Ah, each been ang shockey. I actually became an architect is because i thought right in line with bow houses that im making a better wealthy. Its been my husband are close out on i grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that houses grew like tree this one until my mother told me, no. My people made them on medicine and then i wanted to do is just to architects build the world. We live in elegantly what i doing architecture, you do it 200 percent. Oh not a tool to for and was a lot of responsibility. You can lose a great deal. Architecture is a tough field for women who built didnt items legacy the Decision Makers and those that give out the contract. We are mad with the Architecture Works under this conditional framework, such as we could work in law, her deed, the queen of curves, was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. She design structures that are 2nd to none. A deed is one of only 5 female architects who have received one of the sectors most important awards. The critical price, along with her div worth. Because you, you see shima yvonne for l and shelly, matthew, mera. And unlike i dont, thats 5 women in 43 years. There are more and better educated female architects than there are male architects. And yet only 5 percent of Architectural Firms around the world are run by for a few years now, women have been coming to the forefront. Theyre not just fighting for commissions. Theyre fighting for recognition. What determines the success of women and architecture . And thus of the structures in the world thats around us all, whether theyre up and coming or already established with their own firms, working freelance or in administration. What are the working worlds like for these women . What battles do they face . What are their dreams . What drives them . How and why do they built . What does it mean to be an architect . Yeah, its been leaking. Im thinking a lie bigger and im a partner at the architect. So face of black hole, i been in berlin many regina liveing or is one of germanys best known female architects. Her buildings range from a kindergarten to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seemed to glide on air. Her latest project is the b hub in the berlin district of Frederick Sam cried speck time for a site visit that is at this building. Is this how silly cold was it . A full, a kind of a belong to a glass boring factory when descending wont agree, but converse diss. And i think it has a path oldest around here. Reciprocal rightly living just beyond that one. Now i think my stuff on is of the home, is that up front as the homeless . Oh, good book. A great location in Frederick Island indies. And on the other side does the s bond and then is just the she a length of the building. Its enormous. So he non, the b hub is a massive project by berlin Architectural Firm barco liveing her. It has a total length of 300 meters, with a surface area of 47300 square meters, divided over 10 floors of office space. The facade folds like an accordion offset by horizontal benz of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. It just stands there, tall and long message nicky. What is what these corners days and with the layering that these elements mean it doesnt look like one single long buildings. Instead, its like 6 different buildings. And thats important with a length of 300 me to him from. I mean of me. Architecture can do so much if it moves util. Theme it adds the bait and now are a good i i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. You tend to miss the hill visit folks in southern germany, misty, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and all said lota regina liveing her was born in stuttgart. 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business i. It comes to think it goes and 1st of all actually come from a Family Business in southern germany and this the business and laid a big role in our lives lab. It gave us a sense of this entrepreneurial spirit, and thats similar in architecture. If you go on to have an Architect Firm and its a big one, then its important that you also have Business Management and leadership quality in order to keep the shop together action. And i was really lucky there because i learned from when i was small and i saw how it work and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this sort of thing. By the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night in that they had, i wanted to get away as fast as i could. I wanted out of this very protective environment like every stuttgart girl at 1st i went to get one unit class, but then i ended up in berlin in by chance. And that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. It felt like a foreign country liveing her winter berlins Technical University and took horses and Building Construction and structural physics. But that soon took her to even further places and happy i applied in america and was accepted at harvard, mom and ill admit i was nervous. Skippy, and it is when its well harbored is a very good school and it comes with quite a reputation naturally with me. But that pays off that there are fantastic teachers working there. But still they were mostly men on taught seem phenomena far more men than women. What regina liveing or became acquainted with in the 1980s was no exception. While studying kirstine do her for had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. Her fellow male students didnt have this problem. I took all pre of i took option was always wore a bow tie. He called me and local music. Yeah. Had leased the glasses with dark frames. And on the student body, the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses and on the ones who was both times told her or do you then you knew right away who there role models. Yes, and they emulated them. I thought the womens students didnt have anything like that, said, you still dentist. Ah, verbena risk is researching the history of women in architecture. The experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her that was systematic in history, in the history of architecture in the profession. And we know from our research how many women were marginalized and how many works by women were not documented in the 20th century. And if they were documented, am i still got the credit . As an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift during a seminar trip she visited great cult status villa in 2006. She came away deeply impressed as well at all miles and im back then. It was just about a ruin and i was able to get in the house and i had it all in my hair because id studied her so much in october. I knew exactly how things looked back then. Even though a lot of it was in disrepair, but that was a great experience for shavani chakrabarti, the visit to eileen grays villa was important, decisive even in france. The nic for below when women have to few role models from the start than an element of identification is missing. Therefore its easier for men. After all, in the whole of architecture, education and planning funds, there are men and they dominate the whole thing. Thats why they can identify well with everything in and about this field or at least much earlier than women can. Hong at the end of the 1980s at Harvard Regina liveing or met her leader, partner and husband. Frank, marco ones that have my have a degree. I thought id finally get to the city of my dreams, new york city, but then there was an economic crisis, and the berlin wall came down. My 1st i said rome, but then lets just go to berlin now. So we pitched our tents here in 1993. It was very modest. We just had a studio apartment and we said, we try working freelance. We didnt really have anything at all. There was just a name plate on the outside of the building that said barcode. I been an architect and thats how it started. Their breakthrough came in 2001 when they were commissioned to build the potsdam biosphere for Germanys National guard, and show the curve gant you. In structure of concrete, in glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants, monumental in style. It was located on a former military firing range at the citys edge. More prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german Family Business. Trump, then was a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most varied of site, already different neighborhoods. And of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. How bad the central train station in the rope, city, for example, you would do Different Things than you would in the crowds beg district where you find well developed quite bag loft architecture, loft stretches or imprints our bag in a back courtyard. On corvette architect helga block stores, life story was filled with challenges. Now shes conquered, the art of building the mainland event, kate, ems out. As she tells you how people go through life varies greatly depending on your situation. From the start. My mother raised 3 girls on her own and our circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. One option that we didnt even dare think of was that all 3 of us could attend university. My name is helga block store deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. Im also a professor of Building Construction at the Technical University of franchise. His contract bookstore made her way through art and university commissioned projects until she became self employed in 2013. At 1st, she made a name for herself by re conditioning, existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960s, with the gable roof or the house for jose in northern berlin. The contrast with regina libraries, Major Projects could hardly be any greater. They said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. Thats what makes blocked or st building stand out. In 2020, she took part in a competition of im are based organization. The classic shift on her entry was a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bow off god of ours. It was im from and i was in the beginning so to speak. Was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come helga blocks dark, developed the berkin house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin, hoisin, which dated back to 1778. It was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site and weimar dennis in monday flag in the hope and his vet vamps, is always the question when youre in a competition. How much does the task relate to reality . Do you try right away to get everything right, a tv or is there a type of provocative openness in the task and the way its presented the tense, more to raise questions, a forklift. The play of shapes and materials is very important to her design. Regina lighting is Architectural Office is in a real korean in the western part of berlin and occupies several floors. Lessons adding was born causing all this is m Building Materials are something that play a really big role in our office. One, there are things i thought that recur again and again, if theres an interest, a leitmotif that shows out repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again. And again, may tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime, the building. Yes, it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine and then at the house, id say because its permanent, there. These leaves and the lights are drawn in and reflected. Sometimes it looks like a u, f o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always there really can a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. Competitions are often the eye of the needle that designs must past and i know site, of course, on the one hand theres no a paternity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or a golf followed all the awful boys regular lucia has put her mark and berlins architecture like no other. After working as an architect in zurich and vienna, she was called to berlin in 2007 as the director of