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I am IIDA

Joe Pettipas, IIDA, ASID, FARIDO, LEED AP, LIDAAA, RDI

 

Joe is a Senior Vice President and Regional Practice Leader for HOK in Western Canada.

 

What is your favorite example of great design?
     Fallingwater

Who is your favorite designer?
     Mies van der Rohe

If you weren't a designer, what would you be doing?
     Sleeping. . . no, seriously, I would be a philanthopist or a doctor

List 5 words the describe design
     Appropriate, clear, inventive, sustaining, memorable

List 3 things you can't live without
     Shoes, wine and money

What is your favorite quote or motto?
     Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

What advice do you wish someone would have shared with you before you started your Interior Design career?
     Don't! Have your head examined!
     Seriously. . . I wish someone had told me that I would love it (and I do) 
    . . . but that I would never get rich from it (and I haven't)