{"id":12113,"date":"2017-05-31T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.npdodge.com\/blog\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2017-05-31T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:00:42","slug":"meet-the-team-tackarchitects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npdodge.blog\/2017\/05\/meet-the-team-tackarchitects\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team Behind Omaha’s TACKarchitects | #BuildingOmaha"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jeff Dolezal, Rebecca Harding and J. Christopher Houston began <\/span>TACKarchitects<\/span><\/a> in the summer of 2011, they did so with a mission to create a service-based studio space \u2014\u00a0not just your run-of-the-mill architecture firm. <\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with <\/span>The Dodge Voice<\/span><\/a> Jeff explained, \u201cWe had worked together over ten years at another firm and we felt we were starting to lose sight of what our passion was: servicing clients and creating the best design we possibly could. We wanted a more studio-style environment \u2014 kind of like what you would have in school. And we felt that attitude could yield better design quality and really inspire people. So we left and we started TACK.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Year after year, that move and that mission have driven their motivation and it\u2019s even where the name TACK was born. Defined as \u201cto change course by turning a boat’s head into and through the wind,\u201d the word tack is all about adaptation and progressing through and moving with obstacles. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDepending on which way the wind blows, you\u2019re adjusting your sails; that was really a metaphor for what the three of us were going through in our careers at the time,\u201d Jeff said. \u201cAnd it was available on GoDaddy. It was a win-win.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In a profile from <\/span>Omaha Video Solutions<\/span><\/a>, Rebecca said, \u201cWe wanted to have a word that had meaning. We didn\u2019t want our names because it wasn\u2019t really about us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is for TACK to outlive us,\u201d said Jeff. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of silly to think you should have your name on it \u2026 TACK is a universal concept that I think could be generational and that\u2019s what we wanted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n