Episode 302 with Kristen Petersen-Motan
Kristen has been a supporter of the podcast from the beginning. Another ex co-worker it is great to see how much of an impact she has been able to make in the school’s she designs!
Timestamps:
Welcome: 00:35
First non- drink related question: 01:13
Schooling: 05:20
Work Experience: 15:14
The Big Questions: 47:35
The Fun Stuff: 1:27:32
Show Notes:
Drink: Waterloo, Strawberry flavor
Kristen taught early education for 5 years before going back to school for Interior Design
Apartment Therapy
Bellevue College - First two years priced like a state college.
We lost Kristen’s audio at 12:21 She notes that along with staging she also did a lot of model families for Revit.
IIDA NPC Bridge Program - The chapter comes together to design, and build a space for a chosen non-profit. There is not a current project at the time of this podcast release, but you can keep an eye on the IIDA NPC chapter website which is where they will post any information.
Single User Restrooms - Sea-Tac wrote a whole article on theirs. Kimball Elementary are below!
Enscape
University of Washington - Architecture
CIDQ and NCARB joint report
Architectural Registration Exam (ARE)
Washington Consortium for Interior Design
Current States with Legislation are 29 plus D.C. and Puerto Rico
I couldn’t find current stats for female architect principals. I did find an interesting article in dezeen from 2017 titled ‘Survey of top architecture firms reveals “quite shocking” lack of gender diversity at senior levels”. I also found “Equity in Architecture Survey 2018” by Equity by Design that has a telling data. Most recent info I could find was AIA’s 2023 Demographics Report, which showed women architects made up 25.7% of licensed architect members.
Parsons School Healthy Materials Certificate is what I confused for the above.
I am still learning about Embodied Carbon and the built environment. A good resource is the AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit for Architects.
Energy Use Intensity (EUI) - AIA California does a good breakdown with their article here.
Informed Material Modeling by Habitable Future.org
Gensler
Interior Architects
Miro
National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) -Interior Designers can become Allied Professional Members
Legacy Code instead of Grandfathered, Primary Suite instead of Master Suite, Markups instead of Redlines
Fireclay Tile
Want to make an impact in Schools? Join A4LE
Interested in Hospitality? Join NEWH
Into retail design? Try Retail Design Institute (RDI)!
Photos of Single-User Restrooms at Kimball Elementary in Seattle Washington. Designed by Kristen Petersen-Motan and the team at NAC Architecture.
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