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dominance. get us to the head with the w business beyond ah, each been ang shockey. i actually became an architect because i thought right line without house as he did, i make you a better wealthy. it's been my husband are close out on off. i grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that houses grew like tree this one until my mother told me, no. my people made them mention and then i wanted to don't want is just to architects build the world. we live in elegantly uniquely masterfully.

what i doing architecture, you do it 200 percent. oh not a tool to for and for a lot of responsibility you can lose a great deal. architecture is a tough field for women who built the inside and so they could see the decision makers and those that give out the contract. we are mad with the architecture works under this conditional framework, such as we could work in law ha deed the queen of curves, was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. she design structures that are 2nd to none. a deed is one of only 5 female architects who have received one of the sectors most important awards. the pritzky price. along with her div, we're, as you use a shima even for l and shelley,

matthew mera. and unlike at all, that's 5 women in 43 years. there are more and better educated female architects than there are may architects. and yet only 5 percent of architectural firms around the world are run by women. for a few years now, women have been coming to the forefront. they're not just fighting for commissions . they're fighting for recognition. what determines the success of women in architecture? and thus of the structures in the world that's around us all. whether they're up in coming or already established with their own firms, working freelance or in administration. what are the working worlds like for these women? what battles do they face? what are their dreams? what drives them? how and why do they built? what does it mean to be an architect?

yeah, it's been leaking. i'm thinking a lie bigger and i'm a partner at the architect. you saw face of black o lie being in berlin. many regina liveing her is one of germany's best known female architects. her buildings range from a kindergarten to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seemed to glide on air. her latest project is the b hub in the berlin district of frederick's time, crowds, back time for a site visit. that is at this building, is this how silly cold, what was it? a full kind of treatment. it belong to a glass boring factory when descending won't agree, but converse diss. and i think i see all this around here is super cold, rightly living just beyond that one. now i think myself on it's of the home, is that up front as the home is. oh, good, a great location and food, great. i and india and on the other side, does the f bomb and then this just the she

a length of the building. it's enormous. she non the be hub is a massive project by berlin architectural firm bar co liveing. her. it has a total length of 300 meters, with a surface area of 47300 square meters, divided over 10 floors of office space. the facade folds like an accordion offset by horizontal bands of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. it just stands there tall and long. we can look to see what these corners do and what the layering that these elements mean. it doesn't look like one single long building. instead it's like 6 different building high. and that's important with the length of 300 me to handle island of me. architecture can do so much if i didn't lose you till he made an spivey and now are so i

did i i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. you tend to miss the hill visit folks in southern germany. i used to, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and also the water. regina liveing her was born in stuttgart. 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business i am. it comes to thinking it was an a festival, actually come from a family business in southern germany and this the business and played a big role in our lives. it gave us a sense of this entrepreneurial spirit, and that's similar in architecture. if you go on to have an architect firm and it's a big one,

then it's important that you also have business management and leadership quality in order to keep the shop together actually. and i was really lucky that because i learned from when i was small and i so have at work and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. so to thing, by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night. and ms. vic had, i wanted to get away as fast as i could. i went out of this very protective environment like every shoot got girl at 1st i went to get one unit, but then i ended up in berlin and by chance. and that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. it felt like a foreign country blabbing her when to berlin's technical university and took courses in building construction and structural physics. but that soon took her to even further places. aunt unhappy, i applied in america and was accepted at harvard coming, i'll admit, i was nervous. gabriel, and it is when it's well hobbit is a very good school and it comes with quite a reputation naturally with me. but that pays off that there are fantastic teachers

working math. but still they were mostly men on what seemed far more men than women . what regina liveing or became acquainted with him in 19 eighties was no exception . whilst being cast into her for had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. her fellow male students didn't have this problem by talk all provided to copious always will a bow tie called local abuses. yay! had least thick glasses with dark frames and our student body, the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses than the ones who wore boat ties talking to you. then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. i, for the women students didn't have anything like that said you stood in to nist. ah, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. the experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her. busy

that was systematic in history, in the history of architecture in the profession. and we know from our research how many women were marginalized and how many works by women were not documented in the 20th century. and if they were documented, am i still got the credit him? as an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift. during a seminar trip, she visited gray's cult status villa in 2006. she came away deeply impressed as la miles and i'm back then it was just about a ruin and i was able to get in the house. and i had it all in my head because i'd studied her so much and i'll go and you exactly how things looked back then feeling even though a lot of it was in disrepair. but that was a great experience for shavani chakrabarti, the visit to eileen grades villa was important, decisive even in france of enoch for belie when women have to few role models rather start than an element of identification is missing. therefore,

