Architecture, Design & Photography

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Jessie Carroll, Architect and Founding Principal of Jessie Carroll Architect. We talk extensively about the process of starting an architecture firm from the ground up and the benefits of remaining a small practice. We also touch on the Jessie's client-centered approach as well as some of her favorite materials to use when designing a home. 

In 2020, Jessie Carroll was the first female architect in Maine to be recognized by the 5 Under 40 regional award for design excellence by New England Home Magazine. Her design work has been recognized locally through AIA Maine design awards with national jurists in 2021 and 2018. In 2017, Jessie was recognized nationally with the Red Diamond Achievement Award for Family Farmhouse. Upon earning her Master of Architecture degree, Jessie received the highest design honor at Northeastern University in 2010. 

Prior to establishing JCA, Jessie Carroll served as an associate Principal at Whitten Architects based in Portland, Maine. There she designed custom homes across New England for 8 years. Before moving to Maine, she managed residential construction in Cape Cod Massachusetts. She also practiced in Boston-based firms including Utile, HMFH, and Cannon Design. 

Jessie has given back to the architectural community through her involvement in professional organizations, teaching, and speaking engagements. She is currently acting treasurer, design committee member, and member on the executive board of directors at AIA Maine. She has also taught two classes per year for three consecutive years at University of Maine Augusta as adjunct faculty. 

More from Jessie Carroll: 

Website: https://jessiecarrollarchitect.com 

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

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-carroll-aia-9b19131b

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Reflect Project UPDATE: 

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Brandon Brown, restorative justice scholar, Ph.D candidate, adjunct faculty at UMA /Colby College and former prison inmate. 

Back in 2013 Brandon was part of a personal project we started called the Reflect Project. The idea was to photograph inmates at the Maine State Prison and have them write a letter to their younger selves. We then took the written letters and composited each one around the corresponding portrait, creating a more dynamic viewing experience at the subsequent gallery showing. Fast forward to present day (2022) and Brandon has been released from prison after serving more than then years behind bars. In this follow up interview with Brandon, we discuss his time in prison, the impact the Reflect Project had on him, and the work he is currently doing now that he has been released. 

Brandon Brown Story: https://www.pressherald.com/2021/10/18/27004266/ 

Reflect project: https://www.trentbell.com/REFLECT-Project/prisoners/11 Reflect Project 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHNUc4lPkc&t=2s 

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Artwork Photo: Tristan Spinski (https://www.tristanspinski.com/)

In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Nitin Govila, Senior Vice-President for Serge-Ferrari. We discuss applications for flexible composite materials, tensile architecture, solar protection and modular structures. 

Nitin Govila, a global business executive, has an extensive background in building and growing regions and organizations across multiple industries, channels and cultures. Presently as the Senior Vice-President for Serge-Ferrari, Nitin manages 7 independently-operated territories across Asia Pacific, Middle-East and Africa. Serving on the executive leadership team, Nitin is directly accountable for all business operations and M&A activities across the region. Nitin received his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with First Division (Honors) from Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh, India. To diversify himself, Nitin pursued his MBA with HEC Paris, School of Management with a Merit scholarship. Moving from India to Paris to attend the program was a huge endeavor but propelled his career with international organizations and enabled him to adapt to different countries, cultures and sensitivities. 

More from Nitin: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-govila-5224a3/ 

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The tables have been turned. In this episode we are joined by our host, Joel Kuschke, Creative Director Maine Magazine and Maine Home+Design. The topic is creativity. What does it mean to live and work as a creative individual? Where does creativity come from? Are you born with it? We ponder these questions and more as we peel back that layers of this ancient concept.

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In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with Alex Ilten, Executive Creative Director at VTProDesign. 

More from Alex Ilten: 

Website: https://vtprodesign.com/ 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/vtprodesign/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-ilten-0470b860 

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In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with author and architect Richard Francis-Joes, where we discuss his latest book Truth and Lies in Architecture. 

Richard Francis-Jones, LFRAIA, Hon. AIA, RIBA, is a highly awarded practicing Australian architect. He is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, and the University of Sydney, and has taught in many schools of architecture. He is a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is design director of fjmtstudio. 

More from Richard Francis-Jones: 

Truth and Lies in Architecture: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lies-Architecture-Richard-Francis-Jones/dp/1954081650 Website: https://fjmtstudio.com 

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Taja, a graphic designer by education, has built Pulp+Wire into one of the fastest-growing, 100% woman-owned consumer packaging firms, with a focus on natural and organic CPG brands, in the U.S. Her accessible creative style and intuitive marketing instincts have made her a natural fit for organic and natural foods, lifestyle, and cannabis CPG brands seeking to launch new businesses or accelerate current growth. 

The collaborative workflow she administers within the walls of Pulp+Wire from strategic brand ideation, to packaging, to digital marketing and revenue growth is scaled to meet each client’s unique needs, with both humor and insight. Taja's working style is that of an eternal optimist while being grounded in reality, a combination of futuristic, optimistic, and realistic that brands and clients deeply appreciate and look to maximize when working with her. When not guiding brands or her team of twenty at P+W Taja also writes for Forbes focusing on team culture within the creative space and retreats to the woods and lakes of Maine with her husband and two kids, some rescue animals to stay grounded. 

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Website: https://pulpandwire.com/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-gibson-57625271/ 

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

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

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Architecture Unbound // Joseph Giovannini.  In this episode of Architecture, Design & Photography we sit down with writer and design-firm owner Joseph Giovannini, whose latest book is Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli, 2021). In it, Joseph examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism three times, Joseph has written thousands of articles on architecture, design, and urbanism for The New York Times, Art in America, Architect Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Joseph was a staff reporter for The New York Times, to which he still contributes. A Yale graduate, Joseph also has an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College, earned through studies at the Sorbonne, and an M.Arch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has taught studios, mostly in graduate programs, at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Southern California Institute of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of Innsbruck, and Harvard University, the Carpenter Center. Joseph has won several grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; from Furthermore, a branch of New York’s JM Kaplan Fund, and from the NEA.

Trained as an architect, Joseph heads his own design firm, Giovannini Associates. Published projects have appeared in Architectural Digest, Los Angeles Times Magazine, A + U, Domus, House & Garden, GA Houses, Architekur und Wohnen, Sites, Interior Design, and The New York Times. Born in Los Angeles, Joseph lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. 

 More from Joseph Giovannini Architecture 

Unbound: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847858798

Website: https://www.giovanninidesign.com

Alan is a builder by trade and the owner and general manager of GO Logic LLC. Alan founded the business with architect Matthew O’Malia in 2008 with the sole purpose of designing and building Passive House buildings. 

After finishing his degree at Brown University, Alan landed in Maine in the late ‘80s as an organic farm apprentice, then bought 75 acres of land and built his own house. From there his carpentry work evolved into a general contracting business where, in spite of some resistance, he encouraged as much energy-efficient design as possible. Eventually the high-performance concept caught on, and when Passive House arrived it codified much of what he’d been trying to do all those years.

 Alan is a Certified Passive House Builder and Designer. He is secretary of the board of directors of Passive House Institute US and the Passive House Alliance US. He lives with his family on a farm in Belfast, Maine. 

More from Alan Gibson: 

Website: https://www.gologic.us/team 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-gibson-57625271/ 

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