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ah, each been ang shockey. i actually became an architect is because i thought right in line with bow houses that i'm making a better wealthy. it's been my husband are close out on 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 on medicine and then i wanted to do is just to architects build the world. we live in elegantly what i doing architecture, you do it 200 percent. oh not a tool to for and was

a lot of responsibility. you can lose a great deal. architecture is a tough field for women who built didn't items legacy 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, her 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 critical price, along with her div worth. because you, you see shima yvonne for l and shelly, matthew, mera. and unlike i don't, that's 5 women in 43 years. there are more and better educated female architects than there are male architects. and yet only 5 percent of architectural firms

around the world are run by 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 and 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 black hole, i been 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 sam cried speck time for a site visit that is at this building. is this how silly cold was it? a full, a kind of a belong to a glass boring factory when descending won't agree, but converse diss. and i think it has a path oldest around here. reciprocal rightly living just beyond that one. now i think my stuff on is of the home, is that up front as the homeless? oh, good book. a great location in frederick island indies. and on the other side does the s bond and then is just the she a length of the building. it's enormous. so he non, 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 benz 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 days 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 a length of 300 me to him from. i mean of me. architecture can do so much if it moves util. theme it adds the bait and now are a good 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, misty, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and all said lota regina liveing her was born in stuttgart. 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business i. it comes to think it goes and 1st of all actually come from a family business in southern germany and this the business and laid a big role in our lives lab. 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 action. and i was really lucky there because i learned from when i was small and i saw how it work and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this sort of thing. by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night in

that they had, i wanted to get away as fast as i could. i wanted out of this very protective environment like every stuttgart girl at 1st i went to get one unit class, but then i ended up in berlin in by chance. and that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. it felt like a foreign country liveing her winter berlin's technical university and took horses and building construction and structural physics. but that soon took her to even further places and happy i applied in america and was accepted at harvard, mom and i'll admit i was nervous. skippy, and it is when it's well harbored 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 there. but still they were mostly men on taught seem phenomena far more men than women. what regina liveing or became acquainted with in the 1980s was no exception. while studying kirstine do her for had to do without heroines,

she could use to orient herself. her fellow male students didn't have this problem . i took all pre of i took option was always wore a bow tie. he called me and local music. yeah. had leased the glasses with dark frames. and on the student body, the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses and on the ones who was both times told her or do you then you knew right away who there role models. yes, and they emulated them. i thought the women's students didn't have anything like that, said, you still dentist. ah, verbena risk is researching the history of women in architecture. the experience is 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?

as an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift during a seminar trip she visited great 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 hair because i'd studied her so much in october. i knew exactly how things looked back then. 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. the nic for below when women have to few role models from the 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 regina liveing or met her leader,

partner and husband. frank, marco ones 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 been 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 curve gant you. in structure of concrete, in glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants, monumental in style. it was located on a former military firing range at the city's edge. more prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german family business. trump, then was

a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most varied of site, already different neighborhoods. and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. how bad the central train station in the rope, 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 our bag in a back courtyard. on corvette 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 tells you how people go through 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 block store 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 re conditioning, existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960s, with the 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 st 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 i'm from and i was 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 the tense, more to raise questions, a forklift. * 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 causing all this 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, 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 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 really can a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. competitions are often the eye of the needle that designs must past and i know site, of course, on the one hand there's no a paternity 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 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. it's 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 there instead of 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 they're controversial. no demands like ever relative could to put it relatively. essentially,

it's almost impossible for new offices 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 a 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 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 a number of who, any number of other things. that's a disadvantage for, well, the laughter, diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside and defiant as he have heard from mr. bay, him monta ss saw. it's likely true that most ingenious project architecturally that isn't the one that wins. kenny eyes quick given our brochure, 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 does that. but it was the director of urban planning in basel 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 such great when elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading. roughly every one on eligibility restriction can contest. 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 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 and they were 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 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 in the hands of fatal neighborhood. you can see what's being created back then. people really got involved. you can tag rica, 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 am glad answer, and we were invited to take us to 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 is and her 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 were still 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 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, emma. after that set back, she went on to another major project. she was invited to join in the competition for the new a stroll tower and want it done 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 a 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? danver had clad as for dismiss. if it was ended on it. yeah, 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 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 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, and it looks just as well, he 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, dentists as any right now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in

