Voices of Design Leadership : Insights From Top Collaborative Design Firms

Voices of Design Leadership Provides inspiration to architecture and design students and professionals through the insights, stories, and projects of successful design leaders Voices of Design Leadership seeks to educate, inform, and inspire a new generation of diverse design leaders. The work includes sixteen profiles of design leaders in architecture, interior design, planning, and research, many of whom are leaders at firms that have earned the AIA’s national Architecture Firm Award. The stories and projects from their own professional journeys illustrate multiple paths to design leadership success. Individually, each person stands on their own as an inspiring and inf luential design leader. Collectively, they express what design leadership can and should look like. Representing a broad diversity of expertise and demographics―including nine women, seven people of color, and five first-generation immigrants―they bring a variety of life experiences and cultural backgrounds to their award-winning work. Sample topics discussed in the work include: The power of diversity Finding and developing design talent Design philosophy and research investments Coaching, mentoring, team collaboration, and community engagement Advice for emerging design leaders Students of architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate will find value and inspiration from Voices of Design Leadership and gain insight into the thought processes of established leaders in their fields. The work also appeals to young and mid-career professionals, clients, and educators exploring the next steps of their own career journeys. Voices of Design Leadership Contents Part One: Introductions 1 Why This Book? The Voices The Work 2 Patterns of Design Ecosystems The Power of Diversity Design + Business Synergy Client Experience Mindset T-shaped Professionals The Four R’s Lifelong Learning Part Two: Conversations 3 Sharron van der Meulen Portland International Airport Main Terminal Randall Children’s Hospital Stoel Rives Headquarters 4 Phil Harrison FAIA, LEED AP Gardner Neurosciences Institute Canada’s Earth Tower Billerica Memorial High School 5 Barbara Bouza FAIA Avengers Campus at California Adventure Hong Kong Disneyland Castle Baby GrootTM 6 Mustafa Chehabbedine ARB KIPCO Tower Abu Dhabi International Airport Midfield Terminal 7 Michelle Kaufmann AIA, LEED AP Moffett Park Office Building Google Caribbean Charleston East 8 Alan Ricks AIA, Int FRIBA Butaro District Hospital The National Memorial for Peace and Justice 9 Ana Pinto-Alexander EDAC, FIIDA, RID Indiana University Health North Hospital Moody Center for Breast Health 10 Billie Faircloth FAIA, LEED AP BD+C 841 North American Street Tally® 11 Rafael Viñoly FAIA, JIA, SCA, Int FRIBA Tokyo International Forum 20 Fenchurch Street Sky Garden 432 Park Avenue 12 Wendy Rogers FAIA, LEED AP Edwards Lifesciences Headquarters Campus Expansion California State University Office of the Chancellor Tarbut V’Torah Day School 13 Andre Brumfield Assoc. AIA Cabrini Green Redevelopment Woodlawn Station 14 Margaret Montgomery FAIA, LFA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters Microsoft Headquarters Campus Redevelopment 15 Nader Tehrani Casa La Roca Inter-Faith Spiritual Center 16 Mariko Masuoka FAIA, LEED AP Daniel L. Malone Engineering Center Yale-NUS College 17 Colin Koop AIA Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall 4 Hudson Square Moon Village 18 Marsha Maytum FAIA, LEED AP Sweetwater Spectrum Community Ed Roberts Campus Berkeley Way Part Three: Observations 19 Design Leadership Values Integrity and Trust Equity and Inclusion Communication Biomimicry Servant Leadership Informed Optimism The Wild Card Acknowledgments About the Author Cover Photo Credits Index EULA ""If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it." - Yogi Bhajan The memorable experiences of my architectural career are many, and one of the most rewarding was co-leading three separate classes of Gensler University (GU), the global design firm's accelerated leadership development program. In addition to collaborative workshops, office visits, and virtual meetings, students of each class heard from influential speakers that included clients, consultants, educators, and researchers. Today, most of those GU graduates are leading Gensler offices or their own firms. Helping others achieve success has been central to my leadership roles at multiple design firms and served as motivation for writing this book. Recent events provided additional encouragement. Here in the US, we are finally confronting the lingering discrimination in our society and our shared responsibility to address it. But the architecture profession has much more work to do. The nation's largest minority-owned architecture firm, Moody Nolan, was appropriately recognized in 2021 with the AIA Architecture Firm Award. Of the ten firms recognized between 2011 and 2020, however, over two-thirds of the Principals still leading those firms are white men."-- Provided by publisher