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What is important in selecting an architect

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   Technical expertise, shared aesthetic views, ability to manage and coordinate a project, professionalism. In the end, selection of an architect really comes down to personal choice, what feels right. With that in mind let me open a window about my basic views towards architecture and what is most important to me in my practice.

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Getting the best out of any project

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   The best results can be found when participants start out from a position of understanding and trust and where open and healthy communication is maintained. Mutual understanding of needs and basic beliefs are important.

 

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Looking for unrealised potential.

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   Early on I prefer to establish a working brief as the seed from which any project can then develop. In initial meetings I seek to understand a client’s needs which also involves looking for unrealised potential.

 

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Architect as translator of ideas 

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    I see the architects role as that of a translator and coordinator. Previous experience and understanding of space gives me the tools to bring the best out of any brief. As artist and master problem solver I like the space to translate the brief and will work towards meeting or exceeding needs. A significant benefit of working with an architect can be the realisation of something greater than had first been imagined. For me that is the greatest achievement.   

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It begins with site

   

   Site and location often provide the source of early design inspiration with both the possibilities and limitations of place working to pre-dispose ideal arrangements, materials and expressions. Regrettable is architecture which is indifferent to its location.

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