| lesson learned, we think, from the experiences
| of the Koolhaases and Hadids of the world. give
| your employees credit or they'll do you in
| someday!

This Architect Is About Much More Than Buildings
Lunch at the Four Seasons

By PRANAY GUPTE - Special to the Sun
May 15, 2006

Nancy Ruddy raises buildings by building rapport.

"Architecture is teamwork, and I enjoy working collaboratively with
people," the co-founder and managing principal of Cetra/Ruddy
Incorporated, one of New York's top 10 architectural firms, said. "To
me, the excitement of architecture is taking the diverse requirements of
clients and creating a product that exceeds all expectations. I don't
see myself as just a technician working on architectural drawings. I
like the give and take."

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http://www.nysun.com/article/32703

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The Architect of a Different Kind of Organization

Joshua Prince-Ramus isn't just creating buildings. In a field obsessed
with celebrity, he's putting the work -- and his workers -- first.
....
With 350 pairs of eyes upon him, and a widely anticipated design to show
off, Prince-Ramus might have basked, just for a moment, in the
spotlight. But he didn't. "Since I have a captive audience for about an
hour, I want to first make a little PR statement about architecture," he
began. "Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch .
. . is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who
work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb
determination than with genius."

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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/95/open_design-prince-ramus.html

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David Adjaye

“You know why giraffe necks are stripy? Giraffes are stripy because when
they come together they form an optical haze that confuses predators.
When you get a family of giraffes there’s this moiré-ing, and lions trip
out, and what they have to do is to separate them to hunt them.”
...
“The pattern’s so super-sophisticated, when a baby is born, the mother
shields it from everybody, so it only recognises her print. And when
giraffes don’t have that connection with their mothers, they disconnect
completely because they can’t see their mothers any more. When the tribe
runs off, it’s like, ‘Fucking hell! What’s going on, where are you?’”
....
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http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/017/adjaye.htm