Designing Healthy Environments with PJ Glasco

PJ Glasco is a Principal at Cannon Design. She is a healthcare
planner and designer who has worked with many of the nation’s top
healthcare institutions to create landmark facilities. Her
designs have enhanced the campuses of several institutions,
including Texas Children’s Hospital, Harris Health System, the
University of Texas Medical Branch and Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia. PJ is a past chair of the Houston chapter of the
AIA Committee on Architecture for Health and has presented at
national industry conferences for several years. PJ has been
previously recognized in the “40 Under 40” program of Building
Design and Construction as well as by the Houston Business
Journal’s “40 Under 40” and Engineering News-Record’s “20 Under
40” for the Texas and Louisiana Region. Her passion &
strength lies in creating strong programs based on volume
analysis and actualizing them into creative & operationally
efficient planning solutions.


In this episode, PJ talks about her experience of immigrating to
the U.S. from India to get her Masters of Architecture degree
from the University of Houston, how she ended up becoming a
healthcare planner and designer, and what she loves most about
working in that field. She discusses one of the biggest trends
she’s seeing in healthcare design, and has some great advice for
how to tackle really complex projects or problems. PJ also shares
why we should call it work-life integration, instead of work-life
balance.