In this episode, AIP talks to Lori A. Brown FAIA, an architect and Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University and Jordan Kravitz, AIA, LEED Green Assoc, WELL AP, a healthcare architect and medical planner at Smithgroup, about TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) Laws and the call to action to mobilize a list of architects who can assist in design and construction of new clinics in states where abortion is still legal.
If you are an architect and are willing to be included on a list to assist abortion clinics in states where abortion remains legal, please contact Lori Brown lbrown04@syr.edu
Also, here is the google forms link to the sign up to the database: https://forms.gle/2XDfJSoDLw1KFmj39
As a healthcare architect, and medical planner, Jordan Kravitz believes we can bolster community healthcare practices by creating a strong pillar of health and wellness by designing without bias but with dignity, compassion, and sustainable thinking towards our future. With projects across the entire care continuum from medical office buildings to complex hospital projects she can effortlessly execute the duties of both project architect and medical planner, playing an essential role in integrating the programmatic and spatial demands of a project with its technical requirements. Jordan is known as a leader in her place of work and community through her activism in justices, equity , diversity, and inclusion (J.E.D.I) initiatives and involvement with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the Women in Healthcare Organization.
Lori Brown FAIA focuses on the relationships between architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. She co-founded and leads ArchiteXX, www.architexx.org, a gender equity in architecture organization in New York City that works to raise the awareness of women in architecture, create support and mentoring networks and take design actions broadening the exposure of architecture out in the world. Their current traveling exhibition is Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 and has been supported by the Graham Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her two books include Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture (2011) and Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals (2013). Her two current book projects include Birthing Centers, Borders and Bodies and co-editing the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 with Dr. Karen Burns. She is a 2021 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices recipient and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is a Professor at the School of Architecture Syracuse University and a registered architect in New York state.
Links:
https://www.averyreview.com/issues/54/legal-houdini
http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/41/zoned-out-buildings-and-bodies
https://unladylike.co/bonus-episodes/24/lori-brown-clinic-design
https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/abortion-roe-architect-list.html
https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/architectures-role-in-a-post-roe-world/
Sarah Wesseler, "The Abortion Clinic Next Door," The Architectural League of New York, July 7, 2021
https://archleague.org/article/the-abortion-clinic-next-door/
Lila Allen, Emerging Voices, "Lori Brown wants to use architecture to further the greater good," The Architects Newspaper, February 19, 2021, https://www.archpaper.com/2021/02/emerging-voices-lori-brown/
The Editors, “Introducing the Architectural League’s 2021 Emerging Voices winners,” The Architect's Newspaper,
February 17, 2021, https://www.archpaper.com/2021/02/introducing-the-architectural-leagues-2021-emerging-voices-winners
Interviewed, 'On Feminisms and Architecture', Withstanding podcast through Finnish Cultural Institute in New York; with Helsinki-based architect and activist Arvind Ramachandran and moderated by Tiffany Lambert, curator of Architecture and Design at the institute, December 1, 2021,https://fciny.org/projects/withstanding