I will improve your project inception score with my Agile Architecture Solutions.

This will create practical breakthroughs for fence-sitting under-inspired clients or new prospects. I learned this right after graduating from Pratt School of Architecture in 1976. That summer, it solved a big issue haunting Osprey Homes in Ft. Collins, CO. Ospreys had clients who wanted their custom designs, not Ospreys designs. I was asked to design the custom homes. I engaged Ospreys clients by patiently listening to their needs and desires.  I worked with the clients at their site and often at a table right at the site. I pencil sketched the ideas we thought up in plan and in 3-D.  We experimented with 3 or more solutions and combinations of the aspects they liked most. I asked for their feedback so I could refine the designs into a good-looking home. Then, I would meet with the builder, Reid Rosenthal, between the 2 or 3 client design sessions. This was to keep the design within the budget. Reid’s clients got their custom homes. Reid had the permit-ready documents that he could profit from. Then I refined this method for the next 48 years to today for both commercial and residential projects.  I offer you the opportunity to experiment with me with what can become your most valuable business tool.

I will get you started right so you finish right!. The link below is about the simple and productive Agile project management method.

Here is an example project: The above photos, and more in Gallery, are of a fine builder’s own family home near Stamford, CT, the shoreline in the shingle style popular there. Together, we developed preliminary plans, elevations, and 3-D  sketches in 3 eight hour working sessions. I produced the contract docs in six weeks. The home was built in 7 months. (References are available for all the projects here).

Agile Architecture Solutions method. You are my client, and I am your architecture agent to your client.  All 3 parties make up our Agile team.  We all meet to set the goals and the parameters of the project. We all get to have our creative and practical input in the matter.  That’s how we make quick decisions and adjustments that refine the design to comply with your realistic scope of work. The design will satisfy your client by representing their purpose for the building. This all happens in a fraction of the time and cost of remote designing by other architects.

I would like to get acquainted in person to learn and understand your goals, values, and construction preferences before meeting with clients. Your leadership, my practical creativity, and the client’s dreams will guide us to solutions. We can employ this Agile method or your own management style. I am sure you will find me an asset. Please think about clients and projects that I can help you move forward with. I can also help you with your own spec projects.

Contract options: Agile method can make feasible, a collaborative, or a negotiated contract for design and construction with your Clients. That can deter bidding races to lower quality.

Agile Architecture Solutions and other services presented here on this website can start on an hourly work  basis with very economical pricing and expedient delivery. Please do contact me and see how easily you will get what you want by my helping you get started right with your clients. Sincerely, Darek Shapiro, Architect, Environmental Architecture LLC. Cell # (970) 989-3877.

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