Managing Design

Acknowledgments

This book is a tribute to many people who have worked to achieve better collaboration between design partners, owners, and contractors, and tried to manage design.

• Literati: This book would not have been possible without the seed planted by Margaret Cummins, Editorial Director at Wiley Publishing. Her nurturing of the idea shaped its form and made it better. The expertise and support of Associate Editor Kalli Schultea and Project Editor Blesy Regulas were enabling forces. Rebecca W. E. Edmunds, your coaching, passion for collaboration and keen editorial skills were a serendipity. Your suggestion to broaden the group was game changing. Bob Fisher at DesignIntelligence offered timely guidance. Longtime collaborator Thomas Powers's first read, frank advice, and IPA-fueled edits were invaluable. Talented ubermensch friends Susan Liebeskind, Jeffrey Donnell, and Marcy Louza championed valuable final edits.
• Holder Associates: To Tommy Holder, who, in 1997, was willing to take a leap of faith on my idea to join the company to create a new position, thanks for bringing me aboard, and putting up with me for twenty-plus years. To Dave Miller, who supported my right-brained creative approach and balanced it with stellar left-brained operational leadership. Thanks to Mike Kenig, who helped blaze the trail, kicking open doors and clearing obstacles so I could walk in and do my thing. His passion was exhausting. His energy and level of care were contagious. To Wayne Wadsworth, ...