Starts october 8th on d. W. Ah ah, each been im healthy. I actually became an architect because i thought right line without house does he can i make you a better wealthy . It been. My husband are close out on. Oh, i grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that houses grew like tree this one until my mother tells me no. My people made them mention and then i wanted to do is just to architect the build the world. We live it elegantly, uniquely masterfully with doing architecture, you do it to 100 percent. Oh not the tool to for and for a lot of responsibility i can lose a great deal. Architecture is a tough field for women who built ah, the inside of say, guessing 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 zahid the ca deed, the queen of curves was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. She desired 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 pritzky price, along with her div worth as you use a shima. Even for l and shelley, matthew mera and unlock, 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 women. 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 in 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 o lie being in berlin. Regina liveing her is one of germanys best known female architects. Her buildings range from a kindergarden to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seem to glide on air. Her latest project is the be hub in the berlin district of fredericks. Im cried, speck time for a site visit. That is, and this building is, is how silly cold, what was it before a kind of tree that belong to a glass boring factory when the sunday morning agreeable convert to diss . And i think yes, as a possible oldest around here is super co wrangling living just beyond that one. Now i think must have fun. Its the healthy home that up front as the homeless. Oh, good, a great location and food retired to india. And on the other side theres the s bob. And then theres just the she a length of the building. Its enormous. Sunny 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 bands of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. It just stands there, tall and long. Mexican, my guess 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 the length of 300 me to the infant island of me architect. You can do so much if i didnt move. Caleb, he made an spivey anyhow or i i did with i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. You tend to miss the hill that folks in southern germany. I used to, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and also the water. Regina liveing her was born in stuttgart. 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business to my am it committed . I think it was an adjustable, actually come from a Family Business in southern germany and this the business and laid a big role in our lives. 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 actually. And i was really lucky that because i learned from when i was small and i so have it work and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. So to thing, by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night and that was make, had i wanted to get away as fast as i could. I wanted out of this very protective environment. It like every stuttgart girl at 1st i went to get one unit, but then i ended up in berlin by chance. And that was like having a broad for someone from stuttgart. It felt like a foreign Country Living or went to 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 to call me, ill admit, i was nervous. Gabriel, and it is when its well hobbit is a very good school and it comes with a quite a reputation naturally with me, but that pays off. There are fantastic teachers work in math, but still they were mostly men on taught seem phenomena, far more men than women. What regina liveing or became acquainted with him in 19 eighties was no exception. While studying testing to her so had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. Her fellow male students didnt have this problem. But our goal prove i took option was always wore a bow tie. Kaufman and local abuses. Yeah. Had least the glasses with dark frames and our student body. The men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses and, and the ones who was go time talking to you then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. I for the women students didnt have anything like that said, you still dentist. Ah, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. The experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her. Busy 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 him . 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 margin arguable. I knew exactly how things looked back then feeling 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 of enoch for below when women have too few role models throughout the start than an element of identification is, methinks, 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. And once i had my harvard 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 architects, 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 gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants. Monumental in style. It was located on a former military hiring range at the citys edge. More prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german Family Business. Trump. We didnt have the n with a no time. We were being allowed to build in berlin on the most varied of sites already different neighborhoods and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. I had the central train station in the rope, city, for example. You would do Different Things than you would in the quotes back district where you find well developed quotes, bag loft architecture, loft stretches or imprints. So a bag in a back courtyard on corvette, that architect helga blocks, door slice story was filled with challenges. Now shes conquered, the art of building the mainland event, kate, ems out winter. She says, you know how people gush rely, varies greatly depending on your situation from the stars. My mother raised 3 girls on her own and our circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. One option that we in pod 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 Commission to projects until she became self employed in 2013. At 1st, she made a name for herself by reconditioning existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960 s, with the gable roof, or the house for jose in northern berlin. The contrast with regina liveing or is 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. And out in 2020, she took part in a competition of a weimar based organization. The classic shift on her entry was a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bow off covers. It was an unfair and i was cuz it is from the beginning, so to speak was to build an innovative structure of wood from and from the start, the contractor made it clear that i could experiment peterman income, who helga blocks. Dorf 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 monday, friday. And i have an estimate for vamps, is always the question when youre in a competition. If my, how much does the task relate to reality . It is. Do you try right away to get everything right . Or is there a type of provocative openness in the task and the way its presented that tends more to raise questions i have for. 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, it wasnt all it 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, theres an interest leitmotif that shows up repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again. And again. Tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime. The building is 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 that these leaves and the lights drawn in and reflect lights. Sometimes it looks like a u. F o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always rarely can a project be realised incomplete. Accordance with the architect, concept competitions are often the eye of the needle. That designs must pastor i know sides of goes on the one hand as naturally the opportunity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or golf cloud. All of them boys regular lucia has put her mark on 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 is just so busy me. Im behind. Oh, its true that i dont just write a book or express a thought sonata afterwards. Is there in stone . A word of glass or which has a lot of glass chiseled in one thing. 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 built already bought. Im was of Whitman Aguilar to play actin if you get an invitation, lets say for a town whole scene, youre supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. Hows that supposed to work and not . And then youve got to show how much money you have that a number of who, any number of other things, thats a disadvantage for what . Well, the laughter diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside. And the fantasy have heard from mr. Bay, him monta is, is saw, its likely true that most ingenious project architecturally that isnt the one that wins, kenny eyes to quick given our brochure. But for those that have to implement it and its the best choice the 1st day. Why the skip did. There is a wonderful theories of discussions called aint position with architecture i in them theres an interview with catherine who just that was the director of urban planning and basil of dec files. And in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said the image of this city is of that act great. When elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading perfectly every one on or and without any kind of eligibility restrictions along with us. 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 name. My name is henrique i shawn. 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 in the 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. I 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. Its sort of in the hands of fatal neighborhood. You can see whats being created back then people really got involved. You can tagging them 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 in 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 glad answer, and we were invited to take policy, 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 and 1st place went to frank, frank gehry with a miserable hum center. I think its catastrophic, truly is that in place went to our friend and acquaintance, young clothes 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 on 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 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. But its natural the way it is. Its part of the deal and we just got to do it. Yeah. Mm hm. After that set back, she went on to another major project. She was invited to join in the competition for the new estrella tower and want it done that and that wasnt just a consolation prize. 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. Were berlins 1st skyscrapers. The astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. The citys tallest building. It will have 45. 00 floors and they 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 doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where its apparently been un