24. Growing Moss, Gathering Pace
from Unfrozen Hosted by Daniel Safarik and Greg Lindsay
Dan and Greg interview Matt Nardella, founder of Moss Design, a Chicago design-build firm with an array of residential and commercial projects, and a bent for nudging clients and neighbors toward sustainability in small, but meaningful increments. Interviewee: Matt Nardella Intro / Outro: “Highway Chile”, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience Discussed: - NewSchool of Architecture San Diego - Architects as developers, contractors and multi-disciplinary designers - In praise of not designing projects on a spreadsheet (and finding the gray zones of zoning) - Credit due to: o Ted Smith > The Red Office o Jonathan Segal - Architect, Know (and Sell) Thyself! - The SCI-ARC Blowout - Ending brute-force office culture > how to not “punch down” - “We (architects) should be interviewing them (developers)” - Monocultures of design making people sick and unhappy? - Nightingale Housing, Melbourne - Jeremy McLeod and Maria Yanez - You don’t need to spend more money to achieve sustainability – you just need to seriously undertake site analysis and translate that into a building, while thinking like a builder and the client – or being both, potentially. - Want to build? Blog first! - “Granny flats” are back in Chicago and the city is building 9,000 new units in the West Looop – will that help the housing crisis? - On being a “bike warrior” - Are people in happy countries just driving less? - Vision Zero - The best way to make an argument for bike commuting is to just do it - Park(ing) Day
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