Carnegie Mellon Design Students Focus on the Environment
At the end of Carnegie Mellon University’s fall semester, the School of Design held a one-day exhibition for the senior class, showcasing projects from all the areas of design that make up the school’s renown curriculum. As an alumni and design professional, I found numerous points of interest in... 
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handmade for the holidays
We came up with the idea to print our own cards and gifts as a fun experience for our staff, an opportunity to give our friends a unique gift, and to collaborate with a fantastic community arts organization called Artists Image Resource (AIR). AIR is an artist-run organization located in Pittsburgh’s... 
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Upcoming Sustainability Conferences
We’ll be participating in a few great upcoming conferences. Almost the whole office will be participating! Hope to see you there. March 25-27 Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon: Biodiversity and Environmental Justice Living Cities Presentation by Christine Mondor. April 3 PennFuture’s 2011 SW... 
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Columns Feature: “Habitat”
This month, we are featured in the Pittsburgh AIA’s Columns Magazine. They did a great profile of our office space and our interest in co-location, mobile technology, collaboration, carbon neutrality, and the great neighborhood of Friendship. Thanks Columns! Habitat, Columns Magazine [PDF]  →
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Marc Mondor on Pittsburgh’s Sustainability Index Drop
Marc Mondor speaks to the Pittsburgh Business Times in this week’s article on Pittsburgh’s drop on the green cities index.  →
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Paradigm Shift: Key Leadership Positions in Pittsburgh
Now Hiring: Key Leadership Positions in Pittsburgh Tracy Certo, Pop City Paradigm shift “Although the extent of leadership change may be disturbing, there is a great opportunity for new and more effective alignments to emerge from the changes,” says Christine Mondor, board chair of the Community... 
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Natural Talent Design Competition
This year, we teamed up with the Green Building Alliance to sponsor local winners of the USGBC’s Natural Talent Design Competition. Two projects won, including a team led by Cathy Chung, Brian Kish and Christian Wagner, as well as an individual project by Wui Joon Ha. Joon’s project, E.A.S.Y.... 
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Fast Company “Think Like your Customers”
Think Like Your Customers: Stray Cats, Sustainable Design, and Small Business By Shawn Graham, Fast Company Expert Blog Thursday, September 9, 2010 If you have or have had a pet, raise your hand. If you’ve ever taken said pet to the vet, keep your hand raised. Close your eyes. I want you to visualize... 
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Press Release: Eastside Development to be presented with LEED Gold
March 2008 “PITTSBURGH, Feb 28–The Mosites Company and The Design Alliance Architects have announced that Building C—the Borders Books building in the Eastside retail development in East Liberty, has been awarded the LEED Core and Shell Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council... 
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Columns “The State of Sustainability”
August 2007 “A lot of good design decisions don’t follow the LEED matrix,” admits Christine Mondor, AIA, LEED AP and principal of evolve environment :: architecture. She explains that her biggest fear is that LEED will be seen as a certificate so formulaic that it can be achieved without thinking... 
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Shady Ave “The East End Goes Green”
” Earn one point for abating and developing a brownfield site, two for recycling 75% of construction waste, and another point for providing two preferred parking places for hybrid cars. Welcome to the environmentally friendly game of green building. These and many other potential credits are based... 
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Pop City “Pop Star: Marc and Christine Mondor”
December 2006 “Marc and Christine Mondor, two heads talking at once, are the corporate culture at evolve EA. Spouses, co-principals, warriors for cutting-edge Environmental Architecture, in their own quiet way the Mondors are propounding a new-century agenda, a revolution writ small. “We seek... 
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Pittsburgh Magazine “Forty Under Forty”
November 2006 “To an architect, living in Pittsburgh is kind of like being a kid in a candy store. While solid-brick homes and rolling park landscapes may not whet your appetite, these assests taste like opportunity for Marc Mondor. He has a passion for sustainable architecture and “green”... 
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Pop City “The Moving Guide to Friendship”
November 2006 “Architect Marc Mondor, principal of the firm evolve and Friendship resident, understands the attraction. In fact, he says, “I don’t see why this wouldn’t be as desirable a place to be in as Squirrel Hill or Shadyside.”  →
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Pittsburgh City Paper “Novel Tease”
October 2006 “Evolve Environment :: Architecture enters the awards with the evolvehouse, a prototype for sustainable living: an elegant and compact living structure beneath a butterfly roof. Here, mechanical systems, material selection and solar orientation are aspects essential to an overall approach... 
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H, The Magazine of Heinz Endowments “Garden Variety”
Fall 2006 “Marc Mondor, a principal architect with evolve EA in Pittsburgh, stands on the green roof of a Giant Eagle grocery store in the city’s Shadyside neighborhood. Mondor was a consultant with the supermarket chain in the renovation of the existing building to meet green design standards.”  →
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Pittsburgh Business Times “Select an Environmental Consultant”
” As an environmental consultant who launched his own firm last year, Marc Mondor is growing a business by helping clients understand comparative shades of green. That would be both the financial kind and the kind that helps in small ways to preserve the environment. “ December 2005 ”... 
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Builder’s Exchange “Going for Gold”
Vol 5 Issue “Part of that team was Marc Mondor, LEED consultant, who practices at evolve Environmental Architecture in Pittsburgh; he was also a consultant on the Giant Eagle in Brunswick, the country’s first LEED rated supermarket, covered in these pages in the November 2004 issue. “This... 
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