their newest venture Freight in Leadville, CO. Check out the full conversation on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

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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 your podcasts.

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