Season 5: “Michael Merschat On a Life of An Architect”

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By any measure I am an unusually outgoing person in public spaces. Indeed that is how we have come to have our producer for this show. And as I always like to say, some of our guests are people I have known personally and others I have not met until the date of the episode. Still others, like Michael Mesrchat, are ones I have met before the show, but more recently.

I first met Michael during the Christmas season of 2023 at Blue Mountain Pizza, a place renowned not only for its food but for its elaborate decorative displays for the Holiday season. I witnessed a man who, while waiting for his pizza, appeared to be investigating one of the many statues or dolls that fill the restaurant at this time, his interest might have been the type of metal used on a particular nutcracker drummer.

I asked him if he was an interior decorator of some kind and he replied that he was an architect.

For the longest time it had been my dream to have an architect on the podcast and I can't think of anyone better for such an episode than the present guest. As can be experienced on this episode

Michael is an architect who specializes in where people live and he has the kind of emotional intelligence and likability that anybody would want such an architect to have.

Although I feel I always learn an enormous amount in every episode we do, even when it is a field with which I have some prior familiarity going in, I have to say that I found this conversation to be especially enlightening on more than one level and I hope you enjoy watching this as much as we did recording it.

   More about Michael Merschat and his beautiful work: Michael grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Asheville, NC. After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, he moved up to Washington, DC, to pursue his career in architecture.  After two decades of city life, Michael returned home and found renewed connection with the land and rural community of his youth.   He believes that we have an opportunity to bring thoughtful design principles into every home, effortlessly blending the natural flow of the land with modern architecture. He currently serves as the Education Director on the Executive Committee of the Asheville Chapter of the AIA and as Chairperson for the Capitol Area CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network).Links to Michael’s beautiful works: Website: www.opencornerarch.com Social: https://www.instagram.com/open_corner_architecture/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-merschat-2b7b444/ Houzz: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/open-corner-stewardship-modern-architecture-pfvwus-pf~378136292?

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