Healthcare Interior Design 2.0
Arts:Design
Join in today’s episode with our lovely guest Aimee Burmaster Hicks — Principal at Page Architecture firm at their Texas location.
Aimee specializes in space planning and interior design development for corporate and healthcare clients. Her leadership role with Page builds on her commitment and collaborative approach to her work.
“I like the idea of freedom within commitment. Being truly committed to my work allows me to take design risks, and the projects I work on are better for it,” Aimee says, adding, “Collaboration is key. Everyone has something to contribute to the project process.”
My favorite part of our conversation was the story Aimee shared about how in order to win a project, the developer asked Aimee and her team to design a hospital out of legos in two hours (without prior knowledge and in the developer’s office) to assess how well the team could collaborate. That and how Aimee came into healthcare design kicking and screaming and now she loves it!
Aimee realized at an early age that she had the talent and ambition to work as a creative professional. “Being an interior designer is all I’ve ever wanted to do,” Aimee explains. With that goal set, she prepared for her career by graduating from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, a program accredited by the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER).
With her work, she takes great pride in applying lessons learned from her previous projects to add value to the next.
“Each new project brings the opportunity to build upon both my technical knowledge and creativity,” she says.
“A new project also brings the chance to work with new team members I may not have worked with before. I like this relationship-building because it allows me to expand my ‘go-to’ resources within Page. I really feel that each project I do is better than the last.”
Aimee’s portfolio of projects include the 250,000-square-foot Children’s Medical Center at Legacy in Plano; a 90,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Dallas for Concentra; the 82,000-square-foot Baylor Surgical Hospital at Park Place in Fort Worth; the 63,000-square-foot Baylor Medical Center Uptown in Dallas; a 146,000-square-foot Hospital and 80,000-square-foot Medical Office Building for Forest Park Medical Center in Austin; the 450,000-square-foot tower, in addition to 45,000-square-feet of renovation of the Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa; and 29,000-square-foot Solomon Associate’s office in Dallas.
Learn more about Aimee and her gallery of gorgeous work at Page Architecture by visiting: http://pagethink.com.
A big thank you to our industry partner The Center For Health Design! Learn more about the incredible research, advocacy, and education work The Center For Health Design is doing at http://healthdesign.org. You can gain access to the Center’s Knowledge Repository which contains over 2,500 references and key point summaries on multiple topics in different healthcare settings by becoming a Center For Health Design Affiliate.
And finally, I’d like to thank the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers for their support of this show. Find out more about their certification program at http://aahid.org
In today’s episode you will learn:
Pour yourself a hot cup of your favorite coffee and lean into this delightful conversation with our inspiring guest Aimee Burmaster Hicks.
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Episode 62, Debra Levin, Hon. FASID, EDAC, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Center for Health Design
Episode 61, Stowe Shoemaker, PhD and Peter C. Yesawhich, PhD; authors of the book, Hospitable Healthcare™Just What the Patient Ordered!
Episode 60, Part 1, Sarah Tetens NCIDQ, RID, IIDA, CHID, EDAC, Design Director at Baskervill
Episode 60, Part 2, Sarah Tetens NCIDQ, RID, IIDA, CHID, EDAC, Design Director at Baskervill
Episode 59, Part 1, Minta Ferguson, ACHA, AIA, NCARB, Director of Planning, McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture and Erika Hill, IIDA, NCIDQ, Senior Interior Designer, McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture
Episode 59, Part 2, Minta Ferguson, ACHA, AIA, NCARB, Director of Planning, McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture and Erika Hill, IIDA, NCIDQ, Senior Interior Designer, McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture
Episode 58, Cam Twohey, AIA, WELL AP, NCARB, Associate Principal, Senior Project Architect, Kahler Slater
Episode 57, Part 1, Bryan Langlands, FAIA, FACHA, EDAC, LEED GA, Principal and Edwin Beltran, NCIDQ, IIDA, ASSOC. AIA, Principal, Lead Interior Designer, NBBJ Architecture
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Episode 56, Karen S. Freeman AIA, ACHA, NCIDQ, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C Practice Leader, Healthcare, HOK
Episode 55, Part 1; Sandy Goodman, IIDA, CHID, EDAC, LEED AP, LSSBB, President, CRGA Design
Episode 55, Part 2; Sandy Goodman, IIDA, CHID, EDAC, LEED AP, LSSBB, President, CRGA Design
Episode 54, Part 1; Trisha Fong, Assoc. AIA, Senior Associate e4h, Environments for Health Architecture
Episode 54, Part 2; Bill Repichowskyj, AIA, Partner e4h, Environments for Health Architecture
53, Part 1; Barbara Dellinger, MA, FIIDA, CHID, CID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Director of Design and Research, Adventist HealthCare
53, Part 2; What Would Barbara Do? Lauren Banas, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Krug interviews Barbara Dellinger, MA, FIIDA, CHID, CID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Director of Design and Research, Adventi
52: Part 1; Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie's – Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care
52: Part 2; Dame Laura Lee, DBE, Chief Executive of Maggie's – Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care
51: Part 1; Phoebe Stein & David Ashen; Co-founders of the Ageless Living Collaborative
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