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Are you considering commissioning an architect for your project? Your decision to pursue quality custom design and construction will benefit you now as well as future generations. Working with an architect can ensure your space reflects your character while enhancing life in ways you have never dreamed.Great design can improve the quality of your living environment. The fabric of your built context unfolds around you with every movement in every moment. A well designed context wraps around and embraces you. A poorly designed or accidental context bumps and pokes and subliminally repels you. Living is better when living in a context employing the language, rhythms, harmonies and resonance of architecture.
MOD FOCUS
At Modus Operandi Design, we aim to treat each square foot, surface, and space with the same attention to detail, regardless of project size and scope. Everything from an entire building to a custom millwork insert is our opportunity to create something special for you to appreciate and enjoy for years to come. Through the pursuit of the best living through building quality designs, we want to improve the environment and strengthen the community one client at a time.
Jes Stafford, AIA
Owner. President. Architect.
DESIGN80%
MODEL20%
C.A.95%
Annmarie Stafford
Owner. Marketing Director.
DESIGN30%
MARKET80%
OPERATIONS95%
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Virtual Studio CAD and BIM Team
DESIGN30%
MODEL95%
C.A.20%
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Virtual Studio Spec Team
DESIGN30%
SPEC95%
C.A.20%
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Value
“Architecture is an expression of values.”
~Norman Foster
MODwelling
MODwelling is dwelling on... Topics covering clients, architects, building, and living nicely.
25 Jul 2016The Dog Days of Summer
Dwelling on... Summer with a new and trusted family companion. Another post in the #ArchiTalks blogging series. #ArchiTalks is organized by Bob Borson at Life of an Architect. A group of architects writes blog posts around a single theme or subject and posts them all at the same time, ensuring a good range of various takes on the subject or theme. Last time, before a little break, we wrote a post on the theme of
18 Apr 2016A is for Architecture in April
Dwelling on... Architecture Week and Architecture Month with a quick tour of the Interwebs. Here is a quick post to wrap up Architecture week - #Archweek16 - with an invitation to follow some of the traffic on the web. Hashtag lovethisstuff. Click here for the top #Archweek16 posts on twitter. Click here to view #Archweek16 posts on Instagram. Click here for #Archweek posts on Facebook. Also, Activate NC is doing #Archmonth16 on Twitter
11 Apr 2016Dear Future Architect, Listen Here
Dwelling on… What it takes to make a great architect. Future Architects via fotosearch.com Another post in the #ArchiTalks blogging series. #ArchiTalks is organized by Bob Borson at Life of an Architect. A group of architects writes blog posts around a single theme or subject and posts them all at the same time, ensuring a good range of various takes on the subject or theme. Last time we wrote a post on the theme of
4 Apr 2016Zaha Hadid and the Rubber Band Theory
Dwelling on... what is one reason that the work of Zaha Hadid is iconic and what makes great architecture. Zaha Hadid in her London office, 1985. Photo Credit: Christopher Pillitz/Getty Images A Star is Lost Shock waves rolled through the architecture world with the news that Zaha Hadid had died on March 31. Likewise were the shock waves, that became sustaining forces of her influence sent through design communities, schools, and practices with each
28 Mar 2016On Drawing – Foundations of Skill
Dwelling on… Cultivating the skill of drawing. I started a new project at the beginning of March. The career and vocational technology education (CATE) center building will be an opportunity for our design team to illustrate the process of computer aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) in making that CATE center come to exist. We met last week about BIM standards and the basics of how construction documents should look. A problem came
21 Mar 2016Periscope, Anchor, and the Commuter Architect
Dwelling on... Leveraging Periscope and Anchor to enhance the modarchitect social media presence. Announcement for the : : Ride with MODarchitect # AskTheArchitect : : afternoon periscope broadcast. Engaging vs. Consuming I have been delivering tidbits of architectural narrative content, one social media bite at a time and this post is to tell you a little about that operation. After transitioning to McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, a career move you can read about here, I
14 Mar 2016The Way – A Compilation
Dwelling on... how the Way of the Samurai can be used to improve one’s pursuit of happiness through work, trade, or profession. The following is a compilation of every post in the Way of the Samurai Architect series, assembled for your convenience and reading pleasure in following my thoughts on how an ancient Japanese Text, the Hagakure aka The Book of the Samurai, can lend itself to every day battles in modern life, and becoming
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Please note I am accepting limited new clients, or referring new projects to trusted colleagues. Please feel free to contact us about your project. We know some awesome architects that are ready to get started! Thank You. ~Jes Introducing a client to the superintendent.James Edgar Stafford, AIA, NCARB, CDT
