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Text description provided by the architects. Theber Shed 2 is the second rural building we have designed on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. The project came about because the client had a lot of stuff and needed more space to store it, display it and enjoy it.

His collection included vintage cars, WWII army jeeps, model planes, GI Joes, art, old signs, signed guitars, antique tram ticket dispensers etc etc etc.

There was an existing off the shelf blue corrugated shed which was only 4 years old with galvanised structural steel still shiny. The problem the client had apart from the need for more room was that he couldnt get his classic, stainless-steel Airstream bus in due to the access being too low in height and could just not see how keeping the existing shed was going to work.

We convinced him that we had to keep the existing structure, adapt, reclad and add to the building to make it work both functionally and visually to look like it was always one building.

It improves a usually bland utility into a piece of elegant architecture set in an amazing setting. It realizes the fact that there isnt really a preconceived idea about what a shed should look like and proves that a shed can look really great.

Theres not really much more to say about it as the photos pretty much tell the story. A favourite project of ours with a fantastic client and builder who did our design justice.

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Citing the "interests of justice,'' a federal judge has ended Oregon refuge occupation leader Ryan Paynes federal supervision a year and a half early.

Payne, once described as a pivotal architect of the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, served his prison term of three years and one month and completed half of the three years of supervised release that U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown ordered in March 2018. He received credit for the time he was held in jail after his arrest in late January 2016.

Payne was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to impede federal employees at the wildlife refuge through intimidation, threat or force. He paid his $10,000 restitution in full by Sept. 23

Payne married after getting out of prison, has four children with his wife and one on the way, according to his lawyer Lisa Hay, Oregons federal public defender.

He is head of operations at REM Technologies, a start-up company in Belgrade, Montana. The company is developing a new method of processing raw materials in the metals supply industry. Hes been employed there since August after working as a licensed electrician for another company since his release from custody, according to his lawyer Lisa Hay, Oregons federal public defender.

Mr. Paynes compliant conduct and positive contribution to his community throughout the past 18 months of supervised release demonstrates that further supervision is unnecessary, Hay wrote to the court.

Federal prosecutors did not object. Brown granted Paynes request, effective May 12.

Payne was one of 18 people who either pleaded guilty or were convicted by a jury in the 41-day Malheur refuge occupation in 2016. Prosecutors originally indicted 26 people. Leader Ammon Bundy, brother Ryan Bundy and five others were acquitted of all charges during a trial. The government dropped a conspiracy case against independent broadcaster Pete Santilli.

In January 2018, a federal judge in Nevada dismissed separate conspiracy charges against Payne, Ammon and Ryan Bundy and their father, Cliven Bundy, after she found prosecutors engaged in flagrant misconduct'' and a deliberate attempt to mislead'' and made several misrepresentations to both the defense and the court about evidence. The U.S. Attorneys Office is appealing the dismissal.

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Ive been spending a lot of time at home lately ... like many of us of here in Virginia and across the nation.

Luckily, my house is my favorite place to be. I fell in love with it from afar and had a house crush on it for years.

Its a modern house, but different from any Id ever seen.

I used to walk by it while pushing a stroller when my younger son was a baby. Id crane my neck to get a good look at it: tucked away in the hollow of a hill above a small lake in the Bon Air area of Chesterfield County. The house was all angles, blue-gray wood siding and windows facing the water. It was indeed different: private, strange and artistic. Every time I saw it, I thought: What would it be like to live there?

One day, I saw the For Sale sign during my morning walk. I ran home, pushing the stroller, and Googled the house, out of breath. It was at the very top of our buying range, a little over, to be honest, but just barely within reach. I said to myself: I have to have it.

We called our real estate agent, then put in an offer. After a small bidding war and a crazy amount of luck, it was ours.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

My house was built in 1974 by Richmond architect Ernie Rose for his family.

The house is all angles and light, strung together by a spine of skylights down the front hall, and turned toward the lake so that almost every room has a water view.

Its designed slightly in the Frank Lloyd Wright style, with its narrow entrance that forces you into the home, and then opens up, with a sweeping view of the water and an open floor plan. But its also unique to itself and the architect who created it.

I didnt know much about Rose when we bought the house. But I wanted to know more. So I turned to the Richmond Times-Dispatch archives, where I found a stack of articles about him.

Retired architect Ernie Rose stands in the office in his workshop at his house which boasts many features attractive to the handyman. (Photo 2005)

Born in Richmond, Rose ran a thriving architecture firm in the 1980s and 1990s, first with Ernie Rose Inc., followed by Rose Architects in the mid-1990s. Roses firm designed some of the first office buildings in the Innsbrook Corporate Center, the Heilig-Meyers headquarters in Goochland County and the original CarMax showroom on West Broad Street that is now used as the prototype for over 150 locations.

Rose was known for his budget-conscious approach to projects. He could come up with a budget for a quality building and stick to it, an attribute hard to find in many architects, said his former business partner Mark Larson. He also designed condominiums in the Lockgreen community off River Road and the new urban housing development Winchester Greens off Hull Street Road.

Before out-of-town developers discovered Richmond, he almost had a monopoly on office work in town. It became a chase for developers. Whoever could call him first got his services, Larson said.

In 1999, Rose Architects merged with Baskervill, and Rose retired shortly afterward. When he died in 2006 at the age of 67, projects of Rose Architects dotted the city as well as 20 other states.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

But what he didnt make at least many of were private residences.

Ernie just didnt do houses. He was a commercial architect, his wife, Connie Rose, said.

