Oddly, my fascination with the design of spaces started when I was very young. As I carve my own path, I believe that to be the foundational principle that drives how I want to practice and how I want to serve. As a B Corp, our promise is to use business as a force for good. When I look at the path that Steve carved out for himself, I see a practitioner who was truly passionate not only about the project work but especially about the people he served. I have been thinking a lot about this over the last few years and it has become especially important with Steve’s transition. Listening, objective and critical thinking, time management, diplomacy, writing and communication skills. What do you consider are attributes or characteristics of a good designer/architect? Spending time with my daughter, gardening, reading, baking, crafts. What do you like to do when you aren’t working? Seeing your vision and hard work being built and usually turning out better than you expected-and learning a lot of lessons along the way. I didn’t expect to enjoy it or stay as long as I did. I fell into it accidentally by accepting a job offer to design dental clinics when I really needed a job. She said it was a great place to work – and she was right. My friend Annette Clement, with whom I worked at another firm, convinced me to come here. I really never considered doing anything else. There were drafting templates laying around, so I started sketching house plans and became obsessed! A few years later, my mom told me I could study interior design in college. When I was about 11 years old I started going to work with my mom, who worked at an engineering firm. I learned from Mike Miller the importance of persistence and never giving up.ĭriving past the buildings I have worked on and knowing we left the client with a product everyone was proud of. Practical decision making in all aspects of design and construction. After meeting my wife, who is a nurse practitioner, my appreciation, understanding and connection to medical design work grew even more personal and stronger. I needed a job during the recession and quickly found a niche that always had strong demand while also being an area of design I enjoyed and exceled at it. The ability to get out of Seattle and provide a different life for my family while still practicing high quality medical design work. I told them: “Well that’s what I am going to be” which got a lot of laughs as you would expect… but here I am now. I asked the other workers who that guy was and they said he was the architect. I was 17 working a construction laborer on a cold snowy jobsite picking up trash and saw a guy in a suit get out of a nice care, walk around the jobsite for 30m and then leave. Seeing it work the way it was supposed to long after it’s been completed. What’s the most fulfilling step of bringing a project to life? What is the most valuable lesson you have learned from working with Steve? Or a mentor?ĭon’t be afraid to think outside the box. Never forget it’s their project, not yours (client opinions matter more than yours). What is the most valuable thing that you’ve learned during your career? Treat your clients fairly and they’ll treat you the same. They are well grounded individuals, compassionate, and invariably put others ahead of themselves.ĭo your best work. Fire Departments are all about serving their community and helping people in their time of greatest need. While I really enjoy the project types it was the type of clients that got me hooked. What is your specialty and why did you pick it? Something about it clicked in High School and I never looked back.įriendship with Steve, together with a lot of respect and admiration. How did you get into architecture & design?
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