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DESIGN:ED Podcast: Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge

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The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

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Architect Alan Ricks and landscape architect Sierra Bainbridge of Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS) join Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the impacts on community through design, their Rwanda campus for the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and the firm's new book, Seeking Abundance.

“You really can’t make an observation of another community or cultural or group without your own preconceptions—you must begin to acknowledge those and understand that. When you start to share stories back and forth, that’s where the trust begins. We try to come to communities not to pull knowledge out of them about how we should build, but to observe and to share why we are here and what we have in common—and that together, we will solve things.”

- Sierra Bainbridge

Hosted by Austin, Texas–based architect Aaron Prinz, Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast has featured the most renowned architects of our time—such as Art Gensler, Kengo Kuma, and Glenn Murcutt, as well as rising professionals in the next generation, such as Pascale Sablan, Michael Murphy, and Jenny Wu, all available in our library.

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