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doing architecture, you do it to 100 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 say, guessing 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 hi deed the queen of curves was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. she desired 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 worth has do you see shima?

yvonne for l and shelly, matthew mera and unlock, i dont 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 and 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. so face of barco ly being out in berlin many regina liveing, or 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, cried speck time for a site visit. that is at this building. is this how silly cold, what was it? a full, a kind of treatment, it belong to a glass boring factory. when descending won't agree, but converse diss. and i think as, as a path oldest around here is super co raglin living. just beyond that one. now i think myself on is of the home. is that up front as the homeless? oh, good. a great vacation in frederick island indies and on the other side there's the espanol and then there's just the she

a length of the building. it's enormous genome. mm. the b hub is a massive project by berlin architectural firm barco, 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 message nicky. what is what these corners do? and with the layering that these elements mean it doesn't look like one single long buildings. instead, it's like 6 different buildings. and that's important with the length of 300 meter and from i mean of me. architecture can do so much if it moves util. theme it adds the vague, anal or

a good i i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high and buy land. you tend to miss the hill that 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 in 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business to my. and it comes to thinking it was an 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 it worked and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. so to think by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night and that was they 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 winter 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 moment. i'll admit i was nervous. gabriel, and it is when it's well hobbit is a very good school and it comes with a quite a reputation naturally with me, but that pays off. there are fantastic teachers lacking math,

but still they were mostly men on what seemed far more men than women. what regina liveing her 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 over you of i took hold, she was always will a bow tie. he called me and local beauty. i had these thick glasses with dark frames and our student body. the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses than the ones who was go time talking to you, then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. i thought the women students didn't have anything like that. so you stood in to nish, ah, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. the experiences described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her

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 well at all 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 gray's villa was important, decisive even in france. will the nic 4 be allowing women have to few role models from the start than an element of identification is, methinks 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. like what does it 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 garden. show the

gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants, monumental in 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. there 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. i had the central train station in the rope. city, for example, you would do different things than you would in the crowds bag district where you find well developed quite bag loft architecture, loft stretches, or imprints. so a bag in a back courtyard on corvette casa architect helga block stores. life story was filled with challenges. now she's conquered, the art of building the mainland event, kate, ems out winter. she tells you how people go for life varies greatly depending on your situation from the start. 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 bookstore deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. i'm also a professor of building construction at the technical university of franchise. his 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 libraries, major projects could hardly be any greater. they said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. that's what makes blocked, or se building stand out. in 2020, she took part in a competition of i'm are based organization. the classic shift on her entry was

a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bow off god of ours. it was an unsung and i was just in the beginning. so to speak was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come helga blocks dark, developed the berkin 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 and weimar dennis in monday flag in the hope and his vet vamps, is always the question when you're in a competition. how much does the task relate to reality? 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 that tends more to raise questions hung her for. * 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 floors. lessons adding was born, it wasn't all it is, is m building materials are something that play a really big role in our office. one, there are things i thought that recur again and again, if there's an interest 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 and then at the house, i'd say because it's permanent, there. 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 early. can

a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. competitions are often the eye of the needle designs. must pastor i know size, of course on the one hand there's no a trinity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or a golf followed all the awful boys. regular lucia has put her mark and berlin's architecture like no other after working as an architect and 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. yes or does he meet and behind? oh, it's true that i don't just write a book or express a thought song and afterwards it's there instead of a word of glass which has a little 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 they're controversial. no demands like ever relative kurt to put it relatively says sensually. it's almost impossible for new officers to take part because the standards of the way they are in every team that you have to do for the competition you have to have built already bought. i'm was whitman, i'm glad to play actin. if you get an invitation, let's say for a town hall, let's see, and 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 a model of, of who, any number of other things. that's a disadvantage for what? well, the laughter diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside and defiant as he said, for mr. bay, him monta is, is saw, it's likely true that most ingenious project architecturally deck isn't the one

