California-based Design Firm MBH Trades Places – and Knowledge – with UK Firm Hyphen in Exchange Program

Architecture and design firms, and companies of every industry, have many options to choose from when investing in company enrichment programs. These programs communicate a lot about the firm itself, its leadership and company culture. A whole host of factors can affect what type of program a firm eventually settles on – goals for the program (what do they want to accomplish/get out of it), scale (how many people can be involved), and working within a budget, to name a few. We recently learned of an exchange program between two firms – U.S.-based MBH Architects and U.K.-based Hyphen – in which a designer from each firm spends one month at the other’s office. An exchange program between A&D firms of this nature is unusual – requiring intensive planning, budgeting and a close relationship between the firms – and so we spoke to MBH Principal Dimple Manghani about how the program …