#121 CAR Design Studio, let’s talk architect and designer with Craig Rietze

We get right into the wonderful world of architects and designers. Talking about the formal education, the on-site education, the real construction life. We even discuss the egos attached to being an architect, a designer and how to handle those egos. Then we jump into the formality of drawings, zoning, committee of adjustments, urban forestry, conservations and all of that fun stuff months, years before that first shovel hits the ground. Jim and Craig walks us through actually attending a Committee of Adjustment meetings and dealing with the neighbors objecting the permits. Jim and Craig walks us through dealing with neighbors, bad neighbors, good neighbors and why most neighbors just will never like construction until it is their construction.

Craig walks us through where the love for custom residential came from and why, such an interest ...