it's easier for men after all, in the whole of architecture education and planning funds, there are men and they dominate the whole thing. that's why they can identify well with everything in and about this field, or at least much earlier than women can. hong at the end of the 1980s at harvard virginia liveing or met her leader, partner and husband, frank barco. my, what does that have my have a degree? i thought i'd finally get to the city of my dreams, new york city. but then there was an economic crisis, and the berlin wall came down. my 1st i said rome, but then let's just go to berlin now. so we pitched our tents here in 1993. it was very modest. we just had a studio apartment. and we said, we try working freelance, we didn't really have anything at all. there was just a name plate on the outside of the building that said barcode i being an architect . and that's how it started. their breakthrough came in 2001 when they were commissioned to build the potsdam biosphere for germany's national guard and show

the gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants, monumental and style. it was located on a former military hiring range at the city's edge. more prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german family business. trump. well then i was a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most very decides already different neighborhoods. and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. how bad the central train station in the rope, a city, for example, you would do different things than you would in the crowds beg district where you find well developed quite bag loft, architecture, loft stretches or imprints. so a bag in a back courtyard on college to us at architect helga block stores, life story was filled with challenges. now she's conquered, the art of building the mainland event, kate, ems out as she please. you know how people go through life varies greatly depending on your situation from the stars. my mother raised 3 girls on her own and our

circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. one option that we didn't even dare think of was that all 3 of us could attend university. my name is helga block store deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. i'm also a professor of building construction at the technical university of franchise pitt contract bookstore made her way through art and university commissioned projects until she became self employed in 2013. at 1st, she made a name for herself by reconditioning existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960s, with a gable roof or the house for jose in northern berlin. the contrast with regina liveing or is major projects could hardly be any greater. they said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. that's what makes blocked or st building stand out. in 2020, he took part in a competition of a weimar based organization. the classic shift on her entry was

a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bow off. i'm from and i was at the beginning, so to speak was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start of the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come, how good blocks dark developed, the beer can house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin hoisin, which dated back to 1778. it was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site in weimar. dennis in monday, flag in a have and his vet, vamps, is always the question. when you're in a competition, how much does the task relate to reality? it is. do you try right away to get everything right? a tv or is there a type of provocative openness in the task and the way it's presented the tense more to raise question half world moved. * the play of shapes and materials is very

important to her design. * regina lighting is architectural office is in a real korean in the western part of berlin, and occupies several lessons adding was born causing all it is and building materials are something that play a really big role in our office on there are things i thought that recur again and again, if there's an interest, a leitmotif that shows out repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again, and again, may tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime, the building. yes, it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine circle and then at the house, i'd say, because it's permanent that these leaves and the lights are drawn in and reflected . sometimes it looks like a u. f o. but actually it almost looks as if it were always there really can

a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. competitions are often the eye of the needle. that designs must pastor i know site, of course on the one hand does a trinity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or golf club. awful boys, regular lucia has put her mark and berlin's architecture like no other. after working as an architect in zurich and vienna, she was called to berlin in 2007. as the director of urban planning, she was responsible until july 2021 for competitions in the city and was a member of many selective committees. anyone who wanted to work on important projects had to cross her path at some point. if you're so busy me, i'm behind. oh, it's true that i don't just write a book or express a thought sonata afterwards. is there in stone? a word of glass which has a lot of glass, chiseled imogen. so i really can't allow myself to make any mistakes. and i just

have to select the best project is to play act. all sorts of competitions are big opportunities for smaller architectural firms. but their controversial northern ones like ever relative could to put it relatively, essentially it's almost impossible for new offices to take heart because the standards of the way they are and everything that you have to do for the competition you have to have built already bought. hm. was sort of woodman angle added to play actin. if you get an invitation, let's say for a town whole scene, you're supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. how's that supposed to work on now? and then you've got to show how much money you have that a number of who, any number of other things, if that's a disadvantage for well enough, the diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside into fantasy have heard from mr. bay, him monta is, is saw, it's likely true that most ingenious project architecturally thick isn't the one