Designing houses requires a certain personality, Larson said. Its labor intensive. It doesnt pay as well as [other projects].

While Rose might be best known for his commercial work, his private homes are spectacular. But, of course, Im biased.

Pennie and Keith Parkin at their home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin at their home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Keith and Pennie Parkin at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylight in their living room.

Architect Ernie Rose's sketch ofPennie and Keith Parkin's house on Lake Shore Drive.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Gus Decker, 8, Colleen Curran, Henry Decker, 12 and Francis Decker and at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

View of the skylights at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Built-in bookcases in the living room at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Main hall at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. The sliding barn door conceals a small storage area.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Bedroom built-in window seat and wrap-around windows overlooking the lake.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Built-in linen closet in the front hall used for towels and sheets. The top drawers are used for the kids' hats and gloves in the winter.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylights in the main hall let in diffused light.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. View of the kitchen.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Built-in china cabinet and bar in the kitchen.

Connie and Ernie Rose stand outside their home on Buford Road in the Bon Air section of Chesterfield. By all definitions it is a handyman's dream house as it features a complete woodshop and a lift in the garage for working on automobiles.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the front door.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the backyard.

The personal residence Ernie Rose built for himself and his wife on Buford Road. It was built in the Victorian style to blend in with the houses in Old Bon Air.

The personal residence Ernie Rose built for himself and his wife on Buford Road.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. They are standing in the living room. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Ernie Rose built these closets and the window seat including its cushions for the upstairs bedroom. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Ernest W. Rose Jr., with Rose Architects, is surrounded by models and drawings of the future headquarters for Heilig Meyers in Goochland. The company is one of the 'Rising 25' after twenty-six years in business. Photo taken Tuesday, August 13, 1996.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. The photo of their kitchen was taken Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Retired architect Ernie Rose stands in the office in his workshop at his house which boasts many features attractive to the handyman. (Photo 2005)

Even though my house is over 45 years old, it feels so fresh and modern, and it speaks to how my family lives today.

It has an open floor plan with an open kitchen that looks over the large living room. I can cook and watch my children playing at the same time. There is no formal dining room, because Rose didnt believe in them at the time. What I love about this house is how efficient it is. It makes sense. It was designed with a distinctive vision and on a budget which was classic Ernie Rose.

Ernie didnt do showy stuff. His work was about quality, the craft, the scale. His houses were almost designed not to be flashy. He was a midcentury modern kind of guy. He liked Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Like those houses, it was hard to find the entrance. Its all about the scale, bringing the scale down to the human scale. They were very human-oriented, Larson said.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Bedroom built-in window seat and wrap-around windows overlooking the lake.

At my home, the entrance is tucked into the side of the house. The master bedroom is just off the front door, with a built-in window seat overlooking the lake and built-in closets and drawers. The windows are so large, that when you sit at the window seat, you feel as if youre outside in nature, even though youre inside. And thats how it feels throughout the house: that it was built to be one with nature.

Rose designed his homes to fit the landscape and to offer the best views of the nature around them. In the living room, built-in bookshelves climb one wall in a dramatic slant. There are built-ins throughout the house: a china cabinet in the kitchen, a linen closet in the hall, and filing cabinets and drawers in a small study upstairs.

Ernie would lay out a house based on efficiency. He cared a lot about that. He designed to maximize the materials in the building and to minimize waste. The level of details that was part of Ernies mindset, Larson said. A good architect will spend a lot of time worrying about those kinds of things.

The bones of the house are so great, we didnt have to do much to it when we moved in, except to purge most of our furniture, because with the built-ins, we didnt need it anymore. Instead, we focused on filling the walls with paintings signed by my artist father-in-law, Chase Decker.

Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

When I showed a friend a picture of our living room, she asked: Where are all the books and toys and newspapers? Where is the clutter? Theyre in the built-ins. Honestly, its the easiest house to tidy up Ive ever lived in. It has a whole-house vacuum (from the 70s that still works!) that has been a life-changer.

Even the long modern sofa in the living room is a built-in that Rose designed and built himself.

Ernie was a craftsman. He worked on restoring old cars and MGs. But he also had a really great touch with furniture. He liked the simplicity of Shaker-type furniture. He would use that as a starting point and make it his own, Larson said.

Rose studied architecture at Virginia Tech and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. At Tech, he was inspired by the Bauhaus school, taught by many of the professors, which focuses on craft, simplicity and having a harmony of function.

They taught him how to make things with your hands, Larson said.

Ernie was very much into the modern and the midcentury, the Eames and Bertoia chairs, Connie said. He made really good cabinets and beautiful furniture. He never had a plan. Hed just start cutting wood, and it always came together. I have a lot of pieces he built and so do the kids.

Main hall at Francis Decker and Colleen Curran's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. The sliding barn door conceals a small storage area.

When the Roses lived here in the 1970s, they had three sons, and the house was so private, they didnt have any window coverings. The skylights in the main hall let in the softest, most diffused light, all day.

Ernie was very big on having light come in. He didnt like dark interiors. He would put windows in corners and near the door to let in the light, Connie said.

When the lake behind the house became a popular spot for ice-skating in the winter, Connie had to invest in curtains for the bedroom for privacy. Otherwise, the house is turned away from the street, facing the water, for total privacy. Its the inverse of many houses, which typically face the street. Its not for everyone, but it spoke to me and my appreciation of privacy.

