Amenta Emma is partnering with @MakerspaceCT to help manufacture parts for personal protection equipment for our healthcare heroes and first responders. We are asking all architects and design professionals in the Hartford area with 3D printers to join in the effort. Contact us or @MakerspaceCT to receive the file to print headbands for face shields which you can then deliver to @MakerspaceCT for final assembly and distribution.
@MakerspaceCT is also in need of material donations as well as financial donations which will help source supplies and equipment. There are also Work From Home volunteer opportunities available. Click on the link in the @makerspacect bio.
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#PPE4CT #MakerspaceCT #helpourhealthcareheroes #helpourfirstresponders #3dprinting #faceshield #headbands #hartford #hartfordct #donationsneeded #volunteer #WFH #amentaemma ...

Amenta Emma team members are participating in the @rallyforrestaurants effort - a grassroots movement which supports the restaurant industry through this time of uncertainty. Remember, you can support your favorite restaurants by purchasing a gift cards to use later. We are featuring on our social media today one of Nicole’s favorite restaurants in Farmington, CT – @forkandfirect. Favorite drink: Fork & Fire Collins. Favorite dish: Pan-Seared Faroe Island Salmon. **Special Curbside take out menu includes Pierogi kits for the family and Build Your Own Burgers!**
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#rallyforrestaurants #forkandfire #supportlocal #restaurantcommunity #pierogi #burgerbar #amentaemma #dineprecisely ...

Using a ‘town’ concept, designers at Amenta Emma recently created a community of engaging workplace spaces for a national insurance company. The space is organized around a main square that brings together the various work neighborhoods and the social programming (eating, meeting, brainstorming). Occupants move through the space along a boulevard that minimizes distraction to office staff while providing access to the social spaces. Finishes were selected to provide a fresh hint of color while the industrial character of the space was celebrated with exposed structure and concrete floors.
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#workplace #community #workneighborhood #concrete #socialspaces #collaboration #programming #workplacedesign #finishes #interiordesign #architecture #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

We continue our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth by highlighting amazing women who have inspired us in both our professional and personal lives. Today we highlight Denise Scott Brown – born October 3, 1931, she is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the 20th century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching. Scott Brown’s most prolific projects were in urban planning. In 1972, after studying the urban form of the city of Las Vegas with students from Yale, Scott Brown, Venturi and Steven Izenour published “Learning from Las Vegas”, a controversial book critiquing Modern architecture, and calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people. In the late seventies, Venturi and Scott Brown began designing furniture for @knollinc . When Robert Venturi won the Pritzker Prize in 1991, the jury cited numerous projects completed in collaboration with Scott Brown – she did not attend the ceremony in protest. In 1989, she published her famous essay, “Room at the top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture.” The essay describes her struggle to be recognized as an equal partner of the firm, in an architecture world that was predominantly male. She has since been an advocate for Women in Architecture and has spoken out about discrimination within the profession.
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#DeniseScottBrown #urbanplanning #LasVegas #Knoll #modernarchitecture #rolemodel #advocate #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

Today we honor legendary architect Zaha Hadid in our #WomensHistoryMonth celebration. Born in #Baghdad, Iraq, in 1950, she moved to #London in 1972 to attend one of the most competitive universities of architecture in the world, the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She received the prestigious Diploma Prize at her 1977 graduation, during which the famed Dutch architect #RemKoolhaus, one of Hadid’s professors, described her as “a planet in her own orbit.” Two years after graduating she founded her own firm, @ZahaHadidArchitects. She became famous for her intensely futuristic architecture characterized by curving façades, geometric shapes, sharp angles, and use of severe materials such as concrete and steel. Her ability to manipulate the strongest materials in the world earned her the nickname “Queen of the Curve.” Over the last two decades her work has been honored by a long list of awards: In 2004 she was the first woman to be awarded the #PritzkerPrize; in 2010 and 2011 she received the #StirlingPrize, a British decoration for excellence in architecture; in 2014 her Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award; and in 2016 she became the first woman to win the RIBA Gold Medal. Hadid’s projects, many of which transform depending on the viewer’s perspective, turn architectural convention on its head. The world lost a true visionary in 2016 when the 65-year-old Hadid died unexpectedly from a heart attack. Her firm continues to operate based out of London and has brought many of her unfinished projects to completion.
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#ZahaHadid #Visionary #QueenoftheCurve #heydaraliyevcentre #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

We continue celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth by highlighting some amazing women who have inspired us in both our professional and personal lives. Today we highlight @debbiemillman - American writer, educator, artist, curator, and designer who is best known as the host of the multi-award-winning podcast Design Matters (one of the first podcasts ever created!). Millman (b. 1962) received her BA in English from the @universityatalbany. While writing for the student newspaper, she developed an interest in design. For twenty years she was the president of the Design Division, and chief marketing officer at Sterling Brands, where she worked with large clients including Pepsi, Gillette, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Nestlé, and the Campbell Soup Company. In 2005, Millman founded Design Matters, a design podcast where she frequently interviews designers, educators, authors, and thinkers. Guests have included Massimo Vignelli, Steven Heller, Marian Bantjes, Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, Barbara Kruger, and Seth Godin, among others. She is President Emeritus of @aigadesign , she has co-curated conferences such as @how_events LIVE and the AIGA National Conference, she was involved with the creation of the @nomoreorg movement, was previously the editorial and creative director of Print magazine, and she has authored 6 books. She’s an amazing human being. Listen to the podcasts. Read the books. Take an online class! DebbieMillman.com . .

