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Jessica Grose writes about the hundreds of rural labor and delivery units that have closed in recent years in May 6th NYT.

“I am taking the bold stance that women should not have to give birth on the side of the road in 2026.”

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YOU can help expand midwifery care in New York State! Please join us on Tuesday, May 5th for a press conference and rally on the Million Dollar Staircase at the State Capitol in Albany.

Link to more information, including details about reserving your spot on a (free) coach from NYC to Albany and back in bio.

Join us this Tuesday, April 28 for the final lecture of the season featuring Timothy Mansfield an architect recognized internationally for his leadership and design vision as President and CEO at CambridgeSeven, a 50-person Cambridge, Massachusetts-based architecture and exhibit design firm.

Timothy’s lecture, titled, “From Granite to Innovation: Designing the Roux Institute’s Vision for Maine’s Future” will focus on the design of the Alfond Center, the 245,000-square-foot flagship academic building of the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, Maine. Designed by CambridgeSeven, the project offers a unique opportunity to unite bold architectural vision with regional identity and sustainable innovation.

The lecture also examines the project’s ambitious sustainability agenda, developed collaboratively with Northeastern University and the City of Portland. Key initiatives include geothermal heating and cooling, photovoltaic panels, mass timber construction using locally harvested wood, triple-glazed curtainwall systems optimized through solar radiation analysis, and shoreline restoration addressing sea level rise. 
 
Doors open at 5pm at Aura with drinks and light bites. Lecture begins at 6pm. Limited tickets are still available via the link in bio. Please note the private tour of the Alfond Center is SOLD OUT.

Please join me at “Meet the Midwives: Championing Collaborative Maternal Care in NYC & Beyond!” 🤰🏾

Moderated by The Birthing Place’s founder, Myla Flores, this event is rooted in the belief that true collaboration is essential for closing racial disparities and fostering respect across professions. Our goal is to establish deeper connections that can influence policy changes to increase midwifery access in NYC.

We’ll be conversing with an incredible spectrum of midwives and maternal care experts to explore what “true collaboration” looks like, and how we can uplift models of care that keep birthing people safest.

Conversations like these enable us to:
- Address persistent racial disparities in maternal health outcomes
- Advance models of care where birthing people are truly at the center
- Understand the policy landscape impacting midwifery access

All are welcome! Let’s work together for safer, more equitable maternal care.

📅 April 29, 5-7pm
📍 Anew: 526 Hudson Street

Big thanks to  for co-hosting! And a huge THANK YOU to our participating midwives: Eugenia Montesinos, Trinisha Williams, Denise Wharton, Shawna King, Dayna Hernandez, and Estefany Angeles for your essential work and being part of this vital discussion.

Link to register for this free event in bio.

I had the pleasure to meet and to learn from Anka Duer, Architect and Midwife, based in Switzerland, and Architect Esben Bala Skouboe, PhD, from Studio Poesis in Denmark, at the Transforming Birthspace Global Colloquium, sponsored by OCAD University in Toronto last fall. They will present their work at a Birth Place Lab, The University of British Columbia Justice and Equity in Perinatal Services (JEPS) webinar on April 30th, 2pm ET. Please join me! Link to register (free) is below.

Anka’s seminar explores the role of the built environment in shaping childbirth as a complex neuropsychosocial process. Moving beyond a purely clinical understanding, it investigates how space, architecture, and institutional structures influence physiology, perception, and decision-making during labour. Drawing on diverse birthing cultures, including Indigenous perspectives, it presents a relational framework connecting architecture, birth, and context, showing how these elements shape birthing environments across cultural and institutional settings.

Dr. Skouboe will speak about Transforming Birth through Architecture and Design, emphasizing the critical role of design and art in humanizing birth environments. Drawing from his own practice and research, he will share diverse case studies, innovative methodologies, and design exemplars, showcasing how immersive and responsive architecture can enhance birth experiences and outcomes. With poetic clarity, he invites attendees to envision a paradigm shift, where architecture harmonizes with human needs to foster sensorial and existential qualities, empowering spaces for one of life’s most profound moments - birth.

Excited to announce the second offering of the Beloved Birth Film Series: Arrest the Midwife. Please join us!

