PRINCIPAL
In 1972 he departed the Starkman firm to establish his own firm in Los Angeles, and in 1973 he relocated his firm to Irvine, California where he continues to practice.
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
STAFF
By choice and in keeping with the firm's philosophy of a small office, the firm maintains no permanent staff. Support personnel, as required by the nature of the project, are assembled from a pool of available professional and/or technical personnel which are retained on a contract basis for individual projects, under the supervision of the principal.
The principal "wears many hats" - he goes out and gets the work; sells the project to the client; becomes the designer, production draftsman, and the firm's representative in the field.
It is important to him that he see the job through all the way from inception to completion. In a large firm the work is compartmentalized and fragmented. A small firm pays a certain penalty for its size too - clients don't think you can take on a large project. In the end though, a good building and a successful project are generally the result of one person having the authority to say "Do it this way!"CONSULTANTS
Likewise, all engineering and other required disciplines are retained as outside consultants from a select group, all of which have been associated with the firm for a considerable time and have worked together as a team on numerous projects. This combination of small firm and team approach to solving client's problems has served the firm well during its existence, witness the fact that the firm has never been subjected to malpractice litigation.
