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With over twenty-five years of experience in architecture, design, and business, David founded Blueprint For Living Coaching with a mission to help design professionals who seek to access their untapped potential, develop their leadership, and create great things in their personal and professional lives.  He draws upon his skills as a coach, architect, leader, motivational speaker, mentor and businessman to inspire excellence in his clients and call them to be their best.

David is a 2014 graduate of Accomplishment Coaching’s Coaches’ Training Program, a comprehensive, intensive year-long program that emphasizes an ontological approach to coaching and extensive hands-on leadership experience.  He has participated on the leadership team for the Coaches’ Training Programs in Chicago, Seattle, Washington, DC, Victoria, BC and at the United Nations. He is a member of the International Coach Federation and a PCC certified coach.

Prior to becoming a coach, David built a successful career as an architect, first as principal of Bradley Architects and later as the Managing Director of North American Operations for Officium, LLC, a German-based design and engineering firm specializing in tensile structures.  He is still actively engaged with both firms and is an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).   In 2014 he served as President of AIA Illinois.

David graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and later with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago with his Master of Architecture degree.  He is licensed to practice architecture in the State of Illinois.

David is an avid cyclist, having twice completed the 500-mile Twin Cities to Chicago AIDS Ride and raised over $3,700 for AIDS and HIV-support organizations.   A Certified Rescue Diver, he has been lucky enough to dive reefs from the Caribbean to the Great Barrier Reef.  He is fluent in German, conversationally fluent in French, and dabbles in Swedish and Portuguese if you press him.

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With over twenty-five years of experience in architecture, design, and business, David founded Blueprint For Living Coaching with a mission to help design professionals who seek to access their untapped potential, develop their leadership, and create great things in their personal and professional lives.  He draws upon his skills as a coach, architect, leader, motivational speaker, mentor and businessman to inspire excellence in his clients and call them to be their best.

David is a 2014 graduate of Accomplishment Coaching’s Coaches’ Training Program, a comprehensive, intensive year-long program that emphasizes an ontological approach to coaching and extensive hands-on leadership experience.  He has participated on the leadership team for the Coaches’ Training Programs in Chicago, Seattle, Washington, DC, Victoria, BC and at the United Nations. He is a member of the International Coach Federation and a PCC certified coach.

Prior to becoming a coach, David built a successful career as an architect, first as principal of Bradley Architects and later as the Managing Director of North American Operations for Officium, LLC, a German-based design and engineering firm specializing in tensile structures.  He is still actively engaged with both firms and is an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).   In 2014 he served as President of AIA Illinois.

David graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and later with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago with his Master of Architecture degree.  He is licensed to practice architecture in the State of Illinois.

David is an avid cyclist, having twice completed the 500-mile Twin Cities to Chicago AIDS Ride and raised over $3,700 for AIDS and HIV-support organizations.   A Certified Rescue Diver, he has been lucky enough to dive reefs from the Caribbean to the Great Barrier Reef.  He is fluent in German, conversationally fluent in French, and dabbles in Swedish and Portuguese if you press him.

Get to know a bit about David in this episode of WIA.

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Episode 16 of the Student Architect Podcast features Jimmy Carter. He is an architect and member James and Jimmy, an architecture studio and dissemination unit whose practice delves into the breadth of architectural distribution and production. The studio believes that architecture is not merely material, and concentrates on the platforms through which architecture as a cultural production can take shape. In this way, projects are varied, mediums are numerous, and characters are fluid, but all is grounded in architectural creation.

Jimmy’s work has spanned architectural construction, curation, film, and audio exploration, and has subsequently been published in journals such as Pidgin Magazine, PLAT, Flat Out, Fresh Meat and MAS Context.

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In this episode, I sat down with Jimmy Carter. Jimmy is an architect, writer, and member of James and Jimmy, an architecture studio and dissemination unit whose practice delves into the breadth of architectural distribution and production. Get to know a bit about Jimmy in this episode of What is Architecture? He will be in next week's full-length episode of Student Architect. Enjoy!

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Dan Wheeler is a founding principal of Wheeler Kearns Architects and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dan works and practices to educate his colleagues, clients, and students of what architecture can bring to elevate experience, and the responsibilities that come with this ever-optimistic endeavor.