urban planning. She was responsible until july 2021 for competitions in the city and was a member of many selective committees. Anyone who wanted to work on important projects had to cross her path at some point. Its yes or does he meet and behind . Oh, its true that i dont just write a book or express a thought song and afterwards there instead of a word of glass which has a lot of glass, chiseled imogen. So i really cant allow myself to make any mistakes. And i just have to select the best project is to play act. All sorts of competitions are big opportunities for smaller Architectural Firms. But theyre controversial. No demands like ever relative could to put it relatively. Essentially, its almost impossible for new offices to take part because the standards of the way they are in every team that you have to do for the competition. You have to have a built already bought. Im was whitman, im glad to play actin. If you get an invitation, lets say for a town hall scene, youre supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. Hows that supposed to work on now . And then youve got to show how much money you have a number of who, any number of other things. Thats a disadvantage for, well, the laughter, diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside and defiant as he have heard from mr. Bay, him monta ss saw. Its likely true that most ingenious project architecturally that isnt the one that wins. Kenny eyes quick given our brochure, but for those that have to implement it, its the best choice the 1st day. Why the skip did, there is a wonderful series of discussions called aint position with architecture i in them theres an interview with carl canoe, who does that. But it was the director of urban planning in basel of dec files. And in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said the image of the city is of such great when elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading. Roughly every one on eligibility restriction can contest. As you can imagine, id very much like to propose that to for our lucia, just that she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city that my not my name is rica. I sean, im an architect and architectural intermediary rica shorn was working for berlin City Government in 1990. 1 construction was booming. Buyers were hotly bidding for the many empty spaces and they were unified city. It was a matter of millions or rica icons boss was responsible for awarding contracts. And because of this was the target of a deadly attack that still remains unsolved to this day. After his death, she left the sector shorn has maintained her links to architecture and is demanding a radical reconsideration of how contracts are given to promote the art of Building Design and diversity even to me that id like to see competition. Competition show how diverse the world can be when different people plan things and take different approaches. Young people, the elderly women, men, students, then you can get so many different ideas. Everyone has a different perspective in the hands of fatal neighborhood. You can see whats being created back then. People really got involved. You can tag rica, Insurance Office is located in berlin. Tons of futile after world war 2. Hundreds of thousands of departments needed to be built in and berlin, shattered by war. In 1957. The government in the western part of the city held the International Building exhibition known as inter bout for short. International architects were invited to design modern residential complexes. They are Still Standing today. Ah, the process from concept to contract is long and rocky. When regina lighting her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms a very own Competition Department goes to work. Dylan, i am glad answer, and we were invited to take us to the competition for a cited alexander plaques and the 1st tall building. And we had, and i still think this to day a brilliant design is and her place went to frank. Frank gehry with a miserable hum center. I think its catastrophic, truly. The 2nd place went to our friend and acquaintance. Young. Klaus and design was very good. We came in a 3rd and we were still disappointed because 1st place was just given to an architect, frank gary who just has this big important name. And that was really a disappointment, really is disappointing. Is that you really cant lay yourself underestimate these competition, having so much of your life blood gets bent on them so much energy, then you really have to pull yourself together and somehow keep going. So that its not all for nothing. And so much thought goes into it that madness god, weve done so many competitions and weve won lots of them. But those designs dont get built either. Its just tedious. Sometimes it is natural the way it is. Its part of the deal, and we just got to do it, emma. After that set back, she went on to another major project. She was invited to join in the competition for the new a stroll tower and want it done that and that wasnt just a consolation prize fight. It was just so crazy that we want it. After we had this disappointment with alexander plat, we uncorked 3 bottles of champagne. Its true, it was such a buzz like walking on the cloud muscles. V of no, i can. Where berlins 1st skyscrapers, the astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. The citys tallest building, it will have 45. 00 floors and a total surface area of 75000 square meters. There will be 800. 00 hotel rooms and offices in it, plus an event center of parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. The towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of aluminum. And it doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where its apparently been understood what youre achieving with these concepts and giving Something Back to the world. Helga blocks dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the competition. And weimar. Wow. So what did the jury think they were skeptica