that wins. kenny eyes have quaked, given up a few. but for those that have to implement it, it's the best choice the 1st day. why the skip did, there is a wonderful series of discussions called ain't position with architecture i in them there's an interview with carl canoe who just that was the director of urban planning and basil of dec files. and in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said, the image of this city is of such great when elegance of usa, that we should really open all commissions for public reading, roughly every one and without any kind of eligibility restrictions along. with us, as you can imagine, i'd very much like to propose that to for our lucia, just that she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city that my name, my name is on rica icon. i'm an architect and architectural intermediary, or rica shorn was working for berlin city government in 1990. 1 construction was

booming. buyers were hotly bidding for the many empty spaces in the unified city. it was a matter of millions or rica icons. boss was responsible for awarding contracts and because of this was the target of a deadly attack that still remains unsolved to this day. after his death, she left the sector shore and has maintained her links to architecture and is demanding a radical reconsideration of how contracts are given to promote the art of building design and diversity. even to me that i'd like to see competition. competition show how diverse the world can be when different people plan things and take different approaches. young people, the elderly women, men, students, then you can get so many different ideas. everyone has a different perspective in the hands of fatal neighborhood. you can see what's being created back then people really got involved. you can tagging them rica horns . office is located in berlin, tons of futile after world war 2,

hundreds of thousands of departments needed to be built in and berlin, shattered by war. in 1957. the government in the western part of the city held the international building exhibition known as inter bout for short. international architects were invited to design modern residential complexes. they are still standing today. ah, the process from concept to contract is long in rocky. when regina liveing her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms very own competition department goes to work dylan. i glad answer, and we were invited to take posted a competition for a cited alexander plaques and the 1st tall building. and we had, and i still think this to day a brilliant design and her place went to frank gehry with a miserable hum center. i think it's catastrophic, truly. the 2nd place went to our friend and acquaintance. young. klaus and design

was very good. we came in a 3rd and we was was he oh, disappointed because 1st place was just given to an architect, frank gary who just has this big important name. and that was really a disappointment. don't really like disappointing is that you really can't lay yourself underestimate these competition, having so much of your life blood gets bent on them so much energy. then you really have to pull yourself together and somehow keep going. so that it's not all for nothing. and so much thought goes into it that madness god, we've done so many competitions and we won lot of them. but those designs don't get built either. it's just tedious. sometimes it is natural the way it is. it's part of the deal. um we just got to do it. uh huh. after that set back, she went on to another major project. she was invited to join in the competition for the new estrella tower and wanted and then that and that wasn't just a consolation prize fight. it was just so crazy that we want it after we had this

disappointment with alexander plat. we uncorked 3 bottles of champagne. it's true. it was such a buzz like walking on the cloud muscles. v of no, i can. where berlin's 1st skyscrapers, the astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. the city's tallest building, it will have $45.00 floors, and they total surface area of 75000 square meters. there will be $800.00 hotel rooms and offices in it, plus an event center of parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. the towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of aluminum. and it doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where it's apparently been understood what you're achieving with these concepts and giving something back to the world. helga blocks dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the competition. and weimar. wow,

so what did the jury think they were skeptical at 1st? dunbar had cried as for dismiss. if it is ended on it, you know, it became clear. they thought we weren't serious about the birch bark, that i could still be diplomatic when i answered that we jacket as we knew that it was used to fill in grass saud route on finland can get. but as the technology and it had nearly died out, and the question of whether you could use it on the other side of the i know with the light side facing out as a facade in this case. that was simply a process of consideration and coordination that took mumble says in the end she prevailed. the last hurdle was cleared when the birch bark passed the materials test a year and a half later and the building was standing on site. ah, last week it looks just as a way we thought it was going to. the project wave is between the pavilion and

a proper building office. we tried to push it more towards the pavilion so that it looks like it was properly built. but at the same time as if it just landed there. right. ah, yeah, his interests at any rate now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in, there's not much to see the architect. that's where a maximum of blood swiss in t is get filled in. because at the end, you naturally want to create the final 5 percent just as you imagined it and lose details on the edges or the colors or whatever that you conscious covered out with 3 codes to paint. and you need to do it correctly all the way to the very end. it's kind of like michelin start cooking the ceiling. you managed that. i don't know what's in the plan there to arrive. it's all plant, that's what we're doing with the ceiling. i don't think so. that's just terrible. in my lab, the painter used the wrong top of mineral pain for this wool. so now the ceiling