Dan received his education at the Rhode Island School of Design, including two years study in Rome and an association with Machado Silvetti Architects. Prior to establishing his own practice, he was an Associate and Studio head at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Chicago (1981-87). Dan is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Traveling Fellowship in 1980, the CCAIA Young Architect Award (1985), AIA Fellowship (for Design, 1998), Chicago Tribune’s "Chicagoan of the Year" in Architecture with Lawrence Kearns (2008), and the AIA Illinois’s Nathan Ricker Clifford Award for Architectural Education (2017). He has served as Interim Director for both the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the UIC School of Architecture and has been a consulting architect/educator to Auburn University’s Rural Studio since 2002. He lectures regularly and frequently sits on professional and academic juries.

His work spans the gamut of project type; public institutions, non-profit organizations, and private commissions. He draws to see, to test, to explain, and to build well places of authenticity.

Find Dan and his firm's work at WKArch.com, and follow them on Instagram @wheelerkearnsarchitects

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Dan Wheeler, FAIA, is a founding principal of Wheeler Kearns Architects, is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Dan works and practices to educate his colleagues, clients, and students of what architecture can bring to elevate the experience and the responsibilities that come with this ever-optimistic endeavor.

Thank you to Dan for sitting down with me. Get to know him more on next week's episode of Student Architect!

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How can you turn a cow into architecture? In this episode, we learn about Stewart Hicks and his firm Design With Company. We discuss food, animals, localism, and more on this episode of the Student Architect podcast!

Stewart is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a co-founder of Design With Company, a practice he leads with Allison Newmeyer in Chicago. Design with Company’s work focuses on how literature and architecture intersect through fiction, character, type, or metaphor and how these themes can translate into installations, speculative urban scenarios, temporary pavilions and designs for buildings. Hicks received his Master's degree in Architecture Princeton University and a Bachelors from the University of Michigan.

Learn more about Stewart and his work at https://www.designwith.co/

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For this episode of What is Architecture? I am joined by Stewart Hicks. 

He is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a co-founder of Design With Company, a practice he leads with Allison Newmeyer in Chicago. Design with Company’s work focuses on how literature and architecture intersect through fiction, character, type, or metaphor and how these themes can translate into installations, speculative urban scenarios, temporary pavilions and designs for buildings. Hicks received his Master's degree in Architecture Princeton University and a Bachelors from the University of Michigan.

Get to know Stewart a bit in this episode of WIA. And be ready for next week's full-length episode of Student Architect featuring Stewart Hicks.

Learn more about Stewart and his work at https://www.designwith.co/

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The term sustainability is thrown around a lot. While we can understand its meaning, what does it look like and what are some ways we are already being more sustainable people.

Jose B. Rodriguez, International Associate AIA -  is a board member of AIA Chicago and has also served at the AIA Illinois Board and AIA Chicago Committee on the Environment. Jose has almost twenty years of experience in architecture and high-performance building consulting including sustainability and energy analytics after completing a Masters in Building Science and Climate Responsive Architecture at Arizona State University. Jose’s career has spanned from interior renovations and building construction to design documentation and sustainability strategies for commercial, hospitality, and master planning projects. Most recently,  Jose was the leader of the Built Ecology team at WSP in Chicago, and the sustainability teams at CH2M (now Jacobs) and SOM. Jose is passionate about the environment and climate action, a photography enthusiast, and an avid traveler targeting a visit to his 7th continent soon.

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Jose Rodriguez is an architecture professional with experience in architecture, engineering & planning fields. His background includes Interiors, construction, architecture, and building sustainability consulting for commercial, hospitality, and master planning projects. And, as a board member of AIA Chicago and AIA Illinois, past chair of the Committee on the Environment (AIA Chicago), former docent of the City of Chicago Energy Benchmarking; and Fulbright Alumni, Jose has seen all different aspects of architecture when it comes to the industry, political, and academic.

Jose will be featured in our full-length Student Architect podcast coming out on January 31st, 2020. However, in this episode, we get to learn a snippet about Jose through his thoughts on What Is Architecture?

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