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The engineer-architect partners of Endres Ware take an interdisciplinary approach to stair design.
Paul Endres and John Ware formed a practice in 1995 in Berkeley, California, dedicated to the integration of architecture and engineering. Both men received master's degrees in structural engineering and began their careers in the 1980s. They returned to school in the 1990s to study architecture at the University of California at Berkeley where they completed master's degrees. The partners saw training in both fields as a way to help them translate the complex forms of their designs into the grammar of structure.
"Although in the United States both a legal distinction and a historical precedent for a separation between architecture and engineering exist along with a distinct scope of services that we must respect, Paul and I see architecture and engineering as simply the process of designing buildings," Ware observes. "To design appropriately, whether at...