The Architect's Rolodex
The Architect's Rolodex
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As architects, we’re curious about the built world but especially curious about the people that activate it. We want to have conversations with passionate professionals about why they do what they do. So, we’ve decided to take conversations that have traditionally happened around the harvest table in our studio to a podcast format. Listen as we have regular conversations with design leaders, colleagues, and all-around great humans as we explore more deeply COOKFOX’s ethos of regenerating and elevating the natural and human condition in our urban environment.
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Explores themes of sustainable architecture, material innovation, and community impact with episodes covering earth and bio-based materials, the intersection of motherhood and sustainable design, and the importance of LGBTQIA2S+ spaces within urban environments.
As architects, we’re curious about the built world but especially curious about the people that activate it. We want to have conversations with passionate professionals about why they do what they do. So, we’ve decided to take conversations that have traditionally happened around the harvest table in our studio to a podcast format. Listen as we have regular conversations with design leaders, colleagues, and all-around great humans as we explore more deeply COOKFOX’s ethos of regenerating and elevating the natural and human condition in our urban environment.
Lola Ben-Alon is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and director of the Natural Material Lab and the Building Science and Technology curriculum. She specializes in earth and bio-based building materials.
Lola has a background in biomedical engineering, civil engineering, and curatorial design, and she shares her experience cofounding a lab at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology called the Experimental Art and Architecture Lab. She shares how her experiences formed the basis for who she is today, how she found her lexicon for working in a site-specific, participatory practice, what is currently happening at the Natural Material Lab, and how we can implement changes in our architecture practice to include earth and bio-based materials.
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