In last week’s AIA Architect article, Steve Cimino explored different ways firms support and encourage their staff on the path to licensure. Hilary Barlow and Jenny Ratner, co-chairs of our Young Designers Core (YDC), contributed to the article, sharing their perspective on how PAYETTE supports the process. The YDC serves as a mechanism to help staff on that path and as an education and communication conduit across the firm. The group builds community within the firm across a range of events from a bocce ball tournament on the greenway to tips on networking to internal education forums.
Cimino’s article also touched on strategies and systems in place at both Adriam Smith + Gordon Gill and at Erlich Architects.
You can read the full article here.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.