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May 2022
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411: Architecture Is More Than Just Desi...

Enoch Sears & Rion Willard
About this episode
Hello, and welcome to the Business of Architecture, with your host, Rion Willard.

Today's interview is with Michael Poris AIA, Principal of McIntosh Poris Associates, an architecture firm with offices in Birmingham and Detroit, Michigan.

Poris and his firm are passionate about the revitalization of his hometown of Detroit.

His leadership has evolved the firm into a full-service practice offering a range of disciplines in architecture, interior design, and urban planning within diverse project types.

 

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