looks different from the walls. that's an absolute no good. no go. of course sometimes says a little meltdown when you get a cold and the rain is coming in some way and you've got to sorted out immediately because you're anxious that there's been some sort of error in the design. after all, when you're building is always a question of lots of money as a 2nd, and it's clear that when you're spending a 1000000 on a building, you really can't have any mistakes. pip, i'm behind in my a globe luca. i have my own salmon berlin animal lecture at the technical university of dom stop snap. she is designed a multi florida very special apartment building at crew firsthand class at $142.00 in berlin. just a vows to la. it's a steel as is neevadolla, some tal. i love standing here on the construction site because you think, wow, if someone is really building something that i, what we drew law on the other hand,

i'm a bit nervous when i come here, lola mog, that's because you're thinking, oh god, that hopefully they won't discover anything that i should have done differently unless there's something final about it and you really can't change it anymore. and that's why there's always a little bit of fear. when you show up at the construction site. yeah. but actually them really? yes, it's fantastic. i of i listen to share with us that blue transparent spaces, individual floor plans and quite unconventional around the edges. the 6 towers are pushed into each other and follow a gentle curve. the apartments inside have low and high areas. noise are 19 apartment losses. i guess the flaws are really difficult to count because as you can see, the levels aren't conventional like they are with other buildings. so the idea instead is that none of the rooms have a consistent ceiling height. instead, you want to make more extreme spaces that you want very low spaces with

a ceiling height of 2 and a half meters, like an intimate nest where the kitchen is, where you sleep and in the bathrooms. you said the same time, every apartment has ceilings that are twice as high where people can gather together. it only takes a few minutes for her to cycle from her ambitious apartment house project to the eula stow shack collection. the interior design is the result of a competition that you, hon or maya grow broker. one in 2016. the eulley associate collection is one of the biggest collections of contemporary video art. it's housed in a building that dates back to the 1960 s. it's got lots of small rooms and is nearly entirely made of glass. so it's under the davis 4 hung a blank. how the idea of the cut and came to be that actually masters all of these challenges. it's a cut and that folds from the outside in time. you actually have this bright space that you can withdraw into and sit down where you can study the catalog and very

deliberately choose where you want to go. almost like the movies. so you can just relax and look outside as well. johan, my are grow. brooker began to search for the unconventional and extreme and architecture. after graduating from the swiss federal institute of technology and zurich, she set her course for japan. as they are forever clear on soon i've been to lots of places in the world before i but when i got to tokyo i that was quite the shock . and i thought it wasn't comparable to any place else that i had been with no of the city and that was really liberating. well i was i the feeling the japanese architecture han was so different under there's something mysterious about it. so much has left openness and i found that very fascinating fast and yet her in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa architectural firm of the award winning female architect kazoo yosi shima in tokyo, she intended to stay for 3 months those 3 months became 5 demanding years as lover

. i think the hardest thing for me and which of course was part of the deal was that i had absolutely no social contact it naturally we always worked until 2 or 3 in the morning and then we went town and of late at night allison off and that was may be the only contact you had at night in the bar. and the next morning you went to work again, does this and that's fine. when you're doing right when you're not. well, i think that it was kind of hard as an odd genevedes. deborah, who say our deadline of antithesis of the profession is really quite deadline oriented, often outside is really don't get it pilot. and if you go in and work in the competition department, and yes, that does exist tighter than you, usually always busy there until 11 pm. or later, this pressure is simply on every one and it weighs on them because i, i believe taking on the responsibility of shaping the society might not be everybody's thing you them on. so the pressure is high and there are very

precise ideas about what you need to succeed in architecture as or it's been in that e t ha at the institutional they drum, this is missing into us. that it's the architect, even the gray create act, dark or sickly about you know, everything or he take an art tag is more like a heroic. i me who acts day and night in really lives for their job want does my also in my free time up? i did as a does mind you travel architecture, leap down to watch movies about architecture, through the architect, read books, seal, and listen to music on your spiritual, everything to further your architecture. he take to war on gazette. this image has been handed down through architectural history, the cult of the genius as part of its legacy casting to her 1st is that as a reason why the stereotypes are so stubbornly persistent as of the girl mitchell, she gone. since the geometric figures, the terror symbol of the rationality of masculine thought in architecture as that

