With a focus on sustainable design, architect, designer, and writer Nina Edwards Anker is a founding member of New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With training first and foremost as an architect, her contemporary architecture and design works have been widely shared. Aside from architecture, Edwards Anker has also designed solar lighting and furniture for exhibitions across the globe and picked up a few awards along the way. Though she has held teaching positions in architecture at Pratt, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, New York University Gallatin, and Sotheby’s Institute, you can currently find her as Design Director at Terreform ONE. In this Friday Five, Edwards Anker shares some favorites, including a foundation that empowers women and a daily meditation practice. Photo by Costas Picadas
1. Theo?s Room

I look forward to the daily ritual of reading to my kids every night. The child?s room is my favorite space of innocence, love, play, learning, and imagination, where every stuffed animal has a name.
Photo by Vanessa von Richter/Peder Anker
2. Fjord

Norway is the safe place where my children sail, fish, read, ski, bake, and have no screen time. Norwegian society is humane and feminist; education and healthcare are free, and the entire month of July is spent off. I feel fortunate to have lived there for 7 years, where I was awarded my PhD in architecture (with an 8-month fully-paid maternity leave), and during which time I was inspired by the monumenta...