Today we’d like to introduce you to Jack Baier.
Hi Jack, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My story started with legos. My parents noticed I had a knack for building things – and I was always good at math – and they thought I’d be good at Architecture. The next step was when I went off to college, I was signed up for business school. One chance day at an open house me and my parents ran into the head of the Architecture Department, George Thrush. He convinced me that building models and designing buildings was more intoxicating than writing essays in business school. He was right. That’s when I started on the best adventure of my life. I was taken, hook line and sinker. Architects like the great Mies Van Der Rohe inspired me to take on new challenges and commit myself to Architecture. A few years after graduating my Masters program, where I researched the link between the ecology of Lobsters and the Discipline of Architecture in 2017, I started my own LLC where I started working with clients and doing competitions. I’ve worked with clients in New Jersey and Florida and done competitions in Africa, Canada, Ukraine, and Italy. Now I am growing as much as I can as an Architect and always bettering myself so I can help my clients as much as possible.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The greatest challenge is getting clients to see value in such. a young designer, I started this LLC when I was 27. As my portfolio grows that challenge is less of a burden. I always saw myself as a go getter and hard worker. It’s a hard thing to convince clients of that, or that that’s enough. But word of mouth has helped me grow as a professional and overcome this problem.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’m most proud of designing human centered designs. I try in every project to remember the scale of the person and design in according to the person instead of the abstract philosophy of architecture. I do also use the philosophy of Architecture in my projects as well, but people come first. I think that remembering architecture is for a group of individuals. I like to say with every design move your designing for one of the following: Other Architects, the client, or the public and every individual has weight on a project. By designing for other Architects your calibrating the architectural rigor of a project to stand above the status quo. We are lucky to have such a rich amount of discourse in our field to learn and design from. The client is obviously the most important aspect of this trifecta in that you work for him/her and have to deliver the best project for them. And last is the public, which depending on the scale of the project depends on how much this has an effect on the project. But being mindful of how the public will perceive the is also an important role that the project must play. So in my work I try to negotiate these forces and tie together a good piece of Architecture.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
I feel that I am constantly learning lessons. One lessons I’ve learned is that Architecture is a deep rich field which I feel like you can never conquer. You have to keep plugging away and learning. So many great minds have contributed to the field in the past and with all the research I’ve done I’m amazed at the new discoveries I’m making. On the other hand Architecture is only a few thousand years old, which in the grand scheme of things is nothing. So there is room for innovation.
Pricing:
- Design Work: 9% of Construction Budget
- Renderings: $1,125
- Architectural Drawings: $500
- Conceptual/Philosophy: $160 an hour
- Urban Planning: $240 an hour.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.lsps.work
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lite_shelter_planning_studio/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfrancisbaier/
