Prairie Design Lab

Today the story of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander of Vancouver - one of the greatest landscape architects of the modern era. The world's most valuable award in that field is The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architect Prize. We hear the story of her escape from Nazi Germany, her early landscape works in Philadelphia public housing, her stunning park at Expo 67, her innovation at Canada's National Gallery and the Northwest Territories Legislature, and her pioneering green roofs at Vancouver's Robson Square and Public Library.

Local architecture to help save the planet. The story of the first commercial building in all of Manitoba to achieve "Passive House Certification." We go deep with Stantec Winnipeg - the firm tasked with this leading-edge design at Fort Whyte Alive.

According to climate scientists the planet has until 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half. Winnipeg-born Kelly Alvarez Doran is a world leader on climate-positive design. He describes how to get carbon out of architecture.

Prairie Design Lab returns w/ Season 2. In Episode 1 meet Winnipeg-born Bisi Williams - The Chief Insights Officer of the Chicago-based Massive Change Network & the partner of Bruce Mau. Find out why this expansive thinker calls herself "architecture & design adjacent", a "Prairie chauvinist" & a "Winnipigeon".

Many stu­dents drawn to archi­tec­ture school imag­ine work­ing with, or cre­at­ing, a small firm and hav­ing a per­son­al impact design­ing unique struc­tures. But the real­i­ty of archi­tec­ture is chang­ing. More and more archi­tects choose to work with larg­er firms and col­lab­o­rate with diverse mul­ti-skilled teams on long-term projects requir­ing intense plan­ning, prepa­ra­tion and financ­ing. In Episode 41 we take a deep look at what it takes to do archi­tec­ture on the ​“FIRM” scale.