Hello Reader,

Tomorrow is the first day of Pride Month, and on Monday, Out in Architecture Volume II goes out into the world. This week's Practice Disrupted episode is the first of two conversations marking that release, and it is one of the few I have not hosted myself. I stepped back, Sarah Woynicz held the room, and four architects who shaped both volumes did the work of saying out loud what is getting harder to say each year.

I listened to this one twice. The first time as someone who has been around this work for a while and assumed I had the contours of it. The second time more slowly, because I had not. The safety check-ins these editors describe running with potential authors, the weight of stewarding someone else's first time saying the thing, the question of what visibility costs in 2026: I was not tracking how much of that work happens out of view.

There are conversations a leader can join, and conversations a leader serves best by clearing space. I am not always good at telling which is which.

Sarah, past chair of the AIA National Young Architects Forum and a candidate for AIA At-Large Director, is in conversation with the team that moved from co-authors of Volume I to co-editors of Volume II: Jha D Amazi of MASS Design Group, Beau Frail of Activate Architecture, Julia Oderda of VCBO Architecture, and Andrew Grant Houston of House Cosmopolitan. They talk about what it means to steward someone else's first time saying the thing, the safety check-ins they ran with potential authors after the last election cycle, and why professional cachet exists to be spent on the people coming behind you.

🎧 Episode 237: Out in Architecture Volume I: Gestures of Love​

Where in your firm is your leadership most useful when it gets quiet?

Keep learning and growing,

Evelyn M Lee, FAIA | NOMA Founder, Practice of Architecture Host, Practice Disrupted & Fractional COO

P.S. As we prepare for AIA 26, I have more free time on my hands than I have in the last two years. Please let me know if you'll be around.

/// PoA Podcast - Practice Disrupted ///

Out in Architecture Volume I: Gestures of Love In this special episode of Practice Disrupted, the format shifts as host Evelyn Lee steps back to listen, handing the moderation over to Sarah Woynicz. This conversation marks the first of two episodes celebrating the upcoming June 1st release of Out in Architecture Volume 2 at the start of Pride Month. listen here

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