AIA Florida Southwest Coffee Talk
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... I like to sign my clients up to magazines. It starts to expose them to what architecture should be as opposed to what they think. I'll also give them books, they start to flip through and now you've engaged them in this creative style dialog and becomes more about ideas and lifestyle than stylistic elements. |
... "Its how you site the building, how it responded to the South Florida environment; a building built in Naples shouldn’t look like a building in Minneapolis. You’re dealing with different climates and the building should respond to that...I think that we as Architects and I think the AIA nationally has done a good job of making Architects understand that we have a role to play in it; that sustainability and doing things to stop the warming of the earth and moving away from fossil fuels is the problem of our lifetime and of our children's lifetime, a big systemic problem." |
WRITTEN SERIES
... An architect’s methodologies around analysis and problem solving are a finely honed and comprehensive skill set. It is my contention that the architect’s skills are universally applicable to solving a variety of complexities within our society. I believe it is our role as architects to imagine and apply our problem-solving talents to more aspects of society and life. |
... Visionary. That is what I expect them to be. They must think ahead and again, and subsequently should have every tool possible so they can keep moving forward. It is important to explain the layers of the architectural thought processes around why decisions come to be. We must not shy away from unravelling, understanding and/or questioning complexities. There are reasons why some solutions work, and others never will. |
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