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Custom Architectural Glass

Rhuby Architectural Glass

Websites:

• http://rhuby.com

Since 1991 I have run my own business: designing and fabricating custom architectural glass. The greatest reward I derive from creating a design comes via the collaborative process with architects, design teams and clients. When clients come to me, they often have only the vaguest notions of what they want. It is my job to puzzle out their aesthetic and their functional needs, and then blend those cohesively with my own aesthetic as well as the inherent limits of the materials and processes.

I often work with a team of architects, designers, contractors, and facilities managers to get a project from concept to installation. In my 18 years of business and successfully creating literally hundreds of projects, these relationships have gone remarkably smoothly. I attribute this not only to my professionalism, artistic talents and devotion to accountability but also to my skills in listening and communication.

Innovation is what keeps me vital. I'm great at developing new techniques in this realm.

As I mentioned above, my relationship with my clients is of paramount importance to me as it breeds fertile ground for creative collaboration.

Help! Clever though I may be, managing projects is not my strong suit. I could use a boss partner.

Of couse, I can also use more work. I have been doing a lot of residential work lately, which I thoroughly enjoy, but I am interested in working on a larger scale again. I would like to find some commercial designers to work with.

Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Univesrsity of Washington

My experience is vast and varied having grown up in a home where I was raised on a steady diet of new crafts to explore. I moved to Seattle from the midwest when I was 18 and attended Cornish for a few years. I worked for an architect for 6 years where I learned that vernacular. During that time I developed my fascination in 3-dimensional pattern; cutting, scoring and folding card weight paper into dimensional cards. A Japanese company brought me to Japan and bought my designs.

I began experimenting with silk screening and then sandblasting these images on glass and layering them into double and triple glazed windows. My first project was creating dual sidelights for my architect boss's home in Leshi.

Having worked with architectural clients for years, the opportunity was obvious. The demand for custom made building parts is high, so multi-layered architectural glass was a perfect application for my 3-D pattern play. I have been creating windows and countertops ever since.