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The aftermath of the storm . . . . . . #tropicalst

The aftermath of the storm
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#tropicalstorm #isaiah #schuylkillriver #schuylkillrivertrail #schuylkillbanksboardwalk #waterrising

I have been mentoring women for ages and ages. It

I have been mentoring women for ages and ages. It makes me so happy to see them do well. Thank you for being a friend all these years @laura_theory and doing such incredible things!
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#challengeaccepted #womensupportingwomen

VMA wishes Nina good luck with school! We will mis

VMA wishes Nina good luck with school! We will miss you! Can’t wait til you come back.
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#architectureschool #universityofmiami @universityofmiami_hurricanes @ninsta.world #designforeducation

This is a rendering of our vision for the Philadel

This is a rendering of our vision for the Philadelphia Youth Basketball Center. PYB’s mission is to serve Philadelphia’s disadvantaged youth through leadership and empowerment training, education, financial literacy, counseling, healthy meals and basketball training. The center will be an adaptive reuse of an industrial building in Nicetown adjacent to the Kroc Center. Get involved!
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#philadelphiayouthbasketball #PYB #leadership #empowerment #counseling #financialliteracy #youthbasketball #educationmatters #designforeducation

Congratulations to Clifton Fordham on the publicat

Congratulations to Clifton Fordham on the publication of this tome. Can’t wait to read it. Clifton has returned to the VMA team after a long hiatus. He is on the faculty of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. As a graduate of Yale University’s School of Architecture and Howard University, he comes by his intellectual side naturally. Swipe for a photo of Clifton and more importantly go to Amazon and order Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology, and Poetics in the Postwar Era!
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#buildingtechnology #architecturalhistory #cliftonfordham #constructingbuildingenclosures #newrelease

Found these at the Black Angus ‘Antiques’ Mall

Found these at the Black Angus ‘Antiques’ Mall in Adamstown today. The Circle Chair by Joseph Cicchelli - mid 1950’s. Decent condition. The price seems to have held! Nina is taking them and the Kihlim to Miami for her new apartment. She is trying to decide if she likes these Knowles dishes. I call them the Jetsons dishes. What do you think?
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#circlechairs #josephcicchellicirclechair #josephcicchelli #interiordesign #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernfurniture #moving in

COVID 19 style photo shoot: how to create a crowd

COVID 19 style photo shoot: how to create a crowd with only two towheaded boys! Thanks to @jeffreytotaro for the great eye and photo blending talents.
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#cafeteria #primaryschool #designforeducation #dininghall #independentschool @naisnetwork #photoshoot #flexiblespace #cafetorium #montclairkimberleyacademy

For catering and speedy cleanup: this butlers pant

For catering and speedy cleanup: this butlers pantry features a commercial dishwasher and very stylish wallpaper. Head of School houses often are used for trustee dinners and etc and so need this sort of support.
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#designforeducation #headofschoolhouse #boardingschool #boardingschoollife #butlerspantry #kitchendesign #interiordesign #wallpaper @hotchkissschool @jeffreytotaro

Thinking about my favorite light fixtures that we

Thinking about my favorite light fixtures that we have ever specified! This one is a fanciful LED piece that really feels biomorphic. Is it a plant with blowing leaves or a sea creature? In any case they are hanging over the Head of School’s dining room table to make a statement about the school’s focus on sustainability while making a statement on its own.
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@hotchkissschool @moooi #lighting #diningroom #interiordesign #designforeducation #sustainabledesign #ledlights

Great Photoshoot today with @jeffreytotaro @robert

Great Photoshoot today with @jeffreytotaro @robertadouglass @ninsta.world @steve_corsello #meaghanfinney at #montclairkimberleyacademy
This project for the Primary School is an innovative cafetorium!
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#designforeducation #primaryschool #performingarts #cafeterias #montclairkimberlyacadamy

Wallpaper options for a powder room. Swipe for the

Wallpaper options for a powder room. Swipe for the other choice. What’s your favorite? Paper is made here in Philadelphia by Galbraith & Paul.
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#wallpaper #choices #interiors #pattern #fishes #birds

A busy and really enjoyable day actually IN the of

A busy and really enjoyable day actually IN the office working on finishes and fabrics for our Penn Bio Medical Library project! Brittany and Sennah are so inspiring.
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#interiordesign #vmainteroirsstudio #designforeducation @upennlib

Ardrossan. The family and the house that inspired

Ardrossan. The family and the house that inspired The Philadelphia Story, a fifty plus room mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer. Likely that meant it was designed by Julian Abele, the chief designer for the firm and one of the first black architects in the United States. We visited today and were toured around by one of the family. What a treat.
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#ardrossan #horacetrumbauer #julianabele #thephiladelphiastory #classicalarchitecture @icaaphila #traditionalarchitecture #interiordesign #philadelphiasuburbs

Sennah Loftus, VMA Associate Principal and I had s

Sennah Loftus, VMA Associate Principal and I had so much fun discussing these four projects yesterday on the NeoConnect 2020 platform. Thanks to Lux Home for sponsoring. A huge thank you to the 300plus who signed up to listen to our thoughts on how to strengthen campus communities through food service. .
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#neoconnect2020 @neocon_shows #luxhome #sustainabledesign #farmtotable #dininghall #cafe #rootcellar @millbrookschool @lvilleschool @hotchkissschool @whartonschool #joescafe

