Q1) Kindly give our readers an introduction to your business. Please include what your business is all about, in which city you are located and if you have offices in multiple locations/ cities?
Ans: We are an architectural firm that focuses on creating projects that have unique solutions to different problems. Our design approach is to focus on site specific information to create a project routed in context as well as pushing forward what the design for the space can be. We have projects all along the east coast. Our current projects are in Rhode Island, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Georgia.
Q2) Kindly give us a brief description about yourself (it should include your brief educational or entrepreneurial background and list some of your major achievements)?
Ans: I have a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rochester and a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois institute of technology. I have worked as an architect in NYC designing luxury high-rises throughout the city. After starting my own practice in 2021 the firm has grown and has a range of projects from commercial, hospitality, retail, luxury residential, and multifamily buildings. One of our first projects was incredible personal to us as we created a single-family home on my family property. The home is a sustainable home with solar panels that allows the home to be net zero.
Q3) What inspired you to (start a new business venture) or (to make significant changes in an existing business)? How did the idea for your business come about?
Ans: Anderson Alexander Architects was founded on creating good design that has a place and purpose in the communities our projects are built in. We work to create a design that both aligns with the clients aspirations and the architecture of the space.
Q4) To what do you most attribute your success?
Ans: Being able to listen to the clients needs and desires and interpreting them and creating a piece of architecture that works for them
Q5) How do you go about marketing your business? What has been your most successful form of marketing?
Ans: Our work has always been our marketing. The word of mouth of our projects allows us to have repeat clients and new clients based on or work.
Q6) How important have good employees been to your success?
Ans: Having people you can trust and rely on allows you to grow and keep the firm moving forward
Q7) How long do you stick with an idea before giving up?
Ans: We work though our projects with many ideas and look at them through many different angles until we work out a solution that meets the clients desires and needs
Q8) What motivates you?
Ans: I am motivated to create designs create purpose and place. I wanted to create projects that focus on critical regionalism and serve the community and its occupants.
Q9) What are your ideals?
Ans: Anderson Alexander, is a full-service architectural firm with its beginnings in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. We respond to each project with immersive research in related design fields, materials, craft and environmental analysis in order to find individualized solutions for each project and the clients they are designed and built for. Our focus is first and foremost on the client and how they will use the space, we design each space to enrich the environment and lives of each client. The attention to all the elements of the design process has been a guiding principle for Anderson Alexander since its conception. We believe that the Interiors and the Architecture go hand in hand and a good design can bring the principles and design direction from the exterior within.
Q10) How do you generate new ideas?
Ans: Travel, books, review new technology and materials
Q11) How do you define success?
Ans: Success would be creating projects that we our proud of and that create a change in people lives who use them and are a part of them