Name: James Myers
Title: Senior Associate/Design Director/Senior Project Manager
Company: SWBR Architects
Location: Rochester, N.Y.
Place of birth: Binghamton, N.Y.
Family: Single father, daughter 13, crazy chocolate Labrador puppy
College: University of Buffalo, BPS and Master of Architecture
First job unrelated to your current field: Stock boy for Newberry's Department Store (not counting paper boy, lawn mowing, shoveling...)
First job in your current field: Draftsman - Dodge Chamberlin and Luzine - Rensselaer, N.Y.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Multi-Disciplinary- Architecture/ Interiors/ Structures and Landscape Architecture...growth through strategic acquisition and target markets expertise
Hobbies: Photography, drawing, graphics, golf, N.Y. Giants
Favorite film: "Matrix" - Trilogy
Favorite novel: "Trinity" by Leon Uris
Keys to success: Hard work
Person you admire most (outside of the family): Frank Lloyd Wright - his ideas are still relevant and no architect past or present has explored the range of geometric ideas that he has. Two of his unbuilt works were recently built in Buffalo and are wonderful.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Story board artist
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