Still time to register! Sennah and I have a mouthw

Still time to register! Sennah and I have a mouthwatering presentation prepared that will leave you hungry and.....probably wanting dinner or at least a drink. Click on the link to sign up. .
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#neoconnect2020 #designforeducation #dininghall #studentcenter #cafe #farmtotable #foodservice @voithmactavish

To Clifton, Rob, Rob, John, Ryan, Cameron and Nate

To Clifton, Rob, Rob, John, Ryan, Cameron and Nate (sorry Nate, we need a photo) HAPPY FATHER’S DAY. I think between them they have seventeen lucky kids. And VMA is very lucky to have these great dads as part of the team!
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@johnhcluver @robertadouglass @robertpduke @fordhamclifton @cameronmact @voithmactavish #fathersday #greatdad #philadelphia

Once in a blue moon we do a residential project. W

Once in a blue moon we do a residential project. When we do, we like to work with artisans and craftsman we know, are local and have a story to tell. The wallpaper here is made in my old neighborhood, Manayunk. It’s digitally printed but stems from their hand blocking of fabrics. This intall shot is actually the dining room of one of my best friends. The owners of Galbraith and Paul live not far away and are friends of my friends so they came and taped up some papers to shoot for their catalog. How personal is that? Plus it is gorgeous product. .
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@galbraithandpaul #galbraithandpaul #wallpaper #handblocked #localcraftsmanship #interiors #interiordecoration

Thank you @joshuahahn123 for sending me this bit o

Thank you @joshuahahn123 for sending me this bit of evening bliss yesterday! This is a food storage building for produce that comes off of Hotchkiss’ (organic) Fairfield Farm. There is also processing/teaching kitchen and a porch to die for. So simple, but one of my favorite projects of all time. The farm has become a focal point of every department in the school and has generated many innovative classes and programs. .
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@fairfield_farm @hotchkissschool #organicfarming #handsonlearning #foodprocessing #teachingkitchen #porch #sustainabledesign #environmentallyfriendly #designforeducation #boardingschool #boardingschoollife

This made me happy yesterday. The group of young a

This made me happy yesterday. The group of young artists, Walls for Justice, painted these. They are appropriating the signs of vandalism and transforming the boarded up store fronts with strong positive messages. These are in my view every time I leave my apartment. We are in this together, we need to rebuild, rethink, re-understand, re-prioritize. Black Lives Matter. .
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@wallsforjustice #hope #blm #philadelphia

Double pumped about our collaboration with Philade

Double pumped about our collaboration with Philadelphia Youth Basketball to create a Center for leadership and empowerment training, education, mental health services, weight and fitness, and basketball. As the director, Kenny Holdsman, said this morning- place matters. This will be a place that is safe, happy, owned by the community it serves and will be nurturing. Not traumatic or threatening. Philadelphia youth will have the space in which to do their hard work of intellectual, emotional and physical learning. It will be a place in which young people can do the work of transforming their own lives. The center will have great classrooms and six courts with high ceilings and natural light. Great meeting today with the leadership team. Thanks to Andrew and Nina from VMA for the presentation. Thanks to PYB for the comments and insightful questions which will only make the center better. .
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@phillyyouthbasketball @alip215 @ninsta.world #basketballandlearning #philadelphiayouthbasketball @vma #philadelphiacommunity #designforeducation #basketball

It’s been a wonderful time with Yiran Zhao in ou

It’s been a wonderful time with Yiran Zhao in our office interning. We wish her well in her new endeavors as she takes on graduate school in architecture at UPenn. Way to go Yiran!! .
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#wishyouwell #graduateschool @weitzman_school @upenn.fine.arts.design @vma #lovetoteach @yiranzcecilia

A special thanks to Brian Langhorst of Eustis Chai

A special thanks to Brian Langhorst of Eustis Chair for including me in his first Exploring Design Blog! Click in the link for the full story.
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#eustischair @eustischair @olsoncorp #designblog @voithmactavish

Philadelphia’s 7 day moving average. We are down

Philadelphia’s 7 day moving average. We are down to 26% of the peak while in some of the states cases are still rising. Wear the masks despite the heat, keep the distance despite the need for solidarity. Data is the daily information published by the NYT and presented through a program my economist husband wrote in R. .
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#stats #statistics #philadelphiacovid19 #trackingcovid #stayhealthy #wearamask

Connections. Over the last few days I have been ha

Connections. Over the last few days I have been having difficult but consciousness raising types of conversations with those within the VMA family and friends. I thank all of you for caring enough about me to help me towards being less tone deaf and perhaps a bit less self satisfied.
I will say this, when I posted the photo of the doused bonfire outside my window it was not because I was worried about what was being burned. I was scared stiff because my apartment was engulfed in toxic smoke and the flames jumped as high as my windows. I was scared for my life not my property. I was scared for my cat, dog and husband’s lives.
And I watched, not the peaceful protesters, but trained folks both black and white set that fire and others on my corner and start the looting. I stood down a white man who looked like he was about to hit me for training my garden hose on that fire.

I made an impassioned plea at my staff meeting the following Monday to recognize the difference between the much needed protests and the violence: not to let violence to property distract or drive a wedge further. Black Lives Matter.
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#blacklivesmatter #connections #equality #raisingmyconsciousness #peacefulprotest @jeffreytotaro @ramsarchitects