Principal Q&A: Womens’ History Month Edition
In honor of Women’s History Month, we sat down with the two female principals of Strada. Meet Abby Mountain and Dina Snider, who have over 40 years of combined experience …
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Cross-Office Collaboration
Cross-Office Collaboration: Establishing trust and creating a collaborative culture across the miles Establishing trust and building collaborative relationships is an essential part of architectural practice and is sometimes a challenging …
Office Culture at Strada
Culture is a constant conversation around our office, and if you ask a Stradista what makes our firm special, you’re likely to hear some iteration of “firm culture” spill out …
Early encounters with urban design
Last Wednesday, the lunch room in Strada’s Pittsburgh office was alive with the sounds of teenagers negotiating. Not our newest recruits (yet), but participants in the ACE Mentoring Program, working …
Inside a mid-century classic, glimpses of our Pittsburgh office
Strada’s Pittsburgh office has been in the former Alcoa building for a year and a half now. This distinctive modernist skyscraper (completed in 1953) has offered us plenty of design …
Learning by Doing: Designing Active Learning Spaces
For the first time in decades, schools from elementary through higher education are dramatically changing the way they teach. Acknowledging the limitations of the traditional classroom, they are embracing new …
Hacking the Gender Gap
One of my favorite things about being an architect is the opportunity to meet interesting people. It is also a part of my job to learn about them, about the …
Bakery Square: Evolution of an Innovation District
It is not often that you have an opportunity to design a new urban neighborhood and it’s even more rare to get to see that vision take shape so quickly. …
