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380: What Does it Really Take to Run a Business with Robert Yuen Aug 16, 2021

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This week, I am speaking with Robert Yuen. Robert is the CEO and Co-Founder of Monograph, which is a software company revolutionizing the future in how architectural projects are managed.

Robert used to work as an architectural designer in Chicago. He ultimately ended up settling down in San Francisco where he discovered passion for designing software for the AEC industry.

Robert is a serial entrepreneur, trained architect, and is an active member and avid public speaker within the architecture, design, and engineering industries. His experience in working with some of the industry's most renowned firms and designers include SOM, Holabird & Root, and BluHomes, which led him to discover this void for a simple cloud-based project management application that was tailored to the architectural industry.

As such, Yuen co-founded Monograph alongside his co-founders Alex Dixon and Moe Amaya to help architects and engineers oversee projects in an integrated user-friendly and with an ever evolving interface.

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379: Creative Entrepreneurship with Maryline Damour Aug 09, 2021

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This week, we speak to Maryline Damour, the Co-founder of interior design and construction firm Damour Drake, who has an impressive portfolio of work ranging from Brooklyn lofts to even an 18th-century cathedral in Haiti, which has been damaged in the 2010 earthquake.

Maryline worked for many years in marketing and business development for firms such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC, and Accenture.

In this interview, we discuss how she's been growing her firm. We also take a look at her initiative, the Kingston Design Connection, and its showcase project the Kingston Design House, which has brought together a community of fellow designers, makers, artists, and retailers who connect, promote, collaborate and support each other.

The Kingston Design Connection supports local businesses and is rapidly growing along with the annual Showhouse event, which is discussed in detail here.

Maryline shares a lot about her entrepreneurial methodologies and spirits.

Check out Maryline's work with Damour Drake here: http://www.damourdrake.com/

To know more about the Kingston Design Connection visit: https://www.kingstondesignconnection.com/ https://linktr.ee/kingston.design.connection

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378: Making Connections with David Croteau Aug 04, 2021

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This week, I'm speaking with David Croteau who serves as the President and Principal of Flansburgh Architects.

David has over 35 years of experience managing, planning, and designing projects throughout the U.S. and has worked internationally in over 30 different countries.

David directs efforts to extend Flansburgh's geographic reach and its capacity to deliver contemporary culturally sensitive projects in a wide range of environmental conditions. He also specializes in public, private, and international arts and educational institutions.

For each project, David combines a very strong commitment to sustainability, design, innovation, authenticity, and craft with careful attention to the needs of his clients.

In this interview, I talk with David about his career trajectory, how he became the president and principal of Flansburgh Architects. We talk about how the business has been growing and how they have been extending their reach, how they win work, and how they market themselves.

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377: Sustainable growth and Business Longevity with Kyle Webb Jul 27, 2021

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This week, I'm speaking to Kyle Webb who is the Founder and Principal of KH Webb Architects who are based in Colorado.

Webb Architects was born in 1999 and boasts and an impressive array of innovative designs, many of them getting regional and national recognition. A lot of these projects are in the Town of Vail.

Webb Architects have also worked outside. They've worked in New York, Florida, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

In this episode, Kyle discusses how he moved from Pittsburg to Cleveland to become based in Colorado and become one of the premier architecture firms in the state. He talks a lot about working with high-net-worth individuals and also collaborating with other architects.

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376: Monuments to Creativity with Eric Clough Jul 19, 2021

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This week, I'm speaking to Eric Clough who is the founder of Manhattan-based design firm 212box.

Eric was originally from the Midwest and spent his formative years in both Brussels and London. He graduated from Yale in 1999 and founded 212box in late 2000.

212box is actually made up of six companies, which are working in different disciplines and different sectors, and they have an incredible array of different projects.

They worked in retail with people like Christian Louboutin, Sergio Rossi, Lego, and Erdos / 1436, and enlisting clients such as the von Furstenberg family and Philip Roth for residential.

In this conversation, Eric goes into a lot of the philosophy and creativity, and how they merged that with the business aspects of 212box.

212box are brilliant narrators and storytellers with one of their projects involving hiding a series of clues and hidden narratives within one of the buildings.

This week, I'm speaking to Eric Clough who is the founder of Manhattan-based design firm 212box.

Eric was originally from the Midwest and spent his formative years in both Brussels and London. He graduated from Yale in 1999 and founded 212box in late 2000.

212box is actually made up of six companies, which are working in different disciplines and different sectors, and they have an incredible array of different projects.

They worked in retail with people like Christian Louboutin, Sergio Rossi, Lego, and Erdos / 1436, and enlisting clients such as the von Furstenberg family and Philip Roth for residential.

