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Creating equity in a built environment
- Article by Alexandra Blakeslee
July 10, 2023
Episode 16: How to Build Equity – Facade Design & Development in Affordable Housing
- Podcast by Alexandra Blakeslee · Carlton Brown
May 09, 2023
Behind the Facade: FTI Voices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Article by William Green
Like many businesses and institutions, we at FTI have been wrestling with challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what it means to us, how to realize these important aspirations in the Institute.

October 27, 2021
Episode 20: Embodied Carbon
- Podcast by Helen Sanders, General Manager, Technoform North America | FTI President · Irene Martin, Americas West Facades Leader / Associate · Andrea Zani, Project Manager and Engineer · Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Special Projects
January 31, 2024
Episode 18: Intersectionality in Facade Design
- Podcast by Dahmahlee Lawrence AIA, LEED AP, NCARB · Adaeze Cadet, AIA
May 09, 2023
Episode 17: Facades as Instant Landmarks
- Podcast by Dahmahlee Lawrence AIA, LEED AP, NCARB · Dwayne Smith Alexander
May 09, 2023
Episode 19: Cultivating Community through Facade Design
- Podcast by Dahmahlee Lawrence AIA, LEED AP, NCARB · Juan Gabriel Moreno AIA
May 09, 2023
Diversity and Team Building
- Article by Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP, Principal and CEO
How can we be more equitable and inclusive and provide greater opportunities and create an ethos of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace? I offer a few thoughts for consideration.

October 25, 2021
Episode 14: Diversity & Inclusion in the Architectural Profession
- Podcast by Alexandra Blakeslee · Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA
Sharon Egretta Sutton of the Parsons School of Design joins us to address and discuss diversity and inclusion in the architectural profession. This episode is hosted by Alexandra Blakeslee of TECHNOFORM.

June 07, 2022
Episode 15: Forced Labor in the Design & Construction Supply Chain
- Podcast by Dahmahlee Lawrence AIA, LEED AP, NCARB · Chris Sharples
Chris Sharples of SHoP Architects joins us to address/discuss forced labor in the design and construction supply chain. This episode is hosted by Dahmahlee Lawrence, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB of Perkins & Will.

June 07, 2022
Systems Thinking
- Paper by Gabrielle Brainard, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC
This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A

January 22, 2020
Cities under Climate Threat - Philadelphia, Rome and Venice
- Paper by Edgar Stach, Dr., Ing, AIA/IA · Shreya Kanther · Alexis Manfre
The impacts of climate change, driven by increasing extreme temperature, sea-level rise, and heavy precipitations, interact and play an essential

June 28, 2024