What excites you most about your appointment to the Dallas office leader? What excites me most is the ability to re-visit the culture in our office and really build that back up. One of those initiatives is to “go local,” where we intend to focus on the community of our own city and build in […]
When I reached out to David for this interview, I sent along a few questions to give him an idea of what we might discuss. He agreed to chat, but warned me he tended to “ramble, be creative, or make things up.” I agreed to take his tales with a grain of salt. Soon after, […]
Jodi Williams, AICP, LEED AP ID+C Associate Principal; Office Leader, Washington, D.C. Jodi Williams brings over 20 years of experience in workplace strategy, facility planning and change management. She leads strategic planning efforts for public and private sector clients, leads some of our largest corporate accounts and is a big fan of mission-oriented work. You […]
VOICES & PERSPECTIVES: In November, we began releasing stories from unsung voices around the firm centering on the Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ Pride movements as our first installment of the Voices & Perspectives series. Lucy Baraquio shared how it feels to be the only queer, woman of color in the room; Porsche Ellison emphasized […]
What excites you most about your appointment to the Baltimore office leader? NB: The Baltimore office is really unique— we’re primarily comprised of employees in firmwide services, but we do have a small design studio in the office, too. I’m especially excited to get more exposure to the design side of the company—which I’m not […]
ELEVATION: Raising the Bar for CRTKL’s Digital Innovation Elevation is a collection of stories, thought leadership, and unique experiences from CRTKL’s Design Technology Group (DTG) on the frontlines of architecture, engineering, and design (AEC). BACKGROUND Growing up, my parents happily helped cultivate my interest in science by gifting me an entry-level telescope on my 11th […]
A Conversation with Dr. Velma Jackman, Associate Principal and Amy Mizell, Senior Associate on the importance of healthcare staff in collaboration with UC Davis Health. Tell me a bit about our recent work with the UC Davis Health system. Velma Jackman: UC Davis Health is a healthcare system in the Sacramento area affiliated with UC […]
As our global society begins to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many big-box online retailers are adaptively reusing shopping malls that buckled due to e-commerce and mandatory lockdowns as fulfillment centers for online sales. This current practice parallels a Droneport concept developed by Brendan O’Grady and Hernán Molina in 2016—when they envisioned […]
Historically, CRTKL has a strong profile of architects, designers and urban planners committed to improving the social, economic and environmental quality of the communities we build in. Since 1946, when Archibald Rogers and Francis Taliaferro founded the firm in Rogers’ grandmother’s basement in Annapolis, we’ve been committed to helping rejuvenate cities worldwide. Strong urban planning […]
Growing up in Lebanon, I had the chance to experience a variety of urban spaces. Hailing from a small mountain village, space meant intimacy and virtue; while frequenting Beirut city as a teenager, space meant protest and expression. Lebanese people often joke that one street in Beirut could be on military lockdown while the neighboring […]