Working With Architectural Review Boards

If you’re planning on building a custom home in a new development or remodeling a home in an older neighborhood, you’ll likely to find your plans subject to design review.  Design review boards go by different names; ARB (Architectural Review Board), DRC (Design Review Committee), ARC (Architectural Review Committee) and others.

They’ve been called less flattering names, too, by homeowners whose proposals don’t get favorable treatment from the board.

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Architecture of Life -the Life Story of Christopher K. Travis

Christopher K. Travis, the Managing Partner of Sentient Architecture LLC, a Texas based full architecture Services Company reminds me of George Bernard Shaw’s tailor.  George Bernard Shaw said that “the only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes measurements anew, each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

Christopher K. Travis is certainly not your ordinary architect. He subjects his clients like George Bernard Shaw’s to a series of meticulous questions teach time he sees them to ascertain their real intent with regard  to the design of their planned residence.

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