E3 - Energy and Efficiency with Emily is all about building science, architecture, and female entrepreneurship: Season 3: Highlighting another amazing woman in the field of architecture, I had the pleasure of talking with Katherine MacPhail about being a mom, architect, business owner, podcaster and sitting on the board of the newly formed ARDEMIS foundation for helping out other architects when unexpected events crop up.
About Katherine MacPhail
I believe that architects are for everyone and have made myself available to homeowners on a variety of levels. In my podcast Talking Home Renovations with the House Maven provides, I interview contractors, architects, and vendors about their expertise and homeowners about their renovation stories. I offer classes online in Home Renovation basics, Home Renovations on a budget, Environmental considerations in Home renovation and Home Renovation Design Studio. The Ask an Architect design help line offers a service to Massachusetts homeowners, contractors and designers who need a bit of help with their design. I continue to offer full service architectural services as well.
After practicing architecture for 25 years, I am exploring the business side of architecture and helping young architects succeed through co-hosting Context and Clarity Live with Jeff Echols every Thursday afternoon at 4 eastern on YouTube, Linked In, Twitch and Facebook. The show is later published as a podcast.
Email: kewm@demiosarchitects.com
thehousemaven@talkinghomerenovations.com
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharine-white-macphail/
About dEMios Architects
Your home is an intensely personal space. Your life unfolds there. Babies come home from the hospital. Puppies are gated in the kitchen during housebreaking. 90th birthdays are celebrated in the garden. You watch stupid movies in the family room, work on jigsaw puzzles in a snow storm, get bad news. Countless dinners and coffees and nights in bed. Laundry. Sleepovers. Teenagers playing ping pong or Dungeons and Dragons. Band practice, book club, holiday parties and just being still. How will you arrange your space to make the most of all this? We have been there, and we can help you imagine it all.
Most of our work consists of renovations and additions to existing housing stock in eastern Massachusetts. We prefer to work along with the client in the design process, which allows us to help the client realize their vision for their home and allows the client to participate fully in the process. We guide clients through the process of choosing their build team and ideally work closely with the contractor while construction is underway to minimize challenges and stress during that time.
While we are primarily a residential design firm, we also consider the entire property, including inside and outside of the house. The living exterior informs the interior. The wall is a lens through which we perceive the world. Landscape design includes the hardscape and permanent structures of a site as well as the appropriate trees, shrubs and perennial beds. I am especially interested in the landscape during the dark and cold half of the year.
