-: You know, I like meeting people.
I like the office, the people we work with.
I like the challenges.
I like new things.
The one thing about architecture is that,
and this is unsettling to some people,
there's never quite an answer.
Everything's different from day to day.
There's new challenges, there's new ideas,
there's new materials.
If you're in a rut, you're not gonna stay there very long
because you won't succeed.
So what I like about my job is the constant,
new things happening, new people.
And we have many repeat clients,
but they expect to come to us and us to have new ideas.
But we're also a business and so if you're in business...
If you're in business yesterday and business today,
you gotta keep changing
or you won't be in business tomorrow.
The biggest challenge, I think, is keeping up-to-date.
Certainly software changes daily and upgrades change daily.
Technology changes daily.
How we work with contractors and sub-contractors,
and owners, and city, changes daily.
There are building codes that change all the time.
And everyday I look out and try and find out new materials.
The whole technology of a building has changed
due to energy conservation.
We don't do details in the buildings anywhere close
to the way we detailed buildings 15 years ago.
How you build a building today is completely different,
particularly the exterior envelope,
than it was 10 or 15 years ago.