In this conversation, Eric goes into a lot of the philosophy and creativity, and how they merged that with the business aspects of 212box.

212box are brilliant narrators and storytellers with one of their projects involving hiding a series of clues and hidden narratives within one of the buildings.

Still here? Eric has a little riddle for you:

If anyone listening knows of a scented tree, which grows in groves of Jacaranda and has the sure-footedness of a springbok, the industriousness of a beaver, and the vision of an eagle, we hope that you will reach out to that tree and try to tell them that weʼd love to meet them.

-If you can solve this riddle, get in touch!

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375: Successful and Transformative Design with LuxySpace Jul 13, 2021

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This week, I'm speaking to Christina Kaz and Lilit Devejian, Founders and Principal Designers of LUXYSPACE, an interior design firm based in California with studios in both Fresno and Beverly Hills.

Christina and Lilit have a fabulous story and a very inspiring relationship. Both are Armenian, both are incredibly stylish, and both are often mistaken as each other's sisters.

The two met whilst working at another firm and very quickly found a kindred spirit in each other. They knew that their own practice was not far away, so they ended up setting up LUXYSPACE.

In this interview, we discuss how that process happened, how they worked effectively, and how they developed relationships with high-net-worth individuals, and how they assess whether a client is the wrong or the right fit.

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374: The Intersection of Economics and Design with Bee Rarewala Jul 05, 2021

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This week, we are speaking with Bee Rarewala who is the Vice President and Director of Corporate Brand Strategy and Communications at CRTKL.

She recently joined the LA office and she centered her 20-year career around the nexus of design-thinking and business strategy.

She actually holds a degree in Economics and she's not formally trained as an architect, so she brings a very deep insight and specialist way of looking at where the world of design and business intersect, which made this conversation deeply fascinating.

She's the past President of the South California Development Forum, she sits on the USC Architecture Guild Board, and she is currently part of the USC Economics Leadership Council.

Her role at CRTKL means that she represents the brand at a firm-wide level, and she's seeking to align their message and the message of the business with the marketing strategy, the business goals, and the opportunities for shared initiatives.

She's also responsible for the creation of strategic initiatives and bringing those objectives into a meaningful internal and external communications strategy.

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373: Slow, Steady, and Deliberate Growth with David Hacin Jun 29, 2021

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This week, I am speaking with David Hacin who is the Founding Principal and Creative Director of Hacin + Associates, an interdisciplinary architecture design firm founded in Boston in 1993. They're currently a 30+person team dedicated to design excellence and client service. David has a plethora of recognition and awards for the studio's broad portfolio of architecture, interior design, graphics and branding.

David studied both at Princeton University and Harvard Graduate School of Design and has served on the Northeastern University School of Architecture Advisory Board and as a guest critic and lecturer at many design schools in the country.

He's also served nearly 20 years as the Mayoral appointee to the Boston Civic Design Commission and the City of Boston's Design Review Panel for public-significant works. In 2010, David was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

In this interview, we get to see some of the insights that David has accrued in his business experience, how he's cultivating culture, how he has never let go of a member of his staff or a member of his team, which was a testament to the deep culture that he has cultivated, and the human-centric philosophy that underpins much of the practice's work and culture.

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372: The Architect-Developer Relationship with Geoff Ross Jun 21, 2021

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This week, I am speaking with Geoff Ross.

Geoff is a real estate development executive who has interdisciplinary expertise. He has both been trained as an architect and has worked in several architectural offices in New York City, and then he transitioned into the ownership and development side where he has worked with some of the largest and most active New York City developers.

He's had projects come out of the ground in several US states and has repositioned assets in New York City of over $3 billion.

This was a really fascinating conversation to see behind the scenes of how developers with architects, how they approach and hire architects, what they're looking for, what makes a successful collaboration, mistakes architects often make when they're trying to find work with developers, and how developers can actually take advantage if they're not properly prepared.

We also speculate on the future of real estate in a post-covid world and the numerous business opportunities that may be presenting themselves to architects.

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371: Technology as a Competitive Advantage with Boris Rapoport Jun 16, 2021

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This week, I'm speaking with architecture firm IT Specialist, Boris Rapoport.

Boris has had over 20 years of experience helping architectural design and engineering firms make their business more efficient and profitable with the use of technology.

He is the founder of the IT support firm, ArchIT, who exclusively serves architecture, design, and engineering firms and helps them utilize and protect their businesses using IT, basically operating like an external support IT system.

In this episode, we explore some of the common IT and tech mistakes that architecture firms commonly make, the vulnerabilities that practices and businesses will face to their operational efficiencies, and how to create a powerful IT system to have your business running smoothly.

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