The house also has a garage with a pitched roof and doors that swing open where Rose used to work on vintage cars. My husband has turned it into the man cave. He throws parties in there that I dont even realize are happening, and that, my friends, is marital bliss.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

Our house wasnt the first that Rose built in the Bon Air neighborhood. He built another, modern in style, for the Hsu family in 1972. Its built into the hill, all cantilevers and levels, with a deep brown-stained siding. We struck up a friendship with the owners, Keith and Pennie Parkin, based on our love of Ernie Rose houses.

Parkin, a graphic designer, was looking for a house after his divorce in 2012. He spotted the Rose house while out driving.

Keith and Pennie Parkin at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

No one was living here at the time. I pulled into the driveway and peeked into the windows. I wasnt sure if I could afford it. But I was like, This house has to be mine, Parkin said.

He called his agent, got a tour and learned the listing price was within his budget at $260,000. It wasnt updated, but I didnt care, he said. I liked the fact that it was contemporary, modern and completely different than any house Id ever seen.

Pennie and Keith Parkin's Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose. Skylight in their living room.

Their house is like a mirror image of ours. It has the familiar Ernie Rose trappings: the same white built-ins with silver pulls. They even have a built-in stereo cabinet and a giant square skylight in their living room.

While Ernie was working on that house, he came across the lot for our house.

Architect Ernie Rose's sketch ofPennie and Keith Parkin's house on Lake Shore Drive.

The Roses bought the lakefront lot for $3,500. Rose didnt have a lot of work at the time, as he was just starting out with his own company, and Connie said he would often come out and help build the house.

It took nine months to build, which wasnt a long time, but seemed like forever, she said. The budget for the house was a little under $45,000, which Rose stuck to, for the most part. To adjust for inflation, that would be around $250,000 today. In the interest of full disclosure, the list price when we bought the house in 2014 was a bit more $300,000 because it included two additional parcels of land, one on each side. My husband and I pooled all our savings together, every scrap and cent we'd ever saved or earned, for the deposit and never looked back.

Ernie and Connie Rose built their Bon Air home to look like an old Virginia farmhouse. Ernie, an architect, designed the building. Photo taken Thursday, December 5, 1996. View is of the front door.

The house Ernie Rose is most well-known for is a white Victorian on Buford Road that was featured in Southern Living magazine twice. Built in 1995, the Buford Road house was custom-built to look like the late 19th-century Victorian homes that surround it, even though it was designed by a modern architect.

The Buford Road house was a whole other turn completely. Ernie said, I cannot and will not build a contemporary house in the middle of Old Bon Air. It wouldnt be right, Connie said.

Connie and Ernie Rose stand outside their home on Buford Road in the Bon Air section of Chesterfield. By all definitions it is a handyman's dream house as it features a complete woodshop and a lift in the garage for working on automobiles.

The house on Buford Road was the greatest example of his craftsmanship, Larson said.

Outside, it almost looks like a farmhouse from the 1900s with a standing-seam green metal roof and copper gutters, but inside, it has all the modern amenities and functional design of today.

It was such an amazing house with lots of oversize columns and woodwork, Connie said. It had built-in furniture, cabinets and Corian counters, which Ernie favored. The garage even had a hydraulic lift where he worked on his vintage cars.

When it sold in 2005, the listing price was around $750,000.

Gus Decker, 8, Colleen Curran, Henry Decker, 12 and Francis Decker and at their Lake Shore Drive home designed by Ernie Rose.

In these times when were encouraged to be safer at home, I feel lucky. Because this is the only place I want to be.

I think about Ernie Rose often and what its like to live in a house thats well-designed. And how thankful I am for it, especially now.

Downstairs, the electrical box is signed, simply, in strong black letters: Rose. Like an artist signing a painting. A work of art. That we, by some sort of miracle, get to live in.

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Harriet Harris, dean of thePratt InstituteSchool of Architecturein New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time.

Harriss, who recentlybecame the second female dean of the school, will speak to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

Harriss, who appeared at the inaugural Dezeen Day last year and judged the first Dezeen Awards in 2018, studied architecture at Oxford Brookes University.

Before moving to New York City, she led the post-graduate research programme in architecture at theRoyal College of Artin London.

Her books include Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition, and A Gendered Profession, which explores gender imbalance in the architecture profession.

At Dezeen Day, she appeared on a panel on design education alongside Zaha Hadid Architects principalPatrik Schumacher, and clashed with the architect over the long-hours culture in the industry.

Other creatives featured in our Screentime series include trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel,New York architecture practice SO-IL,The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee,filmmaker Gary HustwitandBritish-Israeli architect Ron Arad.

This Screentime conversation is sponsored byEnscape, a virtual reality and real-time rendering plugin for architectural design programmeAutodesk Revit.

Virtual Design Festivalis the world's first online design festival, taking place from 15 April to 30 June. For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, contact us atvirtualdesignfestival@dezeen.com.

