Pat Bosch - Design Director & Principal, Perkins&Will

This week the glasses held Christophe Mignon ADN, the stories went global, and our guest casually mentioned designing buildings in 18 countries like the rest of us mention brunch plans. Pat Bosch, Design Director and Principal of Perkins&Will's Miami studio, joined us for a conversation that starts in Havana and somehow ends up in Riyadh, Rio, and Accra before landing back home in Miami. Pat grew up the only child of two architects, spending her childhood in her mother's office and on construction sites with her father, then carried that inheritance through Puerto Rico, Columbia, ETH Zurich, and the New York studios of Richard Meier and Steven Holl. In 1996, in her early 30s, she bet everything on Miami and co-founded Perkins&Will's studio here with three people. Thirty years later it's one of the firm's most celebrated design hubs. We talk about designing the world's largest university for women in Saudi Arabia, building Africa's first LEED-certified hospital in Ghana with little more than smart passive design, and structuring an entire L'Oreal research center in Rio around bossa nova. We also get into her lifelong love affair with concrete, a material most people treat as a means to an end and Pat treats like poetry, from the cantilevered concrete of Miami Dade College to facades that somehow make the heaviest material on earth look weightless. And she explains the philosophy that runs through all of it: leave things better than you found them. Pour something with a little sparkle and press play. Pat builds in concrete, but this episode is pure Champagne. Connect with us Want to dive deeper into Miami’s commercial real estate scene? 📧 Get in touch: Built World Advisors 🎙️ Listen & Watch: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 📱 Follow the show: LinkedIn | Instagram Connect with the Hosts: Felipe Azenha  Ben Hoffman  Our Partners & Sponsors 🏢 Studio Space: A special thank you to Büro coworking space for hosting us!  Proudly sponsored by: Top of Mind PR Vizzda Vinya