What’s the best forum for architects and interior designers to share all of this information?
Broshar: The greatest amount of learning we do is in practicing together. Our firm contains architects and interior designers, and we do better work because we have that collaboration. The architects push the interior designers and the interior designers push the architects to do better work. Because of the sharing of knowledge, there’s really a blurring of the line, and it creates more successful design solutions as a result. That collaboration is going to increase over time. Mack: I would add industrial designers, landscape designers, graphic designers and engineers to those who contribute to the building process. Each brings his or her own expertise to the table. Hanson: I can think of quite a few successful examples of firms starting out as engineering firms or architectural or interior design practices, and then offering all those services together as a package. Mack: As an ongoing reminder of collaboration among design professionals, each year the New York Chapter of IIDA invites
