An architect’s role by definition revolves around the planning, designing, and construction of buildings. But Rick Joy, principal at Studio Rick Joy, doesn’t see it that way. He believes his role is to create a lifestyle, not a building. It’s taking the setting and landscape into account and bringing the best experience to life with what you design. It’s letting nature and light in and pushing inconveniences and burdens out. It’s talking a client out of building a house on a hilltop and instead down by the pond so they can easily watch their kids swim. In this Best Practice webinar, Rick and his Director of Communications, Taylor Garcia Dickson, discuss how that philosophy shapes their brand and is brought to life through their practice.

Interview Takeaways

• Connect to the world around you
• Hold live-in workshops
• Bring diverse perspectives into your office
• Tune into each other
• Be in sync with nature
• Treat nature as a luxury
• Create a lifestyle, not a building
• Enhance the experience of the project
• Bring customers around to your timeline
• Stick to the work that makes your firm happy
• Stay in the present of your practice

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