that wins, kenny eyes to quick given our brochure. but for those that have to implement it, it's the best choice the face there. 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. you know, who does that? but he 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 the city is of that act great. when elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public, quitting 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 since she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city or my not, my name is rica. i sean, i'm an architect and architectural intermediary 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. i shorn 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. it's sort of in the hands of fatal neighborhood. you can see what's being created back then people really got involved. sometimes recon insurance 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 and rocky. when regina lighting her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms a very own competition department goes to work dylan. i aguilar, alyssa, and we were invited to take policy, the 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 1st place went to frank. 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 worked with you 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, really is 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 and that madness god, we've done so many competitions and we've won lots 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 and we just got to do it yamaha 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 want it done that and that wasn't just a consolation prize. 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. their 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, a parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. the towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of alumina, and it during a competition, when you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where it's apparently been understood, what you're achieving with these concepts. and they're giving something back to the world. how go blocks, dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the competition and weimar. so what did the jury think they were skeptical at 1st?

danver had clad to speak to smith evidence ended on it. yeah, it became clear they thought we weren't serious about the birch bar. 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 and 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, with the light side, facing out as a facade in this case. that was simply a process of consideration and coordination that took months with this. 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, a, 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. ah, and just as any right now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in there is not much to see if the architect that's where a maximum of blood, sweat, and tears 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 can't is covered out with 3 coats of 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? no. i don't know what's in the plan there for right. it's all planned. that's what we're doing with the ceiling. i don't think so. that's just terrible. in my life, the painter used the wrong top of mineral pine 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. him, pip, them. johan, in my a globe luca, i have my own salmon, berlin, and in the lecture at the technical university of dom stop snip. she's designed a multi florida very special apartment building at crew firsthand fossa. at 142 in berlin. yes, to vows to learn, sustain as is neevadolla some told i love standing here on the construction site because you think wow, look at 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 mock, that's because you're thinking, oh god, that hopefully they won't discover anything that i should have done differently. love the 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 when i really yes, it's fantastic of eiletha. i posted 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 r 19 apartment aust, lucas' flows are really difficult to count because as you can see, the levels aunt conventional like they are with other buildings. 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 honey. my 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 19th sixty's. it's got lots of small rooms and is nearly entirely made of glass. so it's under the davis for hunger, the boy that 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 via 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 maya grow brooker began to search for the unconventional and extreme an architecture. after graduating from the swiss federal institute of technology and zurich, she set her course for japan. as via whoever clicked 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 though i was i had the feeling the japanese architecture han was so different under. there's something mysterious about it. so much is left openness and i found that very fascinating, faster than yoghurt in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa architectural firm of the word winning female architect kazoo, yosi, shima in tokyo. she intended to stay for 3 months. those 3 months became 5

demanding years is lava. 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 up 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 in hot. mm. 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 that 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 a, he's been in that, eat a ha at the institutional a drum. this is missing into us. that it's the architect, even the gray, a create act, doke or cyclic attack. no, everything off. take an ok tagged is more like a heroic. i me who acts day and night in really lives for their job want does my also in our free time up i did as with us monday, travel architecture, leap down to watch movies about architecture, through the architect, read books, seal, and listen to music. younger, 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's gone. since the geometric figures, the terrace symbol of the rationality of masculine thought, in architecture,

assessing contrast to the emotionality of women was that's why women were long labeled, incapable, actually. but that doesn't mean, and this is important, that there isn't a direction that women take, that we once other shapes and that women only build round things. they just make hills. and i do know 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 meyer, group worker opened a firm with her partner, sam, share my ass, and they were immediately confronted with stereotypes than the following months when a woman and a man have affirmed together. when automatically 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 to ensure that every 4 folds of that shirt 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 last year on the caird. i'm a professor. i studied with it all the way said, very cynically. that husband, why the offices are always made up of a male architect of mediocre talent from the sort out a very talented female architecture student should. and they ran the firm until it wasn't clear how things were good. and then came the children. and that 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 look bleak 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 as not to say today if doesn't to which of course is completely in appropriate. and even if i can remember the all i did, tommy, you're simply ignore m 3 with us in vic kizzy in harvey. ah, verbena ris a lecture at the technical university of vienna has also had similar experiences

