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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Studio Rick Joy: Fireside Chat (w/ Rick Joy, Taylor Dickson)