Name: Joe Chadwick
Title: Project Architect
Company: CWA-Christopher Williams Architects LLC
Location: New Haven CT
Place of birth: Atlas Pa
College: BSArch Temple University, MArch Yale University
First job unrelated to your current field: Coal delivery
First job in current field: Hippie dome and solar house builder
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Our present business volume is generally balanced among project types but leans heavily towards academic clients. The overwhelmingly positive outcomes we've had with very challenging and technically sophisticated laboratory projects is clearly pointing to a direction to be followed.
Hobbies: blacksmith, glass blowing, making wine.
Favorite novel: Lee Child's "Reacher" series.
Favorite film: Toss-up:- Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and "Pulp Fiction"
Keys to success: Recognizing the difference between "intuition" and "influence" and having the presence-of-mind to move hard on a good hunch.
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Eratosthenes
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Firefighter, Urban Search and Rescue.