there is not much to see 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 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. and then my last pain to use the wrong track of mineral pain for this war. for now the ceiling. different from the wall. that's an absolute no go. no go. of course, sometimes there's a little meltdown when you get to call it and the brain is coming in somewhere 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, it's always a question of lots of money. and it's clear that when you're spending a 1000000 on

a building, you really can't have any mistakes. hold on in my a globe luca. i have my own firm in berlin animal lecture at the technical university of dom stamps. he's designed a multi florida very special apartment building at crew 1st and class, the $142.00 in berlin. just a vows to la as a steel, as is neither. this isn't all i love standing here on the construction site because you think, wow, if someone is really building something that i we drew law on the other hand, i'm a bit nervous when i come here hallmark, 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 this was a little bit of fear. when you show up at the construction site. yeah. but actually them really yes, it's fantastic. and of i listen to share with us this 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, las vegas. the flows are really difficult to count because as you can see, the levels aunt 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 on 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, am i, a gro, broke or 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 is sunday, the davis for hung 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. and 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 at the movies. so you can just relax and look outside as well. johan am i, a gro 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 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, though i always had the feeling the japanese architecture had was so different under there's something mysterious about it. so much is left openness and i found that very fascinating. first thing yet her in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa architectural firm of the award winning female architect kazoo yossi, 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 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 that well, that's fine. when you're doing right when you're not, well, i think that it was kind of hard as in the hot 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 drug. 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, 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 sees that is a reason why the stereotypes are so stubbornly persistent as would go mitchell she gone. since the geometric figures, the terror symbol of the rationality of masculine thought in architecture, a setting contrast to the emotionality of women was that's why women were long labeled in cape of oak at lee. but 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 conversation. a good and often of course, christmas. in 2010, johan maya, grow burger 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 a thumb together when water magically at rose or 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 air 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 architecture of mediocre talent to sort out a very talented female architecture student shouldn't. and they ran them until it

was clear how things were as 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. yes, things was said when a woman was introducing a project project focused there. yeah. you're wearing a particularly pretty shade of like the suit today. it doesn't to which of course is i'm clearly for in the 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 lecturer at the technical university of vienna has also had similar experiences as we were in london. i worked at also finished irma 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 up in london. and there was the director there who

oversold 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 video quaked, i guess it wouldn't a 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 h in that office back 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 to 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 i had 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 direct to 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 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 the road, dorothy will feel on what all needs rethinking is how long a texture in general's 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 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 who 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 school em. i'd

always thought that that wouldn't really apply to me. i was invited to be on your read. 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 some one who looked after my children at home lessons. 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. skylights, we accommodate so many different possibilities as often right. are working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having 1st monday that every month golf,

i think for the around 80 female staff members that we have. we also have a different situation as, as people, but it's important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children were calm. it's not like that my desk 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 was sometimes it doesn't matter to him. 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, a sanction interval. 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. shark sy, in von

d. c. nod, spout director. the 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 and a fucking liam. i just learned that i needed to appear more confident of pre i needed to learn to master the right total for giving orders. and that you have to take on the issues surrounding power mom and not push them away. most instead, si, fi you yourself muscle act where you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself. osman all indecent coffee, go vian 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 side of this out. and because of that, i knew i called our shop in the do the stockton huck 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. wished up just he said to me, it's fine. 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, and it's well known now that only a team can produce good architecture, hamano m t martin. i think the idea of it's wrong completely wrong. it hurts how with the saved 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 is

perceived externally. but i saw it. he said that people st buildings can only be designed by star architects, and of course their men, men, men are men. armina. in july 2021. helga black star celebrated the opening of her spectacular structure, which is officially called the are lameness. portal data off 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 than you working for 2 years or a year and a half for a building. and that will be up for just 5 years. have you out of here in house this? 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 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, which that's a question i believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after you've already left the place you are visiting. and then law calmed anti and our mouth 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. 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 into being this vesta guarded. 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 site. also that you now have this smooth facade and don't see anything. so at all lose procedure and also i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived is all

identity. the construction workers distract me off to me when they say yes, but you could do it that way. we've always done that that way on. and then i just like to my gums and 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 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 it 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. then it says on campus and the good 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 linda does this gun, swanson she,

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 hump. this good, good thing about architecture is that you get better and better the old. you are with edible, respected for, 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 on this bid 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 a sighing home with

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