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Story of Design is a podcast arm of The Design Story that asks the "why" around design, hosted by The Design Story. Every week we will be chatting with designers, creative thinkers, and businesses that have stakes in shaping the future of the design industry.
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Jaque Studio was founded in 2017 by Jesús G. Acosta Martínez and has been committed to creating spaces that provide unique and comfortable user experiences by pursuing true forms, aesthetic innovation, and natural materials surrounded by context. In this Story of Design series, Jesús shares how he crafted a biophilic identity in modern architecture, through his extensive experiences in different cultures across the globe.
Faire is a Paris-based Architecture firm founded by French architect Nikhil Calas and Italian architect and urbanist Federico Diodato. Through a multicultural background and extensive experience in carpentry and teaching, the firm utilizes a multidisciplinary approach combining architecture, crafts, research, and political advocacy to reduce boundaries between architecture and related fields. It is their mission to harmonize functionality and responsibility in the field, as shared in this Sto...
HYLA Architects is an award-winning architectural practice based in Singapore founded by Han Loke Kwang. With over thirty years of practice, the firm has strong experience in designing high-end landed residential projects and delivering individuality to each one of the projects through thoughtful attention to details, requirements, and context. In this Story of Design series, Han speaks about what it means to Design for and with Clarity to achieve long lasting impact.
Casatibuonsante is a design firm born out of broadening architecture and design from domestic to urban landscapes and simultaneously finding the balance in between. Through building a deeper understanding of the ever-changing environment and users, Antonio and Federico, the two founders, shares how they create more livable, flexible, and inclusive domestic spaces inside a dynamic urban environment in this story of design series.
Berlin-based Sigurd Larsen developed his practice from small to large-scale projects involving a lot of integrated solutions from architecture, interior, furniture, and detailed designs. Ever since the beginning of his journey, Larsen had always had his eyes on details and human-scale features, which led him to always immersing himself into every design process, being hands-on with every project, and becoming responsive to every project needs or those that arise along the way.
Born in Venezuela and with a bankfull of experiences around the world, Maximilian Jencquel found Bali to be a sanctuary to grow and practice his architecture and therefore established Studio Jencquel in 2010. from there, he builds and reiterates a heartwarming architecture that accentuates storytelling predominantly inspired by his own life journey.
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture is a multidisciplinary studio based in New York and Sao Paulo that focuses on architecting places that blend structure and nature. He believes that understanding the ties in between each element in architecture is key to understanding and fully realizing the dynamic between human beings and the environment.
Julius Taminiau on exploring the interconnectivity between architecture and art, music, nature, philosophy, and other disciplines and how understanding these connections better will only enrich the architectural practice and experience.
Mauricio Ceballos X Architects’s main driver is to design and offer creative/responsible solutions that emphasize on environmental and social approaches. They believe in the power of collaboration, embracing different visions, and bringing everyone's thinking to the table in order to create a shared vision - as Mauricio further shared his story on this series of Story of Design.
Irgen Salianji from Architects for Urbanity shares his views on how cities are changing, some urban typologies worth exploring, and showcasing a city's identity in this interview with The Design Story.
Ruben Teodoro from Colectivo Warehouse talks about their participatory architecture practice and focus on horizontal learning. In such collaborative action, an architect's role is a mediator who manages expectations, is transparent with the whole process, and wears many hats in effort to become closer with each stakeholder, all to ensure a cohesive, successful result.
British designer Rhys Ellis found his way to blur the lines between waste and beauty through organic shapes in wearables, all to raise awareness of environmental issues to the public eye.
Realrich Sjarief shares about sharpening both creative and critical minds when it comes to practicing, appreciating, and understanding a work of architecture and also about the importance of nurturing micro-communities to encourage learning together.
DesignAware is an interdisciplinary studio that creates designs that are livable, usable, accessible, and responsible. Led by Takbir Fatima and Abeer Fatima, DesignAware does not approach design as a traditional practice but rather as a movement where "many hands and many minds come together creating an impact that is greater than the sum of its parts".
Estudio Cavernas is a social architecture non-profit organization started by Juan and Yago Cuevas Duran, committed to achieving sustainable construction in marginalized communities to ensure a process and outcome that reflects and supports the local culture, way of living and environment. This interview discusses how empowering the construction can be to the community in those conflict areas.
Led by Angela Delorenzo Arancibia and Cristóbal Valenzuela Haeussler, LAND Arquitectos is an architectural firm committed to innovation in the design of projects that enhance the relationship between the built, natural, and social environments. Currently they are leading a watershed planning project at the North Patagonian Lakes - a project called Chile Lagos Limpios - and we are conversing with Angela about using data to better inform policies and designs especially when building in nature.
"Why aim for permanence when changes are inevitable in almost every aspect of our lives?" is the question Stephanie Larassati from Atelier Larassati keeps on asking herself. Her practice has largely involved temporary structures and temporary architecture that react quickly to current conditions, but temporary does not mean it cannot have a long lasting impact on society.
kogaa is a brno-based architectural design studio that has put sustainability and slow development at the core since its establishment in 2015. what it means by sustainability and slow development is that the studio does not only speaks about reusing but also on behaving responsibly towards the environment. including befriending potential challenges, especially in aging buildings and demolitions.
Everybody deserves access to good quality design and it is what Caukin Studio is trying to achieve. With numerous design and construction projects worldwide, Caukin aims to reach out and offer better built environment and better impact to local communities around the world.
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