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italy has suffered one of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks in the world and has endured europes longest lockdown. may 4th marked the first day of phase 2, shedding a little light into a society in desperate need of it. to help with the transition, thecity of milan has launched a new campaign called a new start. one step at a time inviting citizens to respect the rules in the gradual reopening of the city. the northern italian city, which has announced an ambitious plans to reduce car use, will also launch a new initiative aimed at architects and designers, asking for ideas that envision a safe back to normal or new normal city.

the YESMILANO campaign is part of a creative initiative where italian singer ghali invites the milanese to face the end of the lockdown with caution, awareness and serenity

milan, the financial capital of italy, is also known for its forward-thinking and design-oriented attitude. since the crisis started, italian creatives and companies alike have changed their usual doings and transformed their efforts in order to help the country face the crisis. some examples include fashion giant prada producing medical overalls and masks for healthcare personnel and carlo ratti building emergency hospitals from shipping containers. engineers turned a decathlon snorkeling mask into a respirator while the maker community 3D-printed multipurpose tools designed to slow the spread of the virus.

we must be careful. but not afraid. we are masked, not blindfolded, says the singer

now that people are allowed to go out, the commune di milano is asking designers and architects to envision solutions to help citizens safely transition into phase 2 one that asks for the use of personal protection and social distancing. projects should include practical solutions that allow business to stay afloat with citizens being safe. that means spacers to ensure the social distance measurements, separators for restaurants and even new floor plan developments among others.

this is the phase in which we understand the value of freedom. together we are more human than ever before.

in recent weeks many professionals and companies have offered to make their skills available to the city to face the emergency together, wrote cristina tajini, milans councillor for commerce, on her tumblr page. during thursdays meeting, we decided to start a public consultation aimed at planners, designers, and architects to roll out of their ideas: from spacers to signs that manage access, passing through new furnishings and innovative solutions that optimize the outdoor space, to the layout of markets, shops, public businesses and covered public spaces, in order to guarantee distance, without sacrificing conviviality.

these final verses describe the spirit, the attention and care required for milans return to the new normality

there will be no time limit to submit proposals, the invitation will remain open for the duration of the emergency, she concludes. the projects will be periodically evaluated, discussed and inserted into a virtual catalog that can be consulted free of charge by traders and operators, through the institutional channels of the municipality of milan. in the next few days we will publish the notice, meanwhile start thinking about it!

stay tuned as we will share the news once more information is available.

anew start. one step at a time

project info:

name: a new start. one step at a time

directed by: davide gentile

with: ghali, ida marinelli, thora keita, giada lanzotti, marco mazzei

created by: TBWA italy group

chief creative officer: nicola lampugnanicreative director and copywriter: sara ermoli + ghaliart director: tommaso espinosacopywriter: manuel bonardi

production: a tapelessfilm

produced by: daniele gentiliexecutive producer: luca legnanidirector of photography: alessandro ubaldieditor: matteo motzocostumes: sara costantinimake up: silvia murciano

music by: a.carnevali, fm ruffert, m.pozzi, n.barozzi

with the special collaboration: SMEN

juliana neira I designboom

may 09, 2020

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Mother knows best, as the saying goes, and it holds true for the designers and architects who shared their memories with us for Mothers Day. From instilling an appreciation for craftsmanship to encouraging a rebellious streak, these designers mothers have had a profound impact on both their personal and professional outlooks. Heres how motherly wisdom has translated into excellent design advice.

George Yabu and his mom, Masako.

Be bold; be curious.

George Yabu recalls his moms fearlessness and moving to Canada from Japan. "This was in the 1930sshe grew up on a rice farm and took it upon herself to immigrate to Canada when she was 19. This was just not done in society back then," he explains. Once in Canada, she learned her stepmothers tailoring trade and assisted with the business. She took it upon herself to learn every aspect of Western fashionsgoing so far as to memorize the patterns for work. "She was always driven to learn how things worked and how to fix things through very clever, cost-effective means," says George.

Keep a problem-solving mindset.

"She looked at things through industrial design and engineering principles, a trait she has transferred onto me," George explains. As a result, he is always wondering about how things work and seeking solutions to challenges. "That is what design is all aboutsolving problems," he says.

Amagansett is George Yabu and Glenn Pushelbergs summertime home in the Hamptons. Note the color and texture of the rugs, which were influenced by Glenns mom, who was a talented weaver.

Glenn Pushelberg,co-founder of Yabu Pushelberg

Glenn Pushelberg and his mom, Shirley.

Create and craft.

Glenn Pushelberg comes from a family of crafters. "My mom had to work when she was young, but in her spare time, she enjoyed copper tooling," he says. Her mother, in turn, was a weaver. "I recall heading to her home which would be filled with looms, fabrics, and yarns," he says. "She would have old boxes of clothing, the contents of which she would rip up to make these beautifully colored rag rugs." Crafting for sheer pleasure and utility remains a large part of their family fabric to this day.

Nina Freudenberger and her mom, Marie.

Accent with color.

Nina Freudenberger says that her mom, an artist, was always careful with color, tending toward more neutral palettesbut with a bold accent. "For instance, my childhood living room carried mostly cream-colored furniture mixed with dark, antique furniture," says Nina, "but then she would find a burnt orange and sienna pillow (one of her favorite shades) and make that the vibe for the room shine!"

Choose foundational pieces that you can design around.

"I watched her change the accents over the years while keeping the primary, investment pieces the same, which I highly recommend for all of my clients now," says Nina. "It gives you much more flexibility and keeps foundational pieces timeless." For instance, her mother went through an animal print phase, and later an Indian textile phase, which created a harmonious, layered warmth around anchoring pieces.

Thanks to her mother, Nina has a passion for experimenting with different patterns. "They make any room pop!" she says.

Layer different styles.

"My mom could effortlessly mix antiques she found and layer them with modern pieces," says Nina, who warns that it is a lot harder than it looks. "It takes careful thought and confidence to do it rightits one of the many things I admire about my mother."

Mardi Doherty with her mom, Helen, and her daughters Chili (background) and Bonnie (foreground).

Challenge conventions.

"As a child, we lived in a modest 1950s home that had a very bold, all-red kitchen, and my bedroom had thick navy and white diagonal stripes splashed across all walls," says Mardi Doherty. These bold moves taught Mardi to think of design as an extension of personality. "I learned to cherish my individuality, reject conformity, and be proud of thinking differently from others."

