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Judy van Soldt, AIA, LEED™ AP

Architect & Senior Project Manager, specializing in transportation and higher education projects.

The practice of Architecture is analogous to a three-legged stool:

The first leg is the art of design
The second is the technology of building
The third is the mastery of project management

The balanced practitioner—in fact, the true Architect—has a passion for Design, Building, and Project Management, and a recognition of the creative tension their synergy produces.

My professional portfolio is available on this site, as are my resume and selected publications. Please contact me to request additional information or references.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

- Winston Churchill
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright
“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.”

- Gottfried Boehm
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

- Eliel Saarinen
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

- Leonardo da Vinci
“Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.”

- Vincent Scully
“… city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of diversity. This is the point … of it.”

- Jane Jacobs
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead
“It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.”

- I. M. Pei
“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.”

- Lewis Mumford