PAYETTE’s Sho-Ping Chin contributed to the article Natural Selection published in the latest issue of ArchitectureBoston about the skills and qualities principals look for when hiring new recruits. Sho-Ping shared her thoughts alongside four other principals from top local firms – William Rawn, FAIA; Alex Krieger, FAIA; Steve J. Brittan, Assoc. AIA; Arthur Cohen, FAIA.
“Our profession has evolved into a demanding multi-faceted and exceedingly competitive business on all levels. The designer of today has to find the work, design it, and manage it within financial constraints. Now, more than ever, architecture education has to better prepare graduates for these expectations.”
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What are your thoughts on what it takes to succeed in the architecture profession? What skills do you look for in new staff? What skills do you develop in your staff?
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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