How MMB's Bob Borson Handles Graphite Poetry and All That Conveys

Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Bob Borson, AIA, LEED, AP — principal of Malone Maxwell Borson Architects — who experiences architecture with an interesting mixture of joy and pain. Do you have a normal emotional starting point once you know you are going to take on a project? The very first thing I do — and I couldn’t even begin to tell you why — is that I start to think about who the person is as a human being: Am I going to like working with this person? Are they the sort of person I would like to have as a friend. It seems to matter to me that I work with people I like and ones I have a connection with on a few different levels. I seem to work a lot (it’s hard to separate my job from my hobbies), and I have the good fortune to walk away from projects and people who don’t seem to fit well with my personality. Do you know ...