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Corey Bertelsen, a student in the Architectural Engineering and Design program at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, talks about his design experience in the program, studying abroad in Berlin, and being both an engineer and a musician.

The Swiss architect Roger Diener reflects on 30 years of practice and key projects, which he still struggles to feel proud of. 'I was always interested in art and architecture as a boy, and today collaborations with artists are really important for us. The Swiss Embassy in Berlin shows the two collaborative strategies we experienced as architects: one to share the experience of a design from the very first day, like we did with Helmut Federle; and the other is with the an artist who joins the site only once the architecture is given, as we did successfully with Pipilotti Rist.' Roger Diener took over the Swiss architecture practice his father founded. Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their designs.

"For me it is always a question of thinking before sketching," explains Wim Crouwel, the Dutch graphic designer. "A design ripens in my head, and then I see it more or less in front of me, before I take a pencil and do it on paper". Phaidon.com caught up with Crouwel in Utrecht at Schröder House - designed by Gerrit Rietveld, a name that was familiar to Crouwel as a student at art school (and who would later become an acquaintance). In a career spanning more than 60 years, Crouwel discusses how he was influenced by the Swiss design movement of the 1950s and how he became a graphic designer, known to his friends as 'grid-nick': "I developed a kind of grid in which my design would take shape. It's very architectural because I'm influenced as much by architecture as by other graphic designers and artists."

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This video is an industry spotlight by PBS on Cast Designs Ornamental Mouldings, a designer, manufacturer, and installer of ornamental cast architectural products. Filmed at their manufacturing facility near Nashville, Tennessee, Cast Designs' President, Tim Slicker, answers questions about the company and tours PBS through several areas that make the company unique. Cast Designs was founded in 1985 and has performed work on projects ranging from casinos in Las Vegas to luxury residences in New England. In addition to their work in both residential and commericial sectors, Cast Designs specializes in historical plaster restoration. Their product offerings include crown moulding, mantels, ceiling domes/medallions, decorative ceiling/wall panels, corbels/brackets, appliques/cartouches, tablebases, and numerous other architectural accents. While they have over 1000 unique designs in their product library, Cast Designs has the expertise to create any custom ornamental moulding design. To learn more about Cast Designs and how they can help you make your decorative dreams a reality, visit CastDesignSupply.com.

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