in contrast to the emotionality of women was, that's why women were long labeled incapable. at least that doesn't mean, and this is important that there isn't a direction that women take, that we want other shapes and that women only build round things. they just make hills. and i dunno something like this. no, that's not my opinion. a toll. my women are also rational, but are often excluded from the conversations ago and of course, christmas. in 2010, johan maya grow braga, opened a firm with her partner, sam, share my ass, and they were immediately confronted with stereotypes. than the following months is on a woman and a man have a thumb together when automatically assa rows are ascribed from the outside to the tide. the view is that the man is the creative madman, and the woman is the lady in the background who ensures that in every thought holds as it should and everything is an order so to speak. and that always drove me

a little crazy because actually it was my, the other way rang trust me here on the caird. i'm a professor i studied with had always said very cynically that husband why the offices are always made up of a male architect of mediocre talent for me to sort out a very talented female architecture student shouldn't. and they ran the firm until it wasn't clear how things were to the rules and then came the children and that a woman was out of the game anyway. oh eagles. the power and dominance of men has a wide ranging influence on women in the profession. so click and looking back clinic yesterday things were said when a woman was introducing a project project focused there. yeah, you're wearing a particularly pretty shade of legacy today. it doesn't to which of course is i'm clearly caught in appropriate. and even if i can remember that all i did, tommy was simply ignore him through with us in vic kizzy in harvey. ah, verbena ris a lecture at the technical university of vienna has also had similar experiences

in london. i worked at all southern shermer in london and humbled irma is a hamburg office and it still is some youngster among apartments back then he had had for many years, a partnership with william also in london. and there was a direct to there who oversold several projects, including ours. he was french and a chauvinist. when i look back on it, him, he just said i wasn't allowed to do specific things on this project. and they were significant things. although we the project leader and i was specifically assigned to the project to sudden voice for this is quaked, angus, it wouldn't the sort of the earth in my voice yet was the 1st time i noticed that it troubled me personally to personally and that there was actually a system to it in that office back then there were around 50 of us working there, and many of the women would go to the bathroom and cried because if different directors who actually forbid them to do certain things or treated the women poorly

for. hm. okay, so then i went and took this as an opportunity and i thought perhaps good and that's not how it's going to be. we're not just going to accept that with the kids . and i managed to have this director removed from the project and i was under 30 back then funding boy. actually looking back, i'm quite proud that i achieved bad sports in my finances, tiskus after as in many professions, the working reality for female architects is dominated by tough conditions. a private life with or without children can become a stumbling block for their careers. as well as this isn't a to you i next of the 1st thing is that it's a disaster among vaughan, when you actually perceive how few women are run architectural firms on their own, dorothy will fit on what all needs rethinking is how long contextual in general works on any how people are training hours, what the career should look like on a completely fundamental level as most gourne said to hear about that to happen skipped. and then there's the actual fact that if you don't share part of the child

wearing within the family, then you're out of the house. shampoo my good laugh. i used to always laugh about these people. he said that they were a g, j and a painter. and something else lincoln now does. and exactly that happened. your mother married and you run this firm and your professor po for so them. i'd always thought that that wouldn't really apply to me. i was invited to be on, you're ready. i got a professorship very quickly and we had our children number the office worked despite all that because i had the great good fortune that i had someone who looked after my children at home. you have to be clear about that. that's how it's possible to have a kareema statistics show that around 40 percent of the female architects in germany work part time, while only 12 percent of their male colleagues do. what else besides flexible models for working hours as needed, so that women will finally be designing on a level playing field, a binding quota that ensures that positions are all filled with equal numbers of women and men. that hasn't happened up to now. martina bower,

the only woman in upper level management at bar colliding her knows how important it is that the profession take the initiative to meet women's needs. kind of albert's, we accommodate so many different possibilities as often right? i working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having the 1st monday that every month golf, i think for the around 80 female staff members that we have. we also have a different situation that satisfies people, but it's important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children were calm. it's not like the line there for a long time. i actually believe that when you're good, you don't need a quota when you're good and you prevail, it's mostly. if you're enthusiastic, passionate and above all, if you're good and maybe even a cut above that sometimes it doesn't matter to him. once. in the meantime though, the more i address this issue, the more i see that there is a structural problem between men and women. and it is and always has been that way is i think it's actually in the fact that the profession has up to now been