🎞️ A Beloved Birth NY Film Screening & Community Conversation
Join us for an afternoon of film, dialogue, and connection:
🎬 Arrest the Midwife - a powerful story at the intersection of birth, autonomy, and justice
🎙️ Conversation with filmmaker Elaine Epstein + community voices
🤝 Space to connect, reflect, and imagine what’s possible for birth
🎁 Light refreshments + community gathering
👉 April 30th, 3–5 PM | Anew, 526 Hudson St, NYC
🎟️ FREE tickets- RSVP via link in bio, QR code or bit.ly/BelovedBirthATM

At Birth Center Equity, our Beloved Birth 50 by 50 vision is that by 2050, 50% of babies in the U.S. will come into the world with the care of midwives. Through this film series, we’re building space for storytelling, connection, and collective action to bring that future to life.

This gathering is made possible by an incredible community of partners and supporters:
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We’re grateful and can’t wait to be in community with you 💗💜❤️

I’m excited to be part of the Hearst Lecture Series 25/26, lecturing at Cal Poly College of Architecture & Environmental Design, San Luis Obispo, CA on Friday, April 17th, 5pm PT! Please join us if you are in the vicinity.

The lecture series, funded by a generous endowment from the Hearst Foundation, features visionary thinkers and designers who focus on socially engaged and culturally expansive design practices across various scales. A generous endowment from the Hearst Foundation funds this incredible series.

Link to more information in bio.

Get Repost App • Architalx On Tuesday, April 14, we’ll welcome David Hill, the founding principal of hillworksdesign: landscape + architecture and a professor of landscape architecture at Auburn University in Alabama to speak at our second lecture of the 2026 season.

Hill will discuss select HILLWORKS projects that emerged from an intentional engagement with time. Through three case studies–focused on seasonal, regenerative, and storied time–he will explore how dawdling, dallyıng, and careful attention can open up new ways of thinking about process and place.

HILLWORKS projects have been presented nationally and internationally at conferences, symposia, and universities and published in rags like Dwell, Landscape Architecture Magazine, ReModeling, and Society South and recently received the 2024 Emerging Voices Award from the Architecture League of New York.

At Auburn University, David leads research seminars and investigative design studios that unpack the complexity of the landscape across the rich spectrum of urban and rural conditions. Born and raised in a plant nursery in South Georgia, David developed a deep affinity for plants and an early admiration for the rich, working landscape of the south. Borrowing from the rich lineage of experimentation and long-term management in gardening, he strives to curate immersive experiences with plant assemblages that inspire imagination and awe.

Join us Tuesday, April 14 at 6PM at Aura in Portland. Doors open at 5PM with drinks and light bites. Tickets are available for this lecture and our entire season on our website. Link in bio.
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It was my honor to introduce Julia Gamolina as the kick off speaker for the 2026 Architalx season. Thank you, Julia, for sharing your story, vision, and passion with us. It was an incredible evening. ❤️💜
 
“On a personal note, Julia reached out to me just a few years out of architecture school with an idea—to build a platform that would make women in design visible in a way the discipline had long failed to do. At the time, I was getting plenty of emails from young architects. Most were asking for something. Julia wasn’t. She was proposing something. And there was a clarity—and frankly, a boldness—in how she saw both the problem and her role in changing it that made it impossible to ignore.
 
I invited her into the office to workshop the idea with a roundtable of women at SHoP That was the beginning. Nearly a decade later, what Julia has built with Madame Architect is not just a platform—it’s a correction. A reframing of who gets seen, who gets documented, and who gets to shape the narrative of this profession.
 
As my friend and colleague Megan Chusid put it: “Great leaders see potential in you and create the conditions for it to breathe. They don’t just build beautiful spaces—they build each other up.”
 
Julia doesn’t just participate in architecture—she is actively reshaping its culture.
It is my absolute pleasure and honor to welcome Julia to Portland, to Architalx, and to the stage.”

Next up, David Hill hillworksdesign on 4/14! Link to tix in bio.

I am absolutely thrilled that Julia Gamolina, Founder of Madame Architect, will kick off the 2026 Architalx lecture series with “Madame Architect: A Record for a New Future”. Please join us for an evening of networking, discussion, and discovery (and snacks and bevs)!

Madame Architect emerged in 2018 to address a persistent imbalance in the architectural record—one that has long limited whose work and voices are documented with depth and care. What began as a single interview series has grown into a global editorial and events platform dedicated to rigorous, human-centered storytelling.

In this lecture, Julia reflects on the platform’s evolution—from interviews and profiles to historical essays and public programming—and its broader mission: not to create a separate canon, but to rebalance the existing one. The talk explores how editorial practice shapes visibility, memory, and legacy, asking how expanding the record can transform what—and who—architecture makes possible.

Please join us! Link to register in bio or at www.architalx.org