Dan and Greg interview Matt Nardella, founder of Moss Design, a Chicago design-build firm with an array of residential and commercial projects, and a bent for nudging clients and neighbors toward sustainability in small, but meaningful increments.
Interviewee: Matt Nardella
Intro / Outro: “Highway Chile”, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Discussed:
- NewSchool of Architecture San Diego
- Architects as developers, contractors and multi-disciplinary designers
- In praise of not designing projects on a spreadsheet (and finding the gray zones of zoning)
- Credit due to:
o Ted Smith > The Red Office
o Jonathan Segal
- Architect, Know (and Sell) Thyself!
- The SCI-ARC Blowout
- Ending brute-force office culture > how to not “punch down”
- “We (architects) should be interviewing them (developers)”
- Monocultures of design making people sick and unhappy?
- Nightingale Housing, Melbourne - Jeremy McLeod and Maria Yanez
- You don’t need to spend more money to achieve sustainability – you just need to seriously undertake site analysis and translate that into a building, while thinking like a builder and the client – or being both, potentially.
- Want to build? Blog first!
- “Granny flats” are back in Chicago and the city is building 9,000 new units in the West Looop – will that help the housing crisis?
- On being a “bike warrior”
- Are people in happy countries just driving less?
- Vision Zero
- The best way to make an argument for bike commuting is to just do it
- Park(ing) Day

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