Julie Bargmann on Design: D.I.R.T. Studio [1 of 9]
In establishing her professional practice, Bargmann defines her life’s work as a “mission” to “do the right thing” for industrialized sites and the communities...
Julie Bargmann on Design: Materiality [5 of 9]
Bargmann discusses her love of “plants, materiality, and tactility” and her approach to reusing and repurposing rather than discarding found materials as part...
Julie Bargmann on Design: Robert Smithson [7 of 9]
Bargmann shares how the writings of her “hero,” the artist Robert Smithson, and his emphasis on process, “digging and finding,” and “slow looking,” have...
Julie Bargmann Biography: The American Academy in Rome [4 of 10]
After Harvard, Bargmann spent a year in Italy as a Rome Prize recipient, an experience she fondly remembers as an incubator for cross-disciplinary friendships...
Oberlander Prize Forum II: Design as Activism
Landscape architect Gina Ford, Co-founder and Principal of Agency Landscape + Planning, engages three pioneering designers to address issues including social justice, climate justice,...
Oberlander Prize Forum II: Danielle Toronyi and Max Dickson
OLIN firm employees Toronyi, Research Development and Knowledge Manager, and Dickson, Landscape Designer, discuss projects within the company’s Emergent Research Initiatives division. Toronyi addresses...
Oberlander Prize Forum II: April De Simone
De Simone, Principal, Trahan Architects, demonstrates how the built environment is not designed democratically; rather it is the product of biases in people, practices,...
Oberlander Prize Forum II: Reshaping Practice Introduction
In the “Reshaping Practice” panel moderator John Beardsley, Curator of the Oberlander Prize, introduces panelists Marc Miller, April De Simone, Danielle Toronyi, and Max...