starchitects: the podcast

Hollywood has its message VERY wrong when portraying what architects and designers do in a day. starchitects:the podcast explores fact versus fiction with the professionals. How many interior designers (shoulder pads included) should work from the residential office of a sole proprietor?  Would you pay for the services of an architect who signed off on a building where not only the electrical wiring is shot but the sprinklers won’t work unless you explode the water tanks on the roof (?!) using C4 (Paul Newman, I’m looking at you…)? Do you trust your developer moved the headstones AND the bodies?

A&D (architecture and design) professionals Jeff Wolinski, Vince Galea, and Roberta Pennington are joined each episode with a hand-selected “starchitect” in our amazing basement studio in Portland, Oregon and try to tear down what the entertainment industry has built up.

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S00/E03 The Lost Episodes: Gingerbread Romance

April 19, 2021 by Roberta Pennington in architecture, comedy, love

As James Bond once said—”I thought Christmas only came once a year.” We found a lost present inside the Starchives and we are unwrapping a magnum sized episode for you to ride all the way to work. Well, since most of us now work from home….take it to the bathroom, your bedroom, basement or even to your designated crying or snack room.

Enjoy the ins and outs of architecture using gingerbread and Tia or Tamera Mowry.

We watch A Gingerbread Romance!

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April 19, 2021 /Roberta Pennington
romance, engineering, gingerbread, architecture, contest
architecture, comedy, love
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S00/E02 The Lost Episodes: 12 Angry Men

March 22, 2021 by Roberta Pennington in architecture, drama, love

Are you angry? Are you? Well after this past year during these uncircumcised times filled with despair, hopelessness and flapping dirty foreskin we dove balls deep into the Starchives and pull out all over the place with 12 Angry Men!

Lets take a look back on where we were as a society, where we have gone as a society and how much and how little we have changed as a society. Basically thanks for nothing history. When will we ever learn? Same as it ever was….Come on people!

March 22, 2021 /Roberta Pennington
architect, white men, court, design, poc
architecture, drama, love

archi-speak 005: brandscaping

February 11, 2020 by Roberta Pennington in architecture, comedy, communication, development, design, interior design, love

What is Brandscaping? Whatever it is we have to make sure we don’t nick the balls.

February 11, 2020 /Roberta Pennington
architecture, archispeak, brandscaping, int, urban planning, landscaping
architecture, comedy, communication, development, design, interior design, love
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