Name: Harry Levine
Firm: Harry Levine ~ Architect
Family: Roberta, Alex, Sophia, Peter, Casia
Years in practice: 40
Education: Master of Architecture, CMU 1983
Your first paying job: Cutting Grass
Your first architectural job: Summer design intern for Ray Shinhofen
Project you’re proudest of: Sanctuary at Downtown Synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Beth Jacob
What have you always wanted to tell your clients? Take a deep breath!
What’s the most annoying thing architects do? Talking in unintelligible jargon
Favorite tools: HB Pencils & Pentel Sharpies
Favorite building: Gaudi’s Cathedral Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Architect you’d like to have coffee with: Albert Filoni
What do you like to do when you’re not working? Meditation
Best gift to give an architect: Art lessons
If you hadn’t become an architect, what would you have been? Sculptor
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? A farm in Squirrel Hill
What is the best thing about being a Sole Practitioner? Freedom & Bottom Line Responsibility
The secret to my success: Wonderful spouse
Advice to young architects: Work in construction
Architectural quote to practice by: Love it or Leave it!