Green Glop & Hair Shirts - Perspectives on Client Communication
Designing and building a sustainable passive house is a powerful moment for all involved - the client, the architect, and the planet. For the owners the process is deeply personal and emotional, with layers of financial impacts and the significant time investment involved. For architects the key is to talk in a way that clients can hear them, and listen in a way that they can hear their clients*. For both the architect and the client the first few conversations set the stage for what comes next.
Join us in this interview with Graham Irwin of Essential Habitat where we unpack the seemingly simple question: How does skillful and effective communication between the client and the architect happen? The answers may surprise you.
“Designing a home is an incredible opportunity, let’s ensure the results are extraordinary”
-Graham Irwin, Essential Habitat
*with respect and appreciation to the amazing parenting book
Graham Iwrin
Graham is the principal of Essential Habitat Architecture, a Northern California design firm focused on healthy, high performance, sustainable buildings built to Passive Building standards. He has a degree in physics, with additional studies in engineering and architecture, and an extensive background in software development. Since 2008, his firm has worked on numerous single-family, multi-family and commercial Passive House projects throughout California and the US, including the first certified Passive House in California, the first certified Passive House retrofit in the US, and the first certified multi-family Passive House in the US. He is a licensed architect and licensed general contractor in the state of California.