Name: Bill Baxley, AIA
Firm: Leo A Daly
Family: Wife – Laura; 2 children – Sam and Amelia
Years in practice: 28
Education: Syracuse University
Your first job: A Paper Route in Orangeburg, SC
Project you’re proudest of: Two Popes Film – A three-room office production space in a former bottling building…. shoestring budget + demanding client = amazing space.
What have you always wanted to tell your clients? ‘Trust me.”
What’s the most annoying thing architects do? Wear black.
Favorite tool (can be digital, drafting, physical,…): Paper Mate Flair pen, medium black.
Favorite building: Salk Institute
Favorite outdoor space: High Line
Architect you’d like to have a drink with: Buckminster Fuller
Best gift to give an architect: More time.
If you hadn’t become an architect, what would you have been? Geologist
If you could live anywhere in the world, where? Copenhagen
What’s on your iPod/Pandora/Spotify? James Brown, Gregorian Chants, Beastie Boys
The secret to my success: Thick skin.
Advice to young architects: Question everything.
Architectural quote to practice by: ‘Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.’ –K. Gibran
Bill Baxley, AIA
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