NOVEMBER 2022 more, but we found it was a little too hard to manage.” “The important thing is that Rami and I are directly involved in all our projects,” he says. “That matters to us. We don’t want to spend the bulk of our time shaking hands and doing public relations and office administration. That stuff is important, we care about it, but we don’t want it to take up the majority of our time. We want to be, and we are, involved in every single project that we do.” “We became architects because we wanted to practice architecture,” he adds. “We want to do more of that. Not less. Right now, we’re doing more of it. We’re at the sweet spot that works from us.” At the size they are at now, KANVA is also allowed to be selective about the work they undertake, Tudor continues. “By not getting too big, we keep ourselves from taking on projects that we shouldn’t be taking on. We don’t have the added pressure of having to take on projects that we wouldn’t otherwise just to pay the bills.” Lastly, as it stands, the team at KANVA is especially closeknit. They value those internal relationships and they don’t want to risk compromising them. “At the size we’re at now, we can also be closer as a team,” Rami says. “We can all talk every day. We can all know each other. For the last I-don’t-know-howmany years we’ve had collective lunches. Every day, one person has to cook for the whole team. We don’t bring lunches to the office. We also do yoga classes and outings – all sorts of little things that inspire us and bring us close together. At 12-to-15, that’s possible. At 50 people, that might be a little bit harder.” So they want to keep doingwhat they are doing, Rami concludes. “With Tudor and I, the question is ‘Are we happy where we are now?’ If the answer’s yes, we keep going. If the answer’s no, we make a change right away. That’s what has kept us going 20 years. We don’t intend to change the plan now.”
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