CPD Workshop: Terrazzo Architectural Flooring
CPD Workshop: Terrazzo Architectural Flooring
Fri, Aug 19, 2022 3:00 PM AEST (+10:00)
A$20
Baltimore + Rotterdam | Present Company + EX.s Architecture
Date and time
Location
Online event
Online conversation about designing (in) cities, with Megan Elcrat + Elina Karanastasi on March 8 at 12pm ET (US), 6pm CET (Netherlands).
About this event
Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities
Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. (More information about this conversation series)
The March 8, 2022 edition features:
- Megan Elcrat Present Company (Baltimore)
- Elina Karanastasi EX.s Architecture (Rotterdam)
- Moderator: Tonya Sanders, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P)
- Host: Cristina Murphy Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
TIME & REGISTRATION
12:00pm EST Maryland time, which is 18.00 CET Netherlands time. Each speaker talks about their work, followed by panel discussion and Q&A.
Open to the public. Advance registration required.
The webinar will be conducted in English language.
AUDIENCE
The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, community organizers, social enterprises, city planners, policymakers, and professors and students of architecture and urban design.
About the speakers
Megan Elcrat Present Company
Megan Elcrat holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Kansas State University. In practice since 2005, she is a licensed architect, a Legacy LEED AP and an adjunct professor of architecture at Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2010 Megan founded Present Company, an architecture firm that focuses on historic renovation, adaptive reuse, commercial & residential work. She has also worked as an architect-lead developer on small residential and commercial projects in Baltimore City, including alley houses on Latrobe Street and the Co_Lab workspace in Old Goucher.
Elina Karanastasi EX.s Architecture
Elina Karanastasi is an architect and entrepreneur in Rotterdam. She has studied architecture in the National Technical University of Athens in Greece and in Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and has taught for several years in the Technical University of Crete and in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she was coordinator of the first year design master studies. She has built extensively in Greece and the Netherlands with a focus on housing and self building wooden sustainable structures. After working for several firms for design and management of interior, housing and urban planning projects she has started ExS Architects in 2008. Apart of the design she runs ExsPlus and Building Stones, project management, development and self-building advice firms in the Netherlands and she is co-founder of the non-profit makerspace Makerdam in Rotterdam.
Tonya Sanders Ph.D. Associate Professor, Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning
Tonya Nashay Sanders, MA, PhD, AICP is an Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning at Morgan State University. Her research is on faith-based community development; faith-based organization disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery; and community development and health. Currently she serves on the board of the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake and leads the Health and Community Development committee for Community Development Network of Maryland. She earned her doctorate in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a master’s degree in Community Psychology and Social Change from the Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Truman State University. She is also a certified practicing urban planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and President of Faith + Community Development, LLC, a community development consulting firm.
About this webinar series
This webinar is one of a series of design conversations with Baltimore + Rotterdam architects and urban designers.
See other webinars in this series
Series is coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, with assistance from Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC).
Event Partners: AIA Baltimore ; Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)