Previously a church from the 1900s, this contemporary home repurposes the original stained-glass windows.

Keep a sense of humor.

Being able to mentally reframe a situation has helped Mardi immensely. "Its one of the greatest lessons Ive learned from my momnothing is ever as bad as it seems," she says. "In fact, her saying is, When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, which always makes me smile!" She adds that her mother is very pragmatic, and that "she doesnt think anything is worth stressing too much about," which Doherty applies to her personal and professional life.

Pursue happiness.

"She taught me that its okay to let a great opportunity go if it doesnt make you happy," says Mardi. "This has been applied many times in my business."

Greg Faulkner with his mother, Mary.

Live thoughtfully on the land.

Making frequent trips from his hometown in Northern Indiana to visit his grandparents in Frankfort, Kentuckyagricultural, horse-and-bourbon countryhelped Greg Faulkner appreciate the relationship between people and nature. "In contrast to the intensely built, suburban environment of my hometown, the opportunistic and expedient way in which people inhabited farmhouses that were set upon open rolling hills, valleys, and verdant forestry did not go unnoticed," he says. "This was thanks to my mom, who gave me an appreciation for this natural landscape."

Faulkner Architects marries modernity and rural architecture with this barn-inspired home, which pays homage to the agricultural heritage of Glen Ellen, California.

Lead a project-driven life.

Gregs mother was a multi-hyphenate woman with numerous ongoing projects that included sewing dresses for herself and her daughters, tending to their home vegetable garden, oil painting, and keeping a clean and disciplined home environment. He adds that on the surface, it may not appear like these were architectural lessons, but "they are lessons about achieving a disciplined, ordered, and project-driven life." From his mothers example, Greg learned that any projectpersonal or professionalnecessitates "a consistent determination within a daily, iterative process that allows a constant return to the task with a fresh perspective." Overall, he says that engaging in such projects adds richness and realness to our lives, yielding "tangible results and effects that give us the satisfaction of accomplishing useful work, like the making of a good house."

Andrew Maynard with his mom, Patricia, at his childhood home in Tasmania.

Be wonderfully weird.

"Mom always let me be weird, which was perfect preparation for a life in design," Andrew Maynard says. The permission to be creative and think outside the box has resulted in projects with climbing walls, slides, nets, and secret rooms.

Tower House is a family residence in Victoria, Australia, whose playful plan includes an upper-level hanging net space for reading and relaxing.

Appreciate the outdoors.

During his childhood in rural Tasmanias mountainous landscape, Andrews mother helped cultivate an appreciation for the landscape, encouraging him "to consider it as an extension of our living space."

Build creative skills.

Andrews mother encouraged him and his siblings to build a skill they enjoyedcrafting, knitting, sewing, painting, building. "She pushed me to draw, which has been fundamentally important to my development as an architect, and a skill I feel should be picked up as early as possible," he says.

Place empathy over ego.

One of the most important things Andrew learned from his mother was the value of empathy: "It allows you to keep your ego in check and respond directly to client and community needs." Many of the delightful features he incorporates into homes are rooted in misunderstood subcultures. "Skateboarding, raves, anime, and street artall of which I lovedwere considered almost criminal activities by some, and a waste of time by most," he says.

Bonnie Bridgess mother, Janet, marks the location for a feature tree on the construction site of a BBA-designed residence in Cazadero, California.

Support the work of tradespeople.

"My mom was a general contractor and self-performed all of the work for her residential design-build projects," says Bonnie Bridges. "Demo, concrete, framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, cabinets, tile, paint, roofingshe did it all." Bridges has since cultivated a deep respect for the skilled carpenters, general contractors, and tradespeople who bring a designers vision to life. "I often say that, after design, my role is to support the contractor as much as possible and be the resource they need to make their (hard) job easier."

The Southern Pacific Brewery in San Francisco is housed in a former machine shop at the termination of an old train line. The spacious shell considers all the functional needs of the client, which included running a bar, restaurant, and full production brewery.

Prioritize functionality.

"I was inspired by my mom to focus on holistic, systems-based design thinking," says Bonnie. Her mother taught her about the importance of emphasizing function and considering about all the systems that go into designing a spacefrom water and electricity, to gas and drainage.

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For the past few months, the architecture community has been trying to bring its contribution to the fight against the pandemic. The global spread of this crisis might have triggered a coordinated, and thus a more visible effort, but this isnt the first time professionals step up in crises. Over the years, natural disasters and emergencies have determined several architects to get involved in disaster relief initiatives, as well as a wide range of humanitarian actions. In this article, we take a look at different occasions various architects and practices made a significant contribution to, helping affected communities overcome hardship.

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There are plenty of design proposals for post-disaster architecture out there, but it is quite seldom that architects get the chance to put their designs into practice, or help the affected communities in a tangible way. In light of recent global events, it is worth taking a look at how the architecture community can bring its contribution to critical situations.

If one were to name the professions leading figure in humanitarian architecture, it would probably be Shigeru Ban. The Pritzker-winning architect is notorious for his involvement and hands-on approach in emergency response, having undertaken disaster relief projects around the world. His work in this field has started with the design of paper-tube temporary homes for the refugees of the Kobe earthquake in 1995. Around the same time, Ban established the Voluntary Architects Network, to provide post-disaster aid. Among his numerous initiatives, he created temporary housing following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and developed a multi-storey housing complex made of shipping containers for the victims of the 2011 earthquake in Onagawa. Ban also designed a temporary cardboard cathedral to replace the one destroyed in Christchurch by the 2013 earthquake and created modular dwellings for the victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In 2017, he signed an agreement with UN-Habitat to design 20,000 new homes for refugees in Kenya.

