The ICAA, INTBAU, and the Prince’s Foundation are pleased to announce that The Architecture of Place will continue this fall with the new The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with... series of live online interviews.Perhaps now more than ever before, we are all aware of the built environment that surrounds us, and of the impacts it has on the health of individuals, communities, and the planet. The Architecture of Place series, first launched in fall 2020, brings together the established and emerging voices working to create a better built future.From October through December 2021, the ICAA, INTBAU, and The Prince's Foundation will co-host The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a new series of interviews featuring three architects from different backgrounds and points of view: Marianne Cusato, Ben Bolgar, and Galina Tachieva. Over the three-part series, each speaker will have the chance to play the role of both interviewer and interviewee. In each installment, one of the three architects will be interviewed by one of the others about the influences, experiences, and projects that have led to their design perspective on the architecture of place. At the end of each session, students from partnering university departments will pose additional questions to the speakers, followed by an open Q&A with attendees.The programs are free and open for public registration, and recorded versions of the programs will be made available to all. Recordings of the 2020 The Architecture of Place series are available to view here.
In this iteration of the series, Marianne Cusato will interview Ben Bolgar about his work, background, and design perspective.Watch the Video
In this iteration of the series, Galina Tachieva will interview Marianne Cusato about her work, background, and design perspective.Watch the Video
In this iteration of the series, Ben Bolgar will interview Galina Tachieva about her work, background, and design perspective.Available Soon
Ben Bolgar is a qualified architect, Senior Director at the Prince’s Foundation, and Design Director of the development company, Stockbridge Land. He is a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the University College of Estate Management.At The Foundation, he has led masterplanning and design strategies for several large projects, including Nansledan in Cornwall for 4,000 homes and Sherford in the South Hams for 7,000 homes. Ben has also worked on healthcare projects such as Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, one of the most sustainable in Europe, and advised clients on the remodeling and transformation of heritage buildings such as St. Martin-in-the Fields, Kensington Palace, the National Gallery, and the Royal College of Music.As part of his role at The Foundation, Ben also undertakes joint research and has authored a number of reports and toolkits, including the Mayor’s Toolkit for Rapid Urbanisation and the BIMBY toolkit for neighbourhood planning. He is the architect of the Prince’s Natural House at the Building Research Establishment, a new low-carbon home, as well as lead on the Stable Block project to test retrofitting of existing buildings. He has also sat on three Prime Minister’s design panels in the UK.
Marianne Cusato is renowned for her work on innovative housing solutions for disaster recovery and workforce housing. She is the partner in charge of design and development at Cypress Community Development Corp, a not for profit housing corporation dedicated to creating resilient and energy efficient homes that are also dignified and attainable. Cypress CDC built 450 Katrina Cottages in Louisiana through FEMA funding and have projects in the Florida Keys connected to Hurricane Irma and in Sonoma County in California 2017 wildfires. Cypress currently has several projects under construction in Panama City, FL, rebuilding from Hurricane Michael in 2018 and on the Island of Barbuda rebuilding from Hurricane Irma, in partnership with the Prince’s Foundation. Marianne serves on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. She has been ranked the No. 4 most influential person in the home building industry by Builder Magazine, voted one of the 30 Most Influential Women in the Housing Economy by HousingWire Magazine and selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top Women in Real Estate. The author of two books: The Just Right Home: Buying, Renting, Moving...or Just Dreaming--Find Your Perfect Match! with Daniel DiClerico (April 2013, Workman Publishing) and Get Your House Right, Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid, with Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons and Leon Krier, foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (January 2008, Sterling Publishing), she has been a contributor to Fortune Magazine and wrote a regular column and feature articles for Fine Homebuilding Magazine. Marianne holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and MBA from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business.
Galina Tachieva is an expert in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes. As a managing partner at DPZ CoDESIGN, Galina directs the design and implementation of projects in the US and around the world. She is the author of the Sprawl Repair Manual, an award-winning publication, which focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete, walkable communities. Galina is a Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and a founding member of the Council for European Urbanism (CEU). She led the CNU Sprawl Retrofit initiative for many years.
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s (ICAA) mission is to advance the appreciation and practice of the principles of traditional architecture and its allied arts by engaging educators, professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It offers a wide array of programs that are designed to promote the appreciation and practice of classical and traditional design, including classes, travel, lectures, and conferences.Learn More
INTBAU’s mission is to support traditional building, the maintenance of local character, and the creation of better places to live. We do this through workshops, summer schools, study tours, conferences, awards, and competitions. Our three objectives are to research, educate, and engage as widely as possible on the value and relevance of traditional architecture and urban design.Learn More
The Prince's Foundation, by focusing on three core tiers - Education, Projects, and Attractions - delivers work to improve the built environment, save heritage, and promote culture and education. Through education, The Prince's Foundation aims to create sustainably planned, built, and maintained communities, championing and celebrating the most important part of any community: its people. The charity continues to train a generation of architects, masterplanners, and placemakers, in order to ensure the continuation of the kind of timeless skills which have been developed over generations.Learn More