#DebbieMillman #DesignMatters #podcast #visualstorytelling #BrandThinking #designinspiration #graphicdesign #typography #logo #infographics #AIGA #HOWDesign #PrintMagazine #NoMoreMovement #shedesigns #career #inspiration #series #design #designer #internationalwomensday #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #womenindesign #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

Today we recognize the brilliant Dr. Neri Oxman: Architect, Designer, Inventor as part of our #WomensHistoryMonth celebration. @oxmanofficial (b. Feb 6, 1972) was born and raised in Haifa, Israel. Her parents, Robert and Rivka Oxman, are both architects, and her younger sister, Keren Oxman, is an artist. Oxman grew up "between nature and culture", spending time in her grandmother's garden and her parent's architectural studio. After serving in the Israeli Air Force and studying architecture at the @technion.israel, and then at the London Architectural Association School of Architecture, she moved to #Boston to join the architecture PhD program at @mitarchitecture . She is now the #Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the @mitmedialab where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter research group. She coined the term, and pioneered the field of material ecology, which marries the technological advances of computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication (otherwise known as #3Dprinting) to produce compostable structures, glass objects that vary their optical and structural properties, and garments made from a single piece of silk fabric. Her works are included in permanent collections at @themuseumofmodernart, @sfmoma, @mfaboston, @cooperhewitt and the @smithsonian to name just a few. To understand what absolutely amazing things she and her team create, visit her website neri.media.mit.edu and do read the @nytimes article www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/style/neri-oxman-mit.html .
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#NeriOxman #Pioneer #MIT #MaterialEcology #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

We continue celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth by highlighting some amazing women who have inspired us in both our professional and personal lives. Today we highlight a local architect and philanthropist, Theodate Pope Riddle, whose home and 152-acres, Hill-Stead, is now a museum @hillsteadmuseum and hosts the famous Sunken Garden Poetry Festival @sunkengardenpoetry each year (see previous post on Landscape Designer #BeatrixFarrand.) Effie “Theodate” Pope was born in Ohio in 1867, and she attended @missporters in Farmington, CT. Although Theodate did not attend college, she learned about the history of architecture through her many trips to Europe, extensive reading and study with Allan Marquand, the founder of the Department of Art and Archeology at @princeton. She purchased a small home in Farmington and began restorations. From there she pursued various commissions and projects where she honed her skills. She convinced her family to move to Farmington, purchasing the property adjoining hers. Her father hired a New York architectural firm to build their new home, but which Theodate designed – as a “rambling Connecticut farmhouse, with strong colonial revival elements and a monumental portico recalling Washington’s Mount Vernon.” The Hill-Stead was her first complete project. Pope went on to design other Connecticut landmarks, such as the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut (1909), the Hop Brook School in Naugatuck, Connecticut (1915), Avon Old Farms School (1927) @avon.old.farms and several private houses. Theodate died in 1946, and her will stipulated that Hill-Stead become a museum as a memorial to her parents and “for the benefit and enjoyment of the public.” Www.hillstead.org
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#TheodatePopeRiddle #FarmingtonCt #HillSteadMuseum #workingfarm #SunkenGardenPoetryFesitval #MissPortersSchool #AvonOldFarms #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #balancedworld #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #series #internationalwomensday #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

Today we celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth by highlighting Odile Decq. @studio_odile_decq She is a “French architect and urban planner for whom international recognition came in 1990 with her first major commission: Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, France. Since then, she has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research. Being awarded #TheGoldenLionofArchitecture during the Venice Biennale in 1996 acknowledged her early and unusual career. Other than just a style, an attitude or a process, Odile Decq’s work materializes a complete universe that embraces urban planning, architecture, design and art. Odile Decq has been teaching architecture for the past 25 years. In France, she was Head of l’École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris from 2007 to 2012, after teaching there for 15 years. Following this experience, she created her own school in 2014 now located in Paris, the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture @confluence_institute , accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects.” - Madame Architect. When asked about her unique look, which she adopted during the 80s punk/goth movements, she said she’s kept it in part because it's a great filter – people who reacted negatively were people who would not be receptive to her ideas. Read her interview with @madamearchitect - a platform celebrating women in architecture from different generations, countries, and corners of the industry. www.madamearchitect.org. (Portrait Credit: Franck Juery)
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#OdileDecq #FrenchFemaleArchitect #BadAss #shedesigns #Goth #PunkRock #GenderEquality #MadameArchitect  #celebratewomen #diversity #balancedworld #urbanplanning #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #series #internationalwomensday #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...