Furniture and
commercial buildings.
Those are two things people usually don't associate together but they are the
bread and butter of
Metropolitan
Architecture Practice. The firm based in the
Russell Industrial Center is a full service
design and architecture firm but it makes its dough either designing commercial
buildings or furniture.
"We lean on one or the other when one slows down,"
says Roger Berent,
principal of MAP.
So far those two specialties have been strong enough to
support the weight of the two-person firm. Strong enough that they expect to
hire one to four people within the next year if the work continues to come in
as it has recently.
Berent and Kyle Hulewat founded the
firm a year ago after working together in another architecture firm. The
Russell offered them a place to set up shop cheaply
while providing a multitude of creative muses to draw from.
"We felt we had something to offer and wanted to take
the chance while we could," Berent says.
Source: Roger Berent,
principal of Metropolitan Architecture Practice
Writer: Jon Zemke