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Talk about girl crush. Jane Smith started out as an interior designer at Prudential Financial, traveled the world with ExxonMobil, and, after getting her MBA from New York University, started her own firm. She now runs Spacesmith, an architecture, planning, and interior-design firm based in New York City.

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Spacesmith specializes in public sector, education, and corporate interior projects, and the firm’s work includes such city-boosting projects as the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pop-up Pool and the Part of the Solution soup kitchen in the Bronx.

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Jane is currently chair of the Interior Design Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she helps to strengthen and inspire young talent. Her other clients include Donna Karan, Mulberry, Avon, New York University, and more. We asked her some questions about her work, how architecture gives back to the community, and design education.

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How did you get interested in design and architecture?

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As a young girl in Wyoming I started by building forts and clubhouses from construction scrap with my friends. From there I moved to handy-man projects with my dad and spent a summer at the age of 12 as a helper for our architect neighbor who was building his own house. Not sure I was much help, but I learned to use a hammer and was fascinated and thrilled by how the drawings became reality... (continue reading)

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