Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB

I'm an architect, planner, and educator who loves helping people imagine and make better places.

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

Honored to accept the 2021 Healthcare Environments Award for @BostonChildrens Brookline at #HCDcon. The award was of course earned by countless others—past, present members of the design, construction teams inc the brilliant folks at BCH—but we hope celebrated best by it’s users!

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

This project has been a dream to work on. That it’s won a Healthcare Environment Award is testament to the vision of ⁦@BostonChildrens⁩ and countless minds who've contributed their expertise, imagination, and belief in doing things better. Bravo! https://t.co/hAjhmI10tO

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

Excited to share some tactics from our teams' work with ⁦@BostonChildrens⁩ creating safe, patient-centered, uplifting, and even whimsical #healthcare spaces informed by #neurodiversity at the ⁦@HCDcon⁩ Expo & Conference next week. Join us! https://t.co/SrcqO6Jmc3

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

People multitask in over 30% of virtual meetings.

If you want their undivided attention, move meetings to the afternoon—and keep them small and short.

Our best analytical and creative thinking often happens before lunch (or after dinner). Protect mornings to focus on deep work.

[The Boston Architectural College @TheBACBoston]

Have you heard? Dr. Neri Oxman will be the keynote speaker at this year’s #BACTalks! Submit a question to [email protected] for a chance to have Dr. Oxman answer your question during her session. [Photo by Noah Kalina]

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

It's been an absolute joy to work with @BostonChildrens over the past years turning #outpatient visits from stressful to safe, imaginative, and even optimistic. Evidence that #wayfinding, #environmentalgraphics, & #healthcaredesign can combine to uplift:
https://t.co/7yOwdw7Fz0

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Celebrating Steve on what would have been his 66th birthday. Especially in a year where so much kept us apart, technology brought us together in limitless ways. That’s a testament to Steve’s life and the legacy he left, which continue to inspire me every day.

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

T-squares up for our three new ⁦@TheBACBoston⁩ alumni at Isgenuity! Sarah, Shruti, and Katherine not only completed their master's but did so while working full-time. We’re not only proud but thankful for their contributions to our teams.
#BACbuzz https://t.co/v7FVDykWD9

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

We hope our interactive #environmentalgraphics bring as much joy to patients & families at ⁦⁦@BostonChildrens⁩ at Brookline Place as we had creating them! Here, wall protection opens up space for the imagination and provides #wayfinding cues: https://t.co/jUen5TY43M

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who's helped me along this very long and winding road towards "architect". May you each have the pleasure of pursing something you love fearlessly (and sometimes senselessly) at least once in life. What's next? https://t.co/5YTNpZcPSQ

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

This “thumbprint” nook is not only a small space of respite from a busier lobby but also fine-tuned with members of the Boston Children's Hospital community to be sensitive to #neurodiversity. Lyuba, Kate, myself, and the rest of the amazing team for Bost…https://t.co/fcKi34nfur

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

“All signs point to the conclusion that, over the course of a building’s life, interior renovations could have the biggest embodied carbon footprint.” Opportunities for #sustainable #change exist in our everyday habitats.

https://t.co/1Jo2NyVLQ2

[debbie millman @debbiemillman]

“To me, snow is the most perfect thing there is, the best art installation ever on planet Earth. These billions of little tiny ice flowers falling down and erasing the boundaries of everything, bringing this silence and reassessment of the world.” —Chris Ware (1/2)

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

Amidst all the divisiveness is the privilege that we are free to disagree.
#Vote2020

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

@mwmoedinger I heard the term “doomscrolling” (alternately doomsurfing) recently and it’s got my vote for word of the year. More visceral than “social distancing”.

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

Looking forward to hearing about the work of fellow ⁦@BSAAIA⁩ Next Gen Healthcare designers tonight and sharing a bit of our team’s experiences: https://t.co/UFigO0qE9T

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

@dochitect It’s a familiar ethical question when faced with an imperfect context: participate imperfectly but with intent to improve, or do not participate to avoid being complicit. I’m still grappling with this as many have before us. One thing I do know: we bear responsibility either way.

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

As distanced as we may be, we are more aware than ever of our connectedness and the nimbleness #designthinking can offer in moments of crisis. Check out a global panel of @TheBACBoston alumni I had the pleasure of moderating in "Designers to the Rescue":
https://t.co/IDa2Gbabik

[The Associated Press @AP]

Archaeologists have discovered a large ring of underground shafts near Britain's famed Stonehenge. Using remote sensing and sampling, scientists found a series of pits that form a circle more than a mile in diameter and date to about 4,500 years ago. https://t.co/znY4mpjGlg

[Joseph Porter, AIA, NCARB @porter_designs]

Isgenuity is hiring! Come work with us and join our growing team: https://t.co/gpsVrhQZXN