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O cmo 25 arquitectos aprendieron sobre liderazgo practicando este ritmo.   Durante el más reciente retiro Marvel, la mejor actividad para entender dinámicas de liderazgo y crear relaciones entre directores y socios, sorprendentemente ocurrió durante una clase de música tradicional puertorriqueña, específicamente la bomba puertorriqueña, ofrecida por la Fundación de Culebra y su programa Música…

Q&A with Marvelites on Hispanic & Latino Heritage

  Our lives have been plasticized for many years, and the accumulation of plastics is overwhelming us by the day. The building construction industry perpetuates the spread of plastic usage with many applications such as electrical wires in lighting fixtures, plastic piping in plumbing and even PVC (polyvinyl chloride) usage in kitchens that millworkers promote,…

  A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvels designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvels success.   What brought you to Marvel? I had been talking to Mitch [Crowder], who I had always seen…

As the previous entries in the Analog Insight series mention: hand drawing is still a key tool in Marvel’s design process, whether in the initial ideation phases or in the carefully curated creation of rendered images for public approval as in the Orchard Beach case study. To continue this conversation, we want to walk you…

Digital drawing tools make it possible to move quickly between computer-generated models and hand drawn overlays, combining the strengths of each medium. Drawing by hand is intuitive and immediate – there is no intermediate software to master in order to create an image. Meanwhile, digital modeling tools permit working and testing at speed while ensuring…

While the world of architecture gets ever more digital, Paulo Belardi made a compelling argument of why architects should pick up a pencil in the essay Why Architects Still Draw, 2004. With the advent of computer-aided drawing, many were quick to dismiss hand drawing as an anachronism, but by focusing on the sketch, defined by…

An opening art exhibition at 7Lispenard. It is with great honor to discuss the work of four contemporary Puerto Rican painters on display at 7 Lispenard Street in Tribeca, NYC. Rogelio Báez Vega, Nora Nieves, Livia Ortíz, and Efrén Candelaria—all in full control of their craft, are collectively creating a conversation of what it means…

  Planning with intention for Inclusion and Equity Who or what makes a community?   We as designers should center our design process and approach around people. Communities are the ones that determine the success of our designs, and therefore it is imperative to work with communities to ensure we incorporate the needs and vision.…

A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvels designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvels success. What brought you to Marvel?  I graduated from Pratt in 2001. My degree and focus were in Communication Design,…