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foreword
For an architecture rm to celebrate its 60th year in business is, to be sure, cause for celebration – if only when you consider the odds against it. After all, fully a third of the companies listed in the Fortune 500 in 1970 had vanished by 1983; today, it’s reckoned that the average lifespan of any sort of business enterprise is less than 13 years. So, yes...it’s certainly a milestone worth marking.
More importantly, though, it’s a time for re ection. Succeeding as a business is one thing; actually doing something with that success is quite another. Have we spent these 60 years furthering architecture? Bettering communities? Strengthening our profession?
We humbly submit that the answer to each of these questions is a resounding yes, and that the book you hold in your hands – an effort to chronicle six decades’ worth of design in nearly every conceivable category – offers some evidence in support of this conclusion.
If you’re reading this as one of our collaborators, we hope you’re as proud of the work as we are. If you’re a prospective client, maybe it will offer a better understanding of who we are. And if you’re one of those clients we’ve already worked with, well...thank you. This book is as much an acknowledgment of you as it is of us. Because without you, there’d be no celebration at all.
Rebecca Baibak P., AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, REFP
Brian Carter, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, REFP
Thomas Corcoran, PE, SE
John Cuddy, PE, SE, LEED AP
Mark Dailey, AIA, NCARB
Larry Hurlbert, AIA, DBIA
Preston Potratz, AIA, NCARB
David Van Galen, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Gerald Winkler, AIA, NCARB
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