City Dreamers
Join me for a screening and discussion of ‘City Dreamers’ Like all female architects, and all women in general, I am a product of the women who paved the way before me. If it wasn’t for those pioneering women …
Pecha Kucha Night
PechaKucha 20×20 Santa Fe | My R/UDAT Presentation Hello dear friends, I had the absolute pleasure of presenting at a local PechaKucha 20×20 recently, hosted at the Violet Crown. It was a lovely evening: an informal and fun gathering …
Miracle of the Loretto Staircase — How Would it be Built Today?
Photo credit: Louis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican Gayla was invited to co-lead a staircase design and engineering symposium with Manufacturers Association President Steven Guenzel and Erik Farrington, associate principal with the architectural firm Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., for the …
Introducing The Rabbit Bend Cabin
I like to think that all creatives have a handful of projects that we tend to keep a little closer to our hearts, for whatever reason. The Rabbit Bend Cabin is one of mine. This is a special project for …
The Power of Coming Together: Reflections on R/UDAT
In my last post, I touched briefly on the R/UDAT program, an initiative that allowed me and other fellow architects to plan the Santa Fe Railyard development, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The post received such a great response …
Santa Fe Railyard Featured in 20|20 Visions Book
Santa Fe Railyard Featured in 20|20 Visions Book It is always such a delight when your hard work gets recognized— even more so when it is work that you are so fantastically proud of. In my last few posts, I’ve …
Celebrating 10 Years of the Santa Fe Railyard
Celebrating 10 Years of the Santa Fe Railyard They say time goes by in the blink of an eye, and as the years go by this statement rings more and more true for me. 2018 marked the 10 year anniversary …
AIA Stim Presentation by Gayla Bechtol, Urban Design Adventures in Santa Fe
Gayla expanded on her Urban Design Adventures in Santa Fe in a recent STIM talk for the Santa Fe Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
2 Awards to Gayla Bechtol Architect for Historic Santa Fe Renovation and Addition
Santa Fe architect Gayla Bechtol’s highly successful renovation and addition to a historic Acequia Madre property has won 2 awards: The City of Santa Fe’s 2016 “Architectural Preservation Award” The New Mexico Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) …
20th anniversary of the AIA Santa Fe-sponsored R/UDAT at the Santa Fe Railyard
“Recast: Architecture is Transformative”, Biennial Convention of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) The Santa Fe New Mexican highlighted the biennial convention of the New Mexico chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Sept. …