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You know one almost universal thing that I hear from clients when we're done working together is that they're completely surprised by the number of decisions that go into designing their home. Making architecture just involves just so many decisions that I think it, it can be really overwhelming without someone to guide that process and as architects it's our job to methodically lay out a system for making those decisions and then also guide them through the particular timing that those decisions have to happen in. When you actually go through the design process you realize that all the things they spend five or more years teaching you in school is actually a really small portion of what you do of course there's design thinking and they’re teaching a methodology and history and theory and technical information but by and large my experience in school was that of teaching me how to think like an architect, getting me comfortable with my own design process. But when you start practicing, you start putting buildings together you realize that most of what you're doing is communicating with people communicating with your clients dealing with financial issues you're dealing with construction and technical issues how you resolve the materials and joints and connections. All these things of course are subservient to the design concept and the idea and that's all very important but there is a huge raft of knowledge that you need to put a building together even something as seemingly simple as a house. Alright so today we're going to be reviewing all the materials I use for a typical client meeting I'm not able to bring you in to the exact meeting but we have this meeting for the gallery house last week to review the exterior shell package and I want to review the agenda that I use the materials that I develop the physical materials the models the drawings all this stuff. Talk about my methodology, my approach, how the process works and kind of bring you in that way. My agenda always opens with addressing client concerns and questions and a sort of recap of where we're at in the process a sort of zoom out: this is where we were last time when we met this is where we are now things that we've been working on things like that. Having an agenda ensures that by the end of the meeting you have all of the questions that you wanted answered heading into the meeting answered. And then we'll do some meeting notes as follow-up after this and the meeting notes we'll assign tasks to everyone based on the things we decided in the meeting. Once when you move from the opening we're gonna get into the meat of the agenda and for this meeting we want to be talking about the shell of the building. So the shell are things like doors and windows exterior finishes materials just basically the shape of the building....