Celebrating New Architects: Wes Schwartz

Wes Schwartz recently joined the firm’s ranks of registered architects. Today we celebrate his accomplishments.

Wes joined PAYETTE in 2005. He received his B.Arch. magna cum laude from the Syracuse University School of Architecture in 2004. During his years at PAYETTE, Wesley has spent much of his time working on the social spaces within our building typology, like the atriums. He finds the challenge of the open ended space with a great deal of freedom fascinating. Over the past seven years, Wes has taught and refined courses at the Boston Architectural College, primarily in the foundation department. In 2011 Wesley participated on the winning team of the Common Boston Design Build Challenge. Their entry, “New Perspective,” created a destination to heighten the experience of the wild and focus one’s attention on nature, sited in a small clearing off a public path.

What inspires you?
Nature, art, technology, science. I draw from what I see for inspiration.

What is the best part of your job?
Impacting how people use and experience space, particularly the users occupying the space every day. I like to push people to see things differently and to design spaces that force interaction.

What is the most important thing you’ve learned so far?
Design is really fast and architecture is really slow.

The sky is the limit: if you could design or redesign anything, what would it be?
Congress.