When an earthquake hit Pakistan in 2005, architect Yasmeen Lari decided to help, so she worked with the affected communities to rebuild homes using the materials at hand, such as bamboo and mud. Since then, she has helped build more than 36,000 homes for flood and earthquake victims in her home country, structures that withstood subsequent natural disasters. In 2007, Lari also built community kitchens in refugee camps. The architect co-founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, an organization which, among others, trains people from rural areas in making building components and products which they can later monetise, helping those communities rise above poverty. Yasmeen Lari was recently awarded the 2020 Jane Drew prize for her extensive humanitarian work over the last two decades.

After the 2016 earthquake devastated several towns in central Italy, the Genoa-based architect was called by the Italian prime minister at the time to lead reconstruction efforts and develop natural disaster prevention strategies. As part of this initiative, Renzo Piano established a research group and created ten prototypes for anti-seismic housing to be built along the Apennines. In 2018, another tragic event hit Italy, with the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa. In the aftermath of the disaster, Piano, a Genovese himself, offered to donate the design of a new bridge to replace the old one. The structure has recently been completed. Prior to these events, Renzo Piano had also accepted Emergency NGOs request to design a new healthcare facility, the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Surgery, in Uganda, currently under construction.

The earthquake that struck central Italy in 2016 resulted in the loss of centuries-old architecture and the town of Amatrice was the most severely affected. Stefano Boeri joined architect Renzo Piano in the reconstruction process, designing a new school canteen for Amatrice. Supported with donations from all across Italy, as well as the architects themselves, the scheme was a first small step towards the reconstruction of the severely destroyed territory. The project then evolved to become Polo del Gusto Square, with the surrounding buildings accommodating eight restaurants. Encompassing a range of different services, the design was part of the attempt to recreate jobs, restart economic activities and revive local tourism.

The charity and design studio began their humanitarian work in 2004, providing educational spaces for the Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Their approach aims to foster community resilience by involving the users in the planning and construction phases. In partnership with different NGOs and humanitarian organizations, CatalyticAction has designed and built several playgrounds in refugee settlements in Lebanon. In 2016, the practice repurposed the donated materials used for a pavilion at the Expo in Milan to redevelop the Jarahieh Refugee School, formerly housed in a temporary tent.

The Pritzker-winning architect is well-known for his efforts to promote social development and overcome disparity. The half-finished house has become a signature for the studio ELEMENTAL, allowing governments to provide housing at a very low price, while still creating quality homes. This design strategy has been incorporated in the replacement of an illegal settlement in Iquique or the Monterrey Housing project in Mexico. The architect also played an essential role in the reconstruction of the Chilean city of Constitucin after the earthquake and tsunami of 2010, which resulted in creating a forest to attenuate the effects of future natural disasters, as well as Villa Verde Housing, a residential neighbourhood for 484 of the affected families. To help with the lack of affordable housing worldwide, as well as with the rapid urbanization, Aravena released four of the studios incremental housing designs to the public for open source use.

The list could be longer but still manages to prove that in times of dire need, there were architects who answered the call and helped. Whether this deserves praise or is simply a part of the profession's social responsibility is an open debate. These examples serve as a reminder that individual action can make an essential difference in crises when peoples livelihoods are disrupted.

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The bad news: In many cities, classrooms are officially shuttered for the rest of the school year due to the novel coronavirus crisisand the status of summer camps isnt looking too hot either.

The better news: While certainly no substitute for in-person experiences, many cultural institutions, museums, and even individual architecture firms are now offering architecture- and design-focused online educational opportunitiesfrom Zoom-based workshops to downloadable coloring e-books toamusing, family-friendly video seriesthat cater to stuck-at-home kids and the parents and caretakers. And because creativity (and coloring as a de-stressing tool) knows no age limit, many of these opportunities hold strong appeal to listless big kids, too.

Check out just a few of these online activities and workshops below. Many are free and some require advance registration.

The Chicago Architecture Center has retooled its upcoming calendar of family-and youth-oriented programming to accommodate for virtual learning while in-person events are on pause. Debuting in conjunction with each weekly edition of the CAC@Home newsletter, offerings include a remote iteration of the Girls Build! program, three new video series (Architecture Essentials, Neighborhood Strollers, and Storytime with CAC), and more. Schools may be out of session and museums are closed, but the CAC is working to keep children, parents and teachers learning about architecture and design, including the buildings around them, while practicing spatial distancing at home in their own neighborhoods, said Nicole Kowrach, the Centers vice president for education and audience engagement, in a statement.

In partnership with the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, the Center for Architecture has launched #ArchitectureAtHome, a series of fun, family-oriented activities to engage, inspire, and pass the time. They include drawing activities, Google Map-based scavenger hunts, and tutorials on how to make pop-up buildings out of paper bags.

Sympathetic to frazzled parents in need of new distractions for restless broods, London-based mega-firm Fosters + Partners recently launched a robust at-home educational initiative dubbed #Architecturefromhome that includes drawing, making, playing, thinking, reading, watching, and other activities to keep them [out of school kids] entertainedfor at least a few hours! Templates for activities, including Paper skyscraper, Create your own city, and Drawing trees, are available to download through the #Architecturefromhome micro-site. The firm encourages participants young and old to share their completed creations on social media.

