Architecture, Design & Photography

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Paul Tang, founding principal of Verse Design LA and a partner in Verse Design Shanghai. Paul earned a B.Arch from USC and his M.Arch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Inspired by academia, Paul taught architecture at USC for 19 years. He was appointed as the first Academic Director of USC American Academy in China. That visibility and credibility led to several building-design opportunities in China. Propelled by that momentum, Paul returned to Los Angeles and co-founded Verse Design LA with fellow former USC professor Courtenay Bauer. The firm specializes in urban, commercial, residential, and institutional projects and planning. To date, it has designed more than 5 million square feet of built environments. 

Paul shares insights on working in US and abroad. He will also discuss those influences that impact his design to include technology. More specifically, the phenomenon of technology and AI and how it impacts our lifestyle and therefore architecture. 

More from Verse Design: 

Website: https://www.vdla.co (US), https://verse-design.com (China) 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/verse_design/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verse_design 

WeChat: https://www.wechat.com/verse_design 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

Podcast: www.adppodcast.com 

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Rob Whitten, Founder & Principal of Whitten Architects. 

More from Whitten Architects: 

Website: https://www.whittenarchitects.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whittenarchitects/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whittenarchitects 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

LMSA has received over 175 regional, national and international design awards and has been recognized by numerous organizations including the American Institute of Architects, the French Institute of Architects, the Norwegian Association of Architects, the U.S. Department of Energy, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Building Museum. The firm is one of only three in the nation to have received eleven or more national AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Project awards. 

Leddy has lectured widely and served as visiting professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the California College of the Arts, as the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon. A past chair of the national AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group, he currently serves as the AIA California Vice President of Climate Action, working to accelerate the decarbonization of the built environment in California and beyond. His firm’s new book – “Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission Driven Design” was published this Fall. 

New Book: https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Purpose-Guide-Mission-Driven-Design/dp/1957183047 

More From William Leddy: 

Website: https://www.lmsarch.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lms_architects/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leddy-maytum-stacy-architects 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Danielle Betts, President at Knickerbocker Group and Julien Jalbert, Architect and Design Studio Leader at Knickerbocker Group. In this episode, we'll be exploring the innovative world of prefab pods  accessory dwelling units (ADU's).

More from Knickerbocker Group: 

Website: https://www.knickerbockergroup.com/ 

PreFab Pod: https://www.prefab-pods.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knickerbockergroup/ 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

Podcast: www.adppodcast.com

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Stephen Schafer, Architectural Photographer specializing in historic preservation. 

Stephen Schafer (AKA: Schäf) specializes in architectural photography of our inherited environment. Having completed over one hundred large format documentations to date, Schafer is an expert in the documentation of buildings and sites with a practiced understanding of historic structures. His work ranges from bridges and subway tunnels to skyscrapers and Spanish colonial adobes, documenting historic homes, cultural landscapes, and built technology projects in twenty states and on the island of Guam. These archival documentations are transmitted to the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections at the Library of Congress. 

More from Stephen Schafer: 

Website: https://www.habsphoto.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habs_photographer/ 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Nicola Manganello, Owner and Principal Designer of Nicola's Home. 

More from Nicola Manganello 

Website: https://www.nicolashome.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolashome/?hl=en 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-manganello-45359614 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

Podcast: www.adppodcast.com

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Scott McCallister, third year architecture student at The University of Maine Augusta. This episode focuses largely on the disciplines of both architecture and photography and how the two can work together. Scott has a lot of great questions and we really enjoyed our conversation.

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Dena Prastos, Founder and CEO of Indigo River. We speak with Dena about her approach to designing infrastructure that can withstand the effects of a warming climate. 

As Founder and CEO of Indigo River, Dena is the first "waterfront architect," trailblazing a new category in the industry. Indigo River is a women-owned trans-disciplinary design firm focused on progressive waterfront architecture, resiliency, and climate adaptation. A leading authority in New York Harbor and beyond, the firm specializes in climate adaptation through waterfront solutions that seamlessly transcend boundaries - guiding and executing projects from ideation through final construction and operations. 

More from Dena Prastos: 

Website: https://www.indigoriver.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denaprastos/?hl=en 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/indigo-river-consulting/ 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

Podcast: www.adppodcast.com 

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Scott Johnson and Bill Fain, founding partners of Johnson Fain. They discuss the 25-year transformation of Oklahoma City Oil Field Number One into First Americans Museum (FAM), which honors the state’s 39 tribes. The project was highly collaborative and engaging, incorporating Native American advisors to help shape the overall design approach. Conceptually, FAM is a spiral that begins in the earth and ascends to the heavens. The museum’s western arc features permanent and rotating exhibitions, and its northern arc houses theaters, retail, dining, and other services necessary in modern museums.

Architect and urban designer Bill Fain, FAIA, directs master planning and urban design at Johnson Fain. He has won several national AIA and Progressive Architecture awards for projects including Mission Bay in San Francisco, Beijing’s Central Business District, and the Greenways Plan for Los Angeles. Bill has received two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities and was the recipient of a Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. He has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Firm partner and creative lead Scott Johnson, FAIA, has designed nearly 100 built projects in the past 20 years. Further, he has taught and lectured at various universities, including directing the Master of Architecture Programs at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. Scott is the author of Essays on the Tall Building and the City, Performative Skyscraper Tall Building Design Now, The Big Idea: Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture, Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, and Tectonics of Place: The Architecture of Johnson Fain. He holds a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Bill and Scott met at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1987, they acquired renowned Los Angeles firm Pereira Associates, rebranding it Johnson Fain.

More from Johnson Fain:

Website: https://johnsonfain.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnsonfain/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/johnsonfain/

First Americans Museum: https://famok.org

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Victoria Newhouse, Architecture Historian and founder of the Architectural History Foundation. Victoria's latest book, PARKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: REINVENTED LANDSCAPES, RECLAIMED TERRITORIES presents fifty-two remarkable parks in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, and China. These open spaces have turned despoiled and polluted land (including former factories, railroads, and industrial waterfronts) into landscapes that are beneficial to the people who enjoy them and contribute to international efforts to combat climate change. 

Victoria Newhouse is the author of Towards a New Museum, Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, and others. Her co-author Alex Pisha is a landscape and architectural designer for cultural, academic, and civic projects.

Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territories 

- Rizzoli bookstore: https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/parks-21st-century-reinvented-landscapes-reclaimed-territories 

- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Parks-21st-Century-Reinvented-Territories/dp/0847870626 

More from us: 

Website: http://www.trentbell.com 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/trentbellphotography/ 

Podcast: www.adppodcast.com