Since 2000, RECORD has annually honored 10 leading young firms with the Design Vanguard Award. Join managing editor Linda Lentz for a conversation with the founding partners of recent winners: Linden, Brown Architecture (Portland, Oregon) and Zeller & Moye (Berlin/Mexico City), and Only If Architecture (Brooklyn, NY). The principals will share recent projects and work on the boards, as well as discuss their experience establishing an architecture firm.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise when launching a new firm.

Describe how focusing on context, craft and materiality, and community engagement can provide opportunities for growth as well as expand a firm’s portfolio of work.

Outline the trajectories of three firms that evolved out of their founding principals’ previous experiences working at large and successful, established practices.

Explain the importance and value of exploring a variety of program types and scales when launching a new firm.

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