Top 4 Reasons to Hire an Architect for Your Next Project

• Ronnie Gor

What are the reasons to hire an architect for your next construction or renovation project? Anyone who’s ever renovated or built their home, office or any building will tell you that it’s a stressful and costly process. People always start with a terrific vision for what they would like their space to be. But can end up having to live with something that falls far short. Oftentimes, despite multiple discussions, the people doing the work and the homeowner picture the end result differently in their minds.

Unfortunately, a building isn’t like a garment that you easily alter for optimum fit. There is only one chance to get it right, and if that goes wrong, it will cost you more money and time to fix. But reworking a construction project is also a major emotional toll.

Any way you look at it, working with an architect increases success.

Architects Welcome Value Input 

When you work with an architect, they will listen to understand your needs, then, translate those needs into options and drawings so you can see the end result before construction begins. After all, it’s much easier to revise a rendering than to tear down new construction and start your remodeling project all over again. Architects welcome your input.

A Holistic Approach

There is a holistic approach to an architect’s vision. Every design is unique to each client. This is good news. Not only are the designs not repeated in other projects, architect designs aren’t copied from a website or a book. Rather, they come from years of training, design practice and abstract thinking, coupled with an aptitude of visualizing three dimensional spaces from two dimensional drawings.

Architects Can Save Your Time & Money

Architects can save your time and budget while bringing great care and attention to every detail. They have deep understanding of and experience with materials, structural systems, lighting, mechanical and environmental systems and every other construction detail needed to bring buildings to life. What is more, they bring together all trades to ensure each trade’s process and systems will work well with the others.

Human Scale Commitment Ensures Equitability For All

Architects work with human scale—the set of physical qualities and characteristics of the inhabitants’ human bodies and their motor, sensory and mental capabilities, as well as their social preferences. They are trained to think and design for any “body” needs so every “body” can live in an equitable society.

Architects go through extensive training, preparation and licensing to design optimum structures for all people. For example, two clients may have similar specifications, parameters and style preferences for their projects, but if one client is a single person with physical disabilities and the other client is a same-sex partner household with young children, special considerations come into play. 

This also comes into play when working on different types of public buildings. Churches, town halls, court buildings, schools, restaurants and hotels need that kind of expertise. Architects have the training and experience to engineer safe yet beautiful places that accommodate people with many different needs.

I’d love to discuss how amorphous.Studio can help you realize your vision for your next project. Call 310.633.4735, email ronnie@amo.studio or visit amorphousstudio.net.