Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture

Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture | Karen Braitmayer


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Welcome to ‘Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture’ a podcast by SB Architects. This series will narrate honest conversations with women in design and delve deeper into what it means to be a woman in architecture. 

 

Jeanette Hoffman, Associate at SB Architects, will be your host. We're extremely excited to introduce you to this incredible series, where we have the honor of chatting with some of the biggest and best names in the business. 

 

Today’s guest is Karen Braitmayer, Principal and APAC-BE, ICC Accessibility Inspector/Plans Examiner at Studio Pacifica.

 

Karen Braitmayer, a disabled architect, and advocate for accessibility and civil rights for people with disabilities, brings her unique life experiences to Studio Pacifica, the Seattle‐based practice she founded in 1993.

 

The accessibility consulting firm has been recognized regionally and nationally for its focus on universal design, and social sustainability, and for finding creative ways to meet (or exceed) building codes that serve to give people with disabilities access to the greater world.

 

Karen’s focus on accessibility and civil rights for people with disabilities is reflected in her national and regional advocacy efforts. In 2010, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Access Board, a volunteer policy appointment she continues to hold today. 


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Designer’s reading list on Disability and Design:

Disability Pride

Demystifying Disability: What to know, What to say and how to be an Ally by Emily Ladau

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

 

Intersection of Disability and Design

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie

Accessible America by Bess Williamson

What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes

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