It’s a race against time to piece the clues together before the train reaches its destination. The culprit of a grisly crime is still on board your train. “If that’s what I am here to do, I achieved it that day.A classic tale of murder on the Orient Express, reimagined. “They said, ‘You saw us and you heard us,’” Bosch remembers. They’re smart and high-performing, interconnected and interdependent.” After the project’s completion, she presented it to the school’s administration and students, who stood up at the end and applauded with tears in their eyes. Each building is a metaphor for the women she met there: “They’re complex on the inside, silent on the outside. In 2013, Bosch’s team completed Saudi Arabia’s Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, the world’s largest university for women. Miami Dade College Academic Support Center “It’s a theater of people and community.” She’s also completed Brazil’s L’Oreal Research and Innovation Center, and a mixed-use building for students at Miami-Dade College. “I call it the Spanish steps,” Bosch says, referring to Rome’s Piazza di Spagna. She also led the team behind 1212 Lincoln Road, which comprises a hotel, open-air market and retail space slated to open next year in Miami Beach. “It was not going to be the same kind of hospital you’d build in the West,” Bosch says.
Faced with unreliable infrastructure, Bosch used simple, sustainable design techniques rooted in local culture, like natural ventilation and outdoor rooms. She was the lead architect for the Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge, which opened in January as Africa’s first LEED-certified hospital. “I want to leave things better than I found them,” Bosch says.īosch loves projects that are “unclassifiable”: hybrids of typologies that require new ways of thinking to reach a design that simultaneously solves problems and transforms lives. Her parents, both architects, designed schools and social housing, instilling values of rigor, fearlessness and compassion in their only child. Born in Cuba, she’s lived in three countries and speaks four languages. Pat is the ringmaster who brings everyone together.”ġ212 Lincoln Road is a mixed-use project in Miami Beach by architect Pat Bosch.īosch’s ability to think and communicate in a plural way is a skill she’s been perfecting since childhood. “Pat has always insisted we talk to clients about a collaborative design process-even in the beginning, when most people weren’t interested,” Gelabert-Navia says. As a conductor of sorts, her task is to hear a single melody-and ensure it is clearly understood. Today, Bosch leads a staff of nearly 60 designers she’s recruited from around the world. They began by immersing themselves in their community, earning a reputation as out-of-the-box thinkers. Having worked for established architects like Richard Meier and Steven Holl, the invitation to craft a new venture from scratch felt urgent and exciting.
She took the job after meeting with then-CEO Henry Mann, whose socially responsible vision for the firm fascinated Bosch. Bosch personifies the humanistic approach that defines Perkins+Will’s 82-year-old legacy, where architecture is a means to fix, help and affect.īosch and architect Jose Gelabert-Navia co-founded Perkins+Will Miami in 1996, with the aim of expanding the firm’s work in the Americas. As design director of Perkins+Will’s Miami office, she inspires, provokes and leads teams of experts in projects that span size, typology and cultures-formidable tasks that require serious versatility. Pat Bosch doesn’t like to be pigeon-holed.
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