Being an architect is the best job in the world. We are passionate about design, but the most fun part about being an architect is listening to our clients and watching their delight as we generate a physical manifestation of their dreams. A good architect facilitates and shares the creative process with his client to the extent that at the end of construction, the client believes that he designed the whole thing himself. At Heiland Hoff Architecture, our clients get to fly the plane; the Architect is only along to make sure the plane gets where it needs to go and doesn't crash along the way.
Heiland Hoff Architecture is eager to display their expertise by designing your commercial project. We have designed hundreds of commercial buildings, including hotels, restaurants, and retail outlets ranging from Walgreens to Kinkos stores. In addition to new buildings, Heiland Hoff Architecture can provide you with interior tenant improvements to customize your tenant space. Heiland Hoff was the project architect for numerous new Boudin Bakery stores throughout the United States, from San Diego to Chicago.
I don't know whose house this is, but I absolutely love it. I feel like architecture school would have ruined whoever designed this. Architecture school teaches you a million correct ways to do something, but THIS way is so delightfully wrong, like, if an architect designed this, they would go to...
As a linguist who has travelled extensively and lived abroad, I could usually find somebody who spoke English to assist me if I struggled to communicate an idea in my host country’s language. I have a great deal of empathy for anybody bold enough to try the full emersion experience in America, where most people can’t offer any assistance if you stumble with English. Here is a delightful review that a kind soul added to my architecture firm’s website: “Heiland is very creative, yet practical
For many years, I have sponsored radio news programs on NPR. In these terrifying times, when one is allowed to simply substitute "alternative facts" for actual facts, I have steadily increased my financial support for truthful reporting by increasing the number of NPR programs I sponsor. Of course, I also appreciate having my architecture firm mentioned during the program. This past September, my devotion to the truth was sorely tested when the local NPR radio transmitter burned to the ground...
Every day I ride my bicycle through the devastation of my little town and marvel at what went right, as well as what went wrong. I sometimes have clients demand to know why the door between their garage and their laundry room costs more than their front door. The reason is because of the fire...
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” --Frank Lloyd Wright