Before I had a driver’s license, they taught me how to realize a project, how to communicate design in drawings and digital models, what a riser diagram was, what a framing plan looked like, how to manage the bidding process, and more. I also worked part time in an architecture office during high school for two years learning Revit and putting together drawing sets. The models were part of a larger public art exhibition, which made the work feel important and exciting and I learned a lot from seeing the other artist’s work alongside my own. We made models together I learned how to make paper and how to cut cardboard so that it curved. LW: I first learned that architecture existed when I was an apprentice with a local artist-architect at the age of ten. How did each of you get your start in architecture? I am excited to practice everything I learned and took away from those years and beyond, with Lindsey. Yale taught me the value of good collaboration, nad that when strengths come together in a productive way, the outcome is far better than any one person’s genius. My time at UVA provided a great foundation in history, theory and environmentally conscious design. I learned that architecture plays an important role in shaping our society, culture and health. Having immersed myself in both places, I started to grow into an interlocutor between them. Throughout my studies, there was a duality at play, between the territorial landscapes of resources and the cities where materials are consumed. After I was deep into my studies at Columbia GSAPP, I found a new appreciation for this environmental expertise that I had been sculpted by early on. This focus felt very nostalgic and artisan, and I wanted to design urban spaces and focused much of my time at ASU working on housing. At ASU, I learned about how architecture-its geometry, programming, and materials-can respond to the sun, the wind, the rain, wildlife migration, seasons, erosions, and more. LW: I earned my Bachelors at ASU and then my Masters at Columbia GSAPP. Where did you both study, and what did you learn about architecture, the field, and yourselves there? Getting lost in new cities was one of my favorite things to do, discovering the evidence of hundreds of years in time in the built environment. JS: I was born in Philadelphia and spent my formative years in Seoul, Korea, returned to the East Coast for my architectural studies and settled in New York where I call home. LW: I grew up between Colorado, Arizona, and Michigan, where the aspen tree covered mountains, dusty trails in the desert, or the rocky edge of Lake Huron were my playgrounds. Where did you both grow up and what did you like to do as kids? In their interview with Julia Gamolina, Lindsey and Jean talk about the beginning of their collaboration, and creating opportunities for like-minded folks, advising those just starting their careers to learn how to build. Together they are currently engaged in adaptive reuse, mass timber, and rammed earth cultural, commercial and residential projects, as well as ongoing speaking, moderating, and writing projects. Suh has an expertise in managing and delivering complex, award-winning projects, while Wikstrom has an expertise in award-winning teaching, conceptual framing and storytelling. Lindsey Wikstrom and Jean Suh are the founders of Mattaforma, a design practice that draws on a parallel project of material and environmental research to conceive of the built environment as an actionable medium towards a more equitable planet.
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