Replaying our episode with landscape architect Patrícia Akinaga. She is president of Patrícia Akinaga Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Planning in São Paulo, Brazil and, at the time of recording, she is a Principal at Studio MLA in San Francisco. That’s right- she successfully leads two firms in two distinct countries!
Patrícia has a Bachelor of arts in Architecture and Urbanism, Master in Landscape Architecture, and PhD in Ecological Urbanism and Environmental Planning. Her work includes public spaces across 4 continents and encompasses masterplans, parks, campus planning, hospitality, green infrastructure, transportation planning, mixed-use developments and more.
We talk about:
- Her advanced degrees and how she considers others’ degrees when hiring for entry level and mid-career roles
- How her passion for what she does fuels the incredible amount of time and energy required to be a leader in the US and Brazil
- Cultural and environmental differences
- How ideas could be shared in more impactful way across communities
- Patricia shares about some of her favorite projects
- The political, economic, social, and health impacts of landscape architecture and how it has the power to transform communities
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