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.”
Read the full article.
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?
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently completed a new inpatient building in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. A rich texture and palette of materials adorn the wall along the base of the building. Polished black granite forms the watercourse and seat walls, warm gray granite is used on the large wall panels, and an alternating texture of black granite, green glazed terracotta, and weathered steel is applied to the vertical recesses between the granite wall panels.
This design accentuates key elements in the landscape and introduces an intimate human scale and craftsmanship to the pedestrian realm.
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