Episode 54: Alan Golin Gass
Alan Golin Gass, a living legend of Colorado architecture with a body of work spanning nearly 70 years, joins the show to talk about his varied experiences during a live audience recording at DoCoMoMo Colorado’s March Chapter Meeting with a special introduction from Kephart's Josh Robinson.
Episode 53: Jorgen Jensen
Jorgen Jensen, Co-Founder of Fantastic Frank Colorado and the previous founder of Slate Real Estate Advisors, joins the show to share about his journey moving out of studying architecture school into business school and building his own brokerage company.
Episode 52: Jennifer Olson and Ryan Walterscheid
Jennifer Olson and Ryan Walterscheid, Partners at Forum Phi, join the show to talk about directing their firm “without a name on the door”.
Episode 51: Greg Kingsley and Brant Lahnert
Greg Kingsley and Brant Lahnert, co-founders of KL&A Engineers and Builders, join the show to talk about their long careers working alongside architects.
Episode 50: Adam Wagoner
For the 50th episode, the tables are turned and Adam Wagoner, Co-Founder of Vessel Office of Architecture, Adjunct Instructor at CU Denver CAP and host of Architect-ing, is interviewed by previous guest and friend of the show, Katie Donahue (episode #19).
Episode 48: Laura Marion
Laura Marion, founder of Flight Architecture, joins the show to talk about how architects should respond to their natural environment and the responsibilities they have to the needs of the people who inhabit their designs.
Episode 47: Josh Oqueli
Josh Oqueli, founder of Bonsai Design Build, joins the show to talk about growing up in LA, his time in the Marine Corp, his career switch from engineering to architecture, his pursuit of becoming an architect as developer, the challenges of starting a new firm, and his passion for delivering good, affordable architecture to more people.
Episode 46: Dana Crawford
Dana Crawford, the powerful development force behind Union Station, Larimer Square and many other Colorado landmarks, joins the show.
Episode 45: Christian Butler
Christian Butler, founder of Studio Limited, joins the show to talk about his exposure to building and architecture through Habitat For Humanity, his graduate school experience at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, and his entrepreneurial journey as an architect/developer/builder in Denver.
Episode 44: Kevin Hirth
Kevin Hirth, director of KEVIN HIRTH Co. & Assistant Professor at UC Denver CAP, joins this live show to talk about his architectural education at University of Virginia and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Episode 43: Michael M. Moore
Michael M. Moore, Founder of Tres Birds, joins the show to talk about his unique design-build model and creative interests.
Episode 42: Mike Blea and Breton Lujan
Mike Blea and Breton Lujan, co-founders of Raw Creative, join the show to talk about their shared Colorado upbringings and their initial disinterest in architecture before finally “drinking the Kool-Aid” and diving in to found their design and fabrication firm.
Episode 38: Jon Gambrill and Michelle Liebling
Jon Gambrill and Michelle Liebling, Co-Managing Directors of Gensler Denver, join the show to talk about their Swiss-army-knife-type experiences and career trajectories that brought them to running the Colorado branch of the largest architecture firm in the world.
Episode 37: Chris Gray and Steven Perce
Chris Gray and Steven Perce, Founders of BLDG.Collective, join the show to talk about each of their unique journeys that eventually led them to graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver and to founding their practice in the Great Recession of 2009.
Episode 15: Nicole McIntosh & Jonathan Louie
Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie, founders of Architecture Office and faculty members at Texas AM's Department of Architecture, join the show as a brief interlude from Colorado designers.
Episode 14: Heidi Mendoza
Heidi Mendoza, owner of the interior design firm re.dezine, joins to talk about her rich and diverse path that brought her to design.
Episode 13: Rick Sommerfeld
Rick Sommerfeld, Founder of the UC Denver CAP Colorado Building Workshop and Director of the Design-Build Certificate Program, joins the show to talk about his deep architectural background and connection to our state.
Episode 12: Chris Shears
Chris Shears, founder of Shears Adkins + Rockmore Architects and instructor at the University of Colorado Denver, joins the show
Episode 11: Rachael Johnson
Rachael Johnson, 2021 AIA Colorado President and architect at SmithGroup, joined to talk about her strong Colorado background and her story-focused means of design at Davis Partnership and SmithGroup.
Episode 10: Rick Petersen
Rick Petersen, Principal at OZ Architecture, joined the show for a live session to talk about his distinguished and varied background from Berkeley, to Harvard to Zurich before settling in Denver at OZ almost 30 years ago.