020: Dena Prastos: Pairing Architecture and Engineering for Resilient Waterfronts
On today’s episode of Architectette we welcome Dena Prastos, AIA. Dena is an architect, engineer, and founder of the New York City based company, Indigo River.
Indigo River is a women-owned transdisciplinary design firm focused on progressive waterfront architecture and resiliency. The firm specializes in climate adaptation through waterfront solutions.
We talk about:
Graduating with a degree in architecture, feeling pigeonholed, and breaking out of a CAD jockey cycle with a master’s in civil engineering and a decade of exciting, diverse work in architecture, engineering, and construction.
Dena’s realization that there was an opportunity to focus her work on the waterfront which led to the start of Indigo River.
Recent projects and how the firm specializes in waterfront projects like marinas, sea walls, offshore infrastructure, climate adaptation, and code development.
Dena’s leadership at Indigo River: we talk about how she supports her employees with systems to encourage continuing education and self improvement .
We end by talking about the relationships that cities have to their waterfronts.
Links:
Dena's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denaprastos/
Indigo River: https://www.indigoriver.com/
Indigo River Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indigo_river_/
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