An Illustrated Guide to Spring Ephemerals

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A Visual Journey Through Native Plants and the Pollinators They Support   The first signs of Spring in the Northeast are marked by the emergence of flowers like forsythias, daffodils, and hyacinths. They stud our parks, planter beds, and road medians with their trademark colors — heralds of warmer weather and future foliage. If you…

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Questions For a Designer: Lucilla Fuller Marvel

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And her legacy in Puerto Rico as a teacher, author, social and urban planner. Lucilla Fuller Marvel’s career is a testament to her diverse talents as a teacher, author, and social and urban planner. As a former educator at the University of Puerto Rico, she emphasized participatory planning, reflected in her influential work “A Guide…

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Must-Read Books for International Women’s Day

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  In celebration of International Women’s Day, the women designers at Marvel recommended books for other women designers, across all levels. These books have inspired the talented female architects, landscape architects, interior designers, urban designers and planners at Marvel. Spanning a diverse spectrum of genres, from architecture books to biographies about other influential women, these…

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Affordable Housing: A Conversation on Small Town Economic Growth

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  In a thought-provoking dialogue with Guido Hartray, Architect and founding partner at Marvel, and Ishita Gaur, Urban Designer and Planner and Associate, we explore the correlations between urban development and community aspirations. The possibility which emerges from the discussion is that affordable housing not only serves a community need, but it can also benefit…

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Questions For A Designer: Laura Martín i Sepúlveda

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Des de tocar tres instruments fins a navegar pel Mar Mediterrani, Laura Martín i Sepúlveda és dissenyadora arquitectònica a Marvel, amb seu a la nostra oficina de Barcelona.   L’entrevista es presenta tant en anglès com en català. | Interview is presented in both English and Catalan:     Com vas decidir embarcar-te en la…

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Bomba Puertorriqueña

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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…

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The Challenge of Removing Plastics from Our Buildings

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  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,…

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Questions For A Designer: Cody Solberg

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  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…

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