Through May 20, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundations education department is hosting a virtual classroom for K-12 students with new lessons and corresponding videos being introduced each week. Says the Foundation of the free educational initiative, which is based on a curriculum developed in collaboration with the Paradise Valley School District: The Virtual Classroom combines fun, real-world lessons with Wrights famed principles of organic architecture and solutions-based design, each STEAM-focused lesson will offer students its own variation of hands-on activities that encourage them to think critically and creatively. Although the six-week series is now in week three of lessons, its never too late to join in. Upcoming lessons include Circles and The Impact of Color.

Normally held at the Taliesin West campus in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Foundations popular Summer Art and Architecture Summer Camp is also going virtual, and for the first time, is also free. Virtual campers enrolled in the program will meet via Zoom for an hour every weekday during three two-week sessions kicking off on June 1.

The Texas-based offices of global architecture firm Gensler have banded together to release two coloring books, Amazing Cities and Amazing Cities Kids, geared toward housebound families looking for a fun, architecture-centric distraction. The free downloadable coloring books together span over 200 pages and feature a slew of Gensler-designed buildings across the Lone Star State including in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, and Austin. In the wake of recent COVID-19 events, weve been channeling our creative energy into finding a way to educate and inspire people of all ages during these challenging times, Gerardo Gandy, an associate at Gensler who conceived the series, told D magazine. We hope this series allows the public, especially young minds, to use their creativity and imagination, and that it extends the spirit of our firm and the passion that we share for our practice to our friends, clients, and community.

Every Wednesday and Saturday at 3 p.m. during the month of May, Jeff Hopkins, teaching artist at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, will tell stories about the history of the Guggenheims iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Manhattan home through a series of sketches. Each sketch is followed by a prompt meant to inspire young viewers to create their own sketches at home. Participants are encouraged to share their finished work on Instagram or on Twitter with the hashtag #SketchWithJeff.

On May 22, the Glass House, in participation with the New Canaan Library, is hosting an hour-long, hands-on color workshop led by Fritz Horstman, director of education at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Working from Josef Alberss book Interaction of Color, we will experiment with colors that you may already have around your home. We will try our hands at exercises that Albers invented in his time teaching at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, such as One-Color-Becomes-Two, Reversed Grounds, and Afterimage, explains the event page. No prior artistic experience is required to participate although those registered must have a list of necessary materials on hand before the workshop begins. Self-directed, video-driven color workshops specifically for kids are also available through the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

MODAs calendar of upcoming online workshops for pint-sized design aficionados is impressive: A three-part series in skatepark design, an intro to using Minecraft as a CAD tool, and ongoing educational sessions for aspiring architects and designers ages eight through 15.

Although the National Building Museum has canceled all public programming through the end of September (and doesnt list any upcoming virtual events on its calendar), the museums website has a rich resource of at-home learning opportunities (Newspaper forts! Bell pepper architectural drawings! Building surveys!) for cooped-up families including the nifty, recently launched Neighborhood Exploration series.

While the New Museums First Saturdays For Families programming has been canceled, the New Museum Kids Menu series is continuing to provide families with activities to learn about contemporary art and ideas at home. Past family-friendly activities include At Home With Portraiture: Jordan Casteel and The Faces of Places: Jordan Casteel. Keep abreast of upcoming activities here.

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Kimberly Dowdell began her architecture career just as the Great Recession started to drag down the U.S. construction industry, leading developers to cancel many ambitious projects. A lot of architects were soon out of work, including many minorities, a setback to diversity in a profession that, much like commercial real estate, remained white-dominated.

With a pandemic now wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy and millions of young people losing jobsat the beginning of their careers, Dowdell worries that history may repeat itself. As head of the National Organization for Minority Architects, the Chicago-based director of business development at HOK is making plans to help firms hold onto new talent, rather than stand by and watch as economic pressures force them out, perhaps never to return to their chosen field.

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Lauren Kirk in Venice in 2019. Kirk lost her architecture job during the Great Recession and never returned to the industry.

We definitely saw many people who graduated with architecture degrees between 2005 and 2010 who had to find a different path, Dowdell said.

She graduated from Cornell University with an architecture degree in 2006, along with about 60 others.

Today, of the 60, maybe 20 are still practicing architecture in the traditional sense, and thats being generous, she said.

After having risen steadily for more than a decade, the number of African Americans securing an architectural license went into a steep decline in the recessions wake, according to the Directory of African American Architects, a project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Practice at the University of Cincinnati.

In 2009, 71 African Americans received a license, the most since 1995, the group found. That pace slowed in the next few years, falling to just 34 in 2014, the fewest since the 2001 recession.

Dowdell attributes some of the losses to the professions lack of financial rewards, at least for beginners, who typically serve long apprenticeships where they focus on mundane tasks such as researching fire codes or designing a buildings plumbing. The median salary for a newly minted graduate in the U.S. is about $53K, according to a 2019 compensation report by the American Institute of Architects.

The starting salaries in architecture are nowhere near where other professions start out, so strictly from an economic perspective, architecture doesnt make sense, she said.

Although she saw people of all ethnicities and backgrounds leave the profession, the economic downturn in 2009 cut deeper into minority communities, Dowdell added. She pointed out that according to a 2020 Brookings Institution study, a typical white family in the U.S. has 10times the net worth of a typical black family.

If you get let go, its probably harder for you to weather the storm if you dont come from a wealthy background, she said. There was a larger percentage of people of color who had to find a different path.

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Lauren Kirk, another 2006 Cornell graduate, was one of the many architecture rookies pushed out by the 2009 economic downturn. It had been the career she always dreamed about.

