The Anti-Architect The Anti-Architect Podcast

In this episode, Christian sits down with Stephen Perkins, Partner at HotelStudio. Stephen is an American Architect and Designer, leading the way in creating story-driven, experiential hospitality and entertainment spaces. His design prowess is exemplified in the hundreds of luxury hotels, resorts, cultural, leisure, and retail destinations that he has designed over the course of his 45-year career. His innovation and leadership in the field has been recognized by Hospitality Design Magazine’s Platinum Circle Award and his elevation to the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, a global society of the world's leading hospitality authorities.

https://www.thehotelstudio.com/about-us
https://theantiarchitect.com/

In this episode, Christian sits down with Marc Spector, FAIA, CEO and Owner of SPECTOR Companies. Marc applies his core cultural principles to the business of architecture, creating value for design excellence and the profession. Marc’s influential business model is built on creating impactful life spaces regardless of project constraints and typology, cultivation of client and team relationships into friendships, growth in new markets and services, and continual advancement of design innovation hand-in-hand with profitable business practices.

Leading a diverse team of professionals in the various practices in the country and worldwide, Marc advances creative and technical strategies in the various practices over the firm’s 57-year lifespan. Sustainability, carbon neutrality, and passive and net zero design and construction principles are now indigenous in the firm’s cultural DNA.

Marc is an Emmy Award Winner for NBC's hit show "George To The Rescue" and has appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart​.

https://spectorcompanies.com/
https://theantiarchitect.com/

In this episode, Christian sits down with Bradford Perkins, FAIA, co-founder of Perkins Eastman with Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA. He has built a career that spans 50 years and includes projects in more than 30 countries. Brad’s grandfather Dwight Heald Perkins, FAIA, who founded Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton in 1894, and Brad’s father, Lawrence Bradford Perkins, FAIA, who co-founded Perkins + Will in 1935, inspired Brad to focus on design that enhances the quality of life.

Throughout his career, Brad has directed major projects in all of Perkins Eastman’s key practice areas, serving as Principal in Charge of work around the world ranging from small projects for non-profit organizations and senior living communities to major healthcare facilities, large-scale mixed-use developments, education and research campuses, and even master plans for new cities. Author of nine books and more than 100 articles covering all aspects of architecture and design, Brad has lectured at more than 20 colleges and universities and currently serves on the faculty of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Brad deeply believes that the built environment can improve people’s lives, wherever they are in the world.

https://perkinseastman.com/
https://theantiarchitect.com/

In this episode, Christian sits down with Paul J. Massey, CEO of B6 Real Estate Advisors, which provides commercial real estate owners and stakeholders with a next-generation experience to optimize their investments through territory-specific investment sales. You might recognize Paul’s name from the well-known Massey Knakal Realty Services, a company he founded with his colleague Robert Knakal whom he met at CBRE (and previous guest here on The Anti-Architect Podcast – Episode 40). The company became the New York metropolitan area’s dominant commercial investment sales brokerage firm, with over 225 employees serving more than 200,000 property owners.

https://b6realestateadvisors.com/
https://theantiarchitect.com/#podcast

In this episode, Christian sits down with Mark Zweig, Chairman and Founder of Zweig Group. Mark is best known as the leading expert in management for the architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental industries for four decades.

Zweig Group has been on the Inc 500/5000 list of fastest-growing privately-held companies three times. Mark’s other company, Mark Zweig, Inc., is an award-winning design/build/development firm that was named to the Inc 5000 list in 2014. Since 2005, Mark has been Entrepreneur-in-Residence teaching entrepreneurship at The Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas.

https://zweiggroup.com/
https://theantiarchitect.com/

In this episode, Christian sits down with John "Ozzie" Nelson Jr., Chairman and CEO of NELSON Worldwide.

In 1987, Ozzie entered his father’s 15-person interior design firm. Over the following years, he expanded the firm’s core design business with emerging technologies and consulting capabilities to create a compelling service delivery platform for large corporate clients.

Since Ozzie became CEO in 2003, the firm has executed more than 40 mergers/acquisitions, taking NELSON from #37 in the industry to “Top 10” with growth of more than 500 percent. In 2019 The Zweig Letter identified NELSON as the second “Fastest Growing AE Firm” based on percentage growth.

https://www.nelsonworldwide.com/
https://theantiarchitect.com/