as each of our in london. i work it also finished irma in london and humble shed. 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 director there who over so several projects including ours. he was french and a chauvinist. when i look back on it, my 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 some voice for this week. i guess it wouldn't the sort of the us 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 ac and that affected that then there were around 50 of us working there . all, and many of the women would go to the bathroom and cried because of different directors who actually forbid them to do certain things or treated the women poorly for wouldn't harm order. 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 kids. and i managed to have this director removed from the project and i was under 30 back then funding boy up. it's actually looking back. i'm quite proud that i achieved that story in martin. and as it is cash off top, 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 is not to eat, i nixa. 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 texture in general works on any how people are trained. and i was what the career should look like on a completely fundamental level as most gone said taken with off to have been skipped. and then there's the actual fact that if you don't share part of the child

rearing within the family, then you're out of the house. having my good laugh, i used to always laugh about these people. he said that they were a d, j and a painter. and something else, look good now does. and exactly that happened. your mother married and you run this firm and your professors po for school them. i'd always thought that that wouldn't really apply to me. i was invited to be on to read. i got a professorship very quickly and we had our children of, of the office worked despite all that because i had the great good fortune that i had someone who jumped off to 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 barco liveing her knows how important it is that the profession take the initiative to meet women's needs skylights, what we accommodate so many different possibilities as often right? are working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having 1st monday that every month off, i think for the around 80 female staff members that we have. we also have a different situation as well, but it's important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children will come if apply them. i know that 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, 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 guess some of 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 are conquering the art of architecture. bit by bit. shocked. sy, in von d. c. knoxville, directly headlines. read 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 that fucker liam. 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. it's almost instead si, fi you yourself muscle act where you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself. osman, o, indecent coffee, go he in ocoee yet it 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. michigan. alba, but i was the architect and i was in charge of the side of that this out. and because of that, i knew i cool all shop in the do 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 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. which up just he said, tightened his fight. i think those days are gone as it is. that was just a phase in the history of architecture in which a few special personalities did special architecture, arizona. i believed that it's been going in the direction of teamwork for quite

some time. and it's well known now that only a team and produce good architecture, hamano m t martin. i think the 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 habit, a. so called the star architect, and they scoop up all the major projects that that's perceived externally. but society said that people, st. buildings can only be designed by so architect, fall, and of course, their men, men, men are men. amir in july 2021. helga block star celebrated the opening of her spectacular structure, which is officially called the or lameness portal. the other half only worked towards that for a year along him. that's just crazy. this fits and if it takes a year and a half from winning the competition to the opening than you working for 2 years or a year and a half for a building. and that will be up for just high views. have you out of here in house this future, then you ask yourself and consider whether that's in all right proportions. i

always find that it's worth it and the other 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 display it a short is poetic, actually i'm how, what's behind the mystery of the building? i'm of harvard law. wish to lead a question. i believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after you've already left the place you are visiting. i'm done with my calmed auntie and i'm off and then it comes to again. and it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns i am for uh huh. i know you just read the in and out and look around it and make sure you're conscious of what actually just came in to be 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 all this room 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. these, this design and the structures that were chosen to be executed on the construction side. also that you now have this smooth facade and don't see anything. so it all lose procedure. and alice, i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived is all, i don't like the construction workers distract me off me when they say yes, but you could do it that way. we've always done that that way. and then i just like to my guns and say, you know, we're going to do it right to speak or 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 shuffled as the estrella it just has to be really good. equal to this building must be extremely good, was all buildings have to be good, but this one has to be insanely good and says only good last, it will be standing so alone. so writing focus alignment and, and it will be so tall, 175 meters. well that's it. when you look around here as of 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 plants, it might just disappear. so this here, it really has to be really, really good with them as office. and they do enjoy the fact that it will be taller than the one at alexander plots. and also another 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 huh. good, good thing about architecture is that you get better and better the old you are unable respected for the even that i have a ways to go yet hope in the next generation will be far more able to shine. because we're the ones who have done the heavy lifting my prepared the way so to speak are the speed for a supervisor, voice mission. and i'm already looking forward to these wonderful women that will come after and will have something to show us hang home with

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