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- Title: Dream Teams: Architects are Partnering with Other Firms to Win Plum Projects (Practice)
- Author : Residential Architect
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Art & Architecture,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 162 KB
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Santa Monica, Calif.-based Pugh + Scarpa calls itself a boutique firm--smallish, creative, and eclectic in the kinds of jobs it likes to take on. Its portfolio includes an array of nationally acclaimed work--from the sculptural Dwell House II and the energy-independent Colorado Court, an affordable multifamily housing complex, to highly innovative medium-and large-scale commercial and educational projects. Not bad for an office that started out in 1991 doing small bathroom remodels and master bedroom additions. As founding partners Gwynne Pugh, AIA, and Lawrence Scarpa, AIA, discovered a few years into the business, design talent takes a firm only so far. Part of the reason their firm has enjoyed wide-ranging success is that it repeatedly joins forces with outside architecture offices to gain experience in a diverse set of building types. For Pugh + Scarpa, strategic alliances are a response to what has become an increasingly specialized profession. "It puzzles me that as an architect today, it's almost impossible to get a job on a project [type] you haven't had experience doing" Scarpa says. "People want to know, 'Have you done a school? A K-12 school? In an urban area? How many on a corner lot?' Everyone has become a specialist in a particular sector of work, and that's something we had little interest in." In 1994, a mutual friend introduced the pair to Steven Kodama, FAIA, who heads up Kodama Diseno Architects in San Francisco. Kodama had been perfecting the design and delivery of affordable and special-needs housing for almost 40 years. The three hit it off and decided to create Pugh Scarpa Kodama, a separate legal entity, or joint venture, to attract top-notch clients within that housing niche. Since then, Pugh + Scarpa has simultaneously partnered with other architects, but more informally, to broaden its market reach.
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