TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Jen AU - TI - Sucess by design: revealing profiles of California architects. SN - 9780983077107 AV - NA730.C2 K46 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Santa Barbara, California PB - Sea-Hill Press , KW - Architects KW - California KW - Local KW - Architectural KW - Practice KW - Architecture N1 - Contents -- Foreword -- Barry Berkus -- Boris Dramov -- Steven Ehrlich -- Richard Emsiek -- Elisa Garcia -- Art Gensler -- Craig Hodgetts & HsinMing Fung -- Michael Johnson -- Stephen Kanner -- Ray Kappe -- Hank Koning & Julie Eizenberg -- Dan Meis -- David Mourning -- Barton Myers -- Ed Niles -- Juan Diego Perez-Vargas -- Simon Perkowitz & Steve Ruth -- Randy Peterson -- Michael Patrick Porter -- Beverly Prior -- Lauren Rottet & Richard Riveire -- Don Sandy -- Rob Steinberg -- Erik Sueberkrop -- Allison Williams -- N2 - A successful architectural career is the result of many factors, including education, design, proficiency, and simple luck. This book offers stories of many diverse paths to success for those interested in starting or managing an architecture practice. Twenty-five innovators tell about their beginnings, mentors, mistakes, and lessons learned. Architects featured in the book are located in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. They specialize in a range of disciplines including sports arenas, performance centers and civic buildings, as well as residential and modular housing. Notable subjects include Ray Kappe, founder of Sci-Arc, Stephen Kanner, modernist and founder of the A+D Museum, Lauren Rottet, celebrated interior architect and Art Gensler, founder of the largest architecture firm in the US. They open up about highlights and low points of their journey and share how they survive -and even thrive during- market downturns, natural growing pains, and business challenges ER -