Joseph Self, a former faculty member in the Texas A&M College of Architecture, and his architecture business, Firm 817, were featured in a Feb. 18 article appearing in the Fort Worth Business Press.
Self and his wife Tracey own the firm, which the publication describes as a design-oriented “full-service operation that not only develops high-end residential dwellings but can suggest the décor, the colors and the landscaping.”
The Selfs live, are raising a teenager and also run their business out of a 2,300 square-foot home near the Texas Christian University campus.
“Our goal,” Self told the Business Press, “is to delight people while making (designs) functional and keeping within their budget. We want to make things that have a vision attached … To get people to dream of things they hadn’t seen before. To say it’s OK to be free from functional requirements.”
The story by Ken Parish Perkins, "Designed for living: Firm 817 makes a case for loving one’s home setting," can be accessed online at:
http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=7082
