072: Nakita Reed: Architectural Reuse’s Impact on Sustainability, Culture, and Technology

ADVOCATEARCHITECTFIRM OWNERS / LEADERSSUSTAINABILITY

Nov 17

Nakita Reed is an award-winning architect with experience in the rehabilitation and sustainable reuse of historic buildings. She is an Associate Principal at Quinn Evans, a LEED-Accredited Professional, and a certified Passive House Consultant.

She serves on the board of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, the Zero Net Carbon Collaboration for Existing and Heritage Buildings (ZNCC), Built Buildings Lab, and is host of the Tangible Remnants podcast - a podcast that demystifies the building reuse process for building owners and developers.

We talk about:

- Nakita’s childhood curiosity for abandoned buildings and how that led her to a career focused on efforts to restore them to serve their communities again.

- We review the challenges and successes of some of Nakita’s most memorable projects and how her team worked to challenge misconceptions that historic buildings can’t be sustainable, energy-efficient, or adaptable.

- Nakita shares technical insights on documenting and restoring heritage structures using exploratory demolition, laser scanning, dew point testing, and WUFI analysis.

- Finally, Nakita reflects on launching her podcast, Tangible Remnants, as a way to contextualize architecture within race, history, and culture and tell fuller, more inclusive stories about the ways we live and work.

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Connect with Nakita:

⁠https://www.nakitareed.com/⁠

⁠Guide to building reuse for climate action | AIA⁠

⁠Zero Net Carbon Collaboration for Existing and Historic Buildings⁠

⁠What is WUFI®? | WUFI (en)⁠

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