My dad is an architect, so its in my blood, and I always knew I wanted to do it, she said. I never wavered, I never looked at anything else.

Kirk was three years into an internship at tvsdesign in Atlanta, doing all of the grind work commonly handled by beginners, when she was laid off and faced a decision.

Its a big hit to your ego, and young people who dont come from independently wealthy families cant sit around a whole year with no income, wait for something to come along and then compete against other out-of-work architects who may have 20 years of experience, she said.

Kirk decided to return to school, got an MBA in real estate management from Ohio State University and then spent nine years at Macys, eventually becoming responsible for a portfolio of around 200 stores.

The lateral career move brought some advantages, not all of them financial. Kirk was handed more responsibility than she would have had as an architect and led teams of architects and contractors reconstructing such iconic downtown stores as Chicagos State Street Macys.

Kirk recently started a new job as project director for Brixmor Property Group, a REIT that owns open-air shopping malls across the U.S.

I definitely miss the creativity of architecture, but from a relationship standpoint, I am no longer behind a desk, so I would not have the network I now have if I had stayed in architecture, Kirk said. Looking at my peers and judging myself against them, I think Im doing very well.

Her new profession also has a long way to go to achieve diversity.

I can count on my hands how often Ive attended meetings where there was another African American in the room, and only once was there a black woman," she said. "So one meeting in nine years.

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Kimberly Dowdell

Luck may have played a role in keeping Dowdell on the path of to an architecture career. As the economy cratered in 2008, she was at HOK in New York City. Much of the work was on a design for Doha International Airport in Qatar, and projects backed by such wealthy countries were immune from the economic pressure afflicting other development work, she said.

Dowdell later took a detour from architecture, getting a masters degree in public administration from Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government and going to work as a planner for the city of Detroit, her hometown. She returned to HOK last year.

For those without her kind of luck, Dowdell hopes architectures professional associations, along with its influential firms, will respond to this downturn by putting together plans to hold onto talent.

I would like to think that the profession has better infrastructure in place, but Im not sure we do, she said.

In 2015, black architects began a bit of a comeback when 73 secured licenses, according to the directory. But the total number of African Americans working as practicing architects remains low. The directory found 2,306 living African American licensed architects at the end of 2019, or around 2% of the approximately 115,316 total architects licensed in the U.S.

As head of NOMA, Dowdell leads its efforts to construct a pipeline for aspiring minority architects. The organization recently launched a minority fellowship program thatwill help 25 architecture students get their foot in the door. NOMA will match the fellows with firms, pay each a stipend and hopefully secure more funds for real salaries.

Wed love to offer this to more students, and we are encouraging other organizations, firms and companies to help us take the initiative and solve this problem head-on, she said.

Kirk said she is worried what will happen to architecture if it loses another generation of minorities.

We live in a diverse world, but if you only have one group of people designing buildings, there is no diversity of thought, and we will be missing out on many ideas," she said. "We dont want to live in a vanilla world. Thats no fun.

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The car is the star in each of these eight private residential projects, each designed for a client keen to show off their beloved automobiles.

Autohaus, USA, by Matt Fajkus Architecture

Built for a car collector in Austin, Texas, Autohaus' entire ground floor is given over to a garage and workshop.

Floor-to-ceiling glass walls frame the parking space, and the gabled living area cantilevers over an outdoor parking space to frame and shelter the car below.

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House in Takamatsu, Japan, by FujiwaraMuro Architects

FujiwaraMuro Architects designed a single opening in the bunker-style facade of this house in Takamatsu to draw attention to the owner's sports car.

The all-white home is otherwise highly private. Inside, a glass wall gives a full view of the car from a downstairs living room.

Find out more about House in Takamatsu

Smilgu House, Lithuania, by Plazma Architecture Studio

A glass-walled corner of the ground floor of this house in Vilnius puts the owner's car proudly on display.

Timber cladding helps the house blend with the trees, making the garage a focal point of the front facade. To the rear, the house has huge double height windows looking out over the garden.

Find out more about Smilgu House

Garage House, Portugal, by Fala Atelier

Fala Atelier converted a garage in Lisbon into a house for a young couple and kept its original purpose.

Their little car can be driven straight into the open-plan house, which can be divided into separate rooms using brightly-coloured curtains.

Find out more about Garage House

Pagoda House, Bulgaria, by I/O Architects

Pagoda House takes its name from the owner's beloved vintage Mercedes Pagoda, which has pride of place in a glass-walled garage.

The house is partially submerged into its sloping site, with the classic car located at the bottom of a timber staircase and framed against a raw concrete back wall.

Find out more about Pagoda House

Basic House, Thailand, by Brownhouses

This house in Bangkok for an avid car collector has space for six cars to be parked two abreast in a glass-walled garage on the ground floor.

A home office runs along the side of the car display area, and a playroom complete with a sand pit and toy cars for the owner's children sits at the end.

Find out more about Basic House

Family House, Czech Republic, by Stempel & Tesar

Czech architecture studio Stempel & Tesar built this house for a racing car driver with an open-air garage sheltered under a balcony.

Much of the ground floor of the house is given over to a workshop, where the owner has space to tinker with two more cars.

Find out more about Family House

Garage Loft, Netherlands, by Studio OxL

This single-storey house in Arnhem that was once a carpenter's workshop has doors that open up to allow the client to park their electric sports car in the middle of the shiny white living room.

Because it's electric, it can sit in the middle of the house without the risk of pollution or damage from its exhaust fumes.

Find out more about Garage Loft

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