{"id":2478,"date":"2026-10-13T22:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiadallas.org\/columns\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:36:08","slug":"from-process-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiadallas.org\/columns\/from-process-to-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"From Process to Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ellen Mitchell, AIA, interviews Laura Foster, AIA, about what sustainability in West Texas can tell us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas is too large\u2014and too environmentally varied\u2014for a single sustainability narrative to make sense. The questions that shape design in Austin or Houston don\u2019t land the same way in El Paso, where the landscape is desert, the time zone is Mountain, and the proximity is closer to Phoenix than to Dallas. This fact became apparent in speaking with Laura Foster, an architect practicing in El Paso, Texas. Foster\u2019s job is unusual in a way that immediately changed the conversation \u2013 she is the resident architect at El Paso Water, the regional water utility. As such, she not only brought an architect\u2019s perspective to the conversation, but also that of a client in charge of civic infrastructure and facility projects, including the design and construction of their new corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When Language Becomes a Barrier\u2014and a Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We architects have our own vocabulary. We use words that feel warm and familiar inside the profession: <em>sustainability, resilience, regenerative design, wellbeing, climate action.<\/em> Those words carry meaning for us. They can even feel like a shared promise\u2014an assurance that we\u2019re doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Foster\u2019s day-to-day work lives in a different reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At El Paso Water, she\u2019s often talking to engineers, operations staff, project managers and board members who aren\u2019t fluent in architecture\u2019s internal language. And she\u2019s learned something that feels obvious once you hear it: when the word <em>sustainability<\/em> enters the room, it doesn\u2019t always land with clarity. Sometimes it lands as a question mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many, it\u2019s simply vague \u2013 an umbrella term that could mean anything from solar panels to vegetable gardens. For others, it\u2019s politically loaded before the conversation even begins. Foster avoids using the term sustainability in board meetings and with bosses \u2013 not because she doesn\u2019t value it, but because she\u2019s learned that it can come with a \u201cpartisan bite\u201d or feel meaningless outside of the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters. If a term is perceived as partisan \u2013 or even just abstract \u2013 it changes the emotional temperature of the conversation. People stop listening for substance and start searching for subtext.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Foster does instead is something I found quietly brilliant: she changes the vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She replaces architecture\u2019s broad, values-driven language with words that are actionable. Instead of asking a room full of engineers to sign onto an idea that might feel amorphous, she anchors the conversation in things they care about: durability, operational savings, lifecycle cost, and long-term reliability. The effect is subtle but powerful. She\u2019s not watering down the ambition \u2013 she\u2019s making it legible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And honestly, that\u2019s the part I keep coming back to. Foster isn\u2019t trying to win an argument. She\u2019s trying to get a building built\u2014one that works, lasts, and supports a mission that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Design that Responds to Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foster\u2019s definition of sustainable design isn\u2019t about a single technology or perfect solution. For her, great design means a building that responds to its location, not just aesthetically or culturally, but down to the ecosystem level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She described the design of El Paso Water\u2019s new headquarters project: a building located in what she calls El Paso\u2019s new geographic center, surrounded by a sea of pavement and suburban commercial sprawl. It was in this context that they introduced the concept of \u201crewilding\u201d the four-acre plot \u2013 imagining a site that could support native habitat, bringing back birds and wildlife that have long since left the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That detail stood out to me because it\u2019s not the stereotypical version of sustainability. It\u2019s not a gadget. It\u2019s not a headline. It\u2019s a reminder that even in the middle of a highly developed area, you can still ask what this place was before the pavement\u2014and what it might become again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also talked about the building form as a fundamental climate response. A courtyard layout, she noted, is a key strategy for a place like El Paso\u2014an architectural move that shapes comfort and performance, not just appearance. In Foster\u2019s framing, better design isn\u2019t something you bolt on at the end. It starts at the beginning: how a building sits, how it breathes, how it lasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An Architect Embedded Among Engineers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most fascinating parts of Foster\u2019s interview was simply hearing what it\u2019s like to be the lone architect inside a water utility. She described it as empowering\u2014an opportunity to be in the trenches of true interdisciplinary work, and a chance to learn why teams so often fail to integrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her role, she\u2019s doing project management, plan review, and providing subject matter expertise across the utility\u2019s building portfolio. She also worked with the Board to choose the site for the headquarters project, write the RFQ, and participate in the selection of the design team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The larger point here feels important, especially for architects who care about climate action: sometimes progress isn\u2019t about persuading a client to \u201ccare more.