Professional Profiles: Rick Alfandre 2016

Rick Alfandre - 2016

Name: Rick Alfandre - 2016

Title: President

Company: Alfandre Architecture, PC

Location: New Paltz, NY

Birthplace: White Plains, NY

Family: Wife and twin daughters

College: BA SUNY New Paltz; M.Arch Virginia Tech

First job unrelated to your current field: Bartender, retail stock clerk

What your firm does now and its plans for the future? We specialize in and are advocates of, high performance and environmentally responsible green building design and construction. We offer a comprehensive range of architecture services, from initial planning concepts through the completion of construction.

Alfandre Architecture looks forward to our continued success as a leader in the design and construction of sustainable commercial and residential buildings.

Hobbies: Photography, gardening, beekeeping

Keys to success: Collaboration, future thinking, building for our future generations. Thinking as the great Iroquois Peacemaker said, “To make decisions and choices in the context of how they will affect the next seven generations.” Perseverance and patience.

If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Scientist, most likely in biology and ecology