Yale Women in Architecture presents: STUDIO VISITS- WEST COAST PRACTICES
July 14 at 5PM PST / 8 PM EST
Established Yale Alumnae practicing Architecture on the West Coast will present their design work and describe their career journey via Zoom screen sharing. By dividing the audience into separate Zoom rooms, attendees and presenters will have a platform to discuss and share ideas within an intimate format . Attendees will be moved from room to room providing opportunities to ask questions and participate in each conversation.
Organized by Jennifer Carpenter, Stacie Wong, Kimberly Brown
Featuring
Marisa Kurtzman, M.ARCH '06 - “pronounced Mar-EE-sa,” Marisa brings energy and focus to spearheading visioning, programming, planning, and concept design work for Frederick Fisher and Partners (Los Angeles, New York). A linguist and a “people person,” she loves finding out what makes institutions and organizations tick, and then translating those values and goals into design strategies that are expressive of their distinct identities. Recent projects include the Natural History Museum of LA County's West-South Expansion, USC's Iovine and Young Hall, and Princeton University’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall. As one of FF&P's next generation of partners and a firm believer in equity in the design workplace, Marisa participates in shaping her firm's progressive hiring practices, outreach initiatives, and office policy implementation. Marisa received her M.Arch from Yale (2006) and her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University. Outside of work, she is an active member of the Association for Women in Architecture + Design. She also enjoys seeking out quirky cultural activities around the world, listening to public radio, and taking walks with her baby daughter, husband, and dog.
Rebecca Katkin, M.ARCH '99 - "Practice is always in process" Rebecca is a California and Colorado registered architect and educator. Ms. Katkin has taught at California College of the Arts and Mississippi State University, where she led architecture, interior design, and interdisciplinary studios, as well as courses in drawing and materiality. Her publications include work on the urbanization of agriculture and the impact of sprawl development on small towns.
Coreina Chan is the principal for Rocky Mountain Institute’s Electricity Innovation Lab (e-Lab for short). e-Lab brings together organizations with diverse and often-conflicting views, to speed society’s transition to clean energy. Coreina and her team design collaborative processes, workshops, and meetings to support people in the electricity sector who don’t always agree with each other, but who nevertheless need to work together to meet the unprecedented challenges in our energy future. Her team supports utilities, regulators, environmental and equity advocates, businesses, researchers, entrepreneurs and communities to partner in new ways to address the power dynamics and inequities, conflicting motivations, and information asymmetry in today’s electricity system. Coreina has been the lead facilitator for the past 4 years of eLab’s Accelerator, Forge and Summit events, supporting over 60 teams in developing new policy, planning, regulatory and business model solutions that connect states, cities, communities, and businesses with clean energy benefits.
Prior to joining RMI in 2007, Coreina worked as a securities trader for six years. Before that, she worked for three years as studio member #5 at Leroy Street Studio. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Yale University (Trumbull, ’97), and initially joined RMI to support sustainable building design, daylighting and water conservation in the Institute's built environment team.
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“The problem with enemyfying is not that we never have enemies: we often face people and situations that present us with difficulties and dangers. Moreover, any effort we make to effect change in the world will create discomfort, resistance, and opposition. The real problem with enemyfying is that it distracts and unbalances us. We cannot avoid others whom we find challenging, so we need to focus simply on deciding, given these challenges, what we ourselves will do next.” ― Adam Kahane, Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust