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DAVID HACIN
is committed to his neighborhood. Since founding his eponymous Boston-based interdisciplinary architecture and design firm in 1993, Hacin and his team have conceived many of the city’s most innovative residential, commercial, and civic designs. In fact, he lives across the street from the firm’s South End office in a Hacin-designed apartment building, overlooking a Hacin-designed park, just a stone’s throw in any direction from Hacin-designed restaurants and hotels. Active with many professional and nonprofit organizations, including twenty years serving on the Boston Civic Design Commission, Hacin is generous with the connections he has forged: “You two should know each other,” is an oft-used introduction. A longtime design essayist, the Swissborn Princeton- and Harvard-trained architect is focusing on his own narrative of place and writing a memoir. Hacin, Boston, hacin.com
Interview by JENNA TALBOTT | Portraits by JOEL BENJAMIN
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