\u201d Sometimes it\u2019s about putting design leadership in the right place inside an organization\u2014so the right questions get asked early enough to matter. Foster described how her presence has expanded the kinds of projects the utility is willing to pursue. She\u2019s working on an adaptive reuse of an outdated cold storage warehouse and in negotiations for a historic 1916 courtyard building that will be redeveloped into offices\u2014projects that wouldn\u2019t have happened without an architect on staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s a different kind of leverage. Not louder. Just earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Turning Design Excellence Into Decision Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thing I appreciated in Foster\u2019s approach is that she doesn\u2019t treat sustainability as a banner. She treats it as a set of decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She described using the <strong>AIA Framework for Design Excellence<\/strong> not as a marketing tool, but as a way to turn design excellence into criteria that could guide the headquarters project\u2014criteria that made sense to engineers, operations staff, leadership, and board members alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of arguing for \u201csustainability\u201d as a value statement, she\u2019s building shared alignment around questions like: how will this building perform? how will it support the people who work here? how will it respond to the weather? how will it serve the utility\u2019s long-term mission?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The framework didn\u2019t just guide the design\u2014it changed who could meaningfully participate in shaping it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cCheap and Basic Is Not Durable\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most vivid moments in our conversation came when Foster described resistance to the headquarters building form. Early design concepts included a courtyard strategy that curled inward, responsive to prevailing breezes and sun angles. But there was pushback\u2014some stakeholders saw it as impractical or assumed it would be more expensive than a basic rectangular building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foster pushed back firmly. She reframed the conversation: cheap and basic is not durable, not adaptable, and therefore not sensible. Thoughtful design, she argued, saves money over time by reducing the churn of expensive renovations and tenant improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then she shared something architects rarely get to say: at 80% completion, the project still has a large contingency left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That detail matters because it\u2019s proof that climate-responsive design doesn\u2019t have to mean runaway cost. It can mean discipline, integration, and long-term thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What I\u2019m Taking Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my conversation with Foster, I kept returning to a simple idea: if we want sustainability to be durable, we have to operationalize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foster\u2019s work in El Paso is deeply environmental. It\u2019s tied to water, land, heat, and long-term stewardship. But what makes her perspective unique is where she sits: inside the organization, with the ability to influence not just a single project, but the processes that shape all projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019s in a position to change what \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d looks like by embedding better criteria into the work: into the RFQ language, into the decision-making frameworks, and into the questions teams ask before they ever put pencil to paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foster\u2019s perspective reminded me that the future of sustainable design may depend less on persuasion\u2014and more on who gets to shape the process before the work begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>Ellen Mitchell, AIA is\u00a0the director of sustainability &amp; applied research at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lpadesignstudios.com\/\"><em>LPA Design Studios<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and the 2026 chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communityhub.aia.org\/communities\/community-home?CommunityKey=3b790506-aca5-4eff-aaf6-8a7b553dc0ef&amp;_gl=1*2e8au9*_gcl_au*MTMwMTc5MjExNC4xNzY4NTAzNzE5\">Committee on the Environment<\/a>. This article is part of a series that Mitchell hopes will bring more voices to the sustainability conversation, originally published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia.org\/aia-architect\/article\/process-practice-sustainability-el-paso-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AIA Architect<\/a>\u00a0on July 13, 2026<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Mitchell, AIA, interviews Laura Foster, AIA, about what sustainability in West Texas can tell us. Texas is too large\u2014and too environmentally varied\u2014for a single sustainability narrative to make sense. 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