TYP Architects.

TYP stands for typical. Driven by building science, we are architects working to make every home zero carbon. We can make sustainable the new typical. Please see my most current work at TYP.

LAND ART GENERATOR - OLSON KUNDIG

At Olson Kundig, I was a Project Manager and Team Design Lead for a global competition to design a sustainable, energy-producing piece of public art and sculpture for a rapidly changing, colorful neighborhood of Melbourne, St.Kilda. Our concept was a gravity battery that used the weight of water as storage for solar power harvested in daylight hours. Our team won second place.

Land Art Generator Initiative
Inhabitat
Arch Daily

10 MATTERS OF SUSTAINABILITY

To construct an exhibit aligning with the 2009 AIA Convention in San Francisco, CCA classmates and I posed challenges to San Francisco to become a more sustainable city. We presented facts and solutions that the citizens of San Francisco could learn from and ideally embrace.

SF MOMA ADDITION

A semester-long project to design the addition that was eventually constructed, we studied the Modern Art collection and found inspiration in works by artists such as Gerhart Richter and Richard Diebenkorn.

Architect's Newspaper

DOWNTOWN SF HOUSING

A proposal for an ACSA competition on steel housing, this building takes on the task of making its dense, downtown home comfortable by employing structure as a dual method: to allow a novel space-defining strategy within the unit, and a shield for unwanted voyeurs. A balance of prospect & refuge.

WEST BERKELEY REUSE

The adaptive reuse of an aged warehouse catalyzes the re-structuring of a neighborhood: programs and users share, trade-off, and overlap in this hive-like nexus of art, education, work, and social connection.

UW LIFE SCIENCES - GUSTAFSON GUTHRIE NICHOL

Concept Design through Construction Documentation, project manager & project designer. Close research with the University of Washington Biology Department and Campus Architects to provide an important campus connector that also showcased the departments interests.

BUILDING CURE - GGN/AEDAS/FLAD

Working during early concept through design development, I was a project manager and project designer at GGN. We Worked closely with AEDAS and FLAD to design an urban plaza, rooftop garden, and sidewalk design.

CIVIC PARK AT HEMISFAIR - GGN

Working during early concept and schematic design on GGN's team, we desiged a Civic Park in San Antonio, TX. The process included public design and community outreach, consultant management, and extensive research of the local geology and flora.

TRAVELLING THROUGH THE WEST

It took me most of my life to realize that in the landscape is where I'm happiest. For the last 5 years, I've been spending as much time as I can covering ground, learning as I go, and trying to assemble a whole understanding of the many geologic processes that have shaped the western half of the North American plate. I've tried to collect some of the moments that stand out as the most fascinating to me because of their strangeness. Images appear from roughly NW to SE.

EDITING

In an effort to continue to support my passion for grammar and language, I completed a Certificate in Editing at the University of Washington. After this course of study, I undertook several editing projects with a focus on copyediting and structural revision.

Copyeditor for Arcade Magazine 38.1: Phase Shift, 2020

Writer and copyeditor for an encyclopedia article on the National Museum of African American History and Culture, published online 2015

Structural editor and copyeditor for the book, TAKK: Explorations of Nordic Cafe Culture, by Corey Kingston and Samantha Albert, published in 2015,

Copyeditor for translated Essays, by Carmen King, 2015

Marketing copyediting at GGN, 2015-2016

LINGUISTICS

I have also pursued further education in Linguistics, in order to fill the hunger for language that my editing work created. A 400-level Linguistics course at Central Washington University opened my eyes to the fields of phonology, morphology, syntax, language acquisition, and semantics. My term paper focused on the difference between phonological and morphological perception, speech production, and communicative intent in infants and children.

TACO SHED - STUDIO FOR URBAN PROJECTS

Begun as a research project into the "biography" of a taco, this project investigated how the ingredients of a typical San Francisco street taco pull from a global watershed of ingredients. Together with my fellow classmate, Rachael Harvey, and our professors from Rebar Studio and David Fletcher, we presented the research, global mapping, and implications on the carbon footprint and food miles of ingredient economies at the Studio for Urban Projects. It was subsequently published widely.

Meatpaper
Good
BldgBlog

HERE & NOW: Students on Show - SPUR Urban Center

A 2010 exhibition of student work in the San Francisco Bay Area at the SPUR Urban Center, highlighting innovative solutions with social programs, environmental issues, and cultural context.

AIA LA 2x8 2010

The AIA LA 2x8 Student Exhibition program showcases exemplary student work from architecture & design institutions throughout California.

PURLIEU HALL

With a close group of friends, we built an underground literary club and arts space in a historic Seattle building, holding intimate theatre performances, readings, philosophical groups, art shows, and parties!

DRAWING

Drawing was my first introduction to art, craft, and architecture. It remains a passion.

CRAFT

We live in a world of "things." We touch, see, feel, and love them. Why not make them beautiful?

GATHERINGS

Celebration has always been a big part of my life. Big messy parties with lots of food and drink, and all the people you love. I love creating this for other people.

FOOD

The manual process of creating things from earth's abundant bounty is one of the great gifts that I enjoy in life.

Hello, my name is Annelise (Annie) Aldrich.

I am a registered architect pursuing projects that support my diverse interests. I have a passion to make the world a cleaner, healthier place. I love land, language, and the intersection of these things in human culture. I am a voracious researcher and learner. Geology, and linguistics are topics I study through continued education, specifically:

• the role of humans in shaping the land, and the role of the land in shaping civilizations.

• the correlations between landforms, rock types, elevation, and continental position.

• the structures of thinking, learning, and information, and how they are linked together in language and perception.

I love to build connections between ideas and understand new information. I pride myself on my organization skills, self-starting work ethic, and proclivity for leadership and teaching. To me, a good team is built on equal participation and investment in the work. I seek to work in interdisciplinary environments on projects that improve resiliency and make the human way of life more sustainable.

My current work in design inspires and enables people to have smaller environmental footprints using building techniques that yield affordable net-zero energy and net-zero carbon buildings, with tactics including extended lifespans, increased thermal efficiency, and reduced construction waste. My architectural design experience centers on residential, retail, and hospitality spaces. My landscape design experience has covered private and public gardens, urban parks, city plazas, furniture, and sidewalks. My joy in design comes in the synthesis of a design solution: the sociology of an interaction, the geography of a region, and the systems that all come together in architecture. I am driven to pursue designs that are reasonable, balanced, prudent and frugal—to me the definition of problem-solving solutions.

While I was born and raised in Seattle and nothing will ever supplant my love of mountains and water, I have also enjoyed living in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Paris, London, and Ellensburg.