ABSTRACT
Laurinda Spear's an architect herself, she earned her graduate degree at Columbia after studying fine arts at Brown, then another graduate degree in landscape architecture from Florida International University. Spear's a catalyst and proponent for change at the firm, constantly striving to break down silos and create opportunities where architects, interior designers, landscape architects, product designers, and even graphic artists can find common ground. Spear's increasingly finding that visuals alone are not capable of telling a project's entire story, particularly in response to requests for proposals for major government projects. When Arquitectonica started out first with its uber-chic Pink House in the late 1970s, and then with its now-iconic Atlantis Condominiums, nearly all of its projects were developed by hand, including working drawings. There's no shortage of good writers at Arquitectonica among them Spear herself, a self-described prose poet.
