{"id":5233,"date":"2017-10-31T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/?page_id=5233"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:53:00","slug":"diane-mistral","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/alumni-profiles\/diane-mistral\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Mistral"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Diane Mistral doesn\u2019t mince words when asked about her career goals. \u201cI have fallen in love with urban planning,\u201d she says, \u201cthrough years of study and work on different architectural projects at various scales. Participating in tomorrow’s cities is thrilling to me,\u201d she continues. \u201cI would love to have the opportunity to work in this field, whether it is in a private urban studio or for a city itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mistral has always been drawn to architecture, yet she also wanted to understand the science behind it. As a result, she\u2019s doing a double master\u2019s degree program in urban engineering and architecture at \u00c9cole de Ing\u00e9nieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP)<\/a> and \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Architecture Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV)<\/a>, respectively, and is currently in her seventh and final year.<\/p>\n

\"\"Despite the heavy workload of such an ambitious academic career, Mistral is grateful for the opportunity to indulge her artistic, technical and scientific sensibilities with a double degree. \u201cIt has fulfilled my professional and intellectual needs and passion,\u201d she says, and allowed her to understand different aspects of the same project.<\/p>\n

Through a partnership between EIVP and Boston University Metropolitan College, Mistral spent a semester in Boston and earned a Graduate Certificate in Applied Sustainability<\/a> through the City Planning & Urban Affairs program. \u00a0Through her coursework, she gained insight into the problems faced by U.S. cities, and admired the passion with which Terrence Regan and Joshua Hassol taught her favorite class, \u201cUrban Transportation Policy and Planning.\u201d In addition to conducting in-class exercises to teach their students about urban transportation issues, Mistral remembers, \u201cWe also visited the offices of the MBTA behind the traffic control of the subway, which was an amazing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mistral spent the past summer doing an internship in Shanghai.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past summer, Mistral did an internship with an urban studio in Shanghai. She states, \u201cIt was a very rich experience, and gave me the chance to see how China manages its growth and new housing needs.\u201d She is presently working on a final architecture project based in Milan that incorporates her coursework and experiences from the past seven years. It also ties directly to her master\u2019s thesis, which is about the role former industrial areas play in today\u2019s cities.<\/p>\n

Mistral isn\u2019t sure yet where she will end up once she graduates, but feels enthusiastic about the possibilities. \u201cI have been able to do projects on European cities, work in Asia and study urban problems in America,\u201d she says. \u201cThe issues are very diverse, but all of them seem exciting for me to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane Mistral doesn\u2019t mince words when asked about her career goals. \u201cI have fallen in love with urban planning,\u201d she says, \u201cthrough years of study and work on different architectural projects at various scales. Participating in tomorrow’s cities is thrilling to me,\u201d she continues. \u201cI would love to have the opportunity to work in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10280,"featured_media":0,"parent":4631,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5233\/revisions\/6327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/metinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}