ARCH620 Pro Practice interviews James Petty, Author of "Architect & Developer"

About James Petty:
James Petty, AIA is an architect and the founder of Postscript Studio, an architecture and development company in New York City.

After college, James spent five years in Great Britain and Germany understanding how other cultures construct the built environment. He has worked on projects in New York City, London, Munich, Brussels, and Tokyo.

James holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

In 2018, he published “Architect & Developer: A Guide to Self-Initiating Projects” as a critique of the architectural profession and a path towards agency.

The traditional role of the architect is far too passive and uncertain. The profession has positioned itself to sit by the phone until we are called upon and commissioned to do work.

Architects have long been charged with creating a better-built environment, but it is the developers who dictate what is actually built in our cities. The decisions made by developers before architects are engaged in a project dictate later success. When all of the initial programming, market studies, and cost estimates are based on market averages, it is unsurprising when the final products in our cities are nothing more than average.

In the end, architects have devalued their role to the pencil of the developer’s vision.

Learn more about “Architect & Developer: A Guide to Self-Initiating Projects” at: https://architectanddeveloper.com/book/

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