D:i Podcast

This is the third of three interviews for Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh, vol. 20. It’s with photographer Maranie Rae Staab. Before we get going, check out the Facebook page for PechaKucha Night Pittsburgh for details about the event. And subscribe to the podcast on iTunes so you don’t miss the other two interviews. Maranie Rae is a photojournalist […]

This is the second of three interviews for Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh, vol. 20. It’s with Pitt PhD student Annie Liu. Before we get going, check out the Facebook page for PechaKucha Night Pittsburgh for details about the event. And subscribe to the podcast on iTunes so you don’t miss the other two interviews. Annie is doing experiments to […]

This is the first of three interviews for Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh, vol. 20. It’s with RITA Award winning author Gwyn Cready. Before we get going, check out the Facebook page for PechaKucha Night Pittsburgh for details about the event. And subscribe to the podcast on iTunes so you don’t miss the other two interviews. Gwyn is […]

We have something totally different to start out the third season of Design:interviewed. A live event that I put together with the members of the Young Architects Forum in Pittsburgh, with the help of Eric Fisher. And before we get started, if you’re new to the show, please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. The blurb: Mentors […]

Clayton Merrell is on the show to talk about, among other things, his ongoing project at the Pittsburgh International Airport. That project is a piece of public art done in terrazzo and will cover the entire center core when finished. For reference, the tops of the escalators that bring you into the center core are […]

UPDATED: 6/3/2014 with video Today’s podcast is a special episode, featuring five of the presenters for Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh, vol. 17. If you count the full hour I did with Eric Fisher last year that means over half of the presenters have been on the show. PKN vol 17 is this Thursday, April 3, 2014 […]

Today I talk with Rick Landesberg of Landesberg Design and find out about his early career, including the romance that brought him to Pittsburgh, his long road to becoming a graphic designer and the break that launched his career. But first we catch up with where we left off last season. Spoiler alert: nobody dies. […]

In this episode of the D:i Podcast we talk with Todd Dunaway of GBBN Architects / Edge Studio about growing up in Kentucky, playing the drums, going from small firms to large and healthcare design. Kentucky: home of basketball, fried chicken and bourbon. As opposed to football, barbeque and whiskey. Research! Neil Peart being Neil […]

In a short show, I run down some of the events associated with Design Pittsburgh 2013 and run an interview I did with Louis Fung of Honolulu. See the schedule of events for Design Pittsburgh 2013 [http://aiapgh.org/aia-programs-events/design-pittsburgh/event-schedule/] See the entries for the Young Architects Studio Competition [http://aiapgh.org/aia-programs-events/design-pittsburgh/2013-online-exhibit-vote-peoples-choice-award/young-architects-studio-competition/] Go to the AIA Honolulu website to read […]

Mark Dietrick sits down with me to talk about Jesuit education, finding his niche in the profession, whether or not automation will phase out architects, and data. Lots of data. Also, I debut a new segment: 3 questions with an architect. See the AIA/MBA best practices guides for working with architects and builders. [http://www.mbawpa.org/resources.asp] Read […]

In a special episode of the D:i Podcast I visit the artists in their booths at the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Images of the artwork and links to all the artists’ websites can be found below, in the order they appear on the show. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Just search […]

This week on the podcast we have Paul Rosenblatt of Springboard Design. In addition to being the principal there, he also writes (curates?) several blogs: Vinyl Record Architect [http://www.vinylrecordarchitect.com/] Museum Architect [http://www.museumarchitect.org/] Open Space Thinking [http://www.openspaceopenthinking.com/] … and Springboard’s projects are featured this book [http://brettyasko.com/category/books-magazines/14-every-building/] From the Wikipedia entry for the Hampton Grease Band: “[it] is apocryphally said […]

In this episode of Design: interviewed, I chat with Dan Rothschild of the Rothschild Doyno Collaborative. As always, links are below to people and projects that we bring up. We talk a lot about his Design Sketchbook process. Here’s a link to some examples of what the sketches in those books look like. [http://rdcollab.com/sketchbook.html] A […]

This very first episode of Design: interviewed features Eric Fisher. He was kind enough to let me into his self-designed home, which is also his office. Click any of the following images to learn more about the projects and people we bring up in the interview. The wikipedia page for Richard Meier, “whose rationalist buildings […]

Welcome to Design: interviewed. I’m trying to capture candid conversations with Pittsburgh architects, artists and designers, to find out more about their lives and the way that they work. Listen in for more, or jump into the interviews. Thanks for listening to the D:i Podcast.