FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Yes, BIM and programming for applications that improve the design process and augment the use of construction drawings extracted from the model.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
A common, but under appreciated role of the Architect is to help the client "see" themselves living in a building of their dreams. In general, this does not come easy to the new occupants, or owners. They need some coaching or mentoring. Creativity, and abundant living must first begin in the heart.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
Do not short change your vision for your building. Expression is becoming less noticeable in todays buildings. Endeavor to explore new ideas and to work together with others to make them a reality. It is surely an investment that will pay off in dividends in the future. The clients of the great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier had no idea the payoff of letting their architect express freely. In the end, their buildings were so successful that they became models or shrines to the general public as examples of what great buildings can be. In fact, some of these great buildings no longer served there original intent, but were sold for huge sums of money to appreciative people in love with the arts. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water Home designed for the Koffman family, arguably the finest example of successful architecture in the world, became impossible to live in as a home. People have stubbled over each other just to get a glimpse of the great structure. If the Koffmans limited the freedom of expression, or imposed financial restrictions onto the project, we would never have enjoyed such a wondrous and ingenious work.