dominated by men, wasn't because they were better, it was easier for them to succeed. while women by contrast weren't able to use their full potential in spite of many structural barriers, women architects have developed strategies over the last years to prevail. and they're conquering the art of architecture. bit by bit. chalk sy, in von d. c. nod, spout director. the headlines, red or the cities director, herb and planning is in over her head. i was very harshly criticized and hm. and they were quick demands for a strong hand voc, gilliam. i just learned that i needed to appear more confident of pre. i needed to learn to master the right toe for giving orders and that you have to take on the issues surrounding power mom and not push them away from most. instead, si, fi you yourself muscle act. when you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself, osman all indecent coffee, go. he in ocoee, you have,

i was just the 30 when i was on my 1st construction site for i was the youngest in the smallest there. and the only woman that was that, so i knew that i was small and not significant. mister dalton, alba, but i was the architect and i was in charge of the sales at this out. and because of that, i knew i call our shop and leave you the sodden hut. for me, it was simply natural that i was the boss shift. i wanted to both build and design things. now it's worked, is that how you become the boston and women are chafing well known exhibitions, prestigious buildings and awards traditionally have great significance in architecture. they drive careers and they turn great names and even greater ones. men and women architects both become star, architects. right? wished up just he said to me, it's fine. i think those days are gone as it is. that was just a phased in the history of architecture in which a few special personalities did special architecture, arizona. i believe that it's been going in the direction of teamwork for quite some

time and it's well known now that only a team can produce good architecture. hamano m t martin. i think me idea of it thrown completely wrong. it hurts how we perceived by the public. it damages architects because of these architects. and there are only 5 that a so called the star architect. and they scoop up all of the major projects that, that's perceived externally. bassetti said that people, st. buildings can only be designed by so architect, fallen and of course their men men, men are men. armina. in july 2021. helga blocks. dorf celebrated the opening of her spectacular structure, which is officially called the or leibniz portal. the other half only worked towards that for a year long him, that's just crazy. this fits and if it takes a year and a half from winning the competition to the opening, then you're working for 2 years or a year and a half for a building that will be up for just 5 years. have you out of her in house the school. yeah. then you ask yourself in,

consider whether that's in all right proportions. i always find that it's worth it and there were the sister slew and the stress and pressure of the past months are over. it's a good time for the architect to reflect and to feel her own work around her versus i to speak to what is poetic actually i'm how, what's behind the mystery of the building. i'm of har. galveston, that's a question. i believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after you've already left the place you have visiting. i'm done with my calmed anti and i'm a and then it comes to again. and it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns. i'm for. uh huh. and you just breathe in and out and look around it and make sure you're conscious of what actually just came into being this vesta granted. them recently, shavani chakrabarti completed a project for helga blocks. dorf as the architect in charge of construction, it's called house of oldest through and features light colors and large windows.

there's a bright space on the ground floor that's only divided by the stairwell. shavani chakrabarti describes the task this design and the structures that were chosen to be executed on the construction site. also that you now have this smooth facade and don't see anything. so at all, lose or see her. and i was, i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived it or i don't let the construction workers distract me off for me when they say yes, but you could do it that way. we've always done it that way. and then i just like to my godson, say, you know, we're going to do it right to speak her. ah, ah, what is just been a vision up to now is the estrella tower in berlin. but by 2024 it should rise above the city skyline. yeah. okay. i are. okay. you can see this

chimney on the right. this aspire you could say and then to the left of it. so for that as the estrella, it just has to be really good. equal to in this building must be extremely good. you must all buildings have to be good but this one has to be insanely good, unceasingly. good. last it will be standing so alone. so writing focus line and, and it will be so tall, 175 meters, one. that's it. when you look around here and then it will be the tallest thing, not just here, but the tallest building in berlin, us history. but it's so alone, along with the group here at alexander plats, it might just disappear. so this here, it really has to be really, really good with them as long person. they could do enjoy the fact that it will be taller than the one at alexander plots. i know some other kind of lead in maybe a little whether established or young

and on their way as different as these female architects are. they share a number of things. they're closing gaps. they have their own visions and they seek solutions. they're breaking traditions and changing their field and they know from their own experiences what they need as they step up to change the world. if indeed, does this gun swanson should? i think networking is amazingly important. it's not just on a professional level, but just to make your presence found this present to ma hm. with good, good thing about architecture is that you get better and better the old you of edible respected. given that i have a ways to go yet. in this, the next generation will be far more able to shine because we're the ones who have done the heavy lifting prepared the way so to speak, or this bid for a supervisor voice me. sure. and i'm already looking forward to these wonderful women that will come after and will have something to show a sighing home with

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